DESCRIPTION:
Tracks from CD Album:
Beyond the Colour - live in Addis Ababa
Radici Music 2014

Photos by Mario Di Bari
Project sponsored by
Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Addis Abeba & Associazione Etnie
Addis Ababa - 23 March 2013

Beyond the colour comes from necessity to make soul speak.
The project born in the cradle of humanity, in Ethiopia. In the land that tells stories by the sky and wind.

Three are the artists that Ethiopia seems to choose in order to speak about itself. The trio gives birth to a creative journey across the colours of the music and dance.

Between two worlds, Michele Giuliani, Italian pianist and composer meets Fasika Hailu, ethiopian musician and krar player, the traditional string instrument and Rossella Giovannelli, performer who gives body to the sound with vocals and gestures making the unusual metissage so deep and theatrical.

The three artists meet in Addis Ababa down the streets full of dust blended in with herb and spices. Despite to the different musical languages and backgrounds, the trio is able to be joined for the message. A message of tradition and modernity passing by the extemporaneous improvisation and composition.
Beyond the colour tries to create an imaginary picture where the images have drawn by the strings, the hammers, the hands and bodies of the artists tracing out a dreamlike scenario from Mediterranean to the black Africa discovering the hidden rhythm of spirituality and following, as a guide, a hardly whispered voice from land to the sky, beyond the horizon, beyond the borders, beyond the difference, beyond the colour.


Michele Giuliani, piano
Fasika Hailu, krar
Rossella Giovannelli, vocals and dance

Contact:
mickgiuliani@libero.it

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