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My
Lady Looks So Gentle And So Pure
Ariella Uliano
is a singer of early and traditional music,
she writes songs and she is the author of
four CDs:
- Leave Only Your Footsteps
Behind (2008)
- Tanto Gentile E Tanto Onesta
Pare (2006)
- The Wandering Spirit (2004)
- So, We'll Go No More A-Roving
(2002)
In London Ariella studies music
and dance in relation to European Literature
and in Italy she runs seminars on Music, Literature
and the Visual Arts. Her favourite authors
are Dante Alighieri, Gaspara Stampa, William
Shakespeare, Lorenzo De'Medici, Lord Byron,
Walter Scott, Christina Rossetti and W.B.Yeats.
We hope you will enjoy listening
to Ariella's music and decide to buy her albums.
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| Ariella
Uliano e Musici Di San Giorgio, Poesia
Festival Valpolicella, Verona,
Italy 2005 |
Ariella
Uliano, Verona,
Italy 2005 |
Ariella
Uliano & Maurizio Di Donato, Death
of Dido,
Milano 2005 |
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Leave
Only Your Footsteps Behind - 2008
ARIELLA ULIANO: Leave Only Your Footsteps Behind
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Folk Pop originals with
jazzy and ethnic influences on Early music,
Italian poetry and Celtic Traditional ballads.
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After
an intense and emotional trip to the
Isle of Wight, I came back to London
with a tune and a few words playing
in my head: Leave Only Your
Footsteps Behind. Long stretches
of the beautiful coast that I had visited
and loved a few years before, had subsequently
been transformed into costly residential
estates and made inaccessible to walkers.
Nonetheless, we kept walking West and
discovered sceneries, colours, smells,
sounds and the pure energy of a land
apparently untouched by man’s
technology.
Southbank River
Song is a London song. I was
inspired to write it by the incredible
atmosphere of the South Bank area. I
sometimes go there and mingle with the
crowd: it’s like walking in the
air, above the waves of soft voices
and footsteps, and the gentle sounds
rising from the river.....
I travelled to Italy
in the early spring to finish recording
this album and stayed two weeks in a
small resort on the Adriatic coast.
At times the Adriatic Sea reminds me
of the English Channel or the North
Sea: the mist and the northerly winds
carry with them an element of magic….
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Tanto
Gentile E Tanto Onesta Pare - 2006
ARIELLA
ULIANO: Tanto Gentile E Tanto Onesta Pare
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Tanto Gentile E Tanto Onesta
Pare (My Lady Looks So Gentle And So Pure)
embraces and links together the tradition
of Celtic and English ballads and tunes, and
the poetry of Medieval and Renaissance Italy.
The ancient songs, melodies and words on this
album speak of love, the arrival of the warm
and sunny season and the joys and pleasures
of youth. Tanto Gentile E Tanto Onesta Pare
also features Medieval poetry by Dante Alighieri
from The Divine Comedy and Vita Nova (New
Life) dedicated to Beatrice, works by the
Italian Renaissance poet Gaspara Stampa and
words by the great Lorenzo De'Medici and his
tutor and famous humanist Angelo Poliziano.
The poems are set to traditional tunes and
original melodies by the artist, Ariella Uliano,
and the arrangements range from classical
and modern to avant-garde.
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Ariella,
the Renaissance Aristocratic lady!
Ariella, the Renaissance Aristocratic
lady! Lovely music, all over last 10
centuries, with poetry from Dante. Beautiful,
inspirational, artistic, valuable...
what can I say. Just keep on doing what
you're doing, it's all really worth
it.
author: Viktor Mastoridis
The album is a
breath of fresh air and sunlight
Tanto Gentile E Tanto Onesta Pare is
a very impressive album with plenty
of variety to keep the interest going.
There is not a jarring note on the whole
CD and the Mediterranean and Celtic
elements fuse together very effectively.
The album is a breath of fresh air and
sunlight, and helps you escape into
another world free of SAD, reality TV
and the whole spectrum of 21st Century
malaise.
Reviewer: Dave Taylor
Tanto Gentile
E Tanto Onesta Pare is translated in
English as My Lady Looks So Gentle And
So Pure and it’s the title of
a poem by Dante Alighieri from his collection
Vita Nova (New Life) dedicated to Beatrice.
It’s an apt title for the album,
which is a blend of European music smoothly
spanning the ages as well as countries,
featuring Ariella Uliano, an Italian
lady with a beautiful voice that glides
effortlessly from Folk to Classical
without any strain.
