This site uses analytics cookies to collect aggregate data and third-party cookies to improve the user experience.
Read the Complete Privacy Information.

hat, sailor

2011
Marinai, profeti e balene

Marinai, profeti e balene

Release: 26th April 2011

 

Label: La Cùpa

 

Presentation: Milan's Central Railway Station, 27th April 2011

 

Recordings: Milan, Creta (Greece), Ischia (NA), Berlin (Germany)

 

Musicians: Vinicio Capossela (piano, guitar, farfisa, mellotron and voice), Zeno De Rossi (chains, drums), Marc Ribot (guitar, banjo, mandolin), Greg Cohen (double bass), Psarantonis (Cretan lyra, voice), Francesco Arcuri (marimbula, gamelan, steel drums, toy piano, bells, kalimba, marimbula, santoor, metalphones), Niki Xylouris (bednir, stamna, daouli, daoulaki), Haralambos Xylouris (boulgari), Alessandro "Asso" Stefana (guitar, e-bow, banjo, divan sazi, fiaboli, cubus outi, Calypso guitar), Yiorgis Xylouris (lauto, oud), Giuseppe Cacciola (drums, marimbas, xilofono, timpans, pots, chimes, vetrophones, kalimbas, udu, teste di moro, symphonic percussions), Coro degli Apocrifi, Mauro Ottolini (trombone, Bb trumpet), Taketo Gohara (kalimba, kashishi, cloud gong, tambourine, shaker, maracas, santur, ondioline), Vincenzo Vasi (gu zheng, tres, xilophone, theremin, marimbas, tampura, sea shells, flute, kazoo, carillon, samples, shaker, glockenspiel, teste di moro, triangle, voice, percussions, tubolar bells), Antonio Marangolo (saxophone, marimba, glockenspiel, vibraphone, xilophone), Jimmy Villotti (guitar), Ares Tavolazzi (double bass), Luisa Prandina (harp), Nadia Rastimandresy (ondes Martinot), Sorelle Marinetti (choir), Enrico Gabrielli (bass clarinet, tenor sax), Alessio Pisani (bassoon), Stefano Nanni (piano, glockenspiel, toy piano, organ, harmonium, celesta), Mario Arcari (oboe d'amore, shanaij, flautofono), Giuseppe Ettorre (double bass), Quartetto d'archi Edodea, Danilo Rossi (viola d'amore, Maggini viola), Mauro Refosco (rhythm arrangments, percussions, udu, tin drums, vibraphone, marimba, glockenspiel, kalimba), Valeria Pilia and Actores Alidos' women singers (Valeria Parisi, Manuela Sanna, Elisa Zedda, Barbara Zedda), Mirco Mariani (iceberg effects, celesta, ondioline), Antonio Visioli (cello), Myriam Essayan (bodhràn, tambourine), Stephane Lavis (tin whistle), Guillaume Souweine (violin), Caroline Tallone (hurdy-gurdy), Drunk Sailor Choir (choir), Marco Gianotto (Barberia's organ), CaboSanRoque (mechanic orchestra), Roger Aixut e Laia Torrents (delfin-bañera), kids choir Mitici AngiolettiDaniel Melingo (voice)

 

Cover and graphics: Elettra Mallaby and Jacopo Leone (Etcetera)

 

Awards: Tenco Prize as Best Album