Polyphonic Choir EUPHONIA -World-Fusion in Jazz-
This project comes from the desire to blend different musical styles, rhythms and sonorities from different parts of the world and to arrange and perform them using the 'musical language' of Jazz. To this end, and to be able to adapt the project to the vocal/polyphonic genre, certain musical principles needed to be respected. This was necessary to facilitate the successful blending of the vitality of dance rhythms and poetry found in ethnic music with the medium of Jazz. In this music we also encounter modal sonorities from Mid-Eastern and and Latin American cultures. These are musical realities which are at the same time very far from our European musical tradition but very near to our present socially integrated reality. Here is our result: "Euphonia", a kind of sophisticated collection of simple melodies with no small amount of care taken in the arrangements.
The project was conceived in 2008 by Yama, who wrote a series of songs for choral performance. The intention was to do without a rhythm section, and have rhythms produced vocally. The voice thus serves two purposes. The first is to produce the melody and the second, the accompanying rhythm. With arrangements by Mark Kapedani and the addition of Marco Gallo, Alessandra Bordiga, Mary Gautschi, Krishna Nagaraja, Alberto Favaro, the outcome of this endeavour speaks for itself. The pieces are performed in various languages: All Pulaar, Swahili (both from Africa), English, Hindi, Spanish, Portuguese, Albanian, Russian, Greek and onomatopoeic words.
The voices use the musical language of Jazz as their source of inspiration.
Singers:
Mary Gautschi (soprano)
Alessandra Bordiga (mezzosoprano)
Yama Kapidani Luberti (contralto)
Tommaso Ferrandina (tenore & Diphonic Singin)
Alberto Favaro (baritono)
Marco Gallo (basso & Diphonic Singin)
Arranger of the choir:
Markelian Kapidani
