The devotion in music of Klostes

Available digitally from February 1, 2025.

Klostes are the threads obtained from spinning, the raw fiber transformed into yarn by the rotation of spindles. Thus, since 2021, Luisa Biondo (harp and vocals), Eleonora Bonincontro (oud), Annamaria Castrogiovanni (guitar), and Novella Novelli (vocals) have been weaving sonic textures that recall Mediterranean anthropological memory, composing melodies that tell ancient stories with a modern touch, keeping the Sicilian musical tradition alive.

Klostes give life to light, persuasive, imperfect, and ancient sounds, but above all to the pleasure of sharing the evocations of an often-forgotten heritage.

A dedication to Saint Agatha

The group's new project, "Una dedica a Sant'Agata" ("A Dedication to Saint Agatha"), is not simply a song, but an invocation, a retelling of a story, a message to new generations. As Eleonora Bonincontro explains:

It is a work that unites the passion for music with anthropological research and storytelling.

In the track, Saint Agatha, a weaver and later patron saint of weavers, is portrayed as a living and present figure, moving through the streets of a Roman-era Catania. Her veil becomes a powerful miraculous talisman, a symbol of protection against all the calamities that afflict the city.

Antropop

The music of Klostes, defined by the artists themselves as "Antropop", is a story of the inhabitants of these lands and the archetypes of a Sicily that sits at the center of the Mediterranean Universe, a stage on which everyone passes through, inevitably leaving something of themselves.

The work of Klostes represents a recovery of intellectual and material heritage, a rereading of anthropological and ethnomusicographic texts that lends contemporary freshness, with distinctive and unique sonorities.