Davide Ambrogio expresses all the richness and diversity of Mediterranean culture, from Albania to Greece, from Italy to the Arab world, from tradition to electronics.

Davide Ambrogio grew up in a small town in Aspromonte; a mountainous territory in the extreme south-west of Italy, Calabria, where ancient religious rituals and devotional chants are still alive. Attached to his Calabrian roots, where he grew up, Davide drew inspiration from this heritage of oral tradition to create his own original musical language.

Evocazioni e Invocazioni (“Evocations and Invocations”) was born of a reflection on sound, an investigation into the depth of song, and the aesthetic and ecstatic power of music. Each piece has its own nature and its own role, just as in the music of the oral tradition, each song and each sound manifests itself as part of a ritual; from the lullaby to the protest song, from the lament to the conjuration. In concert, the Calabrian artist builds an immersive show around the voice, using the lyre, pencil guitar, tambourine, zumpettana, zampogna (bagpipes) and live electronics. Through timbral, melodic and rhythmic research, Davide Ambrogio tells an intimate truth and suggests different evocations of the present time.