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I’m a frontier man, I feel at home where
East and West can meet, like two parts of the same heart
feeling free to love each other.
The voice of Fabrizio Piepoli is a fluid universe, surrounded by multiple instruments that serve as a countermelody to his strongly melismatic style. It is a light tenor voice capable of touching the deep tones of the baritone register and extending to the high notes of contralto. A sophisticated vocality that constantly plays with its own identity, with the masculine and the feminine, with geography and belonging.
His songs are immersed in a cinematic scenario, on the edge between the archaic and the modern, where the strings of the Turkish saz and the Arabic oud intertwine with the arpeggios of synthesizers and the urban beats of the sampler. These are the soundscapes in which Fabrizio tells the story of his roots, with a voice that becomes a meeting point between East and West.
A sound called Tarabtella, a contemporary electronic fusion of the soul-stirring Arabic musical tradition of tarab and the driving rhythm of Puglia’s tarantella.
The joy of dance and the ecstasy of listening.
Apulian singer, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and vocal teacher of traditional music at the Conservatory of Lecce. His music and academic research lies at the intersection of the traditions of Southern Italy with the Arab-Andalusian and Middle Eastern worlds. He works with artists and ethnomusicologists from across the Mediterranean, with the aim of promoting a continuous dialogue between East and West.