RINATO CAROSELLO
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The roots
of Neapolitan music run deep. It does not stop at the most well-known songs
like "O sole mio" or "Torna a Surriento". Its repertoire is
vast: from the late Medieval period to the Renaissance, a period of many pieces
whose writers will remain forever anonymous; passing next into the 17th and 18th Century, with work by composers such as Paisiello,
Mercadante, Cimarosa or Donizetti; and arriving at our great contemporary
composers, like Murolo, Bovio, Di Giacomo, Pennino, De Leva. This kind of music
is the product of a natural meeting point of several cultures whose paths
crossed in Naples over the centuries. One of the most famous tunes that
everybody knows in Italy, the tune of the '70s television programme
Carosello, actually called "Pagliaccio," and is by an unknown
Neapolitan composer from the 1600s. Rinato Carosello rediscovers these eternal melodies, often buried and forgotten under piles of
old scores. R.C. plays them how they were originally intended, succeeding in recreating
the taste and the atmosphere from the time they were originally born in.
RINATO CAROSELLO:
MIRCO MENNA - voice and percussion
STEFANO MIRANDOLA - guitar
ENRICO GUERZONI - cello
ROBERTO ROSSI - percussion
MIRCO
MENNA
His roots
are in Campania, and he cultivates an age-old passion for classic Neapolitan
songs, the popular ones and that one of the revue.Once an
acclaimed drummer and percussionist, he is now above all recognized as a
songwriter. He has received two important rewards: best opera prima at M.E.I.
and at Tenco for his first piece of work, "Nebbia di idee", in 2002.He has
recently released his second album, "Ecco"."There
are many passages in the words of intense poetry, like many poetic passages in
music and orchestrations. Finally a savoured and elegant disc...". Paolo
Conte"What
immediately hits of this work is the beauty of the lyrics, which set perfectly
on a sonorous carpet which is impossible to define with one single label". Francesco Paracchini, "Lisola che non cera""...Mature
fruit of a talent grown protected from the light of the reflectors, but not far
away from the theatre boxes and from the many places where music "is
made" with seriousness, passion and funMirco Menna flies with a nearly
Calvinian lightness that allows him to face even complex and contemporary
topics".Elisa Manisco, Musica, "La Repubblica", 8 May 2003"...There
is just one name: Mirco Menna, songwriter from Bologna, who writes well, who
sings well and who knows how to make music at his most.".Enrico Deregibus, "Kataweb Musica"www.mircomenna.it
STEFANO MIRANDOLA
BiographyStudies: In 1972 he
began his studies of the classical guitar, at the age of 12, followed by
studies in jazz, attending seminars by Jim Hall, Joe Diorio and Pat Metheny. He
deepened his knowledge and expertise of finger-picking, Brazilian and flamenco.
He dedicated himself to the development of new techniques on the guitar, which
can expand the expressive possibilities of the instrument. He has been a
registered composer with the SIAE since 1986. He graduated in electronic
engineering; he resides and teaches in Bologna. Musical
work: In 1974 he
began collaborating with the POP-ROCK group "Apparato del Golgi" and
continued with the "Naphta" (rock-jazz). He then created two jazz
bands which played original music: Mani Jazz Group" and "M.O.S.S.
