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The Sossio Banda is a music band from Alta Murgia in Southern Italy.
The band's members are : lead singer Loredana Savino myself, Francesco Sossio, on saxophones and clarinet
winds in general and second voice.
Then there is guitarist Tommaso Colafiglio, Giorgio Albanese on the accordion, Francesco Leoce on bass guitar
Michele Marrulli on frame drums and percussions
Pino Basile on drums and «ephemeral instruments » as he calls them
and then other musicians who work with us from time to time.
Pasquale Barberio plays the accordion for example
and other musicians and technicians who also belong to the team.
We all come from extremely different backgrounds but we have all joined up in the same idea of music
around the same concept of communication.
I think the central idea is our lives, lives that bring us together and that spring up through sounds, composition,
our instruments, our way to improvise and arrange our music.
We have the feeling that we belong to a territory and we use this territory as a language to communicate with one another.
The work I personally carried out with Sossio, because I am the singer
was to « freshen up » my dialect.
As I come from a very traditional and folk background closely linked to the traditions of the « Alta Murgia » geographical area
which go very far back in time
I had to, or should I say Sossio had to convince me to get much closer to the language I speak on a daily basis with my friends and family.
Even with friends that live in other areas and do not speak my dialect... I speak in dialect anyway !
We started from our tradition but we like to be influenced
and we also like influencing other people's music.
In my opinion the most experimental and modern aspects of our work are those coming from the most ancient elements of the music and rhythms we use.
And the other way around : what seems more modern and contemporary
may belong more strongly to tradition.
Our new album comes out on September 28 2013, it is called SUGNE
The presentation will take place in Gravina where everything started.
The title of the album is SUGNE it is a dialect word which means «dream».
It is the title of one song of the album.
The song talks about a dream trip in a world made of peace and brotherhood, free of discriminations.
It is not a kind of stereotyped pretense, which would be too much of a cliché, it is a proper dream!
And if this dream can be of any use, then so much the better !
September 28 2013, in Gravina, presentation of our new album SUGNE
In the main digital stores beginning 28 Septembre 2013