Lou
Tapage (that in Langue d’Oc means the uproar) is a project
that was born in 1999.
Different souls compose Lou Tapage, and they all contribute in
turning the style of the band into a very personal one, so that
a new term has been created to describe the new genre: Nu Folk.
What comes out is a personal and eclectic style, settled but always
on the go, characterized by the presence of a strong but intangible
Leitmotiv represented by the band itself and by its energy.
Lou Tapage’s basic idea is in fact the research, without
compromises or preconceptions, into Music itself and what it may
convey in all its ways.
Subsequently to a period of search linguistics on the actual
derivations of the ancient one Langue d'Oc, we decided to use
for our compositions (what they constitute, close to melodies
riarrangiate, the greatest part of the repertoire) the Catalan,
the Provenzal one and the Occitano, sometimes contaminated,
for euphonic finality, with French, Italian and Spaniards (Castilian)
or fused between them inside the same text.
The band is composed by:
• Paolo Chiotti (drum) of modern formation
• Andrea Costamagna (electric guitar) conservatory bachelor
in guitar, modern formation
• Dario Littera (electric guitar) conservatory bachelor
in guitar, modern jazz formation
• Marco Barbero (bass, bagpipe, flutes) of heterogenous
formation, classic and modern
• Monica Rossi (diatonic accordion), polistrumentista
folk, has played in numerous formations
• Chiara Cesano (violin) of classical formation and folk,
polistrumentista
Lou Tapage played in these years in many lives around Italy.
You can see the complete list on www.loutapage.com.
Important events has been, between the others:
• the concert in Verona in Piazza San Zeno in 2002, the
Festival Celtico del Solstizio d'Estate in Sondalo (Sondrio),
the participation at the 25th edition of Folkest near Spilimbergo
(Pordenone - www.folkest.com), the appointment at Bustofolk
(Busto Arsizio) in 2004
• in 2005 the Tavagnasco rock (TO - www.tavagnascorock.net),
the Piossummer Festival (Piossasco - TO), the Colonia Sonora
Festival (Collegno, TO) and the Musicarnevart (RM)
• in 2006:
? the concerts on the occasion of the Olympiads Winter Turin
2006 (Pragelato and Giaglione of Susa), the opening of the concert
of Eugenio Bennato and Taranta Power to the Auditorium RAI (street
Rossini - Turin, October 7 th 2006), the Notte Bianca of San
Remo 2006 (Imperia), the New Year's eve in plaza St. Siro (San
Remo- Imperia)
? the share to the pre-festival of the Tavagnasco rock 2006,
to Colonia sonora 2006 (Collegno - Turin), to Musikemate 2006
(Pordenone), to the summer season of the Nuvolari NLT 2006 (Cuneo)
? numerous live inside festival folk / Celtic what the Insubria
Festival (Milan), the Festival of the Insubria of the seven
lakes (Varese), the Nubilaria Celtic Festival (Reggio Emilia),
the Festival Keltikehre (Biella), the Festival Adro Medioevale
(Brescia), the Celtic New Year's eve 2006 (Castle Sforzesco
- Milan)
? the partecipation to international competition like the Trimi’s
festival 2006 (BO - where Lou
Tapage arrived 3rd on about 600 bands entered - www.trimisfestival.it)
and the finals of the Festival delle arti 2006 (BO - with the
artistic direction of Andrea Mingardi)
• in 2007 subsequently increases the activity live of
the Lou Tapage, that will exhibit him on the occasion of the
Brintaal celtic festival 2007 (Vicenza), of the Folkest 2007
(Friuli) and of the Festival folk of Riolo Terme (Ravenna).
Many other concerts for the spring-summer season are currently
in phase of definition.
The 2003 sees the autoproduction of the
first demo-tape containing five songs.
In December 2005 the Lou Tapage have finished the realization
of the first homonym album, produced by Videoradio (label, among
the others, of Andrew Braido, Faso, Meyer, Menconi, Maxx Furian,
Tullio de Piscopo and of the orchestra Symphonic National RAI)
- www.videoradio.org - and distributed by HotRecords.
In the 2007 spring it is anticipated the exit of the second
album, produced by Folkest disks (www.folkest.com).
Some of the passages of the Lou Tapage have entered during the
years to make part of numerous compilation and have been transmitted
on the national territory from different broadcast and television
broadcasting stations.
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