Quartet", and went on several tours around Europe.In 1991 he
formed a duo of acoustic guitars with Guido Premuda,,
that offered a repertoire of original compositions. Besides numerous concerts
and participating in reviews of acoustic guitar, the duo released the CD "Vagogirando" in 1997.From 1992
he also performed as a solo artist, with a repertoire of original compositions
and arrangements. From the nylon ropes of his guitar, classical, jazz, flamenco
and ethnic sounds emerge along with the personal touch of a sensitive and
gifted musician. In April
2003 he released a CD as a solo guitarist "Oltre
il mare" produced by the German label "Acoustic
Music Records", which was internationally acclaimed.As well as
his work as a solo artist, he currently plays in the
following groups:"Ten
Strings" duo with Enrico Guerzoni (cello)"Two-gether"
duo with Orio Cenacchi (percussion)"Rinato
Carosello" trio with Mirco Menna (voice and percussion) and Enrico
Guerzoni.Discography:CD "Oltre il mare", April 2003
(Acoustic Music Records) (solo guitarist) CD "Vagogirando", '97 (duo of acoustic
guitars)Passages
inserted in the musical reviews with Cd "Akustik gitarre", 2003;
"Espande", '96.www.stefanomirandola.com
ENRICO
GUERZONI
Musician, cellist, composer, arranger. He graduated in studies on the cello from the
Conservatorio di Bologna in 1986. He has been First Cellist in several Italian orchestras, and
had also collaborated with numerous instrumental groups such as the
"Solisti Veneti", with whom he has played in some of the most
prestigious reviews of music in the world. He has also been on tourne in
Japan, China, Korea, India, Germany, Spain, Argentina and obviously Italy, in
prestigious places including Teatro Olimpico of Vicenza, Teatro Bellini of
Catania, Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome. Moreover, he
has played with the "Virtuosi Italiani", Archi Italiani,
International Chamber Ensemble, the Orchestra della R.A.I in Rome, Orchestra
da Camera di Bologna, Filarmonici di Bologna and Solisti di Bologna,
Orchestra Regionale of Marche, and the orchestra Giovanile Toscanini. He won the international competition for the position
of cellist with the Symphonic Lyric Agency "Teatro Comunale di
Bologna" and he collaborated with them from 1988 to 2001. With this
orchestra, he went on tourne in Japan and Germany and has made recordings for
the Decca. He has played under the guidance of conductors such as R. Muti, G.
Sinopoli, C. Thieleman, V. Delman, R. Chailly, Z. Pezsko, L. Berio, G. Bertini,
and D. Oren.He dedicates himself to his freelance work. He is the
founder of the eclectic quartet of acoustic and electrical strings
"Ark", with whom he has done numerous concerts and performed for the
Royal Family in London, along with the tenor Jos Cura, with whom he has
performed in concerts in Germany and Japan. From 2000 to 2004 he collaborated with the singer
Antonella Ruggiero, building an ethnic and classical repertoire. They made a
record together for Sony, a DVD for the EGEA and they have done more than 160
concerts all around Italy and in foreign countries, in prestigious theatres
such as the "Regio" of Turin, Carlo Felice in Genova, Comunale in
Modena and for musical agencies such as the Santa Cecilia (Terme di Caracalla)
and Teatro Massimo in Palermo, for the Pope in the Vatican and Toronto and a
tourne in Morocco. Whats more, two years in a row, they performed at the
review I
suoni delle Dolomiti.One of their concerts was integrally broadcast on
Channel 4 of national Italian television. In February 2004 he went on tourne with A.S.Q.in
Estonia and performed famous concert halls, such as the Puccini theatre in
Merano and the jazz festivals of Vignola, as well as recordings with the Indian
percussionist Trilok Gurtu. He took part in the Ensemble "Tourte" of
Bologna, with whom he has recorded the unpublished quintets for flute by
Boccherini and the string quartet for the record label "Dynamic".His repertoire includes the six Bach cello suites,
which he has performed in public at the Teatro Consorziale di Budrio (Bo) and
at the Medieval museum of Bologna. He has collaborated with Salvatore Sciarrino in
various composition courses in "Citt di Castello", and for years he
played in the final concerts for the course in composition for the
"Accademia Chigiana in Siena.In 1992, his jazz-blues group "Petronius
Quartet" won the international prize "Citt di Ispra", and, in
1994, the competition Giugno per i giovani at the Accademia Filarmonica
Romana.He has held jazz concerts with artists such as T.
Lama, R. Gatto, D. Rea, P. Fresu, S. Zanchini, D. Lynx, L. Cottifogli (who recorded a CD with him, in a
duo and in a sextet) F. Del Gaudio, S. Battaglia, G. Mirabassi, E. Fioravanti, M.
Negri, R. Rossi, N. Machado, and M. Minardi.Enrico Guerzoni was invited to Paris to play with
Pierre Blanchards string jazz group and at the "Festival du Cinma"
for the centenarian of the Lumire brothers, performing at the Theatre of the
Muse du Louvre . This was organized by the Cinmathque Francaise,. He has a great passion for the baroque period in
particular and done extensive study on baroque technique. He has worked as
director and solo artist in various groups (Harmonico Concento, Ensemble
Anciuti). He has received lessons in orchestra conduction with
the great Lu Jia.He has taken part in the most important recordings of
Andrea Bocelli.He has collaborated with some of the most important
composers of Italian popular music, such as Eugenio Finardi, Lucio Dalla,
Gianni Morandi, Renato Zero, Adriano Celentano, Gino Paoli, Zucchero, E.
