Album Notes

Rachele Colombo (vocals, guitar, percussion and keyboards) and Corrado Corradi (accordions, vocal sand various instruments) are noted folk-roots artists in Italy, both members or former members of the legendary Venetian band Calicanto.

Ex-members of the important Venetian folk group Calicanto, Rachele Colombo and Corrado Corradi are today the main players in a new musical project which sees them elaborate with skill the sounds, songs and moods of both Venice and beyond.

Their music is inspired by common tales, shared observations, the fragments of our everyday lives and all those aspects of it which are universal, such as the sea, sky, night-time, misty weather, rivers, flowers; symbols which are often representative of our feelings.

All these sensations are presented in a tranquil, delicate and optimistic light - you see an infinite dawn rather than a twilight when you listen to tracks such as "Ridi Bepi", "Come le viole", "Disgelo", "Caigo", "I papaveri di Fedora".

This is an album guaranteed to bring a shiver of emotion, an album to be enjoyed in its entirety.

Rachele's splendid voice (which floats amidst guitars, synthesisers and percussion instruments) and the expressive power of the bandanéon and Corrado's concertina are effective, inventive and yet simple conveyors of light and colours, of a world of sounds full of influences and fragile emotions.

Catchy melodies, soft yet modern sounds which emphasise the beauty of the dialect of contemporary poetry of the Veneto region which is a vivid reminder of cultural and ancestral roots.

Archedora thus manages, with true taste and intelligence, to combine past with present, reality with memories, East with West, and for this reason must be heralded as an important and profound contribution to the Italian folk music scene.