Through music, texts, songs and sounds, the figure of a man is told, the maestro Quintino Castagneri (1919-2007), who like a sort of pioneer of ethnomusicology at the end of the 1960s recorded himself to document the traditional music of his village, Balme (Valli di Lanzo), to leave a trace of a sound and social world that was disappearing
A subject and a story that, as in a novel, could live and belong to any place crossed by the inexorable passage of time. It narrates the genealogy of a family, that of the Castagneri, whose certain origins in the Valley date back to the 16th century, but it is also a reflection on technology and loneliness: the use of means in order to communicate in which, however, communication is mediated by technological means and what pervades the present is a kind of loneliness.
With Flavio Giacchero bass clarinet, soprano sax, bagpipes, voice; Luca Teghillo chromatic accordion, guitar, voice; Marzia Rey violin, voice.