A good artistic fellowship needs lucky encounters and a balance of personalities that is often hard to reach. I can tell that Pepe Medri's Timbuctù Orkestra has these features. The credit is to give to Pepe's music, which comes from tango and folk music and trusts to the collective arrangement of an ensemble made from musicians coming from jazz and contemporary classical music. The balance produced, between folk roots and free-improvised areas, strictness and naïvety, is real magic.

Dimitri Sillato


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Tracks:

1. TROPICALE
2. CYNARONE --> Listen Mp3!
3. SIBIVARA
4. ASPETTANDOTI
5. FERNANDO --> Listen Mp3!
6. CAMMINANDO
7. NEVE
8. 28 APRILE

All compositions by Pepe Medri



Personnel:

PEPE MEDRI organetto diatonico e bandoneòn
GIANLUCA RAVAGLIA contrabbasso
DIMITRI SILLATO pianoforte, Rhodes, violino e fischio
SILVIA DONATI voce, collane
GIANCARLO BIANCHETTI chitarra e percussioni
VINCENZO VASI voce, theremin, vibrafono, giocattoli


Recorded by MARIO MARCASSA on September 13, 14, 15, 2008 at Cat Sound Studio, Badia Polesine
Mixed by ENRICO TERRAGNOLI at Greedy Little Sisters, Verona


Artwork and graphic design by MASSIMILIANO SORRENTINI