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The band was founded in 2009 to promote the folklore of the south of Italy and the Mediterranean area, enriched with ethnic elements, jazz shades, original arrangements, and many instruments from all over the world (violin, Kurdish saz, percussions, accordion, bass).
The ensemble has been performing in many theaters, clubs, and squares in Italy and abroad, too (in 2015, at international festivals in France, the Ethnoambient Festival in Croatia, and the prestigious Classic Festival of Istanbul), and it has also taken part in many cultural events, achieving sounding success due to the emotional appeal of their music, which involves all kinds of spectators and seduces all folk music lovers.
The first CD was released in 2011; the second one, "Kolymbetra," was released in January 2015 (watch the video of the song "Leucade" and the promo video).
"Kolymbetra," the new album by Domo Emigrantes, has long decided to create a new project dedicated to researching and relaunching some songs in a "variegated" key. This is characterized by the folk tradition of southern Italy and by the inclusion of some music compositions from other Mediterranean countries—with the aim of enriching the band's repertoire. This idea gives birth to "Kolymbetra," the Greek term for a container vessel. Indeed, it is an archaeological site located in the inner core of the Temple Valley in Agrigento (Sicily), one of the regions to which Domo Emigrantes refers. Sicily, a region rich in culture and history, is the Kolymbetra of the Mediterranean thanks to its morphological location. Conquered by several peoples throughout time, it succeeded afterward in embracing and holding the art and music of the Middle East, Kurdistan, Turkey, Greece, Adriatic-coast countries, and Spain. By this new project, the band wants to spread, in terms of music, the history and roots of southern Italy and of all countries leaning on the Mediterranean Sea, which keep the passion, art, secrets, and mystery of past centuries.
The ensemble has been performing in many theaters, clubs, and squares in Italy and abroad, too (in 2015, at international festivals in France, the Ethnoambient Festival in Croatia, and the prestigious Classic Festival of Istanbul), and it has also taken part in many cultural events, achieving sounding success due to the emotional appeal of their music, which involves all kinds of spectators and seduces all folk music lovers.
The first CD was released in 2011; the second one, "Kolymbetra," was released in January 2015 (watch the video of the song "Leucade" and the promo video).
"Kolymbetra," the new album by Domo Emigrantes, has long decided to create a new project dedicated to researching and relaunching some songs in a "variegated" key. This is characterized by the folk tradition of southern Italy and by the inclusion of some music compositions from other Mediterranean countries—with the aim of enriching the band's repertoire. This idea gives birth to "Kolymbetra," the Greek term for a container vessel. Indeed, it is an archaeological site located in the inner core of the Temple Valley in Agrigento (Sicily), one of the regions to which Domo Emigrantes refers. Sicily, a region rich in culture and history, is the Kolymbetra of the Mediterranean thanks to its morphological location. Conquered by several peoples throughout time, it succeeded afterward in embracing and holding the art and music of the Middle East, Kurdistan, Turkey, Greece, Adriatic-coast countries, and Spain. By this new project, the band wants to spread, in terms of music, the history and roots of southern Italy and of all countries leaning on the Mediterranean Sea, which keep the passion, art, secrets, and mystery of past centuries.
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