A spectacle of sounds, words, music and songs about the Great War and popular singing by Franco Castelli and Emilio Jona, curated by the musical group Blu L'Azard. The text, freely taken from the book Al rombo del cannon by Castelli-Jona-Lovatto, concerns the orality of the popular world and observes from below, through song, that epochal, dramatic and bloody event that closed the Belle Epoque and opened the way to modernity, dragging Europe into a mass war with new means of death. What dominates this song is the remembrance and regret for a lost world, that of the small homeland where one was born and of the affections for mothers, fathers, wives, sons, girlfriends far away, and at the same time the aversion to a war whose reasons are not understood. The performance traverses this very rich heritage of orality where all the genres of tradition are present, often in parodic form, from the epic-lyric song to that of the storytellers and consumer songs, and creates a fresco that the musical group offers us harmonised in an instrumental and vocal interweaving that captures and moves. There are also stories and thoughts from war diaries of Susa Valley soldiers in the original mother tongue, Franco-Provençal. Flavio Giacchero bass clarinet, soprano sax, bagpipes, vocals; Luca Teghillo chromatic accordion, acoustic guitar, vocals; Marzia Rey violin, vocals; Marco Rey voice of the events and thoughts.
