dindùn
Angelo Conto | piano
Alessandra Patrucco | voice
Marc Egea | hurdy gurdy
DinDùn is the successful union of ancient melodies with modern experimentation.
DinDùn proposes music in balance between traditional and contemporary, innovative, unusual, modern.
DinDùn tells timeless stories, transforming them through music that crosses genres.
...I consider this work as a very pleasant surprise whitch has revealed to me both the richness of the patrimony that the past generations left to us, and the originality and geniality of this proposal.
Alessandro Nobis, www.folkbulletin.com
...the voice of Alessandra Patrucco is extraordinary, fluted, soft, malleable, evocative, dramatic, with a wide aesthetic diapason. The use of the hurdy-gurdy by Marc Egea is amazing. Angelo Conto conducts the piano with knowledge; he is a refined musician of sweeping views and manages a subtle balance within several languages
Marco Maiocco, www.discoclub65.it

Alessandra Patrucco and Angelo Conto renew their collaboration in this second work in the field of traditional contemporary music, after Varda la luna with the group Sasà (Nota, 2007), of that World Music Magazine said: "One of the few authentic and surprising releases of 2007”. DinDùn has played, among others, for: XVIII Europa Cantat, Folk Club, Festival Premio Nazionale Musica Popolare di Loano, AlpsKlang, Jazz on Alps,Trama Festival ...

Alessandra Patrucco is a singer and composer, she also writes texts. She has created a unique language that crosses different genres like folk, jazz and improvised music. She is active on the European musical and theatrical scene and she collaborated with various artists in several festivals: ICP orchestra (Amsterdam) with whom published the cd Circus (ICPlabel), Villa Sonora, winner of the Jur Naessens Music Award (Amsterdam), the Londoner musician Nitin Shawney, Festival Marsatack (Marseille). She performed at Centenario della nascita di Cesare Pavese (Torino) with her own group SASA’, Festival Internazionale del Libro di Torino- Lingua Madre with her own project Puisija, with the company ALDES- Roberto Castello Festival OperaEstate (Bassano) and Festival Short Theatre (Roma), Mostra Sonora i Visual (Barcelona) with her own project Ramat de so, Dispositivo Campo Magnetico (Barcelona), MITO educational- Festival Internazionale della Musica (Torino). She is working with the actress and theatre director Lorena Senestro with whom she will debut with the performance Admurese within the season 2011-2012 of Torino's Teatro Stabile.
www.alessandrapatrucco.com

Angelo Conto is a pianist, composer and author of acoustic and electronic soundscapes. He has been member of the folk band Cantovivo, and he has worked into several productions of music and theatre, taking part to festivals such as the International Music and dance Festival Interplay (Torino), International Jazz Festival of Petrozavodsk (Russia), Aosta Classica, Teatro Piccolo Regio (Torino), Biennale Teatro (Venezia), Teatro Carignano (Torino). He worked at the electronic processing in the Alessandra Patrucco’s project Ramat de so, performed at Transhumancia Festival (Catalunya), at Mostra Sonora i Visual- Convent de Sant Agustí (Barcelona) and at the Festival Jornades d'Idensitat (Catalunya). He has published four records as director and co-director: Triple Point with the cellist Ernst Reijseger , World Series di Splas(h) Records, Varda la Luna (Nota), Fantasia for 4 Hands and 1 Mouse -NoLogic (Silta SR 1007) and Dialoghi -Alchemic Duo. He is currently teaching Acoustics and Psychoacoustics at the Conservatories of Torino and Milano.

Marc Egea is a musician and composer from Barcelona. He studies philosophy, hurdy-gurdy, flabiol (fipple flute), guitar and harmony. He began his career as a professional musician in 1990 with the trio Mùsics di Safeu and with the group Il Pont d'Arcalís. He is collaborating with various musical formations and national and international artists of different musical styles since 2005. Marc Egea is the co-founder of artistic projects as the Kaulakau quartet, Maram Trío, Duo Marc Egea Peter Skuce. It is rumored that he was a member of the polemic and heretical group Electrosonic Monk, though it was never corroborated. He works in the field of free improvisation and is a member of the BIB, Banda d'Improvisadors of Barcelona, along with his musical research as composer and performer in the dance, theatre and poetry recitals field. He has recorded more than 15 CDs as a soloist as well as with various groups. He peformed all of over the world.
www.marcegea.com
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