Arbeboost is a brand new musical project created by three Piedmontese musicians and ethnomusicologists who have been active on the Italian and European scene for many years. They are involved in various capacities in the field of research and dissemination of popular music and culture, as organisers and leaders of cultural associations and promoters of events and projects that combine cultural and artistic dimensions with environmental and social sustainability.
Arbeboost is a play on words between 'boost' and 'arbebo', one of the names used in the language of the Occitan valleys of Italy to define the jew's harp: a small musical instrument found in the musical cultures of numerous ethnic groups around the world and one of the oldest - but also the least known - of the Occitan musical traditions, with traditional players still active until the second half of the 20th century.
Alchemical Resonances of Narrated Magic is a show that combines various forms of storytelling: verbal, musical and sung. Folk tales and legends, myths of monstrous creatures and historical witch trials, songs and nursery rhymes, sound dialogues between a hypnotic jaw harp (arbebo, ribeba, ...), an obsessive accordion, an anarchic bass clarinet alternating with an unconventional bagpipe.
Instrumental suites, rhythmic and melodic intertwining, traditional oral music, improvisation, trance: a personal and creative repertoire that also highlights the richness of linguistic minorities, lesser-known worlds and cultural dimensions, emphasising their importance and modernity.
Flavio Giacchero bass clarinet, bechonnet bagpipes; Massimo Losito accordion, stomp box; Alessandro Zolt narrator, jaw harp.