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Italian Songbook (vinyl)

Luca Aquino

Italian Songbook (vinyl)

Format: LP 12inch
Label: ACT music
UPC: 0614427988614
Catnr: ACTLP 98861
Release date: 14 June 2019
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Label
ACT music
UPC
0614427988614
Catalogue number
ACTLP 98861
Release date
14 June 2019

"I hear all those beautiful songs from the Italian songbook here, slowly and penetratingly, played by a special trio with a very own timbre and with an extra depth when the orchestra is heard."

Rootstime, 20-6-2019
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Sometimes fate steps in and changes the course of a life. That’s what happened to Luca Aquino: he was about to go on a “Jazz-Bike-Tour” in the summer of 2017. He’d packed his trumpet and was ready to set off...but then he couldn’t. He had contracted Bell’s palsy, a sudden and acute facial nerve paralysis which put paid to his idea of cycling all the way from his home town of Benevento to Oslo, playing concerts en route. He couldn’t touch the trumpet for more than a year, then had to re-learn it more or less from scratch. The good news is that he has successfully put his musical career back on track.

For Aquino, however, this was a time for self-reflection, and “Italian Songbook” its logical outcome: “Ever since I was little, the traditional music and popular songs of my homeland have been with me. Music was all around, the latest Italian songs were always on the radio, and my mother often sang to me. My grandfather always said I could whistle those tunes before I could walk. A Neapolitan song was the first piece I ever played on the trumpet. During my compulsory break through illness, I decided to take a look back at this music, as a way to start over.”

Aquino’s “Italian Songbook” is very personal and the repertoire here is broad: film music by Ennio Morricone and Nino Rota, plus great songs by famous cantautori (Italian singersongwriters) the likes of Luigi Tenco, Lucio Dalla and Fabrizio De André. Aquino recalls largely forgotten pioneers of Italian music such as Mario Pasquale Costa and Gorni Kramer. He receives outstanding support from pianist Danilo Rea (tracks 2, 4, 7, 8 & 10). Together with accordionist Natalino Marchetti, they create deeply heartfelt music. And there’s a luxurious unfurling of sound when Aquino’s group is combined with the Orchestra Filarmonica di Benevento. In the trio format they are gentle, soft and intimate, but they can also bring on the opulence of an orchestra, and it is this dichotomy which gives “Italian Songbook” its charm.

Every note of this album conveys Aquino’s devotion to his musical heritage. With a soft tone and yet great urgency he develops these well-known melodies and brings out all of the beauty in them. And so the “Italian Songbook” has become a touching homage to the music of his homeland. Fate really must have known what it was doing all along.

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Luca Aquino (trumpet)

Sometimes fate steps in and changes the course of a life. That’s what happened to Luca Aquino: he was about to go on a “Jazz-Bike-Tour” in the summer of 2017. He’d packed his trumpet and was ready to set off...but then he couldn’t. He had contracted Bell’s palsy, a sudden and acute facial nerve paralysis which put paid to his idea of cycling all the way from his home town of Benevento to Oslo, playing concerts en route. He couldn’t touch the trumpet for more than a year, then had to re-learn it more or less from scratch. The good news is that he has successfully put his musical career back on track. For Aquino, however, this was a time for...
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Sometimes fate steps in and changes the course of a life. That’s what happened to Luca Aquino: he was about to go on a “Jazz-Bike-Tour” in the summer of 2017. He’d packed his trumpet and was ready to set off...but then he couldn’t. He had contracted Bell’s palsy, a sudden and acute facial nerve paralysis which put paid to his idea of cycling all the way from his home town of Benevento to Oslo, playing concerts en route. He couldn’t touch the trumpet for more than a year, then had to re-learn it more or less from scratch. The good news is that he has successfully put his musical career back on track.

For Aquino, however, this was a time for self-reflection, and “Italian Songbook” its logical outcome: “Ever since I was little, the traditional music and popular songs of my homeland have been with me. Music was all around, the latest Italian songs were always on the radio, and my mother often sang to me. My grandfather always said I could whistle those tunes before I could walk. A Neapolitan song was the first piece I ever played on the trumpet. During my compulsory break through illness, I decided to take a look back at this music, as a way to start over.”

