Il Popolo del Blues
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Il Popolo del Blues is an Italian radio program founded in 1995, created and led by the Italian journalist Ernesto De Pascale
(RAI
, Jam, La Nazione, Rolling Stone Italia, Record Collector
, Popolare Network), named by the BBC “the Italian John Peel”. The radio show is broadcast every Saturday 8 p.m. on Controradio (in Tuscany
, Italy
) and every Sunday 9 p.m. on Popolare Network (nationwide).
and the 90s
.
Since the beginning the show was dedicated to the preservation and diffusion of contemporary forms of blues
. After a few years the activity of the brand has grown into a versatile body of activities that involve its founder.
Il Popolo del Blues' radio engineer since the beginning is Fabrizio Berti, one of the most important musicologist and harp player from Pistoia, Tuscany.
was launched in 1998 and in 2001 it became a music web magazine (registered at the Italian Register of Communications) updated monthly with news, reviews and interviews and counting around 2000 visitors every day.
Il Popolo del Blues is also an independent record label and its catalogue includes a number of albums and releases such as Morning Manic Music, one of the label’s latest releases and Ernesto De Pascale
's first solo album.
Il Popolo del Blues lately became also a brand operating in the communications, promotions and marketing sectors with a strong emphasis on music and cultivated entertainment.
It takes care of the promotion of artists, festivals, record releases and events and it is currently marketing the UK label Esoteric Recordings
and Loose Music
, promoting Tony Banks
' 1979 A Curious Feeling
reissue, marketing events like Porretta Soul Festival
and Premio Ciampi in Italy, Piazza Blues Festival in Bellinzona, Switzerland
.
Ernesto De Pascale
Ernesto De Pascale was a well-known Italian music journalist and independent producer. He plays piano and sings and he started making music in his early teens.-The 1970s:...
(RAI
RAI
RAI — Radiotelevisione italiana S.p.A. known until 1954 as Radio Audizioni Italiane, is the Italian state owned public service broadcaster controlled by the Ministry of Economic Development. Rai is the biggest television company in Italy...
, Jam, La Nazione, Rolling Stone Italia, Record Collector
Record Collector
Record Collector is the United Kingdom's longest-running monthly music magazine. It distributes both within the UK and worldwide. It started in 1979.-The early years:...
, Popolare Network), named by the BBC “the Italian John Peel”. The radio show is broadcast every Saturday 8 p.m. on Controradio (in Tuscany
Tuscany
Tuscany is a region in Italy. It has an area of about 23,000 square kilometres and a population of about 3.75 million inhabitants. The regional capital is Florence ....
, Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
) and every Sunday 9 p.m. on Popolare Network (nationwide).
History
The radio program was founded after the never ending requests by the listeners of Rai Stereonotte, the most important Italian radio show dedicated to high quality music during the 80s80s
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and the 90s
90s
-Significant people:* Titus Flavius Domitianus, Roman Emperor * Nerva, Roman Emperor...
.
Since the beginning the show was dedicated to the preservation and diffusion of contemporary forms of blues
Blues
Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...
. After a few years the activity of the brand has grown into a versatile body of activities that involve its founder.
Il Popolo del Blues' radio engineer since the beginning is Fabrizio Berti, one of the most important musicologist and harp player from Pistoia, Tuscany.
The website and the record label
Il Popolo del Blues' websiteIl Popolo del Blues is also an independent record label and its catalogue includes a number of albums and releases such as Morning Manic Music, one of the label’s latest releases and Ernesto De Pascale
Ernesto De Pascale
Ernesto De Pascale was a well-known Italian music journalist and independent producer. He plays piano and sings and he started making music in his early teens.-The 1970s:...
's first solo album.
Il Popolo del Blues record label's catalogue
- Il nuovo Blues in Italia, vol 1 (Sony, 1995)
- Il nuovo Blues in Italia, vol 2 (Sony, 1996)
- Il nuovo Blues in Italia, vol 3 (Sony, 1997)
- Il Nuovo Blues in Italia, vol 4 (Sony, 1998) - never released
- AAVV -2120 Michigan Avenue - Chicago, Italia vol. 1 (1998) (PDB/Il Manifesto)
- Egidio Juke Ingala - Nite Life Boogie ( PDB 1999 01 - 2)
- Chicago Blue Revue - Chicago Blue revue (PDB 1999 02 -2)
- AAVV -2120 Michigan Avenue - Chicago, Italia vol. 2 (1999) (PDB/Il Manifesto)
- AAVV - Frank you thank vol.1 (PDB 1999 005 -2 /Il Manifesto)
- Dennis & the Jets - Passami la Scossa ( PDB 1999 06 - 2 )
- Dario Lombardo e Phil GuyPhil GuyPhil Guy was an American blues guitarist. He was the younger brother of Buddy Guy.-Biography:Born in Lettsworth, Louisiana, Guy played with the harmonica player Raful Neal for ten years in the Baton Rouge, Louisiana area before relocating to Chicago in 1969 where he joined his brothers' band...
