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The best kept secret in music
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Nelle voci penetranti di Enzo e Lorenzo Mancuso si avverte il respiro solenne della storia con gli innumerevoli intrecci ed avvicendamenti culturali che hanno avuto come teatro la Sicilia.
Attraverso di loro si rinnovano le fatiche, le miserie, l’eroismo, la creatività di una gente orgogliosa della sua terra.
Le canzoni dei Fratelli Mancuso parlano così di antiche tensioni e presenti indignazioni civili, di ataviche oppressioni e dell’eterno desiderio di libertà sulle rotte del nostro mare, il Mediterraneo.
- La Repubblica
"Bella Maria is an album of sacred and secular devotional poetry in a spare, open instrumental setting- a southern Italian twist on the Romantic Art Song". - Rhythmusic -october 1998
Discography
Nesci Maria, Tecnosada, 1986
Romances de alla y de aca, Fenomusic, 1990
Sutera, La tradizione musicale di un paese della Sicilia - Sudnord, 1993
Bella Maria - Amiata Records, ARNR 0198, Firenze, 1997
Italian Odissey - Putumayo World Music, 2000
Cantu, Amiata Records, Amiata Records, ARNR 0902, Firenze 2003
Trazzeri, Fundacion Joaquin Diaz e la Regione Castiglia e Leon, 2004
Requiem, Amiata Records,ARNR 0308, Firenze 2008
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Bio
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 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, in Italy and abroad. In 1998 their music is licensed for the soundtrack of Anthony Mingella's The "Talented Mr. Ripley". In '99 they are invited to play at the most important competition of Italian independent music: Premio Tenco. In 2003 they release their 3rd cd "Cantu" and write and perform the music for the theatre play "Medea", collaborating with the famous theatre director Emma Dante. In 2008 they release their last album: "Requiem" and are invited to participate at the 3rd and 4th edition of the Giuseppe Sinopoli Festival in Sicily.
Their music has the soulfulness and the mistery of Sicilian traditional music, and explores new horizons blending these ancient roots with jazz and classical music.
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