'Zuf De Zur
Tilulela

The 'Zuf De Zur… who had ever heard of them… I got to know them just the other night. I was in the car with a friend of mine, much older than me, who has lived a lifetime in Milan and is a huge fan of world music and always listens to this stuff… but for the first time, something like this captivated and captivated me again... we listened to the CD several times and it's beautiful, it really makes you feel like you're tucked away in a karst cave thinking of nothing, or on the Isonzo that flows turbulently towards the sea and you watch it and think of all the lives there are, there's life within, the nostalgia for others' lives, for your own that moves or doesn't move, and it makes you cry and love the whole real, small, and alike world wherever it may be found.

The sounds are those complex and layered of border areas, of contact and exchange, areas where men lose a bit of themselves and gain a bit of others… and this is the only destabilizing message of the album… to let oneself go… to abandon oneself to acquire a new spirit… to accept and accept oneself… wonderful, fantastic, a superb lesson in tolerance and integration (“'Zuf” in Friulian means mixture and “Zur” stands for festival in Slovenian). There's the Klezmer from the Gorizia ghetto and the cleverness of Balkan inventions, the Italian melos and the Central European refinement in the sonorous matter of the 'Zuf, a mixture indeed that has a precise and strong identity, the community for those who wander is the world so let's start traveling too, maybe only on the notes that come from who knows where and take us who knows to what place...