After last year's collaboration at the Dromos Festival, now Tenore Murales from Orgosolo and guitarist Paolo Angeli are landing in the Czech Republic, for the Respect Festival scheduled for Saturday in Prague.

For the event now in its 28th edition, the promotion of world music with various international guests.

And on the main stage, set up on the Štvanice Island, the meeting between Angeli and the Barbagia group will be renewed, in a mix of the sounds of the Sardinian guitar and the guttural singing of Orgosolo.

The support of the Italian Cultural Institute was fundamental for what the protagonists define as: "An opportunity to embrace the complexity, diversity and innovative force of a musical tradition that, in this case, seeks dialogue with other languages, opening itself up to comparison with contemporary music".

The performance focuses on several themes: identity, self-determination, anti-colonialism, anti-militarism, but also emigration, religion, love, education. Then reflecting on the importance that the canto a tenore had for Orgosolo, a vehicle for ideas of protest, struggle and socio-political claims (including the mottos of Pratobello in 1969).

A creative comparison, between tradition and contemporaneity, that of the next few hours, which retraces the path already traced by other artists fascinated by the island tenores.

Stand out: Marcello Melis who in 1977 composed an album with Tenor Rubanu, but also Frank Zappa, Ornette Coleman, Tom Zé up to the Dutch cellist Ernst Reijseger.

George Ignatius Onano

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