Mùsica siciliana

[Comte Arnau]

I open it with two bedde canzuni siciliane.

Terra ca nun senti. You, land that won't listen.
Rosa's voice was powerful.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYbTbF2yVYI


Si maritau Rosa, Rosa got married.
Dunno who's singing this version.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFcjXWTmE0k

[alfieb]

Rosa Balistreri, la lejenna. One of the greatest voices to come from anywhere in Italy.

I'm not a huge fan of folk music, so I'll go with something a bit more contemporary. (Unfortunately, it's in Italian, but the artists are both Sicilian)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdrP8f2Qzq0

[Sikeliot]

Marcella Bella -- "Sicilia Antica". Very folk-y and old school Sicilian.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY3a0VwrDoQ&feature=related


Here is another.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCxKJlJUVnQ&feature=relmfu

[Sunphq]

I was looking at the first video and thought this is actually a nice thread. Nice video.

But how long will it be? :D

[alfieb]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNd6-_hyWkI
Tinturìa are a famous Sicilian band, this song is in Sicilian and from their debut album.

[Sikeliot]

Here's some others.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHHgAPrkH6w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwZE2tP9c94&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykblIKv_AUg

[alfieb]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8yqoD92e5c

Sicilian-language reggae band Trinakriù.

[Sikeliot]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8yqoD92e5c

Sicilian-language reggae band Trinakriù.

Reggae should have stayed in Jamaica.

[alfieb]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaMd82BOdKA

Sicily's greatest tenor [Salvatore Licitra] in one of the most famous operas set in Sicily [Cavalleria Rusticana]

He died soon after this performance.

[Sicilianu101]

Modern Sicilian music in Sicilian is getting better but it still has a long way to go.. Part of the problem is that unlike in Naples where they largely strove to preserve a Neapolitan musical tradition, Sicily's has a big gap. I blame this on a number of reasons (external pressures from Italy and Italian media and internal pressures to "modernize" aka prescribe to Italian, American, etc. music)

Here's a new song that isnt too bad (except when she does the 'calling' part.. lol)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVlKdVlMFZ4

[alfieb]

Yeah, a lot of Sicilian musicians (including Sicilian-Americans like Sinatra) have done songs in Neapolitan more than in Sicilian. It's a shame.

[Sicilianu101]

Yeah, a lot of Sicilian musicians (including Sicilian-Americans like Sinatra) have done songs in Neapolitan more than in Sicilian. It's a shame.

I completely agree! Even now there are Sicilian singers who have become part of the Neomelodica genre of modern Neapolitan music. At the same time I have to say that I love Neapolitan music. It's one of my favorite types of Italian music and there are a lot of great new music coming out of Naples.

[Sikeliot]

Here is another version of Si Maritau Rosa. I like it. It's very folky and simple.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpNsUDs53NE

[alfieb]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBizmxEBoF0

Nuovi Briganti (New Robbers), they've been compared to Public Enemy. I don't know how fair that is, but like PE, their popularity waned after the mid 1990s.

[Sicilianu101]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzpxJm8iKws

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FpjAuVcUlA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u8wLaEmi9o

[alfieb]

I like the name of that last guy. Cirnechi are wonderful Sicilian hounds. :lol:

Rapping in English when it's not your first language is hard, I think.

[Sicilianu101]

A couple songs in Neapolitan Neomelodica style sung by Sicilian artists


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmrgENIvYdk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twoDdQB0n1U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZzORbHB_0I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGk2YA_NCQg

[alfieb]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4sMvsfUrYE
Sicilian DJ

[alfieb]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tKdJ_a4UFU
A Sicilian-language parody of "Gangnam Style" called "Yum-Yum Style".

To be fair, it's six months old, so it's not that Sicilians are that behind in the times. I'm just posting it now.

It's very vulgar, from the point of view of a fictional Sicilian peasant.

[hisn]

Singer & guitarist are both Sicilian.. Catanian


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCoR2r-vu1A


http://youtu.be/du1aYS8gIB4

[alfieb]

I like the guitarist. Singer's a bit too cliche indie-folk sounding for me.

[Peyrol]

This is a very great song


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Sn4oW8X-Gk

[GiCa]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGedI9Mx2ck

[GiCa]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtUS1s-cJqc

[GiCa]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYuhP36VcN8

[GiCa]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyedtJAGUwU

[LouisFerdinand]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MLNN7QEchA

[MinervaItalica]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MLNN7QEchA

^ I doubt this is really a Sicilian song, it has clearly Arab stocks. The folk band is called Al Qantarah and performs songs from the multiethnic medieval Sicily (Arab included) at the time of Frederick which ruled with a multiethnic court. That song in particular is took from the Arab repertory.

http://www.alqantarah.eu/Alqantarah_eng.htm


The ensemble Al Qantarah was created in 1990 to develop a project on Sicilian music, based on the comparison between the medieval repertoire and the oral tradition still alive, and which also includes Arabian and Middle Eastern Music repertoires.

http://www.alqantarah.eu/index_eng.htm

I wouldn't really use music from the (multiethnic) medieval period and classify it as "Sicilian". Better pick modern music.

