KOSOVNI ODPADKI
Electro Folk from Italian Scene

Mauro Punteri: vocal, acoustic guitar
Michele Bregant: clarinet, sax tenor
Adriano Coco: violin, vocal
Jvan Moda: drum, percussions
Davide "Virus" Drius: accordion, vocal
Oscar Schwander: bass
Alan Malusà Magno: guitar, trumpet, vocal
Alessandro: sound engeener

VERSIONE ITALIANA

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The trashcans (this the exact translation from Slovenian) they represent the other face of globalization and strong consumerism, the systematic waste of resources.
Some kind of large cases inside which you can find again are all your old treasures: the worm-holed chair or the used couch, music from the ancient sound or the fogotten languages of the world.

The Kosovni Odpadki come from Friuli, the oriental border of Italy, but their linguistic and blood bond takes them from the Balkans to Argentina, from Bolivia to the Middle East.

The music and the texts are of own production.

The formulates is simple but incisive: music" Easy", but not banal, sounds and different languages and a great live impact . Shortly something that cannot be forgotten!

Friulan bands hit Italian music scene.

Kosovni Odpadki in Slovene not only means ‘dustbins’ but is also the name of the most important music band from Friuli, the multilingual region in North-eastern Italy. During the last two months their songs have been dominating air-time on the cult programme ‘Caterpillar’ on national radio-station Rai 2.

‘Our name is ‘Kosovni Odpadki’ because we recycle sounds, rhythms, languages and traditions. Some people consider these as waste and garbage, but for us it is the raw material for creating something new and alive’, explains Mauro Punteri, the lead singer of the band.

‘Using Friulan and Slovene in our songs is natural for us. These languages are our mother tongues and are autochthonous expressions of our territory, a part of the world of which we are citizens’, adds Punteri.
He expresses a point of view which is common to a wide range of bands in Friuli. Kosovni Odpadki with its multilingual, cosmopolitan ‘patchanka’(mixture), can be considered by some as representative of a whole new Friulan scene.

This scene includes other important bands in the region: the combat-folk combo ‘Arbe Garbe’, the klezmer-oriented (East European Yiddish music), multilingual group from Gorizia ‘Zuf de Zur’, the punk hard-core quartet ‘Inzirli’. Lastly, ‘Bande Tzingare’, a music and poetry project between Friuli and Argentina, where there are many descendants of Friulan immigrants. Another characteristic of ‘Kosovni Odpadki’, and typical of other bands, is the link between its music and the new Friulan literature, in particular with the poet’s collective ‘Trastolons’ who represent a kind of original Friulan ‘beat generation’.

‘From ethno-jazz to hard rock, from rap to new-folk, there are many bands using Friulan in their lyrics. Fifteen records per year have been written in the ‘mother tongue’, comments Mauro Missana.
Missana is the director of Radio Onde Furlane (Friulan FM), a private radio station broadcasting in Friulan, which plays an important role in supporting young musicians. It also organises the ‘Premi Friûl’ (Friuli Award), concerts, festivals and started the label ‘Musiche Furlane Fuarte’ (Strong Friulan Music).

‘Singers like Lino Straulino and Loris Vescovo or bands like ‘Pantan’ and ‘FLK’ are finding a growing audience, Italian music magazines give good reviews, but something continues to obstruct the complete development of the scene’, ads Missana.
‘Part of the problem is the distribution of Friulan independent records. One example is the prejudice of regional commercial radios which aren’t broadcast music sung in Friulan even though the music sounds fine on FM. This happened to the hip-hop crew ‘DHL Posse’ and the folksinger Silvia Michelotti’. Another problem is Friulan local radio coverage as, according to Missana, its easier to hear Kosovni on ‘Radio Rai 2’ or other Italian radio than on local Friulan radio which covers Udine, Gorizia and Pordenone.

Album
2002 - Kosovni Odpadki - MFF012
2004 - Bye Bye Bombe - AlfaMusic