Fifteen young musicians from Italy, Poland and Lithuania performed in Crotone, in the suggestive setting of the Archaeological Park of Capo Colonna, presenting for the first time the result of months of work, experimentation and cooperation. All original songs, born from the encounter between popular traditions and new sounds – from the electronic pizzica to the modal stairs of Polish folklore, passing through Lithuanian melodies and Fingerstyle arrangements – have told the public the profound meaning of the European Motive project – Music for Inclusion, supported by the Creative Europe program: music as an instrument of inclusion, sociality, intercultural dialogue, contamination and contamination and contamination and contamination and contamination and contamination. union between peoples.
The idea of motive, acronym of “Merging Original Traditions Into New Voices of Europe”was born from the collaboration between three European organizations active in the music sector: the Crotone Beethoven Acam cultural association, directed by Maria Rosa Romano; The Crave Music Agency (Poland), with the coordinator Michalina Biernacka; Nida Culture and Tourism Information Center “Agila” (Lithuania), directed by Edita Lubickiite. The artistic direction was entrusted to Maestro Fernando Romano, flanked by the codirector and project designer Vincenzo Cipriani.
After a first phase in Poland, where young talents deepened the techniques of musical recording and European artistic legislation, the path continued in the Nida peninsula, in Lithuania, to give space to musical creativity and set up the new songs. Last step in Italy: from 3 to 6 September they found themselves in Crotone to finalize the production of the songs that were performed in a final concert that excited the large audience and has once again shown that through music we can speak a single universal language.
Over a thousand people, live and streaming from other partner countries of the project co -financed by the European Union, have listened to the new compositions: an original repertoire that blends tradition and innovation, intertwining folk, jazz, rock, minimalism, electronics and world music in a single European voice.
“Motive’s journey has just begun – recalled Maria Rosa Romano, president of Beethoven Acam – and today we celebrate not only the end of a project, but the beginning of a collaboration destined to last. Calabria becomes a laboratory of creativity, training and artistic cooperation”. In fact, in Crotone, the partner organizations have given birth to the Motive collective, a transnational network of artists and cultural realities that will continue to collaborate and carry on the objective of motive in the coming years.
“We hope that this musical collective – explained the artistic codirector Vincenzo Cipriani – can participate in the most important European music festivals and can become the carrier of a new idea of Europe, not only musical but also social. The communicative strength of written music together is able to overcome every linguistic and cultural barrier”.