Guido Sodo

In more than 30 years the group has musically crossed different landscapes, looking at an idea of the South of the world and singing about its loves, hardships, and joy of living.
A common thread has always been a certain way of conceiving the sung voices, the use of traditional instruments from Southern Italy but also from other countries, seeking a style that straddles popular music, jazz and ancient music.
Guido Sodo

For a musician, practicing certain repertoires inevitably means getting bogged down in border lagoons.
A joyful bogging down, of course, that often arises lightly, when one realizes that a melody, a color, a rhythm are perfectly reflected in something else on the other side of the ocean; thus imaginary geographies are formed, inconsistent yet tenacious maps that lead to tracing itineraries, to establishing stopovers and departures, in a continuous packing and unpacking of the mind's baggage. This record is our portolan, the crumpled nautical chart on which we have noted the routes of the wanderings that arose from the development of our musical project.
Like a small crew of a rickety vessel of the Bourbon navy (in truth not very loyal to flags and regulations) we went in search of the cultural, linguistic, musical bridges that unexpectedly unite the shores of distant seas; from the Gulf of Naples to the Brazilian coast, from the Ionian Sea of Calabria to the Shatt-el-Arab, from one coast of the Adriatic to the other, from the restless Vesuvius to the tormented Balkans, we have let the words and sounds find their unity on their own, in a journey that has just begun.

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• Cantodiscanto discography •

- Nuove Tendenze della Canzone d'Autore V - BMG-Ariola (CD compilation Premio Città di Recanati), 1994
- Cercando la terra - Ermitage, 1997
- Medinsud, Forrest Hills - Harmony Music, 2001
- Pizzica la Tarantula - il Manifesto, 2011
- Malmediterraneo - Forrest Hills, 2003. With Faisal Taher, Gabin Dabire and Lao Kouyate
- Altreterre - il Manifesto, 2003
- free CD - Roots Magazine, 2004
- Pizzica la Tarantula 2 - Stampa Alternativa, 2004
- Cercando la terra (seconda edizione e remastering) - Ermitage, 2006
- Tutto il mondo è paese - Associazione Culturale Medinsud, 2010
- Todo el mundo a cantar - Associazione Culturale Medinsud, 2014
- Pandemusica - Visage Music, 2022

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Guido Sodo is born in Napoli, Italy.
Author of lyrics and music, he graduated in classical guitar and graduated with honors in applied music.
He has collaborated as a musician and singer with various ancient music groups: with the medieval ensemble Acantus he participated in numerous international festivals and in programming on Euroradio and BBC, recording "Acantus" (Gimell, 1999).
He arranged and played some songs on "Italia" by tenor Juan Diego Florez (Decca, 2015).
For the Cineteca di Bologna he composed the music for some silent films that he accompanied live in numerous countries.
He collaborated as a composer, musician and singer with various theatre companies, combining singing and string instruments with the use of live electronics and electroacoustics.
He sang as a soloist in "Orfeo III" by Berio / Monteverdi produced by the Philarmonie de Paris.

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