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This summer, dive with us into the often-overlooked sea of late ‘70s/early ’80s Italian Soul, AOR and Disco. Compiled by journalist, producer and digger extraordinaire David Nerattini (with a little help from our own Pierpaolo De Sanctis), PAISA’ GOT SOUL is the smooth and near-danceable soundtrack to a decade that is somehow still with us. A time of gentle grooves, summer loves and sweet escapism – one beautifully captured by Claude Nori in his photographs of Italian beaches and summer holidays. Welcome to the mood of an era.

Various Artists - Fuori dal Mucchio: Combat Folk 2
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 516 MB | Full Artwork: 47 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Larione 10 # LAR FDM 1112-2 | Country/Year: Italy 2000
Genre: Rock, Folk, Singer/Songwriter | Style: Folk Rock, Political Song

If you want to discover a world of interesting folk rock music and rock music with folk influences - then this sampler from Italy is the right thing for you!
You can find 17 tracks (2 tracks of every band, plus additionaly a live track of the Modena City Ramblers) of young and mostly up to now not so well known bands of the Italian scene. The language of the songs is Italian - only at one time a chorus is in English… Some of the bands are surely on the edge of folk music - but nevertheless most of the music is fresh and unconventional rootsy music. All in all you get a fine view into the rootsy rock music scene of Italy on the edge of the folk scene. Recommended!

Muzico Muzicantes: Catàlogue sonor di prencipals estruments musicals occitans.
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 340 MB | Full Artwork: 180 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Assoc. Cult. Lou Dalfin # vqs002 | Country/Year: Italy 2003
Genre: World Music, Folk | Style: Occitan Folk

The traditional Occitan music in the Occitan Valleys of Italy, along with the language and religion are a fundamental element of aggregation for the local community. They mostly consist of ballads, mainly in the Occitan territories of Piedmont; performed during almost all occasions of celebration in the valleys and are well known even outside the boundaries of Occitan Valleys of Italy. The ruggedness and impervious nature of the valleys has resulted in each valley having kept its own melodies and dances, different steps and patterns from those of adjacent valleys. A few of the instruments traditionally used are the accordion, clarinet, violin, organ, as well as the hurdy-gurdy (vioulo), the diatonic button accordion (semitoun) with pinfre (various wind instruments) and the harmonica (ourganin).

Comprising pounding big beat ballads, the occasional guitar-driven nugget and other feminine pop gems of the stylish Italian variety, this much-anticipated sequel to “Ciao Bella!” offers further proof that there is musical life beyond the shores of English-speaking countries.