by Salvatore Esposito – blokgfoolk.com The Friulian music scene never ceases to amaze with its quality and originality. This year, in fact, the historic Udine-based label Nota has released four albums that offer a rich and multifaceted glimpse into contemporary Friulian singer-songwriter music, restoring the image of a scene that is always vibrant and which, […]
di Enrico de Angelis – blogfoolk.com Aveva intitolato uno dei suoi dischi, nel 1965, “Canzoni didascaliche”. Uno di quei “Dischi del Sole” che sembravano dei 45 giri extended play e invece erano dei 33 in piccolo formato. Che modestia, che fair play, che autoironia. Certo, le canzoni di Fausto Amodei erano anche didascaliche, anzi quello […]
Messaggero Veneto – 28/07/2025
by Franco Giordani – instArt.info recent years, several young musicians have given strength and value to the Friulian language in the regional music scene, exporting it beyond the borders of the Piccola Patria. Among these, Alvise Nodale, who has received prestigious national awards for his Gòtes, Massimo Silverio, and Nicole Coceancig, a singer-songwriter originally from […]
A 35-year career is a long time, especially if lived without interruption, with the right spirit that allows you to keep going, always seeking new challenges and paths to explore.By doing so, you don’t risk losing sight of the meaning of your work or seeing your inspiration diluted. by Gianni Gardon – Pelle e Calamaio […]
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(Pop)ular A book/CD, Noi de borgata, for the first release of the new series in the I giorni cantati collection by Alessandro Portelli – il manifesto In the last ten lines of his supplement to the reissue of Giuseppe Micheli’s monumental (627-page) Storia della canzone romana (Newton Compton, 2005), Gianni Borgna acknowledges the existence of […]
by Marco Sonaglia – Blogfoolk.com It was 1994 when a band from Acqui Terme released their first album, with a rather strong title: “La diserzione degli animali da circo” (The desertion of circus animals). We are, of course, talking about Yo Yo Mundi who, to celebrate over thirty years of career, are being honoured by […]
by Valerio Corzani – blogfoolk.com Nicole Coceangig (Ciampi Award, Livorno, November 2024) Photo by Valerio Corzani “In Friulian, there are words that cannot be translated into Italian (and this is one of the values of a language), but a saying that my grandmother always told me and that I have always tried to preserve is […]
by Vittorio Pio – La Nuova Calabriaimages Catanzaro, Ettore Castagna and the lyre: vivid testimony to an ancient world that has never been lost Ettore Castagna, a native of Catanzaro living in Bergamo but a migrant by destiny and an anarchist at heart, is a character who defies categorisation: researcher, anthropologist but also a highly […]