NEWs
Santa Taranta selected for a Music Australia grant to finish its new Album!
The band has travelled to Spain to record special guests and finalise some tracks, master the new album and produce a new song together with Alfonso Abad and Jorge Calderon from ELDANA STUDIOS. We can't wait to share our new songs!
The album project was born in 2020 when the Melbourne Taranta Orchestra was created. This was an extended ensamble that aimed at creating a new Australian sound to the repertoire of Santa Taranta. Musicians from different ethnic and musical background participated and the results were incredibly powerful! Due to the COVID 19 pandemic the extended band could only perform and record in video behind closed doors for the Melbourne Taranta Festival. From that experience Santa Taranta decided to call all the musicians involved to record an album, trying to recreate the emotions of those arrangements. In these 6 years more songs were composed and more collaborations surged. The album sees the participation of incredible guests like Allara, Riccardo Tesi, Mirko Guerrini, Ilaria Crociani, Diego Jascalevich, Byron Triandafyllidis, Yonder Rodriguez, Basil Byrnes, Chris Frater, Pablo Blitzer, Georgie Chorley. We are incredibly grateful to Creative Australia and Music Australia to make this possible!
Santa Taranta Italian traditional music in Melbourne. Pizzica, tarantella and much more. Sa, nta Taranta, Music from the south of Italy in Melbourne
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Music Australia and Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body
"Sonu - Songs from the Homeland"
selected by the Australia Council for the Arts to tour in Australia
Sonu takes you on a musical journey through the migrant experience in Australia, interweaving an outstanding live performance by a talented bunch of new and older Australians with archival recordings from Canberra’s National Library.
(Magica Fossati, SBS)
It is a rare experience to be invited so generously into the lives of the living while dancing with the ghosts of the past. Sonu is a celebration that is immediate and joyful, immersing us in music and stories from a culture that has become such a big part of contemporary Australian identity - you will be singing along before you know it, because this music is part of all of us.
(Mikelangelo - writer, performer, musician)
