Fil Rouge Project

rtes and singers like Zaz." Giovanni Ballerini, LA NAZIONE

The Fil Rouge Quintet was born in 2015 and it rises from the intense understanding between two women, the singer/songwriter Maria Teresa Leonetti and the pianist/composer Manuela Iori, who translate into words and music their melancholic mood, at the same time full of energy and dynamic. The incisiveness of the trumpet of Nicola Cellai, the regular rhythms of the drums and the fascinating percussions (tabla, djembé, kalimba, berimbau) of Ettore Bonafé and the intensity of the double bass of Michele Staino color and fill the sound. Their music touches the most diverse sounds, timbres and colors: Mediterranean melodies with Arabic and Maghreb echoes. Latin rhythms of bossa nova and tango permeated with underground influences tied to funk and hip-hop not least blues and swing. Alternating tonal and modal composition. Thus creating never taken for granted atmospheres. The songs are predominately written in French, the language of the soul of the singer. They speak about the Alsatian Countryside, about people met during a one-year journey; they speak about complicated lives and friendships developed in a Winter-time Strasbourg, a city radiated by a light, white like snow. The songs speak about painful relationships, life beyond illness and oblivion. They speak about a father came to known in senile age with all his fragilities and regained wisdom. They speak about a mother, small and full of life that runs, runs every moment of the day, who finds peacefulness in long walks through the countryside, to look for herbs to cook with. Not least, foggy atmospheres along the Senna, evoked by Jean Gabin’s film o by Maupassant short stories.