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Trotula is the Hartmann Ensemble's debut album, inspired by the fascinating story of the most prominent physician of the Salerno Medical School, which developed from the 9th century A.D. It was attended by academics from all over the world, where everyone had free access to treatment and where women maintained significant influence and often held leading roles.
The forthcoming album, in co-production with the label Rupa Rupa Rec, was partly financed by an effective crowdfunding campaign, with contributions from all over Italy and several European countries. The record, available on vinyl and in digital format, contains songs with both traditional and inspired lyrics, often dedicated to the sea as a dimension of hopefulness, lullabies, and themes such as adventurous journeys, distant lovers, and migration, but also related to southern Italy's oral tradition or seventeenth-century Neapolitan literature and theatre. The concert is primarily based on the music of the album: in a live concert, music, poetry, and narration are continuously intertwined, producing an imaginative and seductive universe.
Hartmann began in the summer of '15 with Daniele Apicella on percussion and Carlo Roselli on picks, with the principal aim to study a repertoire from the 13th and 14th centuries of Southern Europe. The lyric and traditional singer Orsola Leone joined, and after a while, Renata Frana at the dilruba. In 2016, the concert "Music and Travel Diaries of the Middle Age" was born, showcased in historical locations, historic churches, and cultural events for more than two years; they recorded a live video at Studio XXV of the first concert. In 2018, the ensemble developed the compositional path of its repertoire that would naturally become the album "Trotula," and in the same year, the ensemble produced the video "Polorum Regina," which reached first place in the world top 40 of the platform dedicated to world music, Ethnocloud. In 2019, the lineup expanded with Alberto Ferraro at the voice and narrations and Gabriele Pagliano on double bass and viola da gamba. Gabriele Loria, artistic director and executive producer of Rupa Rupa Records, is part of the project as co-producer and live sound engineer. In July 2019, Hartmann wrote, commissioned by Créarc - Rencontres du Jeune Théâtre Européen, the concert show "RIVOTU, Italian Chants of Life and Death," and played it at the inaugural ceremony of the thirty-first edition of the Festival at the City Palace of Grenoble and, later, at the Merovingian Crypt of the Archaeological Museum Grenoble Saint-Laurent. In September 2019, they sonorized the Commedia dell'Arte show "Le tre corone" by the international company Justmo', Rome. In October 2019, at the Palestinian Women's Festival, they played for the poetess Jumana Mustafa, authoress of "I stumble, as soon as I walk slowly," ed. Dante Descartes. Hartmann is a partner of Teatrisospesi, composes, and performs live music for "ORLANDO," a contemporary dance-theater play that debuted on December 7, 2019, at the Piccolo Teatro del Giullare in Salerno.
2020: "Trotula" is released.
The forthcoming album, in co-production with the label Rupa Rupa Rec, was partly financed by an effective crowdfunding campaign, with contributions from all over Italy and several European countries. The record, available on vinyl and in digital format, contains songs with both traditional and inspired lyrics, often dedicated to the sea as a dimension of hopefulness, lullabies, and themes such as adventurous journeys, distant lovers, and migration, but also related to southern Italy's oral tradition or seventeenth-century Neapolitan literature and theatre. The concert is primarily based on the music of the album: in a live concert, music, poetry, and narration are continuously intertwined, producing an imaginative and seductive universe.
Hartmann began in the summer of '15 with Daniele Apicella on percussion and Carlo Roselli on picks, with the principal aim to study a repertoire from the 13th and 14th centuries of Southern Europe. The lyric and traditional singer Orsola Leone joined, and after a while, Renata Frana at the dilruba. In 2016, the concert "Music and Travel Diaries of the Middle Age" was born, showcased in historical locations, historic churches, and cultural events for more than two years; they recorded a live video at Studio XXV of the first concert. In 2018, the ensemble developed the compositional path of its repertoire that would naturally become the album "Trotula," and in the same year, the ensemble produced the video "Polorum Regina," which reached first place in the world top 40 of the platform dedicated to world music, Ethnocloud. In 2019, the lineup expanded with Alberto Ferraro at the voice and narrations and Gabriele Pagliano on double bass and viola da gamba. Gabriele Loria, artistic director and executive producer of Rupa Rupa Records, is part of the project as co-producer and live sound engineer. In July 2019, Hartmann wrote, commissioned by Créarc - Rencontres du Jeune Théâtre Européen, the concert show "RIVOTU, Italian Chants of Life and Death," and played it at the inaugural ceremony of the thirty-first edition of the Festival at the City Palace of Grenoble and, later, at the Merovingian Crypt of the Archaeological Museum Grenoble Saint-Laurent. In September 2019, they sonorized the Commedia dell'Arte show "Le tre corone" by the international company Justmo', Rome. In October 2019, at the Palestinian Women's Festival, they played for the poetess Jumana Mustafa, authoress of "I stumble, as soon as I walk slowly," ed. Dante Descartes. Hartmann is a partner of Teatrisospesi, composes, and performs live music for "ORLANDO," a contemporary dance-theater play that debuted on December 7, 2019, at the Piccolo Teatro del Giullare in Salerno.
2020: "Trotula" is released.
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