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Written about Centro del Mundo "An eccentric musical idea witch cultivates a secret
plant: the meeting, the engagement, the intelligence of heart…
a sidereal distance far away from the claustrophobia of a calligraphic
and comforting ethno music. The album is an atlas of places
and languages. It's a precious ethno pop, an author world music…
witch celebrates the encounter between Khaled and Battiato,
between Morrisey and Noa. "Centro Del Mundo" is a
symbolic and bright shell". "What strikes in this album is the warm atmosphere and
clearness of the sound. Centro Del Mundo is the practical and
obvious demonstration that it's very possible to produce a brand
new music and culture, witch are not only Italian or Arabic
, but deeply and really Mediterranean" "Centro del mundo is one of the most beautiful songs of
the Italian music in the last years. It's mestizo, caliente,
aromatic, elegant with a very refined middle-eastern charm just
like only a few songs can be" "Centro del mundo can be consider today the band's masterpiece.
The songs speak Arabic, Italian, French, English crossing over
any boarder with grace and elegance and a large breath poetic
intensity, building an extraordinarily fascinating sonorous
path." "Centro del mundo alternate vortically within a single
verse English, French, Spanish, Italian… here, in those
few minutes of vertigo that we can find the key of their entire
work … it's a kind of Italian rai, a pop intimately mestizo,
able to sing the sentiments of who lives between the tow cultures"
"Centro del mundo is the result of the attitude of looking
beyond the boarders decided on the politician's maps… electronics
and oriental sounds, Italian language and Arabic language meet
each other and become a music with vanished frontiers, fascinating
as diversity" "As a sea we stand watching and listening to the new Radiodervish's
album… fourteen chisels precious of rhythm and heart, starting
from the manifold languages of Centro del mundo. Exactly in
this Aleph of junction where this new album takes us, really
exiting" "An Original language that resumes and alternates a plurality
of languages, from Arabic to Italian, from English to French
to Spanish. Twelve songs able to take us into a refined and
exiting trip among images, words and sounds and to breathe the
enchanted atmospheres of fascinating cities and to capture them
as Cairo and Bombay, Erevan and Beirut." "Strings, middle eastern chords and locally guitars tell
about a man of frontiers. A planetary man that searching a world
with many centers. So much sentiment and few sentimentalism,
this seems to be the formula of the band". "The music of Radiodervish is a world music in a very
wide sense, an example of integration between various cultures…
Mediterranean and middle eastern traditions mixed with the kick
drum of the Anglo-Saxon's pop rock". "An album of suggestions ad emotions that unify Middle
Eastern and Italian instances, that mixes, within a cultural/musical
meltin'pot ,different languages and sounds. The work of the
band don't stop at the surface but scrapes the bark and arrives
to the pulp, to the fusion between cultures and races, typical
of the music" "Centro del mundo is an extremely elegant and very fascinating
album, among Middle Eastern suggestions and delicate rhythmic
and instrumental's inlays, Michele Lobaccaro and Nabil Salameh
get together in fourteen songs the evolution and the artistic
maturation of their music" "Listening to the song of Centro del mundo you have the
sensation that this center is in reality everywhere and nowhere,
suing a such a dear phrase to the mystics. It's a music assigned
to not ever belong geographically to any place different from
the center of the human being". Radio and TV YLE RADIO X3M Finland |