Areasud Electric Roots

Available from today, January 31, 2025, in physical and digital format, the first studio production by the Areasud Electric Roots musical collective.

Areasud Electric Roots was born in 2023 as a parallel project of Quartetto Areasud, active in Sicily since 2010 in folk and world music with several international experiences and two studio albums, who met Palermo-based producer and composer Alfredo Giammanco. A sound designer, musical director of MiC Open Orchestra in the Music in the Circle project co-funded by the European Union, and one of the coordinators of the Cantieri in Movimento project funded by the Italian Ministry of Culture under the Boarding Pass call, Alfredo Giammanco studied Electronic Music at the "A. Scontrino" conservatory in Trapani.

The musical collective also features the work of young academically trained composer Mattia Cavallaro, who arranged the string quartet parts for several traditionally inspired themes, here revisited in an original key with the addition of electronic music elements.

The result is a modern and contemporary artistic production that uses traditional folk singing and instruments, reworking sonic textures and harmonic weaves in new and unusual ways, pushing here to the boundaries of experimentation and radical improvisation.

The Guests

Numerous guests appear on the debut self-titled CD, including the string quartet consisting of Italian Valerio D'Ercole on violin and Hungarians Eszter Filone Nagy on violin, Erzsebet Palojtay on viola, Matyas Olveti on cello, and Moroccan singer Said Tichiti, who composed and sang the lyrics for the album's lead track "Ya Tir", drawing inspiration from a common poetic figure in the repertoire of wandering Mediterranean storytellers.

The production was also made possible thanks to the contribution of the Nuovo IMAIE New Record Productions Grant.