Davide Ambrogio grew up in a small town in Aspromont, a mountainous territory in the extreme south-west of Italy, Calabria, where ancient religious rituals and devotional chants are still alive. Attached to his Calabrian roots, where he grew up, Davide drew inspiration from this heritage of oral tradition to create his own original musical language and release his debut album in November 2021, already included in the Transglobal Music Chart and World Music Chart Europe, and awarded Top of The World Album by Songlines Magazine upon its release. Evocazioni e Invocazioni (“Evocations and Invocations”) was born of a reflection on sound, an investigation into the depth of song, and the aesthetic and ecstatic power of music. Each piece has its own nature and its own role, just as in the music of the oral tradition, each song and each sound manifests itself as part of a ritual; from the lullaby to the protest song, from the lament to the conjuration. In concert, the Calabrian artist builds an immersive show around the voice, using the lyre, pencil guitar, tambourine, zumpettana, zampogna (bagpipes) and live electronics. Through timbral, melodic and rhythmic research, Davide Ambrogio tells an intimate truth and suggests different evocations of the present time.
