The third edition of the festival moves from the coast inland, to the spaces of Masseria Torcito in Cannole (Lecce), and aims high by welcoming Gogol Bordello, an out-of-the-box musical phenomenon, on August 20th.
The band gives the Sud Est Indipendente audience a concert that is a real party in music. It was impossible for those ipresent to stand still and not dance to the gypsy punk of the group that made Madonna fall in love to the point of wanting the leader, Eugene Hutz, in her movie “The Sacred and the Profane”.
The group was preceded by performances by two of the most popular Salento groups in Italy and abroad, namely Opa Cupa and Mascarimirì.
“Opa Cupa” (read: “opa tzupa”), a cry of exhortation to dance of the gypsies of Southeast Europe, was originally born with the research of the musical repertoire of the Balkans, but more and more the original lyrics and music written by Cesare Dell’Anna, crosses over with the jazz and band sounds typical of the musical tradition of Southern Italy, becoming something new and original. Don’t call this project Balkan, because it is so much more.
Mascarimirì, with their original sound, from pizzica to tarantolato punk-dub, have always been engaged in the re-signification of traditional Salento music, of which Mascarimirì are worthy heirs and prosecutors, revealing themselves, throughout Italy and beyond, as one of the most established world-music projects.
From France came, finally, Les Troublamours. The tarantella Gitano Guinguette is the traditional music of Tadgiguinia spread to the four winds by its Troubadours ambassadors: Les Troublamours! The ingredients of this music are a little bit of tarantella pizzicata for the frenzied rhythms with therapeutic virtues, a bit of gypsy spirit brought by the Gypsies who came from the East and who know how to draw on the traditional repertoires of the countries they crossed to revisit them, and, finally, a bit of influence from the guinguettes of the belle époque where the accordion made people dance and sing. Opening slot for Salento’s Jolaurlo and Cucuwawa…[:en]#SEIfestival 2008 – August 20th @ Masseria Torcito in Cannole (Lecce) with Gogol Bordello, Opa Cupa, Mascarimirì, Les Troublamours, Jolaurlo and Cucuwawa
Since its beginning in 2006, the SEI has declared its vocation to choose heterogeneous groups and projects, to transform itself every time expanding the horizon of its proposals to offer to its audience a broad and varied overview of the music looking for different genres, from punk to singer-songwriter, from rock to ska, from folk to the upbeat rhythms. In the different locations of Salento that have hosted the festival, took turns artists like Kings of Convenience, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Cat Power, Baustelle, Gogol Bordello, Bugo, Skatalites, Daniele Silvestri, Verdena, Tre Allegri Ragazzi Morti, Vallanzaska, Teatro degli Orrori, One Dimensional Man, Russell Leetch, Is Tropical, Populous, Giuda, Fast Animals and Slow Kids, Mannarino, Avion Travel, Negrita, Calibro 35, Brunori Sas, Amor Fou, Lombroso, Dellera and many other Italian and Apulian realities such as Crifiu, Mascarimirì, Mery Fiore, Sofia Brunetta, La Gente, Una.
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