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trotula

by Hartmann Ensemble

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    200 numbered vinyl edition, 180gr, hand xylographed cover one by our dilruba player and artist Renata Frana, numbered from 001 to 200, an inner sleeve with texts, graphics and a code for a digital download.

    Thanks to our many supporters who helped us with an effective crowdfunding campaign and the collaboration with ruparuparecords and the dance theater company teatrisospesi.

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1.
Trotula 03:00
info
2.
Luce 'e argiento 05:41
3.
Zi' Monaciello 05:19 video
4.
Occhi di perla 04:31
5.
Kirwà 06:13
6.
La tenta 04:31

about

Hailing from Salerno, Italy, Hartmann Ensemble release a debut whose title is inspired by Trotula De Ruggiero, a celebrated woman physician from the southern Italian city, a hub of European medieval medicine. With a varied instrumentation (voices, oud, rabab, guitar, dilruba, double bass and percussion) the sextet draw on various sources, from early music to the Neapolitan tradition and from the Middle East to India. Most lyrics are in Neapolitan, set to self-penned music that is often interweaved with a theatrical attitude, as on the opening title-track, a sort of alap over recited verses from Antonio Petti, then ending in a melismatic fronna singing, or on the atmospheric ‘Luce ‘e Argiento’. Sung in Italian, a woman sings for her lover heading off on a migrant boat in the beguiling ‘Occhi di Perla’.

Much of their playing is improvisational, generating interesting textures and rhythmic ideas, as on the nursery rhyme ‘Zi’ Monaciello’ or ‘Kirwà’, built upon ‘Raga Kirwani’ and incorporating a southern Mediterranean feel. Throughout, the fusion is sensitive, especially on ‘La Tenta’, whose lyrics come from the 17th-century GB Basile’s Pentamerone, musically intertwining dramatic singing, bowed drone and intricate irregular tempos. A fearless band playing singular music unlike anything you’ve heard.

Songlines, October 2021

credits

released July 1, 2021

Daniele Apicella: percussions
Alberto Ferraro: voice
Renata Frana: dilruba, art cover
Orsola Leone: voice
Gabriele Pagliano: double bass
Carlo Roselli: oud, robab, grafic design

Gabriele Loria: producer

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