SCARIOLANTI
Migrant Music from the World
…It’s a mighty hard row that my poor hands have hoed
My poor feet have traveled a hot dusty road
We come with the dust and we go with the wind…
Woody Guthrie
ALESSIO AMBROSI: voice, guitars, ukulele, charango, CRISTINA BENEFICO: voice, percussion, LIVIO BERNARDINI: voice, accordion, MAURO MANICARDI: voice, diatonic accordion, pipes, ANACLETO ORLANDI: bass, EGILDO SIMEONE: voce, vocal effects, flutes, percussion.
The group “SCARIOLANTI” was born with the intention of offering in the 2000s a show of high musical value, which combines in one powerful universal voice the popular songs of civil commitment of the Old and New Continent with the music that accompanies the migrations of men and women in search of social redemption.
The proposed repertoire, taking its cue from the tradition of the ballads that accompanied migrations, struggles and social conquests in the 1900s, wants to offer to new generations an opportunity to reflect on the path of civil progress that knows no pauses.
With this common thread we move from the protest songs of the rice paddies and dissidents unfairly sent to confinement, to the desperate cries of Mexican laborers in California, and peasants fleeing during the Great American Depression. They all recall the suffering of migrants, the pain of the exiles, the struggles against oppressive armies, and the rebellions against wars. Stories of men and women from all continents, of defeats and successes for the affirmation of a civil and moral dignity. Stories of the past and present.
Scariolanti and Bob Brozman, Liguria 2012
Scariolanti in Pesaro, Festa Nazionale dell’Unità, September 2006
The musical arrangements that accompany these stories are proposed in a very current and original way, and give freshness to the whole show. So I use traditional instruments, such as the accordion, the piva and the accordion, accompanied by modern acoustic guitars, electric bass, ethnic percussion and beautiful vocal harmonies. A great deal of space is dedicated to improvisations, both instrumental and vocal, almost a cry of rebellion like the proposed themes.
The musicians come from numerous and successful musical experiences: CRISTINA BENEFICO (voice) is an expert Milanese jazz player; LIVIO BERNARDINI (voice and accordion) and EGILDO SIMEONE (voice, vocal effects, flutes, percussion) are two well-known exponents of the vast Italian popular repertoire – that they both have been performing successfully for many years; ALESSIO AMBROSI (voice, acoustic guitars, lap-steel, charango, ukulele) is an interpreter and profound connoisseur of American popular music; MAURO MANICARDI (voice, diatonic accordion, piva) is a researcher and interpreter of traditional and peasant Italian music; ANACLETO ORLANDI (electric bass) has many experiences in blues, rhythm’n’blues and contemporary music.
A rich mix of different extractions, but capable of merging into a common project of great depth.
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- Alessio Ambrosi
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- Cristina Benefico
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- Livio Bernardini
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- Mauro Manicardi
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- Anacleto Orlandi
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- Egildo Simeone
PROPOSED SONGS:
Gli Scariolanti (Trad.) – Brigante se more (Eugenio Bennato) – Nina ti te ricordi (G. Bertelli)
Sento il fischio del vapore (anonimo) – Mamma mia dammi cento lire (Trad.) – Deportee (Woody Guthrie-Martin Hoffman) – Avola (A. Infantino) – Sante Caserio (P. Cini) -‘Ccù 30 carini – tarantella (anonimo) – Nana bobò/Canto dei battipali (Trad.) – La mondina (P. Besate)/Do-Re-Mi (Woody Guthrie) – Ain’t got no home (Woody Guthrie) – Addio a Lugano (P. Gori)
Vulesse addeventare (Eugenio Bennato) – Freedom (Trad.-Richie Havens) – Comandante Che Guevara (Carlos Puebla) – Il partigiano del bosco (anonimo) – Ho sentito sparare il cannone (anonimo) – Prendi il fucile (anonimo) – Where have all the flowers gone (Pete Seeger) – Blowing in the wind (Bob Dylan) – Guantanamera (J. Martì-vari) – Jesus on the mainline (Trad. – Ry Cooder) – La sibilla – lavoro tra li pecori e li cani – O bella ciao (Trad.)- This land is your land (Woody Guthrie) – ecc. ecc.
Here are some videos in concert:
Scariolanti Live – Do-Re-Mi-La Mondina
Scariolanti Live – Ain’t got no home
Scariolanti Live – La Sibilla
Scariolanti Live – Deportee
Scariolanti Live – Where have all the flowers gone
Scariolanti & Bob Brozman – full video
Scariolanti feat. Miss & Mr. Brozman – photos & music
