| I Trallalleri di Genova - The Trallaleri of Genoa
Una estratto di una bella recensione fatta, addirittura dall' Inghilterra, da Rod Stradling su questo gruppo. "This record is the first of the Rounder/Lomax Italian Treasury issues and, as discussed in the Sampler review, it is actually a new record rather than just a reissue of an LP from the 1950s. This is doubly pleasing because it means that we should get full value for our money and new booklet notes, actually written in the late 1990s and, it is to be hoped, up to date in terms of information and scholarship. Lomax and Diego Carpitella recorded only two singing sessions, both on the same day...Aside from the mandolin music of Napoli, it seems to be the Genovese Trallalero tradition which most comes to mind (among the people I know), when Italian music is mentioned. This is particularly astonishing when one realises that most people have only ever heard one song by one group - the above mentioned La Partenza sung by an unnamed 'group of longshoremen from Genoa', recorded by Diego Carpitella and Alan Lomax in 1954. (The song is one long piece, with no separate verses, so a short sound clip from the beginning will have to suffice for those of you who've not heard it before). This single recording appeared on the Columbia World Series LPs and was featured in a radio program Bert Lloyd made in the early 1970s(?). Nonetheless, the aural experience is so extraordinary that no one who heard it seems ever to have forgotten it. I would recommend The Trallaleri of Genoa to absolutely everyone". Cos'altro aggiungere...
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