- Working Together (PDB 1999 07 - 2/MaterialI Sonori) - Home Cookin'Home Cookin'Home Cookin’ is a horn-based soul band that played in the Las Vegas local scene from 1989 to 2000. Described by drummer and video game composer Frank Klepacki as "just a good-time, funky dance band", the band has been compared to Tower of Power and featured a five-man horn section...
- Afrobilly Soul Stew (PDB 2000 008 - 2/Materiali Sonori) - GarybaldiGarybaldiGarybaldi was an Italian progressive rock band founded in the early 1970s.They were founded as Gleemen by guitarist Bambi Fossati and, apart from Fossati, they included Maurizio Cassinelli , Lio Marchi and Angelo Traverso . Their first work was a cover of the Beatles' "Lady Madonna", followed by...
feat. Bambi Fossati - La ragione e il torto (PDB 2000 09 -2/Materiali Sonori) - AAVV - Songs For Jethro (PDB 2000 010 -2/MaterialI Sonori )
- Angelo "Leadbelly" Rossi - Jump up songs (PDB 2000 011 - 2/Materiali Sonori)
- Oliver NelsonOliver NelsonOliver Edward Nelson was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, arranger and composer.-Early life and career:...
: composer & arranger, a tribute (PDB 2002 012 - 2/Materiali Sonori) - AAVV - Frank you thank vol. 2 (PDB 2002 013 - 2/Il Manifesto)
- Dario Lombardo & the Blues Gang - Searchin' For gold ( PDB 2003 014 - 2/Materiali Sonori)
- Ernesto De PascaleErnesto De PascaleErnesto De Pascale was a well-known Italian music journalist and independent producer. He plays piano and sings and he started making music in his early teens.-The 1970s:...
- Morning Manic Music (PDB 2007 015 - 2/Materiali Sonori) - Gina - Segreto ( PDB 2009 016 - 2/Materiali Sonori)
Latest developments, recent years
Since 2004 Il Popolo del Blues radio program is broadcast nationwide. Since 2008 it is available on podcast on Controradio's website . Saturday show is currently rebroadcast in Tuscany on Sunday 5.30 p.m. And on Tuesday 00.30 a.m.Il Popolo del Blues lately became also a brand operating in the communications, promotions and marketing sectors with a strong emphasis on music and cultivated entertainment.
It takes care of the promotion of artists, festivals, record releases and events and it is currently marketing the UK label Esoteric Recordings
Esoteric Recordings
Established in 2007, Esoteric Recordings is a UK independent record label specialising in 70s progressive rock, folk, psychedelic and jazz-rock reissues as part of the Cherry Red Records umbrella of imprints...
and Loose Music
Loose Music
Loose Music is a British independent record label based in Acton, London, specialising in in Americana and Alt. Country.-Artists:Since 1998, Loose has released music by the following artists: Giant Sand, M Ward, The Arlenes, Inara George, Neko Case, Blanche, Willard Grant Conspiracy, The Handsome...
, promoting Tony Banks
Tony Banks (musician)
This article is about the musician. For other people named Tony Banks, see Tony BanksAnthony George "Tony" Banks is a British composer, and multi-instrumentalist, who performs as a keyboardist and a guitarist...
' 1979 A Curious Feeling
A Curious Feeling
Allmusic gave a resoundingly positive retrospective review, asserting that "Banks manages to capture the wonderment and allure that enveloped Genesis' Peter Gabriel days.....
reissue, marketing events like Porretta Soul Festival
Porretta Soul Festival
The Porretta Soul Festival is a soul music festival that usually takes place in the third week of July in Rufus Thomas Park in Porretta Terme, which in the province of Bologna.-History:...
and Premio Ciampi in Italy, Piazza Blues Festival in Bellinzona, Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
.