For a Salento musician of today everything comes from where everything has roots, that is, from tradition. The deep relationship with tradition is felt as "original," almost an obsession with meanings archaic ancients. Something religious, or rather "devotional" that one cannot do without. The texts of the folk repertoire seem clear and explicit at a first reading, but then they turn out to be full of subtexts and ambiguities. This land that has the sea on either side, makes you an expert of that poetic expectation, reminds you of something melancholy, of "Atlantic" as in Portuguese fado.

The duo traces a definite path, a succession of folk tunes, homages to female voices and unreleased pieces. It goes up , one leap after another, from the traditional music of Southern Italy to Italian folk songs (Rosa Balistreri, Gabriella Ferri, Domenico Modugno) and of the world (Edith Piaf, Amalia Rodriguez, Chavela Vargas).

Rachele Andrioli - Singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, she has acquired an important role in world music and in the sphere of Apulian new artistic proposals, evidenced by an intense concert activity in Italy and abroad. He has participated in prestigious festivals, solo and with various musical formations of world music, jazz and classical, collaborating with important international artists such as Arto Lindsay, Piers Faccini, Baba Sissoko, Roopa Mahadevan, Ugia Pedreira, Elsa Corre. In 2022 she released her first solo album "Leuca" with which she won the Loano Prize 2023.

Rocco Nigro - accordionist and composer (he has collaborated with Vinicio Capossela, Cirque du Soleil, Antonio Castrignanò, Redi Hasa, Maria Mazzotta, Nabil Salameh of Radiodervish, Rachele Andrioli, Giro di Banda and many others) starting from the tradition of Southern Italy has explored different territories in a constant research that has led him up to contemporary music, he has also composed music for films and short films.

Performers: Rachele Andrioli - voice and percussion / Rocco Nigro - accordion

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