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Muqataea

by Francesca Guccione

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about

Muqataea, which means county in Arabic, is my personal journey to rediscover my hometown, Modica, observed with the eyes of the imagination; a city that was just a county for several centuries.

In fact, the record describes a day spent in this imaginary place that takes life from the places of my land, in a horizon where if lost it confines between reality to the imagination. To carry out this work, I was inspired by the morphological characteristics of the territory, the labyrinthine streets, the late Baroque architecture and the most fantastic world of Sicilian folklore, giving space to has what figures like "il Pircanti" and "la Majara" that inhabit still today the folk tales of the island.

From a musical point of view, in addition to the minimalist structure of the strings and the piano, the electronic background is made up of various synths and various elaborate audio samples that capture the dialectal idiom of my province. Dialect that constitutes the soundscape in which I live daily and the sound house that is dearest to me.

credits

released May 7, 2021

Written and composed by Francesca Guccione
Co-arranger: Antonio Ministeri
Co-arranger on tracks 1 & 6: Giorgio Bertinelli
Responsable of the Post Production and co-responsable for the mixing: Gabriele Gambera
Supervisor: Marco Biscarini
Artistic Director: Giovanni Sollima

Voice : La Tarma
Violins: Francesca Guccione, Vincenzo Di Silvestro
Cellos: Francesco Angelico, Giulia Strano
Clarinet: Salvatore Assenza
Piano: Antonio Ministeri

Graphic Design: Dhome archistudio
Pictures and Videos: Salvo Dipasquale
Visual artist: Giorgio Bertinelli

Recorded and mixed at "Sonoria Studio REC" by Vincenzo Cavalli
Mastered on "Eleven Studio Mastering" by Andrea De Bernardi

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Francesca Guccione Sicily, Italy

Francesca Guccione is an Italian composer and violinist.

In 2021 she released for Whales Records her first album of neoclassical music, "Muqataea", featuring cellist and composer Giovanni Sollima as the project's artistic director. In addition to Whales Records, she also collaborates with other record labels, including Little Symphony Records, InFiné Music, and 7K!. ... more

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