Regular readers of giornaledibarganews will without a doubt remember a series of articles last summer which documented the incredible rise of a tiny piece of music produced here in Barga which then went on to what could be best described as musical world domination.
What started with some heavy radio play on Italian national radio then went onto the world DJ charts entering the top 10 and has now been seen on YouTube and other Internet video sites are staggering total of more than 5 million times. We are of course talking about Andrea Guzzoletti and his collaboration with Federico Scavo and the piece of music known as STRUMP.
As you can hear in the interview rerecorded with Andrea last month ( in Italiano) the latest disc to come out of his production company, Even Eight Records, is just about to hit the streets. This time it is his own production and as you can hear halfway through the interview when he played a brief passage it could very well be named “Strump II la vendetta” as this to its going to be impossible not to dance to once it enters people’s heads. The actual title “Bulgarija” also gives some idea of the influences on this piece of music.
Once again it is expected to be heard around the world in most of the major clubs, helped along as this time Bulgarija will be part of the very, very successful label, Dance and Love ( their site is here)
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Andrea also went on to say in that interview, that on Sunday, 3rd June they would be filming the video for the new Bulgarija song right here in the Comune of Barga -- up at Sommocolonia to be absolutely precise.
The concept behind the video was very simple. The last video for strump heavily featured what Andrea termed as “glamour” This time he wanted to show that music is accessible and enjoyed by all irrespective of age or looks. There was a slight retro feel to the video with the actors taking part in what is effectively a country fair during the 70s or early 80s.
This afternoon that video was finally released and can be seen below
ANDREA GUZZOLETTI FEAT. RENEE LA BULGARA, CLAUDE, CHRISTIAN PELLICCI -- Bulgarija
After the international success of STRUMP! with Federico Scavo, the new single of the trumpet player Andrea Guzzoletti Feat. Renèe La Bulgara and the djs Claude e Christian Pellicci is out on Dance And Love.
Once again Andrea Guzzoletti proposes a trumpet song, this time in an ethnical atmosphere – a way to rediscover the tradition of the folk bands that have a lot in common with today’s music.
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Reduce dal successo internazionale di “Strump” con Federico Scavo esce per Dance And Love “Bulgarija” il nuovo singolo del trombettista Andrea Guzzoletti Feat. Renèe La Bulgara e i djs Claude e Christian Pellicci.
Andrea Guzzoletti propone ancora una volta un brano caratterizzato dalle sonorità degli “ottoni”, questa volta in un’ atmosfera più etnica e popolare, un modo per riscoprire la tradizione delle feste paesane e delle bande di paese che molte cose hanno in comune con la musica dance odierna.
REGIA/DIRETTORE DELLA FOTOGRAFIA: ROBERTO GIUNCHIGLIA | GRAFICA/EFFETTI SPECIALI VISIVI: LUISA GUARNIERI | SCENOGRAFIE/CONSULENZA TECNICA: FRANCESCA DELLA VALLE | MONTAGGIO VIDEO: VALERIA SBRANA | ASSISTENTE OPERATORE/FOTO BACKSTAGE: MAIKOL FABBRI
From the giornaldibarganews archives -- It has been racing up the charts for the past couple of weeks after some heavy radio play on Italian national radio and now it is on the world DJ charts and just about to enter the top ten… is there no stopping this summer’s surprise hit -- Strump?
The one person who should know, is Barga’s very own Andrea Guzzoletti who is after all the main force behind the song.
When asked in the piazza about his hit tune he pulls a face and remarks that he worked on a disc for three years and got very little response from the public (he is of course talking about his critically acclaimed but commercially ignored CD -- Invisible Cities) but a song which took just 10 minutes and used a mere handful of musical notes is rapidly moving round the world, getting people on their feet and making a name for himself as a composer and trumpet player.
Andrea is also ruefully aware that in the next few days the annual Barga Jazz Festival is just about to start up in Barga and the city will be full of jazz musicians who make up the Barga Jazz Orchestra -- Andrea is one of the trumpet players in that orchestra.
Just how the other musicians are going to be treating Andrea over the next couple of weeks remains to be seen but the Barga Jazz Orchestra is famous for its wicked sense of humour -- it is very doubtful that they will let the whole Strump phenomenon go without making some musical comment… probably on a daily basis.
Andrea has been advised to carry with him at all times the receipts for the world sales of the Strump song and wave that in their faces when the joshing and ragging gets too much.
As can be seen from the video below filmed in Barga Vecchia yesterday, Andrea is already starting to crack under the strain of being a world famous superstar.
E’ già divenuta un tormentone delle più sfrenate serate estive in discoteca l’ultima chicca di Federico Scavo, dj di fama oramai internazionale che in luglio è uscito con Strump. Se la si ascolta anche solo per qualche istante è garantito che quel sound vi rimarrà in testa per tutta la giornata e questo grazie ad una tromba che qui a Barga tutti noi conosciamo ed apprezziamo. Strump vede infatti la collaborazione del trombettista barghigiano Andrea Guzzoletti ed il lavoro realizzato da Scavo e Guzzoletti è riuscito così bene che il brano figura al 21° posto nella Top 100 della musica House sul portale Beatport che è indubbiamente leader indiscusso a livello mondiale per la difusione, la cultura ed i download di musica elettronica.
Sulle migliori radio di musica dance, house ed elettronica la potete ascoltare tutti i giorni, come ad esempio accade su Radio DeeJay e sta impazzando anche il video ufficiale– davvero un prodotto di classe -- che qui sotto vi proponiamo e dove appare anche Andrea in versione burlesque con la sua tromba al seguito.
Dopo il grande successo di Gimme Five, Get Funky e Otherside, Federico Scavo è tornato con la sua Strump per la etichetta Hotfingers. La storia che sta dietro questo progetto è un sogno classico di molti artisti e così Scavo lo ha presentato sul web: svegliarsi con una melodia in testa, chiamate il vostro amico con una tromba e il gioco è fatto.
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In “Strump”, una parola che è meglio non tradurre ma che risale al gergo elisabettiano utilizzato anche da Shakespeare, la collaborazione tra Scavo e Guzzoletti propone una bella miscela di musica che mette insieme i classici ritmi della house agli influssi latini e circensi che vengono dalla tromba di Andrea. Un mix davvero perfetto, un vero e proprio tormentone dell’estate, una musica che farebbe ballare anche i sassi. Provare per credere.
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