Introducing Titubanda (a “commercial”)
Titubanda - the “Wavering Band” - is a 35 piece brass band from Rome, Italy, playing everything from traditional Italian village songs to avant-guard jazz via Latin American rhythms and Arabic melodies: it’s a musical journey from Cuba to Bombay, through the Balkans and Cairo, reinterpreting classics and inspiring original compositions. Omnivorous, and with a robust appetite, the band loves not only traditional homely recipes but also exotic cuisine, spicy dishes - sometimes with the odd acid flavour.
Titubanda — a feast of brass and percussion touring the East Coast, coming from Honk! street band festival in Boston, MA, via Providence to New York City.
They’ve already taken their maelstrom-sound from the Coliseum to many European events and festivals in France, Germany, Spain, the Balkans… and now they’ve crossed the Atlantic for the first time to celebrate their tenth anniversary.
Watch out!
Our gigs in the US
Oct 10-12 Honk! Festival of activist street bands, Boston, Massachusetts
Oct 13-14 Concerts in Providence, Rhode Island
Oct 15-16-17 Concerts in New York City
What is Titubanda?
Titubanda is a 35 piece brass band from Rome, Italy, playing everything from traditional Italian folk songs to avant-guard jazz via Latin American rhythms and Arabic melodies. A musical journey from Cuba to Bombay, through the Balkans and Cairo, reinterpreting classics and inspiring original compositions. Omnivorous, and with a robust appetite, the band loves not only traditional homely recipes but also exotic cuisine, spicy dishes - sometimes with the odd acid flavour.
Titubanda - the “Wavering Band” - was born on may 1st 1998 as an open collective, a musical workshop where everyone can play and share the pleasure of making music. Rejecting merit and profit criteria and without any internal hierarchy, the group is not only a focus for cultural and social aggregation, but is also the bearer of these values into the wider community, taking part in political demonstrations and social initiatives.
The band’s presence in city streets has a poetic impact in contrast with the dehumanizing rhythms and rampant individualism of our society. Its music creates immediate involvement, awakening deeply repressed emotions and unleashing the desire to party together.
To its social commitment, Titubanda adds a passion for partying that has taken the band to major festivals of street bands throughout Italy and Europe: Munich, Germany; Paris and Montpellier, France; Guca, Serbia; Bilbao, Spain… In tune with this ethos, the band itself promotes and organizes the “Sbandata Romana”, an international street band festival that in 2005 saw it’s 3rd edition.
Celebrating ten years of activity Titubanda will cross the Atlantic for the first time to tour the East Coast, playing in Providence, at Honk! street band festival, Boston, and in New York City.
Titubanda’s ultimate and legendary - though not unreachable - aim is to succeed in playing a well-tuned A minor chord!
TITUBANDA IN AMERICA
PROGRAMMA DEL VIAGGIO
Gio 9 ott: Roma-Boston
ore 12,05: partenza da Fiumicino, volo AZ 614.
ore 15.20: (locali) arrivo Boston Logan.
Ven 10 ott: Boston: Honk!
12:00 – 16:00: dibattiti alla Tufts University
16:00 – 18:00: simposio su “Politica e Festival” alla Tufts University
19:00 – 23:00: cena e suonata di benvenuto
Sab 11 ott: Boston: Honk!
ore 11:30: Davis Square, cerimonia di apertura a Seven Hills Park
12:00 – 21:00: ventiquattro bande in sei spazi all’aperto
21:00 – 01:00: cena “Redbones” e jam notturna ad Outside The Lines
Dom 12 ott: Boston: Honk!
ore 10:00: brunch da Sacco's Bowl Haven
ore 11:00: raduno per la parata nel parcheggio del Bowl Haven
12:00 – 14:00: parata
14:00 – 18:00: palco alla Oktoberfest in Harvard Square
18:00 –20:00: cena
20:00 – 24:00: Concerti di tutte le bande al Dilboy
Lun 13 ott: Providence “Big Brass Show”
ore 17:00: raduno in un parco del centro e parata fino al luogo del concerto
19:00 – 24:00 concerto con altre bande (HMB, BLO, What Cheer? Brigade e altre)
ore 24:00 la festa continua nelle vicinanze
Mar 14 ott: Providence – Titubanda alla Brown University
Pomeriggio- sera: parata e concerto Titubanda alla Brown University
Mer 15 ott: New York, Brooklyn
Concerto notturno
Gio 16 ott: New York, Staten Island
ore 14:00 concerto pomeridiano in un parco,
ore 18:00 concerto fine pomeriggio-sera in un caffč vicino
ore 21:00 concerto notturno da stabilire.
Ven 17 ott: New York, Manhattan
ore 20:00: concerto al Drom club, 85 Avenue A tra 5th & 6th, East Village
con HMB, Environmental Encroachment Chicago and many surprise guests
Sab 18 ott: New York
ore 21,20 partenza da JFK, volo AZ 611 .
Dom. 19 ott: Roma
ore 11,30 arrivo a Fiumicino
DISCOGRAPHY:
Titubanda "Zibibbo tour" a mistical tour in Sicilia, 1999
Titubanda and friends "Bande in viaggio" Certaldo, Roma, Napoli, Firenze, 2000
Titubanda "Fino alle Tre" live at Locanda Atlantide, Roma 2001
Titubanda "...Casa e Chiesa" rehearsal diary at CSA Ex Snia Viscosa, 2001
Titubanda "La Torre" latest successes collection, 2002
Titubanda "La notte della Titurantola" live at CSOA La Torre 21/12/2002, 2002
Titubanda "CD pro Chiapas" supporting development projects in Chiapas, Mexico, 2003
Titubanda "Sette" recorded at Ciak Studios (Rome) and at Ex Snia Viscosa, 2004 & 2005
AAVV "Sbandata 2004" & "Sbandata 2005", compilations with songs from all the bands taking part in the latest editions of Rome street band festival
Titubanda "Balkan Tour '07" recorded live during the 2007 summer tour (Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia)
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