This piece of work represents to me a chance to give voice to all my music experiences, including holy music, the "banda", opera arias, ancient and symphonic music, pop music, ethnic and rock music, jazz, improvisation and more. All these experiences, after having been digested and gone through a metabolic process, surface from my unconscious and memory and take shape into a warm and generous sound, which crying, melody, rhythm and irony coexist achieving a strange balance. It wholly southerly sound, drawing upon a real as well as an imaginary South.
It is a sound that neither wants to nor must please everybody.
It was surprising and somewhat upsetting for me to realise by chance that the same term, "Terronia", had already been used by Rocco Scotellaro in 1948, denoting human and living condition related to Southern Italy that existed so long ago and still existing nowadays to some extent. I dedicate this piece of work to him, great poet and soul who lived through the tragedy and suffering of the South of Italy, as well to every South in the world, where, besides pain, misery and suffering, the very and hope for a fairer world still lie hidden and preserved somewhere.
PINO MINAFRA
Download (Italian Language) -> Pino Minafra Sud Ensemble, winner of the Italian Top Jazz 2005 !!
Download (German Language) -> The Sud Ensemble at Semperoper, Dresdner Neueste 15-03-06
Download (Portuguese Langiage) -> Some Portuguese reviews about the Pino Minafra Sud Ensemble (The Braga Concert, 2006)
L. Scaraggi
Track List
1) Canto General (Pino Minafra)
2) Maccaroni (Livio Minafra)
3) A mia madre (Pino Minafra)
4) La danza del grillo (Pino Minafra)
5) Mediterraneo (Livio Minafra)
6) Terronia (by Pino Minafra except Domine de Miseria by Gabriella Schiavone):
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Concerts List:
1. BOLZANO (ITALIA) "Rassegna Phoenix" 09/04/1992
2. LATERZA (ITALIA) "Estate a Laterza" 31/07/1992
3. ORSARA (ITALIA) "Rassegna Jazz d'autore" 01/08/1992
4. OUPEYE (BELGIO) "Jazz au chateau" 28/08/1992
5. ZURIGO (SVIZZERA) "Moods" 02/09/1992
6. MULHOUSE (FRANCIA) "Jazz a Mulhouse" 03/09/1992
7. ROMA (ITALIA) "Alpheus Jazz" 12/11/1992
8. GIESSEN (GERMANIA) "Festival Accenti Europei"04/12/1992
9. MESTRE (ITALIA) "Al Vapore" 05/12/1992
10. PADOVA (ITALIA) "Al banale" 06/12/1992
11. MARSIGLIA (FRANCIA) "Grim" 17/02/1993
12. AVIGNONE (FRANCIA) "Cher Noir" 18/02/1993
13. NOCI (ITALIA) "Qui ed Ora" 09/05/1993
14. VARNA (BULGARIA) "Varna jazz Summer" 08/08/1993
15. S.GIOVANNI ROTONDO (ITALIA) "Made in Italy" 11/09/1993
16. TARANTO (ITALIA) "Club Villanova" 12/09/1993
17. RUVO DI PUGLIA (ITALIA) "Talos Festival" 18/09/1993
18. ROMA (ITALIA) "Folk Studio" 05/10/1993
