Miranda Cortes and Giovanni Di Vito a new Musical Encounter.

Miranda Cortes' latest album "Il Coraggio" is brought to the stage of the musical world together with the saxophonist Giovanni Di Vito on tenor sax, soprano and baritone.

Accordion and saxophone blend in a unique sound delight; when the perfect stamping of reed instruments is smeared with the complicity of their harmonious breath, it is unlikely that the sound of the two instruments will be produced, but a unique sound emission that embraces the audience.

The repertoire of the Duo plays Miranda Cortes compositions issued in the album " Il Coraggio" and "Ndar" and it also ranges in the revisitation of pieces from the traditional swing manouche, jazz and some jewels of the '80s-90s (Pino Daniele, Napoli Centrale, Eurythmics etc

Her solo concerts adapt to the contexts where he performs and are a mean to express her personality and her musical loves matured over time: Girolamo Frescobaldi, ancient and baroque literature that are well suited to the organological expressiveness of the accordion as a small harmonium organ, the twentieth century with contemporary music written for accordion, for instance the splendid poetry of Sofia Gubaidulina.

Her passion goes on for refined and extravagant French songwriters such as Boris Vian, Jacques Brel, Georges Brassens, E. Piaf, Juliette Greco and Serge Gainsbourg. TANGO is another highly appreciated program of the Cortes managed within milonga as special guest.

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THE COURAGE

• Miranda Cortes composer and artistic direction
• RadiciMusicRecords, June 2021

"I have reached the threshold of a Time, which asks me to take out of me everything I have learned, listened to, played and digested. I always loved writing poetry and music, but a good part remained in the drawers of my desk, I have been waiting to be pregnant with dreams like intuitions and polychrome sound visions. This feeling arrived decisively in 2020, a boundary year, a year of deep introspection in which I decided to pour out of me a parallel world. This is my solo work from A to Z.

The protagonist is the accordion, guests are the cello, violin, viola, electric guitar and electronic music. My compositions includes years of study and research, this work is a synthesis and the innovation of my experiences from Classical music to New Music, from rock to live electronics, from tango to combat folk, from the heterogeneous and precious traditions of the Mediterranean to the French songwriter music by Jacques Brel. Music is a dimension of Being" and like an Artisan Sounds I materialize phonetically my imagination, creating compositions in which being a musician becomes a single reality with poetry, painting and dance. For this reason my music wants to be a vision with a walk, a prayer, a meeting, a movement, a memory and above all it is the admiration for an incomparable artistic masterpiece: the Creation.

I look at the red poppies of the field, small flowers, delicate, yet very brave, they could be wiped out in a moment, but their firm roots in the ground are so resistant and always reveal all their strength.

I look at human beings, which I cannot define differently than a shadow, they shine too often for their wickedness and our future appears uncertain.

For all this I choose a strong title, which leaves no doubts nor interpretations “The Courage".

Two musicians and composers who interweave artistic sensibility and sound paths with an introspective journey of Human Nature in its ontological evolution.

Their compositions tell about the will to rise and fly like a majestic White Eagle, shining with a light of its own, creating Beauty and Knowledge (see the tracks Bellezza, Mediterraneus), or to plunge to free fall, as our present time reveals, in the shortening of minds and behaviours through the cheap distribution of values of darkness. It is the oblivion of the ancient harmony with creation (see Hypermarché, Aspettare l'uscita, Lo Sbando).

This deep reflection places starts in Venice, temple of Beauty, today a place of decadence and symbol of the destruction produced by mass consumption (Aquarium Venitien).

The third millennium society actually consumes humanity (Direttore del Nord-EsT, Paron Perdido, L'oubli). Men and women are involved in an irreversible crisis of values full of greed, individualism, generating bad politics, corruption, wars, loss of sense and obscuration of human identity.

Nevertheless, redemption can exist in the rebirth of being ( Vestime,Il mio Paese, Voria 'ndar), elevating human existence to heaven, in a New World and with a New human being and the promise of its resurrection (Marcelle B.)

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La Frontera was born in 2001, an idea of Miranda Cortes, the band is composed by Michele Sguotti (alto, violin, vocals), Francesco Clera- Lorenzo Gasperoni (percussions) and Michele Pucci (flamenco guitar). Initially the band’s musical proposal is oriented towards world music, as it comes out by the first CD "Oltre le frontiere" (2001).

The duo with the English violinist Marianne Wade is amazing: Marianne Wade on the violin and Miranda Cortes on the accordion express a very special complicity proving to be able to sway between the notes with an unparalleled harmony. Virtuosity, expressiveness, intensity and sound vitality. These are ingredients of their many concerts, which have always been welcomed very positively by the public and critics.

The vast repertoire of the two artists ranges from the authors of cultured music (Bartok, De Falla, Satie, Brahms, Haydn, Bloch, Dvorak, Mozart) to the popular tradition (East-Europe, Spain, Scotland, Ireland, France) and Argentine tango.

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