Live Session Maria Mazzotta (Italy) and Olivier Ker Ourio (Brittany / Réunion)

By: Laurence Aloir

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Maria Mazzotta presents the album "Amoreamaro" (Bitter Love)
Maria Mazzotta has become The voice of Puglia (southern Italy). After studying piano and harp at the Lecce Conservatory, she became interested in lyrical singing and traditional Salento singing. She becomes the voice of the traditional music group Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino, sings under the direction of Goran Bregovic . In 2017, Maria released a duet album with Redi Hasa , cellist of Ludovico Einaudi . His new album Amoreamaro comes out with Ginger Sounds, it is an intense and passionate reflection, from a feminine point of view, on the different faces of love dealing with passionate love, sometimes tender or desperate, and destructive personalities that we can meet.

These ten pieces fearlessly cross all the emotions that this feeling can arouse, the song serving as a vehicle for catharsis, consolation, strength and "remedy", an evocation so typical of the popular tradition of Puglia. From popular songs to traditional pieces rearranged and enriched with new sounds and words, to milestones that paved the way for the great Italian song like Lu pisci Spada (The swordfish) by Domenico Modugno , Tu non mi piaci più (Je ne loves you more) by Gabriella Ferri and Rosa canta e cunta (Rosa sings and tells) by the great Sicilian artist Rosa Balistreri .

The heart of the album lies in the two compositions of Maria sung in the dialect of the Salento region: Nu me lassare (Do not leave me), and  Amoreamaro which gives its title to the album, in the style of pizzica music. , which is also a dance. The pizzica is traditionally played to heal, during tarantella, real trance music.
The Madagascan musician Bruno Galeone accompanies Maria with accuracy and brio on the accordion and the piano. We can also find the Iranian percussionist Bijan Chemirani on the track Tore Tore and Andrea Presa on the didgeridoo on Amoreamaro.

The other guest is harmonica player Olivier Ker Ourio . He presents the album "Singular Insularity".
Established in Paris since 1992, after a childhood spent on Reunion Island, Olivier Ker Ourio is today recognized as one of the best chromatic jazz harmonica players on the planet.

Hailed by critics as the worthy successor of Toots Thielemans, Ker Ourio is not only a much in demand soloist (Alexandre Desplat, Jean-Claude Petit, Sylvain Luc, Marcel Azzola, Michel Legrand, Didier Lockwood, Danyel Waro ...), but also a brilliant composer and inspired leader. In his 11 albums recorded to date, his compositions reveal a poetic world inhabited by lyrical melodies, inventive harmonies and unusual rhythms. The world of OKO is soulful.

January 2020 release of “ Singular Insularity ” at Bonsaï Music, recorded with his island companions: Grégory Privat (piano / fender rhodes), Gino Chantoiseau (bass), Arnaud Dolmen (drums), Inor Sotolongo (percussions).

Titles performed
Nu Me Lassare live by Maria Mazzotta
Zenfants La Creuse live by Olivier Ker Ourio
Toré Toré from the CD of Maria Mazzotta
Singular Insularity live by Olivier Ker Ourio
Scura Maje live by Maria Mazzotta
Souffleur Feat. Bastien Picot from Olivier Ker Ourio's CD .

*** and to finish ... the jam between Maria Mazzotta and Olivier Ker Ourio ***

Musician
Maria Mazzotta - Chant
Bruno Galeone - Accordion
Olivier Ker Ourio - Harmonica
Inor Sotolongo - Drums
Grégory Privat - Piano

(Replay of April 26, 2020)

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