Sicilian Av Project

Audiovisual Antimafia Lounge Inspired By Works And Words Of Leonardo Sciascia Sicilian Writer And Civil Activist. Sicilian AV Project Means The Legacy Of Literature Performed And Expressed With Mixed Mediums Music Visual Arts And Illustrations. Have You Ever Heard Of The Mafia? You Probably Have But It’s Unlikely That You’ve Heard It Evoked In The Rhythms Of Avant-Garde Of Electronic Of Downtempo Mixed With Unusual Action-Painting Illustrations And Highly Suggestive Real-Life Video Clips. Antonino Musco Last.Fm User Gagge And His Many Collaborators At Sicilian AV Project However Aren’t In It For The Business They Aren’t Selling Catchy Tunes Or Coloured Bags And They Don't Talk About Football. Most Of Them Are Sicilian All Young And Almost All Emigrated To A Hypothetical North As In Their Hyper-Real South Someone Had Clipped Their Wings But Not Their Ideas. The Authors And The Participants In This Performative Project Study And Elaborate Different Languages To Tell A Tragic Story Made Up Of Thousands Of Drammatic Grotesque Mafia Tales. The Intention Is Clear Right From The Very First Track "Todo Modo" My Way In Which The Sampled Voice Of Leonardo Sciascia A Writer Who Wrote And Spoke About The Mafia Until His Death Reminds Us That “The State For Me Is The Constitution And The Constituion Is No Longer Alive.” Within This And Other Heart-And-Mind Paradoxes The Sound Waves Ebb And Flow – Calm Meditative Emptiness Syncopated With Sour Lashing Floodtides - Which Antonino Musco Melts And Mixes Playing With Hifi And Lofi Tradition And Avant-Garde Street-Talk And The Words Of The Wise Men From The Three-Horned Island. Contrasting Landscapes Sultriness The Energy Of Orgy And Of Mourning Massacres And Trials The Mediterranean Of Permanent Contradiction Of Beauty And Regret Of Toil And Anger Of Arabic Poetry Poured Out Like Wine And Norman Gold-Drenched Cathedrals Of Life-Long Earthquake Victims And Murdered Farm-Hands Of Greek Temples Overlooking Flower-Studded Coastlines And Filthy Slums Where Children And Horses Sleep And Dream Together In Stables. Sicilian AV Project Offers Us The Blue Sea And The Pain Of Sicily A Tuna Trap Where The Actors Of The Terrible Game Be They Fishermen Or Fish Puppets And Puppet-Masters Are Imbued With The Acrid Smell Of Blood And Sweat But Also With The Salty Sweetness Of What It Could Have Been And Was Not And What It Is Today And Fatalistically Forever. Just As In The Last Century The Ethnomusicologist Antonino Uccello Travelled Past Jails Huts And Fishing-Boats Creating An Archive Of Sounds And Voices Which Now Belong To The Past In The Same Way But Following A Different Route Antonino Musco Directs Those Sleeping Spectres To The Rhythm Of A Drum-Machine Which Recounts In Trans-Sicilian Slang The Musicality Of A Dancing Malaise. Gianluca Ferro Sicilian AV Project Giuliano Cangiano Last.Fm User Kanjano - Illustrations // Pierpaolo Citrano - Drums Percussions // Sebastiano Greco Last.Fm User Seby.Greco - Visuals // Antonino Musco Last.Fm User Gagge - Director Keyboards Guitars Percussions Sampler // Giuseppe Salvaggio - Upright And Electric Bass // Luigi Tresca Last.Fm User L3SKA - Saxophones
Special Guests Gianluca Anastasi Last.Fm User Jazz-Luca - Piano Electric Piano // Vincenzo Consolo - Voice // Shirin Demma - Vocals // Giuseppe Erbesso - Rhodes // Tommaso Galati - Electric Guitar // James Grellier - Trumpet // Matteo Scurci - Trumpet read less