(17 July 2017) Italian in Morocco. The tour of Stefano Saletti & Banda Ikona continues to present live “Soundcity – Sounds from the Borderlands”: their last album that was very successful and ended up at the top of World Music World Ranking and the Tenco Prize in 2016. After concerts in June in Portugal at Ponte De Sor, Pombal and Mafra, and their return to Italy from Morocco, where they was very well received in the three dates organised by the Sete Sois Sete Luas Festival (Casablanca, Essaouira, and Ceuta – Spanish enclave). But the concerts do not end there. Stefano Saletti & Banda Ikona are in fact leaving for Hungary to play at Babel Sound Festival on July 19 and Frontignan in France on July 21. Saletti’s traveling companions – a multi-instrumentalist who plays the oud, bouzouki, saz baglama, guitar, piano and percussion – are the musicians who for ten years have made up the Ikona Band: Mario Rivera (powerful and creative bassist, leader of Agricantus), Barbara Eramo (Tarantine singer engaged in many international projects of world and popular music), Giovanni Lo Cascio (percussion and drums in Novalia and Agricantus and leader of Aksak Balkan music project). (Red)
