KALÀSCIMA – ITALY–
BOOKING WORLDWIDE
🌍🎵 FROM SALENTO TO THE WORLD 🎵🌍
OVER FIFTY COUNTRIES ACROSS FIVE CONTINENTS
Explosive, energetic, captivating, Kalàscima is one of Italy’s hottest bands. Some friends from Salento (Apulia, Italy), grown up with the melodies and the hypnotic rhythms of the magical ritual of Taranta, reinvent the tradition with a wild mix of electronics and lysergic beats with original melodies and folk atmospheres. The dialect of Salento, English and Griko create an imaginary bridge between the Apulian music and the international scene.
The live set is powerful and energetic and features many traditional and fascinating instruments (bagpipe, ciaramella, launeddas, tambourine, accordion), a spectacularly vast array of percussions, thrilling vocal and modern instruments (laptops and synthesizers) to create an original sound. A thrilling encounter between ancestral roots and contemporary energy.
This Italian band has built a solid and respected global reputation with tours across more than 50 countries on five continents. Their sound has catapulted them to the international scene and brought them in festivals the likes of SXSW (US), Roskilde Festival (DK), Womad Chile (CL), Colours of Ostrava (CZ), Tallin Music Week (EE), SIM Sao Paulo (BR), Mundial Montreal (CA), Seoul Music Week (KR), Babel Med (FR), Folk Alliance International Conference (CA), Fira Mediterrania de Manresa (ES), Australasian World Music Expo (AU), Medimex (IT) and many others, gaining critics’ approval, and an excited fan base.
Kalascima’s music and concerts were on the most important radio network, such as ABC Australia (AU), RTHK (Hong Kong), WDR (DE), RTBF (BE), RSI (CH), Radio 3 RAI (IT). In November 2015 the band was on the cover of Trad Magazine in France.
Collaboration and other projects
The musicians of the band have been stable members in some of the most important European Folk band and orchestras including the Orchestra Popolare "La Notte della Taranta " (directed by Ludovico Einaudi, Steward Copeland, Mauro Pagani, Joe Zawinul), the “Orchestra Popolare Italiana” from the prestigious Auditorium "Parco della Musica" in Rome, the Pizzicata Orchestra, the Orchestra of Sicily. These characteristics and specificity make “Kalàscima” a band with many participation in national and International Festivals. In fact, they have collaborated and shared stage with artist such as Buena Vista Social Club, Franco Battiato, Carmen Consoli, Nidi d'Arac, Carlos Nuñez or Ludovico Einaudi, who also features on their acclaimed album Psychedelic Trance Tarantella (Ponderosa, 2014), performing piano on the track “Due mari.”
In June 2019, Kalàscima opened Patti Smith’s Italian concert, capturing the attention of the international rock icon, who praised the band’s extraordinary stage energy and charisma.
LINE-UP:
Massimiliano de Marco: Guitar, bouzuki and voice
Luca Buccarella: accordion, harmonica and voice
Federico Lagana’: Percussions and voice
Michele D’Elia: Drums, electronic programming
Carlo Massarelli: Bagpipe, flutes
Giovanni Chirico: Saxophone