Vinicio Capossela
Biography
From the album Canzoni a Manovella (2000) onwards Capossela turns his attention to more universal themes, often inspired by great literature, from Melville to Céline to Dante to Homer, while his concert activity, both in Italy and abroad, is increasingly aimed at representing the work in the form of a show and at the same time being rooted in a series of unique events without replicas. There is also no shortage of fixed events in Capossela's CV, such as the Holiday Concerts which take place every year from 1998 to 2013 on Christmas days at the Fuori Orario in Taneto di Gattatico (RE). The passion for the Orthodox progenitor of Santa Klaus, namely Saint Nicholas, and the Christmas tale also saw Capossela, over the course of a decade, create three Christmas-themed radio stories, A Christmas Carol (2001), I cerini of Saint Nicholas (2008) and The Giant and the Magician (2009).
Alongside his recording projects, Capossela also works on unpublished projects, such as the one created in 2007 with the cellist Mario Brunello on the occasion of the "Genio Fiorentino" and dedicated to Michelangelo's "Rime" entitled Fuggite, amonti, amor.
Radio, writing, cinema have often converged in the artistic path of Vinicio Capossela, a distinctive sign of an artist who has always not considered but, rather, transcended the existing barriers between the different arts: his first novel, Non si die, dates back to 2004 every morning, from which he draws a shadow theater show and the Radiocapitulations broadcast by Radio 3. In 2009 he also published In clandestinità with his friend-poet Vincenzo Costantino “Cinaski” for Feltrinelli. The book became a reading that the two presented throughout Italy where, instead of the stage, there is a ring, a judge, a piano and the two of them on stage for an unlikely yet realistic boxing match, where words and songs replace the fists. He instead dedicates the album Rebetiko Gimnastas (2012) to Greece and rebetiko, "more than music, a way of life", and the film Indebito (2013) shot together with director Andrea Segre, premiered at the Locarno festival and screened at the cinema with enormous acclaim from the public and critics, and the book Tefteri, taccuino dei conti in pende (2013), published by Il Saggiatore.
In the summer of 2013 Capossela was involved in various projects: he presented a new show in the astonishing setting of Villa Adriana, The Carnival of animals and other beasts of love, which saw him as the protagonist together with the Amadei Trio and the Vianiner soloists Philarmoniker, a show also repeated the following summer at the prestigious Ravenna Festival and in other contexts. Also in 2013 he debuted as a producer for the album "Primo Ballo" by the Banda della Posta, an album of music for weddings with which he performed on a tour of more than fifty dates. Furthermore, the first edition of the Calitri Sponz Fest (2013) focuses on the theme of marriage, a festival he created and of which he is still artistic director, a festival now in its seventh edition and which this year can count on twinning with the city of Matera on the occasion of its nomination as European Capital of Culture 2019.
The book Il Paese dei Coppoloni brings with it a documentary-viaticum produced by LaEffe directed by Stefano Obino entitled Vinicio Capossela – Nel Paese dei Coppoloni, presented at the cinema in January 2016 and whose soundtrack is taken from what is announced as the The artist's upcoming new studio album. Canzoni della Cupa, this is the title, comes out on 6 May 2016 and sees the participation of numerous guests including Giovanna Marini, Antonio Infantino, Los Lobos, Calexico, Flaco Yimenez. The album's release was followed by a summer presentation tour and two theater tours with shows based on the themes of Shadow and Winter. In the space that separates them there is the opportunity, in the summer of 2017, to create - the only Italian artist - a summer tour of one-act plays designed exclusively to be performed only once. They are accompanied by the Combat Folk! minitour and a series of publications and concerts in different countries around the world.
If it is the first "pre-biographical" albums, such as Modì (1992) and Camera a sud (1994), which confirm his talent in Italy and abroad - a prestigious sold out at the Theater de la Ville in Paris in 1995 - with Il Ballo di San Vito (1996) comes the first musical derailment: Macedonian fanfares and Marc Ribot's guitar merge into a music that thrives on imaginative and at the same time more personal references and references: "colics of imagination" defines them as Capossela himself, who took advantage of a "never ending tour" lasting approximately two years to release his first live album in 1998, entitled Liveinvolvo and created with the complicity of Neat Veliov and his Kocani Orkestar.
