CAVALCATA SARDA
CANTI E DANZE DELL'AUTHENTICO FOLKLORE SARDO
SARDINIAN CAVALCADE
SONGS AND DANCES OF THE AUTHENTIC SARDINIAN FOLKLORE
Stella, 1969, LPS 6067
Brought back from Sardinia by a cousin of mine, this is a good album for people who know nothing about Sardinian musical traditions. There are organettu, launeddas, choirs, singers with guitar and dances, ''poesia'', ''storia'' etc. There are two tracks that illustrate other types of music : track A7 with an ''ave Maria'' sung in Catalan by a group from Alghero (L'Alguer in Catalan), an area where the majority of the inhabitants still speaks Catalan. This track is technically bad but has always been since the first time I listened to it. Track B7 sounds more like popular dance music based on international pop but sung in Sardinian by Tony Piaceri.
The title of the album is the title of a composition by the organetto player Francesco Bande but I think it refers also to a big annual feast day held in May at Sassari when people put on their traditional clothes and parade through the streets on foot or by carts pulled by oxes and on horses.
Two villages famous for their ''coro'' are part of this compilation : Orgosolo and Orosei. The launeddas player is Giovanni Lai a very famous one but not related to Luigi Lai I think.
There are some good examples of what is called ''canto in re'' and ''muttos'' like track B6 with the exceptional singer Antonio Meloni.
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