Meridiana eng - meridiana-cgs

The meridiana (=sundial) shows us the time by using sunlight and the shadow it casts. Meridiana, the new album from Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino (CGS), is the tale of our own relationship with time. 12 tracks like the 12 hours marked by the sundial. 12 songs where past and present overlap, time dilates and contracts, until it disappears. A synaesthesia of voices with an ancient color, that sounds fresh and makes you travel far.
The themes of the album revolve around the vast concept of time. Starting with the peculiarity of this kind of music: CGS translate for today a music and a dance that comes from the past. And many are the inspirations, from folklore to news, to the reading of various texts about time, touching disciplines like philosophy, physics, sociology, mythology and fiction.
Meridiana projects 12 songs, 12 lines of light and shadow, contemporary storytellers of today’s Italy.

The website Meridiana is an immersive experience, with multidisciplinary contents: music, images, texts, educational videos and contemporary art pieces linked to the concepts of the album.
The different contents have been curated by important artists and personalities. Visual works, photos and videos will be entrusted to three artists from Salento, showing CGS’s desire to open and interact with the main realities in their territory: visual artist Luca Coclite, photographer Francesco Sambati, filmmaker Gabriele Surdo.
Scientific educational videos, regarding different sides of the speculation about time, will be taken care of by experts of philosophy, ethnomusicology, anthropology, physics.