A Taste of Music Hall: Thursday 7
6 9 2017
A Taste of Music Hall: Thursday 7

An annotated playlist of the first evening of Festivaletteratura Music Hall

Pages, notes, beat, opening words, choruses, lyrics, choirs, riffs... Music and literature are a perfect couple: both tell our stories; where does one finish and where does the other begin? Festivaletteratura Music Hall is back once again; from Thursday to Saturday the cloister of the Diocesan museum is open to everyone, from dreamers to dancers, ready to open their ears and keep pace with their heads, feet and hearts.

A mini playlist for each evening. A little sample just to give you a taste of what turn out to be much more than a simple concert.

To kick off the playlist... there is playlist. On the first night with Stregoni, we will be faced with a musical experiment that is in constant movement, an unrepeatable sound, by the world's largest band. The only two fixed elements are Johnny Mox and Above The Tree, two Shamans who care and transform the new magic that is created on stage. From refuge centres to clubs, in every city, new musicians get together, migrants that starting with music from their phones give birth to a sound that blends electro-tribalism, hip-hop, psychedelic, afro and gospel music. To give you an idea, here is the project’s Soundcloud account, but be prepared for some surprises.

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Up next is a "professor of hip-hop". Alessio Mariani, who goes by the name of Murubutu on stage, teaches history and philosophy, and in his musical life is a “cantautorapper” (rap song writer), an artist that offers researched, lyrical storytelling, often called "letteraturap" (rap literature). Listening to one of his tracks is just like opening a book, like reading a story from start to finish.

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Take "Scirocco", for example, a piece taken from his work L’uomo che viaggiava nel Vento (e altri racconti di brezze e correnti)… Try and figure out the stories, the criticism, the fervour of Marabutu mixed with the allegories of the Chamber of the Winds at Palazzo Te... wouldn't that be an incredible combination?

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A diary is perhaps the most beautiful novel, the story of a life. Murubutu’s Il Diario di Bordo is the story of a ship, but not only that. The atmospheres of the sea, of the journeys and ancestral winds that permeate the track "The Mutineers of the Bouncin" are inspired by the tale of Luis Sepúlveda L’ultima sventura del capitano Valdemar do Alenteixo. Everything to be rediscovered.

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A moving story about the plains, about mondine (rice weeders), but above all of memory from various viewpoints. What better place to hear it than in Mantua, surrounded by water, literary memories, ambience and by rediscovered rice fields?

Cover photo: Sara Ceresoli