Aquino’s “Italian Songbook” is very personal and the repertoire here is broad: film music by Ennio Morricone and Nino Rota, plus great songs by famous cantautori (Italian singersongwriters) the likes of Luigi Tenco, Lucio Dalla and Fabrizio De André. Aquino recalls largely forgotten pioneers of Italian music such as Mario Pasquale Costa and Gorni Kramer. He receives outstanding support from pianist Danilo Rea (tracks 2, 4, 7, 8 & 10). Together with accordionist Natalino Marchetti, they create deeply heartfelt music. And there’s a luxurious unfurling of sound when Aquino’s group is combined with the Orchestra Filarmonica di Benevento. In the trio format they are gentle, soft and intimate, but they can also bring on the opulence of an orchestra, and it is this dichotomy which gives “Italian Songbook” its charm.

Every note of this album conveys Aquino’s devotion to his musical heritage. With a soft tone and yet great urgency he develops these well-known melodies and brings out all of the beauty in them. And so the “Italian Songbook” has become a touching homage to the music of his homeland. Fate really must have known what it was doing all along.


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Giovanni Francesca (conductor)

Rino De Patre (guitar)

Natalino Marchetti (accordion)

Danilo Rea (piano)

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I hear all those beautiful songs from the Italian songbook here, slowly and penetratingly, played by a special trio with a very own timbre and with an extra depth when the orchestra is heard.
Rootstime, 20-6-2019

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01.
Deborah’s Theme
02:41
(Various) Luca Aquino, Fabio Giachino, Danilo Rea, Rino De Patre, Natalino Marchetti, Ruben Bellavia, Orchestra Filarmonica di Benevento
02.
Scalinatella
05:01
(Various) Luca Aquino, Fabio Giachino, Danilo Rea, Rino De Patre, Natalino Marchetti, Ruben Bellavia, Orchestra Filarmonica di Benevento
03.
La canzone dell’amore perduto
04:30
(Various) Luca Aquino, Fabio Giachino, Danilo Rea, Rino De Patre, Natalino Marchetti, Ruben Bellavia, Orchestra Filarmonica di Benevento
04.
Caruso
03:55
(Various) Luca Aquino, Fabio Giachino, Danilo Rea, Rino De Patre, Natalino Marchetti, Ruben Bellavia, Orchestra Filarmonica di Benevento
05.
Storia d’amore
04:49
(Various) Luca Aquino, Fabio Giachino, Danilo Rea, Rino De Patre, Natalino Marchetti, Ruben Bellavia, Orchestra Filarmonica di Benevento
06.
Almeno tu nell’universo
05:40
(Various) Luca Aquino, Fabio Giachino, Danilo Rea, Rino De Patre, Natalino Marchetti, Ruben Bellavia, Orchestra Filarmonica di Benevento
07.
Un giorno dopo l’altro
04:07
(Various) Luca Aquino, Fabio Giachino, Danilo Rea, Rino De Patre, Natalino Marchetti, Ruben Bellavia, Orchestra Filarmonica di Benevento
08.
Era de maggio
05:15
(Various) Luca Aquino, Fabio Giachino, Danilo Rea, Rino De Patre, Natalino Marchetti, Ruben Bellavia, Orchestra Filarmonica di Benevento
09.
So che ti perderò
05:03
(Various) Luca Aquino, Fabio Giachino, Danilo Rea, Rino De Patre, Natalino Marchetti, Ruben Bellavia, Orchestra Filarmonica di Benevento
10.
Anema e core
03:54
(Various) Luca Aquino, Fabio Giachino, Danilo Rea, Rino De Patre, Natalino Marchetti, Ruben Bellavia, Orchestra Filarmonica di Benevento
11.
Pippo non lo sa
04:36
(Various) Luca Aquino, Fabio Giachino, Danilo Rea, Rino De Patre, Natalino Marchetti, Ruben Bellavia, Orchestra Filarmonica di Benevento
12.
La strada
03:17
(Various) Luca Aquino, Fabio Giachino, Danilo Rea, Rino De Patre, Natalino Marchetti, Ruben Bellavia, Orchestra Filarmonica di Benevento
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