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La Sornette first saw the light in Novara in the year 1980. Since then the group has evolved and enriched its production with prestigious artistic collaborations to the point of becoming, by the year 2000, one of the most interesting folk groups on the Italian musical scene. In 1983 the band played at Transitaliana in Cervia in front of thousands of spectators and went on to participate in the concerts held by the Institute of Corona in Livorno. The band has also played several times at the Folkermesse festival. The artistic turning-point came for the group when they won the special prize for ethnic-jazz music at the International Val Tidone Competition in 2000, showing that they had reached complete artistic maturity. In 2002 the label Red Ediz. offered the group national distribution for a 14-track album representing the essence of traditional Piemontese music. The album was received with great enthusiasm by the specialised press and sold well. In the wake of the album the group set out in a more personal direction, broadening their repertoire to include ethnic-folk music from all over northern Italy and a number of original folk compositions by Emanuele Cadario. For two consecutive years, 2003 and 2004, the “Suoni e Voci dell’Altra Musica” tour brought the group’s new sound to the attention of the general public throughout Italy. In 2004 the group was asked to produce some tracks for the German label Dejavu Retro’s “Gold Collection” edition of global ethnic music, giving La Sornette the opportunity to appear alongside numerous well-known international folk groups. Two further tours in 2005 and 2006, “Siamo qui da voi, signori” and “Venti di Musica Etnoacustica” were received with great enthusiasm both by the general public and by the critics. At this point the group had found its distinctive sound and was sufficiently mature to express a certain stylistic autonomy: the genre ‘Etnoacustica’ was born (La Sornette’s official trademark) with the aim of evoking a visual image of the sound. The contribution of musicians coming from other areas such as classical, easy listening and jazz has without doubt given added dignity to the overall sound without repudiating its more humble origins. It is thanks to the mixing and matching of these different genres and styles that every listener is able to find his own interpretation, his own particular tie with the past, a completely new and highly suggestive musical style. The group’s live tour continued in 2007, receiving further accolades both from the general public and from the critics in eighteen Italian cities. The 2007 tour served as a promotion vehicle for the new album “Etnoacustica” in which La Sornette have solidly confirmed their musical identity, moving easily between traditional and original folk compositions. The new album was produced by the “Etnoacustica” and “Re Nudo” labels and has been distributed throughout Italy, Austria and Germany.

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ENGLISH
“Anonimix is a rare Anglo-Sicilian blend of cultures and styles, where north meets south, acoustic meets electronic and elements of pop, rock, folk and jazz embrace each other on a vibrant bed of Mediterranean and Latin- American rhythms. Thoughtful lyrics, eclectic piano, mellow sax and lively percussion blend together harmoniously to create a distinctly original sound that escapes easy classification but assures an enjoyable listen.”

Anonimix was born late one evening in the autumn of the year 1999 in a small converted garage in the rugged, lava-black foothills of Mount Etna, on the east coast of Sicily. An only child of mixed parentage, Anonimix’s infancy was strongly marked by the regular, structured, pop/rock influences of an English father and the looser jazz/ethnic influences and rhythms of a Sicilian mother. Raised and nurtured on such classic childhood development aids as Cubase and Stylus, Anonimix began at an early age to explore the delicate art of blending the acoustic instrumentation of those critical formative years with more modern, carefully selected electronic sounds. Timid by nature, Anonimix is not known for extravagant live exhibitions, preferring the quiet intimacy of the garage/studio to fashion and shape with calm reflection their songs and instrumental tracks.

ITALIANO
“Anonimix e’ una rara miscela anglo-siciliana di culture e stili, dove il nord incontra il sud, l’acustico incontra l’elettronico, ed elementi di pop, rock, folk e jazz si abbracciano su un letto vibrante di ritmi mediterranei e sud-americani. Testi intensi, pianoforte eclettico, sax caldo e percussioni vivaci si miscelano armoniosamente per creare un suono distinto e originale che sfugge da una facile classificazione ma garantisce un ascolto piacevole.”

Anonimix è nato in una tarda serata nell’autunno dell’anno 1999, in un piccolo garage convertito, nelle colline aspre e nere ai piedi dell’Etna, sulla costa orientale della Sicilia. Figlio unico di genitori di nazionalità diverse, l’infanzia di Anonimix fu fortemente segnata dalle influenze regolari e strutturate, pop/rock di un padre inglese e le influenze e ritmi più sciolti, jazz/etnici di una madre siciliana. Cresciuto e nutrito con degli strumenti di sviluppo classici per l’infanzia come Cubase e Stylus, Anonimix cominciò da giovane ad esplorare l’arte delicata di miscelare la strumentazione acustica di quei importanti anni formativi con dei suoni elettronici più moderni, attentamente selezionati. Timido di natura, Anonimix non è conosciuto per spettacoli stravaganti dal vivo, preferendo l’intimità tranquilla del garage/studio per creare e formare con calma riflessione le loro canzoni e brani strumentali.

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The music of Cantodiscanto is inspired by a gaze towards the South. First and foremost towards the South of Italy whose traditional and classical repertoires the group has studied in depth. This is the South from which the group comes and to which it is attached, the South to which the language of their songs belongs: Neapolitan. South America is a source of inspiration for the group as well, and is present in their music with its rhythms and harmonies. But their gaze is also turned towards another South, a South of the world that brings together all those who live in hardship or in a state of emergency, subject to the will of those few who make the decisions; a South where people continue to sing out their love and their desire to be free and to live in peace. It is towards this South that the group’s lyrics make their references: fragments of stories, journeys, meetings that mix in music the past and the present.

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