19. RAGUSA IBLA (ITALIA) "Festival Ibleo del Jazz" 14/10/1993
20. LOSANNA (SVIZZERA) "Once Plus Jazz Festival" 30/10/1993
21. BARI (ITALIA) "Teatro Kismet" 31/03/1994
22. LE MANS (FRANCIA) "Europa Jazz festival du Mans" 30/04/1994
23. VILSOPHEN (GERMANIA) "Jazz a.d. Donau" 11/06/1994
24. TIVOLI (ITALIA) "Along Came Jazz" 01/07/1994
25. ANTWERPEEN (BELGIO) "Free Music Festival" 05/08/1994
26. BERLINO (GERMANIA) "Podewil" 06/08/1994
27. WUPPERTAL (GERMANIA) "Spektakel festival" 07/08/1994
28. ROMA (ITALIA) "Controindicazioni" 09/12/1994
29. TIVOLI (ITALIA) "club" 15/05/1995
30. VICTORIAVILLE (CANADA) "Musique Actuelle" 18/05/1995
31. BERLINO (GERMANIA) "FMP Music Meeting" 17/06/1995
32. TARANTO (ITALIA) "festival" 06/08/1995
33. CASTELLANA GROTTE (ITALIA) "Amici della Musica" 09/11/1995
34. CREMONA (ITALIA) "Progetto Jazz" 08/02/1996
35. GALLIATE (ITALIA) "concerto" 10/02/1996
36. PARIGI (FRANCIA) "Banlieues Bleues" 29/03/1996
37. PARIGI (FRANCIA) "Istants Chavires" 30/03/1996
38. PARIGI (FRANCIA) teatro 31/03/1996
39. RIVA SAN VITALE (SVIZZERA) "festival jazz" 22/05/1996
40. QUEBEC (CANADA) "festival" 26/06/1996
41. TORONTO (CANADA) "festival" 27/06/1996
42. VANCOUVER (CANADA) "Du Maurier jazz Festival" 28/06/1996
43. SASKATOON (CANADA) "festival" 01/07/1996
44. PRATO (ITALIA) "officine jazz" 24/07/1996
45. SIENA (ITALIA) "Siena Jazz" 25/07/1996
46. RUVO DI PUGLIA (ITALIA) "presentazione festival" 17/08/1996
47. LIPSIA (GERMANIA) "Leipzger Jazz Festival" 30/08/1996
48. PERPIGNAN (FRANCIA) "Perpignan Jazz festival" 11/10/1996
49. LA SPEZIA (ITALIA) "Altrisuoni" 04/03/1997
50. ST.VINCENT (ITALIA) festival 05/03/1997
51. KALRSRUHE (GERMANIA) club 06/03/1997
52. WACHENHEIM (GERMANIA) club 07/03/1997
53. MAINZ (GERMANIA) "Akut Jazz" 08/03/1997
54. ESSLINGEN (GERMANIA) club 09/03/1997
55. MUNCHEN (GERMANIA) "Munchener Kammerspiele" 11/03/1997
56. REGENSBURG (GERMANIA) club 13/03/1997
57. SALZBURG (AUSTRIA) "festival" 14/03/1997
58. VIENNA (AUSTRIA) "Porgy and Bess Jazz club" 15/03/1997
59. SAARBRUKEN (GERMANIA) festival 18/04/1997
60. PARIGI (FRANCIA) "La villette Jazz Festival" 01/07/1997
61. PARIGI (FRANCIA) "La villette Jazz Festival" 02/07/1997
62. ANDRIA (ITALIA) "Suoni dal Mondo" 09/08/1997
63. BERCHIDDA (ITALIA) "Time in Jazz" 14/08/1997
64. MULHOUSE (FRANCIA) "Jazz a Mulhouse" 22/08/1997
65. ST.SEVER (FRANCIA) "Musiques Croisees" 05/09/1997
66. BOLZANO (ITALIA) "Bolzano jazz" 12/09/1997
67. LENTINI (ITALIA) "Sol festival" 29/09/1997
68. RIVE DE GIER (FRANCIA) "Rive de Gier Jazz" 17/10/1997
69. CAMPI BISENZIO (ITALIA) festival 27/10/1997
70. COUTANCES (FRANCIA) "Jazz sous les pommiers" 21/05/1998
71. SAN SPERATE (ITALIA) "Aska Jazz" 19/08/1998
72. POSADA (ITALIA) "Posada jazz " 22/08/1998
