Marco Paolini E Mercanti Di Liquore

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A collaboration between Marco Paolini and the folk group Mercanti di Liquore. The album 'Sputi' pairs Paolini's theatrical musical monologues with Mercanti di Liquore's folk ballads around the theme of water.

Marco Paolini is an Italian theatre performer and author; Mercanti di Liquore is an Italian folk ensemble. The album 'Sputi' collects material presented in a concert dedicated to water as a resource and includes adaptations of texts by authors such as Gianni Rodari, Erri De Luca and Biagio Marin.

The reviews describe 'Sputi' as a concert-album built around water as a symbolic theme and human right. Marco Paolini alternates theatrical musical monologues with Mercanti di Liquore's folk ballads. Texts and nursery rhymes by authors such as Rodari, De Luca and Marin are set to simple, immediate melodies. The record is praised for its writing, musical quality and the fusion of theatre and Italian folk.

For:Listeners of Italian folk and theatrical storytelling; those interested in political and environmental themes in music.

 one: all species and ecosystems have the right to their share of water on this planet; two: there is a liquid thread that binds us humans to each other and links us to other species, it’s called a cycle and it shouldn’t be broken, tangled...; third: water is free; and fourth... and fifth... and tenth

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