On top of that Ariella
is also a consummate finger style guitarist
playing her own accompaniments, reminiscent
of Victoria de Los Angeles. Tanto Gentile
E Tanto Onesta Pare has the added spice
of a variety of excellent supporting
musicians, notably Stefan Oslanski-Piano;
Will Killeen-Slide and Acoustic Guitar;
Andrea Trotti-Flute; Francesco Gualerzi-Saxophone;
Adelmo Sassi-Electric Guitars; Giuseppe
Nieddu-Didjeridoo; Nicola Berti-Percussions
and Johnny Sacco-Bass Guitar and Sound
Engineer. Stefano Paiusco gives a superb
reading of an excerpt from Dante Alighieri's
Inferno from The Divine Comedy; even
if you don’t understand the language,
Paiusco's voice will send shivers up
your spine. The Italian actor also reads
from the Renaissance poet Angelo Poliziano
and his pupil Lorenzo De'Medici. In
Tanto Gentile, Dante's angelic vision
of Beatrice and ghostly apparitions
of Paolo and Francesca are set against
a very English background inhabited
by otherworldly creatures, images and
sounds. The booklet includes great pictures
by Renzo Frontoni, Ariella’s partner,
who also provides some interesting backing
vocals.
My Lady Looks So Gentle
And So Pure is a collection of 13 songs
that moves from the Italian Medieval
to a touch of a Honky Tonk Piano in
a 15 century Italian ballad and can
also introduce a Mexican style bit of
trumpet playing into the title track.
Ariella, who is bi-lingual and equally
at home singing a Scottish or English
ballad or Italian songs, has penned
two tunes and one lyric herself and
she has set to music words by the famous
Italian poet and courtesan Gaspara Stampa.
Ariella Uliano works for the British
Council and studies period dancing so
she is well steeped in the diversity
and harmony of European cultures. She
is better known in Italy than in Britain
but with such talent it only needs the
right door to open for her to find a
large audience in the UK.
Brian Healey, London UK
Amazing, Amazing,
Amazing!
After purchasing Tanto Gentile
E Tanto Onesta Pare, I played it non
stop for 3 days. Pure poetry to my ears,
the lyrics and instrumentals are fantastic
and send you to another world of calm
and peace! Here, the Italian Dante Alighieri
and Beatrice, Gaspara Stampa and Lorenzo
De'Medici meet our Celtic and English
ballads' heroes, during a fascinating
pilgrimage across Europe. If you do
not have Tanto Gentile then what are
you waiting for - a must buy now CD!
Thanks Ariella.
Submitted by Sir Peter in London
Single
tracks of Tanto Gentile E Tanto Onesta
Pare & Sumer by Ariella Uliano are
now available on DVD with fantastic
photographs as seen on YouTube.
Buy
Now for only £5.99 each inclusive
of p&p.
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Tanto
Gentile E Tanto Onesta Pare
by Ariella Uliano |
Sumer
by Ariella Uliano |
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The Wandering Spirit
- 2004
A thematic album in the Celtic
tradition that is exquisite. The Wandering
Spirit has songs, dances and poetry from the
English Renaissance and Shakespearean eras.
The approach to the material is modern; the
participating artists are from Italy, Greece,
England, Wales and Ireland resulting in an
unusual picture of Italian and English Renaissance
that is fresh and inspiring. The booklets'
notes and lyrics are in English and Italian.
The Wandering Spirit is set in Verona starting
with the banquet at the Capulets’ house.
This is Celtic heroine Ariella Uliano's most
ambitious and alluring work and is a must
listen for folk and Celtic enthusiasts and
lovers of English literature.
The Wandering Spirit is also
distributed by Silverwolf Records through
Amazon: www.amazon.com
& www.amazon.co.uk
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Enchanting
Music
Graceful, melodic and spellbinding.
The Wandering Spirit makes you glad
there are artists who still make music
like this. Lilting flutes and pleasing
acoustic guitar join with elegant voices,
solo and chorus, carrying you away from
the hurly-burly world of traffic jams
and stressful-work; taking you, gently,
to a time and place of days gone by.
The CD of traditional and Celtic music
quickly won the hearts of every member
of our family, including teenagers more
accustomed to the thump and grind of
rap music!
Submitted by Richard in Washington
DC
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So, We'll Go
No More A-Roving - 2002
Traditional Celtic music performed
with a modern spirit. Ariella Uliano is a
singer of early and traditional music. She
has researched the history of British music
and dance and their links with Medieval, Renaissance
and Romantic literature and the visual arts.
So, We'll Go No More A-Roving contains traditional
music of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland
as well as poetry from the Romantic era by
Lord Byron, Walter Scott, Christina Rossetti
and others.
So, We'll Go No More A-Roving
is also distributed by Silverwolf Records
through Amazon: www.amazon.com
& www.amazon.co.uk
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Music
for your Dreams
Regarding the CD entitled So, We'll Go
No More A-Roving I feel it has reached
the music objective: TO DREAM. Ariella
Uliano's voice has the power to bring
us into a far away world that we can begin
to know thanks to her artistic performance.
It's Romantic at its best!
GIOVANNI
BUCCI , ALANNO-ABRUZZO-ITALY (4/22/2004
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