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Artists 2001
Finally an Italian playing at the Falun Folkmusik Festival! Ricardo Tesi is the master above all masters of the organetto, an Italian accordion. He caresses and strums the keys on his organetto making the tones bounce around all over "the Boot". Ricardo Tesi is from Pestoia and he was raised in the music and dance traditions that belong in the mountains between Tuscany and Emilia. But when he plays his accordion he travels in much wider landscapes – in his music you hear both classical music and jazz, Balkan rhythms and Sardinian ballu tundi. He has worked with many musicians, among others the Basque accordion player Kepa Junkera who played at the festival a few years ago. Today Tesi is an acclaimed composer and inspirer who travels all over the Italian folk music scene. He has, with his Banditaliana, been seeking his musical roots in Tuscany. He has given the liscio-dances a revival, dances that remind of both the waltz and polka. Is that tablas I can hear pumping behind the accordion’s curtain of sound? Yes it is. Banditaliana’s repertoire is full of paradoxes, just like the land the band comes from. Maurizio Geri, vocals and guitar, can sing of love, making it as beautiful as the Tuscany landscape. Vibraphone player and percussionist Ettore Bonafé lets out warm gusts of air out of the vibraphone. Saxophone player Claudio Carboni likes to fly away on short excursions over the Adriatic Sea but he always manages to land safely somewhere north of Florence. | Thursday Main
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Riccardo Tesi
é Banditaliana- Italy