Dance memory, dance: A Filetta, Paolo Fresu & Daniele Di Bonaventura – Sardinia & Corsica

The great masters of Corsican polyphonic voices meet Sardinian trumpet player Paolo Fresu for a Mediterranean musical encounter of deep spirituality.

Presenting music that does not belong to anyone exactly, because it is for all.

The Corsican polyphonic ensemble A Filetta with Paolo Fresu, jazzman in the Sardinian tradition, and Italian bandoneon (concertina) player Daniele Di Bonaventura, have together created a group based on the island poets Aimé Césaire and Jean Nicoli. Césaire was a writer, poet and playwright from Martinique; Nicoli was a teacher and member of the resistance, executed in 1943 during the Italian facist period.

In choosing these two brilliant humanist thinkers, we are reminded of the idea of sacrifice. To overcome the self in order to idealise a cause is an act that can be considered spiritual.

Corsicans and Italians, polyphonists and jazzmen, singing, playing trumpet and bandoneon, highlight the ideas and dreams of these great thinkers in a profound and inspiring musical performance.