CURENTE DELLA VAL VERMENAGNA 1 & 2
COURANTES FROM THE VERMENAGNA VALLEY
Self-production, no dates, FA025, FA033
These tapes come from the North of Italy thanks to a friend who lives near Milan.
The Alps have plenty of valleys linking France and Italy inhabited by people who still speak an Occitan dialect close to the Provençal language. That valley lies in the province of Coni and is about 20 km long.
With the revival of traditional music in Italy since the seventies this area, which is part of Piemont, had also seen the emergence of numerous folk bands such as Lou Dalfin.
Here we can enjoy a great duet with Silvio Vallauri on clarinet and Franco Romana on fisarmonica (chromatic accordion) for a music that sounds more traditional (all tunes are traditional). There are no arrangements and each dance is played straight with a very good style by the clarinet well backed by the accordion which plays chords only (a bit the way the couple piffero-fisarmonica works in Piemont-Lombardia). The dances are the curenta (French courante) and the balet. I don't know whether the clarinet is used in other places; the violin and now the diatonic accordion being the main instruments in those valleys. There is some reverberation.
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