Ramazzotti, V. Capossela, Tullio de Piscopo, S. Bersani, and D. Silvestri,
performing numerous concerts with them and working on various recordings,
participating in the arrangements of some of their records.He has arranged and recorded the string section on
the records of the singer Mirco Menna, of the group Parto Nuvole Pesanti and of the Chilean singer Marcelo
Araya.As a composer, he has produced music above all for
string quartet, but he has also tried his hand at many other styles,
includingPOP, jazz, and ethnic music, with excellent results.He has recorded and made concerts with the avanguarde
group of Roberto Cacciapaglia.Moreover, Enrico Guerzoni, as a cellist, has taken
part in several programmes on R.A.I. TV.He has taught the cello at the Scuola
di Musica Baroncini in Imola (Bo) and at a musical high school in Cento.Current projects and collaborations:In 2004 he founded the Kuasar String Kuartet an
innovative musical project for string quartet. The K.S.K. collaborates with the
Italian jazz project, the project "Plancton", the singer Kelly Joyce and
other Italian and foreign artists.He plays in the "Ten Strings" duo with the
guitarist Stefano Mirandola, climbing the height of original musical
composition and playing the music of E. Gismonti, P. De Lucia, C. Corea among
others. They have recently completed their first album: "Ten
Strings".He also collaborates with Eugenio Finardis group in
the show Il Silenzio e lo Spirito, and together they have recorded a CD and a
DVD for the EDEL, and have performed in various concerts all over Italy.He collaborates with the Mancuso brothers and
Giancarlo Parisi in the project Voci e strumenti da una Sicilia di Tradizione
e di Reinvenzione, working on traditional Sicilian music.He also works with Mirco Menna and Stefano Mirandola
in the "Rinato Carosello di musica napoleatana", performing
Neapolitan music fromn the Renaissance to the present day.In August 2005 he performed in a concert with Michael
Nymann at the Kursall of Merano. He is one of the elements of the Trio Fotogramma, a
cinematic experience set to live music. www.enricoguerzoni.com
ROBERTO ROSSI
Roberto Rossi was born near Bologna in 1963. Accomplished drummer and
composer, he studied the congas with the Porto Rican percussionist Daniel
Barrajanos, furthering his study of Brazilian percussion instruments. He
combines individual parts of the drum kit with elements of traditional
Afro-Brazilian percussion. In 1996 he spent one month working with the group
Zabumba Company in the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil. In 1999, along with the
guitarist Brazilian Roberto Taufic, he held a seminar on Brazilian rhythms of
Natal (Brazil). Through his experience with various musical styles, from jazz,
funk, rock and blues he has developed a great versatility and expression. He has worked with: Ray Mantilla, Jack
Walrath, Pasta Boys, Le Parti Delle Nuvole Pesanti, Oz, Banda Favelas, Rogerio
Tavares, Louis Lima, Ney Portilho, Neffa. He has participated in the following festivals: JVC Festival in Rome; 4th International Jazz and Blues Festival of the Alburnums (Salerno); Summer Camps
(Reggio Calabria); Catania Jazz; Hill Jazz (Livorno); Latin American Festival
of Modena, Torino and Milan); Asti in Concert; ; 3rd Festival delle Rocche (MontdAlba); Music & Outskirts (Piozzo); Notes of Colour (Brescia); Fermo Posta (Sarzana);
Projeto Seis and Meia (Theatre Alberto Maranho - Natal, Brazil); Veneto Jazz;
Peacock Open Jazz Festival; Marostica in Jazz; Spiritus
Mundi (Amalfi Coast).
TECHNICAL IT FILES FOR RINATO CAROSELLO:
3 chairs1 voice microphone 1 Lexicon reverb2 microphones to amplify drums and percussion 3 on-stage monitors and possibility of separate lines
(as an alternative, lines for ear monitors). Lines on stage to support 5 microphones + 4-entry jack
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