[Principe Azzurro]

I am surprised no one posted this iconic Sicilian Folk yet!! Ciuri Ciuri

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVPTX30Qw8s

[Principe Azzurro]

Even the Sicilian Tarantella!!! Here is another Classic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFS4L08piQo

[Dandelion]

I am surprised no one posted this iconic Sicilian Folk yet!! Ciuri Ciuri

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVPTX30Qw8s

Reason it was overlooked is because it's stereotypical, I think. But yeah, stereotypical or not, it belongs in a thread like this one. How to measure stereotypical Sicilian. If I - a non-Sicilian who barely knows anything about the island and its culture - know of it, then it's stereotypical. ;)

[Sikeliot]

Here are two. First is called Sicilia Antica and is by a singer Marcella Bella. The second is a song from the Godfather soundtrack.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY3a0VwrDoQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rpd1riZZ1g

[Sikeliot]

Here's a new song that isnt too bad (except when she does the 'calling' part.. lol)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVlKdVlMFZ4

This is catchy, I like it. It reminds me of some Andalusian flamenco as well as Moroccan music.

[Sikeliot]

A couple songs in Neapolitan Neomelodica style sung by Sicilian artists


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twoDdQB0n1U


There is also an Andalusian and a Middle Eastern influence on this one, also. I gravitate toward anything "Moorish Spain" in vibe.

[Percivalle]

Reason it was overlooked is because it's stereotypical, I think. But yeah, stereotypical or not, it belongs in a thread like this one. How to measure stereotypical Sicilian. If I - a non-Sicilian who barely knows anything about the island and its culture - know of it, then it's stereotypical. ;)


This is one of my favorite.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEpf5LrjDeg


And this is against the Mafia.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR1hBFufXsc&list=PL5A5153E5EC192777

[MinervaItalica]

Since when the Godfather (an American production) soundtrack is "Sicilian music"? :confused: :picard1:

Contradanza Siciliana di Rosario Guzzo


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-KB1raYQjU

Giuseppe Rinaldi - du ciumi (Elenora Abbruzzo)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCgieXQ5UY4

[Akragas]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3cu8sDa90Y

One of my favorite Sicilian musicians

[Akragas]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Uo_dqfvP9k

Another one from Frank Zappa

Zappa was born in Baltimore, Maryland. His mother, Rosemarie (née Collimore) was of Italian (Neapolitan and Sicilian) ancestry; his father, whose name was Anglicized to Francis Vincent Zappa, was an immigrant from Partinico, Sicily, with Greek and Arab ancestry

[GiCa]

^ those are sicilian songs like a false Usa Limoncello is

[GiCa]

this is true sicilian. learn well sikeliot


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3-YxT_GKXE

[Sikeliot]

this is true sicilian. learn well sikeliot


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3-YxT_GKXE

Three versions of that same song have already been posted.

[Akragas]

I was joking...... But it does demonstrate the divers extent to which Sicilain Americans have contributed to American music, It's not just Frank Sinatra.

[Ülev]

:p


https://youtu.be/l48hwpdOisw

[Akragas]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LBdn7cZdHQ

[Akragas]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LBdn7cZdHQ

vicino a Sicilia. Amo l'Italia!
Ho visitato Roma, Venezia e la Sicilia. Bellissima!

[Dandelion]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LBdn7cZdHQ

Sono Maltese, vicino a Sicilia. Amo l'Italia!
Ho visitato Roma, Venezia e la Sicilia. Bellissima!

Apulian version (clb linked it a while ago on another thread)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd4SfaQiaxA

[GiCa]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LBdn7cZdHQ

vicino a Sicilia. Amo l'Italia!
Ho visitato Roma, Venezia e la Sicilia. Bellissima!

learn well:
Avvicinu Siccilia Sugnu. L' Italia Amo.
a Roma, Venezia e Siccilia Vinni. Siccilia Bedda è

[Akragas]

Si.. mi dispiace

[MissMischief]

These are the ones that I know :p

Vitti 'na crozza


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvjcJBjjdS4

Ciuri ciuri


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVPTX30Qw8s

Eh cumpari (love it)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIMs9WZ8je4

Luna mezz'o mare


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9FMvfvkBro

E vui durmiti ancora


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWfRMgWYXN0

[Sikeliot]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1BBeJ8-Atk&t=1347s

Some good music here.