FRATELLI MANCUSO

Fratelli Mancuso

ARNR 0198

Format: Digipack with 32-page booklet

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TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCK

The charming voices of the Fratelli Mancuso are combined here with the buoyant saxophone sounds of Antonio Marangolo to create a fresh musical idiom based on a capella, rosaries and folk compositions.

"Bella Maria" presents a unique and vibrant portrait of their native Sicily and includes tracks from the movie by Antony Minghella THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY, a Paramount Pictures production.

"Bella Maria" lifts its anchor in a sea of sand and clay, travelling through villages and along roads unchartered by the commonplace navigator.
On their voyage, the Fratelli Mancuso unveil vestiges left by men gone by, gently blowing on the layers of clay dust that hide them.
Not only do they depict the open-air theater of Sicily in all its imagery, customs and traditions, but also the Sicily that becomes a meeting place for a myriad of musical realities.

On this CD the voices of earth and iron (by no means incapable of buoyancy and charm), of the Fratelli Mancuso merge with the saxophone of Antonio Marangolo (himself a weathered navigator of other seas), and together they embark on a voyage between air and ground revealing a newly-discovered Sicily.

Guests:

Antonio Marangolo

TRACKLISTING:

• Ti preu Maria (1:38)

• Bella Maria (7:08)

• Si dumani ia murissi (4:09)

• Maria di li grazzi (3:52)

• Abbrazzu (6:06)

• Rusariu di la 'Mmaculata (2:53)

• Timpa (2:58)

• Cumu è sula la strata (5:02)

• Ali di carta (6:15)

• A Napoli fannu strummuli (3:44)

• Ni quali cielu, stidda (3:06)

Fratelli Mancuso

ARNR 0902

Format: Digipack with 28-page booklet

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Cantu is finally the NEW work of the two internationally acclaimed Sicilian Brothers.

All fans who enjoyed the previous album "Bella Maria" and their acting in "The Talented Mr. Ripley" an Anthony Minghella Hollywood Movie, will be certainly pleased and surprised by the sophisticated beauty of this new album.

The Mancuso Brothers crossed over apparently incompatible worlds in the last twenty years, trough the Sutera's ( their village) lost paths of their native Sicily to the remote suburbs of London.
They learned the language of the rimembrance, like the castaway learns swimming, avoiding any distractions.

They began singing professionally without actually realizing it and they are still doing it even when, left the London mists, they came back to Italy, following an ideal, essential song, crucial like a first need.

After the success of "Bella Maria " the Mancuso Brothers have become cultural Icons of their native and beloved Sicily, performing in all major Theaters and Festivals, appearing in Radio and Television with their "virtuous unconsciousness", in Italy and abroad.

Now, revisiting their long artistic journey, they expose the main themes of their musical poetry, in these beautiful, well arranged new tracks, accompanied by exceptional fellow travellers like Enzo Pietropaoli on Doublebass, Gabriele Mirabassi on clarinet, Enrico Rava on trumpet, Stefano Bollani on piano, Michele Ascolese on guitar and buzuki, Rosario Iermano on percussions and Gianmaria Testa voice.

A true musical and cultural event for all lovers of fine Italian Music and Art.
A Must for all those interested in Sicilian and Mediterranean culture.

Guests:

Enzo Pietropaoli, Gabriele Mirabassi, Enrico Rava, Stefano Bollani, Michele Ascolese, Rosario Iermano, Gianmaria Testa.

TRACKLISTING:

• Timidi l'isuli su' (5:04)

• Cantu (7:10)

• Chifteli (3:01)

• Disiu di tia (3:32)

• Sacciu chi parli a la luna (5:01)

• Suli su l'uri (5:04)

• Certi siri viu navi (3:14)

• Preghiera (4:02)

• Signura Letizia (4:03)

• Tu chi strascini (7:13)

• Lirica d'autunno (4:00)

• Margarita (5:53)

• Lamentazione (1:37)

Fratelli Mancuso, Armoniosoincanto

ARNR 0308

Format: Digipack with 36-page booklet

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The project REQUIEM was born by the meeting of two musical worlds supposedly irreconcilable: the world of the Fratelli Mancuso - a couple of Sicilian artists already universally recognised for their work based reviving traditional Sicilian music reworked and reinvented in a new style thus blended- with the clear voices of the renown choral ensemble "Arminiosoincanto" specialised in Gregorian and early polyphonic repertoire. Religious chants and popular laments together with the original voices by Fratelli Mancuso weave, twist and overlap each other in an austere manner to take the form of an ancient Requiem Mass, creating a completely new form of music.

TRACKLISTING:

• PRIGIONIERO DI LU MARI (5:45)

• LAMENTAZIONE (5:47)

• DAMMI TEMPU (4:58)

• LA DISGRAZIA (6:19)

• ABSOLVE DOMINE (3:19)

• QUANDO LA MADUNNUZZA... (7:27)

• TRAZZERI (4:41)

• ELENA (5:23)

• PREGHIERA (4:49)

• CI SU' MOMENTI (4:30)

• SACCIU CHI PARLI A LA LUNA (7:25)