S8 Ep203: Strictly Amaraterra

The Cycling Podcast

Sports, News, Sports News

4.7 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Since 2016, when The Cycling Podcast first covered the Giro d'Italia on the ground, the soundtrack has been provided by Amaraterra, a London-based band that plays the southern Italian pizzica music.

They were in the news recently after it was reported that a Strictly Come Dancing spin-off show offered a free lunch rather than a payment to perform. It was a story that provoked a big response from many of our listeners, for whom Amaraterra's music has become synonymous with the Giro and Italy.

In this bonus episode we enjoy the music of Amaraterra and speak to three members of the band, Alfredo Gianni, Mark Glanville and Cassandre Balosso-Bardin, as they tell us about some of the tracks that accompany our Giro coverage.

It is a challenging time for those who work in the performing arts. Denied the chance to perform live – as they have been doing at least once a month since 2012 – Amaraterra have had a difficult year. In this episode there are also details about how to support the band as they try to finish their first full-length album: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/malvasia-amaraterra-s-first-full-length-album/x/25413806#/

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Cycling Podcast brought to you by IWaka, Flexible Loans,
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0:16.0	Hello, my name's Richard Murrer and with Daniel Freib, Hello Rich and Lionel Bernie,
0:24.0	Hello Richard. And we're just here very briefly at the start of this special bonus episode. This is our
0:31.6	strictly Amaritera episode. Now, Amaritera are the Italian Pizzicar band who have been supplying
0:40.0	our music for the Jiro d'Italia since 2016 since the first Jiro that we covered in full. And their
0:46.7	music is wonderful, our listeners love it and it really, really evocative of the Jiro now for me.
0:54.4	But they were in the news recently because they were invited to appear on a spin-off
1:00.5	program from Strictly Come Dancing by the BBC. But there was no fee involved and this made the
1:06.1	guardian and it provoked quite a big response from people including a lot of our listeners
1:11.4	who were horrified that they were being asked to perform for free by an organisation like the BBC.
1:19.6	So we got in touch with them and thought we'd try and do something with them. They've obviously
1:23.2	had a terrible year like everybody else in the performing arts and not being able to perform live.
1:28.4	And they are trying to put the finishing touches to their album at the moment as well and they're
1:32.2	hoping to be back out in the road next year. But we thought we'd just put this, we're going to
1:36.4	hear from some of the band and hear their music in this episode. But Daniel, you were the person
1:43.0	who discovered a Maritera for us back in 2016. Yes, Rachel, at the time we were looking for
1:49.5	some theme music for our Jiro, covering something authentic. Italy, not a nation, not a country
1:54.8	whose music is generally exported that far and wide. Not certainly not in popular music anyway.
2:01.9	But we happened upon this group that were based in London and I was very intrigued by the type
2:08.3	of music they were performing. Was this music from which originated in the South of Italy called
2:14.0	Pizzicum music? And I did a bit of reading about what this consisted of and it actually derives
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