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VINICIO CAPOSSELA
PERFETTA LETIZIA E ALTRE BALLATE PER UOMINI E BESTIE
The Canticle of Creatures is a bridge suspended between a Middle Ages in which nature is, for St. Francis, the transparency of the divine and a lacerated modernity from voids of meaning and deep divisions. Theopera starts from the earth and trespasses into mystery through the contemplation of nature in its corporeal power. Humanity is stripped of its supremacy and reconnected to all elements in a reversal of the values of the bourgeois society of the time. This is the revolution of Francis of Assisi, this is the poetic essence of his canticle whose themes recur in Vinicio Capossela's latest album, Ballad for Men and Beasts. A'opera of great expressive force that looks, not without irony, at the plagues of our present overwhelmed by the corruption of language, violence and the plundering of nature sacrificed in the name of production.
In this new Middle Ages, Capossela seeks, in storytelling and song, a possibility of recomposing unity and a new relationship with the nature of things; with the sacred and with the beasts that, as with the saint of Assisi, become a point of access to the mystery of nature, including human nature. to corollary of this journey the_ Perfetta letizia _of Francis that resonates in the simple but expressive Italian language of the 1300s.
The form from Capossela has chosen for this new work is that of the ballad, as an opportunity for metrical practice and release from synthesis. The ballad takes the chaos of words at large, the liquid experience of becoming, reduces it to story and composes it in the flow of stanzas. From ballad to cantata the step is short.
The cantata for creatures, in the lands of the saint who knew how to break the boundaries of language between creatures, is meant to be a song to soothing the wound of separation, in the intimate awareness that we are all brothers in the condition of poor christs. All, including men and beasts.
production to by** La Cupa**
organization and booking to by International Music and Arts srl
Singer-songwriter, re-troubadour, imaginator, Vinicio Capossela (Hanover, 1965) made his debut in 1990 under the aegis of Renzo Fantini with the album All´una e trentacinque circa, which earned him the Targa Tenco, an award he would be given three more times in the following years. After the first "pre-biographical" records, such as Modì (1992) and Camera to sud (1994), which confirmed his talent in Italy and abroad comes Il ballo di San Vito (1996). In 1998 first live performance with Kocani Orkesta: Liveinvolvo. From 2000 Canzoni to Manovella album of history geography and science. In 2004 he published Non si muore tutte le mattine with Feltrinelli. Subsequent discographic works, Ovunque Proteggi (2006), from Solo (2008) and_ Marinai Profeti e Balene_ (2011), develop around myth, ritual, mask, loneliness, epic, destiny, themes declined in highly successful shows. From 2012 Rebetiko Gymnastas, a sort of Mediterranean social club on the musics of absence, recorded in Athens with rebetiko musicians. Rebetiko as a form of cultural resistance to the crisis is also the subject of Tefteri (il Saggiatore) and Indebito, a documentary film made with Andrea Segre. In 2013 birth of _Sponz Fest _and production of Primo ballo with Banda della posta, works on popular music from dance. From the rural world of the origin "il paese dei coppoloni," nominated for Feltrinelli's Strega (2015) and Canzoni della Cupa (2016), with the participation of Giovanna Marini, Antonio Infantino, Los Lobos, Calexico, Flaco Yimenez to followed by two theatrical performances on the themes of Shadow and Winter, a summer tour with a strong folk imprint, and a series of publications and concerts in different countries around the world. The artist won the prestigious 2017 Tenco Prize. In 2018 tour with symphony orchestra "in the Orcaestra," and recordings of a new long-form work with unpublished collaborations, a kind of chronicles from the post-medieval period, to be released in May 2019 under the title Ballads for Men and Beasts.