2017 ends with the awarding of the prestigious Tenco Prize, a recognition that the Club pays to the artist's career, while in 2018 the recordings of a new album come to life, interrupted only by dates abroad and a summer tour accompanied by the symphony orchestra entitled nell'Orcaestra. On 31 December Capossela is a guest at the New Year's Eve celebrations at the Circus Maximus in Rome, where he plays "La peste", an unreleased song, for the first time and announces the title of the new album in which it will be contained.
In April the single "Ilpo Cristo" was released, anticipating the release of the album Ballate per donne e bestia. The single was accompanied by the video made in Riace directed by Daniele Ciprì and the extraordinary participation of Enrique Irazoqui and Marcello Fonte.
May 2019 sees Capossela engaged in the American tour Ballads for Poor Christ which touches the cities of Washington, Chicago and Detroit.
Ballades for men and beasts (La Cùpa/Warner Music), the new recording project by Vinicio Capossela, the eleventh studio work, will be released on Friday 17 May. Defined by its author "A song for all creatures, for multiplicity, for the fracture between species and between man and nature", the album was recorded between Milan, Montecanto (Irpinia) and Sofia (Bulgaria) by Taketo Gohara and Niccolò Fornabaio, Alessandro Asso Stefana and Giuseppe De Angelis and avails itself of the collaboration of prestigious musicians such as Raffaele Tiseo, Stefano Nanni, Massimo Zamboni, Teho Teardo, Marc Ribot, Daniele Sepe, Jim White, Georgos Xylouris and the National Radio Orchestra Bulgarian.
The theatrical tour of Ballads for Men and Beasts, scheduled for autumn 2019, will be anticipated in the coming months by a new series of one-act concerts and some important dates abroad.
On July 2019st, the awarding of the prestigious Targa Tenco 2019 to Capossela for Ballades for men and beasts in the Best Album category was announced, which will be awarded to him as part of the Songwriter Review (Premio Tenco 17) scheduled at the Ariston Theater of Sanremo from 19 to 2019 October. The album also wins the Best Album XNUMX award at the Rockol Awards.
The theatrical tour of Ballads for Men and Beasts, scheduled for autumn 2019, is preceded by a new series of one-act concerts and some important dates abroad.
On February 14, 2020, the work was presented at the Union Chapel in London. Four dates follow, after which the tour is forced to stop due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. During the lockdown period, Capossela offers some ten-minute episodes on his social channels, in which he addresses some themes related to the day's anniversaries; the event takes the name of Cronache dal pandemonio.
In summer 2020, with the partial resumption of entertainment activities, he presents a duo tour with Vincenzo Vasi entitled Pandemonium throughout Italy. He says of this project: «Pandemonium is the union of “Pan”, the satyr, god son of all the divinities, and “demonium”, a fantastic creature suspended between human and divine. But it is also the combination of all the demons that can be unleashed in a nefarious time of pandemic like the current one. Without forgetting that in a period of isolation, like the one we all experienced, it may also happen that we have to deal with our own internal demons."
The scheduled dates will be partially recovered in June 2021: the Bestiario d'amore tour is taken to Parma (for two dates in duo with Vincenzo Vasi) and then to Ravenna, Rome and Gardone Riviera. In these three cities, the show is offered in its original version, i.e. with the symphony orchestra. In fact, Capossela is accompanied by the Bruno Maderna Orchestra, directed by Maestro Stefano Nanni.
In July 2021, on the occasion of the Dante year, it proposes the Bestiale Comedìa tour, a project which, from the comparison with the Divine Comedy, draws points of orientation for a Dantesque navigation within its own repertoire. If Dante Alighieri's was a journey among the dead to save the living, the Bestial Comedy aims to be an itinerary in the musical and literary imagination to redeem reality from the confusion into which it seems thrown.
On 30 September 2021 he published the new novel Eclissica, published by Feltrinelli, a work that retraces the last fifteen years of his life and career, interspersed with flashes and following the red thread of the eclipse.
On February 4, 2022 he debuted at the Sanremo Festival during the evening dedicated to covers. He is in fact the guest of Giovanni Truppi, a real competitor in the race; the two sing In my hour of freedom by Fabrizio De André, accompanied by the harmonica of Mauro Pagani.
Source: Artist's official website: https://www.viniciocapossela.it/bio
Singer, Songwriter, Instrumentalist (Musician), Poet, Writer
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