Showing posts with label Valentina Casula. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Valentina Casula. Show all posts

Friday, November 23, 2018

Valentina Casula - This is Always

Styles: Vocal
Year: 1995
File: MP3@224K/s
Time: 52:23
Size: 84,1 MB
Art: Front

( 6:40)  1. I Remember You
( 7:18)  2. My Funny Valentine
( 3:53)  3. Time After Time
( 5:47)  4. Like Someone In Love
( 6:03)  5. I'm A Fool To Want You
( 6:29)  6. My Foolish Heart
( 4:00)  7. But Not Fot Me
(12:09)  8. This Is Always

A native of Sardinia, Valentina Casula is a musician, singer and composer. She also teaches singing and provides musical direction for several plays. She began her musical career with classical studies of oboe, singing and choral conducting in Italy at the National Conservatory of Cagliari and continued her apprenticeship with a jazz formation focusing on singing, saxophone and arrangement in Siena and UMass in the United States.

Settled in Paris since 1993, Valentina has appeared in numerous jazz clubs and festivals as a singer of jazz, world music and contemporary music. Following a first album (1995) paying tribute to trumpet player Chet Baker, Valentina is embarking on a more personal path by completing a project on Keith Jarrett's music alongside Alain Jean Mairie, Gilles Naturel Philippe Soirat and Paolo Fresu .

From 2002 to 2004 she made several tours in duet with the pianist Giovanni Mirabassi. Alternately fascinated by the diversity and richness of popular music as well as the expressiveness of languages, Valentina collaborates with the composer Philippe Kadosch on the show Babeleyes, a project focused on endangered languages.

She then participates in the electro-world Click Here project and performs alongside Dj Click and gypsy musicians from Romania and India in major festivals in Europe as well as in China, Japan, Korea, India and in South Africa. A collaboration that will lead to two albums.

In 2012, Valentina receives the Maria Carta Award in Italy for her international career. Eclectic at the same time and engaged in a real approach around the sound and the voice, Valentina is invested in a work of research around the traditional songs of the world. A true invitation to travel, a bridge built between its origins and unknown lands. This research leads to her current project with guitarist Jean-Luc Roumier and contrabassist Nicola Cossu. This trio offers a repertoire of songs from popular and gypsy culture, arranged and interpreted in twenty different languages.

Valentina Casula is currently preparing the release of the cd "Harom" in which she performs with the Italian pianist Nico Morelli and the Hungarian saxophonist Kristof Bacso a repertoire of compositions and arrangement of traditional Mediterranean themes. https://www.valentinacasula.com/bio

This is Always