Theatralia Filomena Campus Quartet

• 1 E Mi Drommia 05:47
• 2 Evergreen 05:28
• 3 Shanghai to Nanjing 03:34
• 4 Song of a Siren 07:26
• 5 SHE 05:30
• 6 Franca 03:17
• 7 Daughters of Water 06:18
• 8 Unsettled (Status) 02:47
• 9 Queen Mab 03:26
• 10 Nightingale 06:37
• 11 Niki’s Dream 04:48
• Total Runtime 54:58

Info zu Theatralia

Filomena Campus launches the album THEATRALIA (33Jazz) at The Pheasantry, PizzaExpress Live Chelsea on 20th October with her all-star quartet: long-time collaborators Steve Lodder on piano and keyboards, CharliePyne on double bass and voice, and Rod Youngs on drums.

Acclaimed novelist Jonathan Coe has written the sleeve notes for THEATRALIA, an album in which music and literature are closely entangled.

Running through THEATRALIA is an exploration of female genealogy and vocality: voices inherited and rediscovered, silenced and reclaimed. The songs encounter women and female figures across different times and cultures, from the Janas of Sardinian tradition and Homer’s Sirens to pioneering Italian theatre-maker Franca Rame and the radical art of Niki de Saint Phalle. The song SHE reflects on women, migration and displacement, while the album cover features Filomena, a portrait by Sardinian artist Gina Tondo.

The late Italian writer and satirist Stefano Benni, a close friend and creative collaborator of Campus, is an important presence on the album. His fusion of satire, comedy and political engagement has deeply shaped Campus’s approach to performance. Song of a Siren opens with words from Benni’s Sagrademari. At the same time, Franca, based on his poem dedicated to Rame, translated and adapted by Campus and set to music by Lodder, incorporates Benni’s own voice captured during a live performance with Campus and the quartet in London.

Theatralia is also the name of the theatre company that Campus founded in London in 2003. The album grows from the same idea of Theatralia as a shared creative space where different artistic languages coexist. Its geography is rooted in a bridge between Sardinia and London while reaching beyond both: E Mi Drommia draws on Sardinian poetry and childhood stories passed from grandmother to granddaughter; Unsettled (Status) is an affectionate and bittersweet love letter to London; and Shanghai to Nanjing was born from a journey through China.

At the heart of THEATRALIA is the long-standing musical relationship between Campus, Lodder, Pyne and Youngs. Lodder composed most of the album’s music, with two compositions by Pyne, alongside songs originating in Campus’ earlier Sardinian collaborations with pianist Paolo Carrus and the late guitarist Massimo Ferra. Years of performing together have allowed the quartet to continually reshape the music through improvisation, interaction and exchange with their audiences.

Filomena Campus Quartet:
Filomena Campus, vocals & effects
Steve Lodder, piano & keyboards
Charlie Pyne, double bass & vocals
Rod Youngs, drums

Recorded at World Heart Beat Studios, London
Mixed by Steve Lodder
Mastered by Chris Lewis

Filomena Campus
Internationally renowned jazz vocalist/lyricist whose diverse influences range from modern literature, theatre and art to the culture of her native Sardinia. Campus has toured or collaborated with the UK's top jazz artists and innovators, including Orphy Robinson, Maggie Nicols, Rowland Sutherland, Cleveland Watkiss, Steve Williamson, Huw Warren, Byron Wallen, Ruth Goller, Jean Toussaint, Kenny Wheeler, Evan Parker, Laura Cole, Nana Simopoulos, and the London Improvisers Orchestra, as well as with fellow Sardinian musicians Paolo Fresu, Gavino Murgia and Antonello Salis. Filomena has performed at many jazz festivals around the world, having played in the UK, Germany, Italy, Jordan, Qatar, Morocco, Thailand, and Croatia amongst others. In 2010, she founded the Filomena Campus Quartet, with whom she has released the CD Jester of Jazz and performs regularly at London jazz venues such as the PizzaExpress Jazz Club, Ronnie Scott's, World Heart Beat, and the Vortex. The Quartet created the international project, Italy VS England with the late Italian writer and performer Stefano Benni.

In 2014 Campus recorded the album Scaramouche with guitarist and composer Giorgio Serci, featuring the late Kenny Wheeler. 2013 saw Filomena launch her annual My Jazz Islands Festival, later renamed Theatralia Jazz Festival, a bridge between Sardinia and London, in which she seeks to unite Italian and UK jazz musicians. Her acclaimed production of Monk Misterioso. A Journey into the Silence of Thelonious Monk, supported by the Arts Council England, has toured the UK and was sold out at the EFG London Jazz Festival in November 2017. The Filomena Campus Quartet's new project, THEATRALIA, is out on October 20, with the official album launch at The Pheasantry, PizzaExpress Live in Chelsea, London.

"... A highly distinctive presence on the European jazz scene" - Jonathan Coe

"Healing, inspiring, cathartic, comedic, dramatic, political, fantastical, the Filomena Campus Quartet is truly irreplicable in the British jazz scene. - JAZZWISE

“Filomena Campus is the kind of artist who refuses to live in one lane. [...] Campus has consistently shaped work that feels both fearless and finely crafted.” - Occhi Magazine

“Her scatting is literally something else, a modernist in her approach” - Jazz in Europe​

"Campus seemed to improvise from the heart, as if running fearlessly into the unknown, and taking the audience with her" - LondonJazz

Dieses Album enthält kein Booklet