73. RUVO DI PUGLIA (ITALIA) "Talos Festival" 11/09/1998
74. PARIGI (FRANCIA) "Sons d'Hiver" 05/02/1999
75. BOLOGNA (ITALIA) "TeatroPolivalenete Occupato" 17/04/1999
76. NIORT (FRANCIA) festival 27/04/1999
77. ROMA (ITALIA) "AUDIOBOX" 25/05/1999
78. BATH (INGHILTERRA" "Bath Festival" 27/05/1999
79. LUBIANA (SLOVENIA) festival 12/06/1999
80. PONTALIER (FRANCIA) "Jazz en Franche-Comté" 03/07/1999
81. LUZ SAINT SAVEUR (FRANCIA) "Jazz a Luz" 10/07/1999
82. PISA (ITALIA) "Instabile Festival" 29/10/1999
83. GUIMARAES (PORTOGALLO) "Guimaraes Jazz" 13/11/1999
84. VOSS (NORVEGIA) "Vossa Jazz" 15/04/2000
85. AALBORG (DANIMARCA) club 16/04/2000
86. MARIOTTO (ITALIA) "Almo Musica" 27/05/01
87. MARIOTTO (ITALIA) "Almo Musica" 28/05/01
88. ULM (GERMANIA) "Jazz in Ulm" 08/06/01
89. REGENSBURG (GERMANIA) "Leerer Beutel" 09/06/01
90. CONVERSANO (ITALIA) "PUGLIA FESTIVAL BANDE" 30/07/01
91. YOKOHAMA (GIAPPONE) "Yokohama Jazz Promenade 2001" 06/10/01
92. FUKUI (GIAPPONE) "Italia in Fukui" 07/10/01
93. TAKEFU (GIAPPONE) "Italia in Fukui" 09/10/01
94. NEVERS (FRANCE) "Rencontres Internationales de Jazz" 15/11/2001
95. AMSTERDAM (OLANDA) "26 Klap op de Vuurpijl" 27/12/2001
96. AMSTERDAM (OLANDA) "26 Klap op de Vuurpijl" 28/12/2001
97. LOGROŅO (SPAGNA) "Actutal Festival de Logroņo" 07/01/2002
98. FRIBURGO (GERMANIA) "Le Gipfel du Jazz", 28/08/2002;
99. MARIOTTO (ITALIA) "Pernacchio armonico", 04/09/2002;
100. OTRANTO (ITALIA) "Meridiano Jazz Festival", 08/09/2002;
101. PARIS (FRANCIA) "Banlieues Bleues Festival", 15/03/2003;
102. GRAZ (AUSTRIA) "GrazJazz", 29/04/2003;
103. LECCE (ITALIA) "Meridiano Jazz", 12/07/2003;
104. SAN GIACOMO DEGLI SCHIAVONI (ITALIA) "San GiaSzz", 14/08/2003;
105. SKOPJE (MACEDONIA) "Skopje Jazz Festival", 17/10/2003;
106. TRANI (ITALIA) "Suoni sTrani", 14/02/2004;
107. FRANCAVILLA FONTANA (ITALIA) "Concerto Arci", 15/02/2004;
108. SAINT DENIS PARIS (FRANCIA) "Festival de Saint-Denis", 26/06/2004;
109. SAINT DENIS PARIS (FRANCIA) "Festival de Saint-Denis", 27/06/2004;
110. LE MANS (FRANCIA) "Europe Jazz Festival du Mans", 29/04/2005
111. SPEYER (GERMANIA) "Palatia Jazz Festival", 18/06/2005
112. IMOLA (ITALIA) "Crossover Jazz Festival", 08/07/2005
113. ROMA (ITALIA) "Jazz a La Palma", 17/07/2005
114. STUTTGART (GERMANIA) "Sommer festival der Kulturen 05", 24/07/2005
115. PARMA (ITALIA) "Parma Jazz Frontiere", 16/12/2005
116. FRANKFURT (GERMANIA) "Mouson - Januar Februar 06 Konzerte", 06/01/2006
117. DORTMUND (GERMANIA) "Domicil Jazz", 07/01/2006
118. MUENSTER (GERMANIA) "Jazz inbetween", 08/01/2006
119. BRAGA (PORTOGALLO) "Braga Jazz", 10/03/2006
120. DRESDEN (GERMANIA) "Jazzwelten", 12/03/2006
121. DRESDEN (GERMANIA) SEMPEROPER Theater, 13/03/2006
122: BOLZANO (ITALIA) "Jazz and other", 11/06/2006