Pandemiorkestra – Quarantine colours

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“Quarantine colours” is a composition for plectrum orchestra (mandolins, mandolas, guitars, mandoloncellos, double bass) written by Leonardo Lospalluti, in March 2020, in the midst of the pandemic caused by Covid-19. The composition was born within the Digressione Music project called Pandemiorkestra, and its creator Giovanni Chiapparino, the first composer to dedicate a composition to this project.
As can be seen from the title of the composition itself, Quarantine colors is inspired by the colors that define in a more or less restrictive way the closure of activities and services aimed at containing the contagion, colors that were extremely relevant after months of the pandemic, and refer to a precise zoning of the national territory. Yellow, green and red are also the colors that refer to three different phases in the common social perception of the risk of contagion. The idea that after a period of galloping contagion (Yellow), one can relax, completely ignoring the risk, as if the disease had completely passed (Green), is followed by the final phase (Red) in which the disease explodes again with all its virulence. The three colors correspond to as many movements into which the approximately eight-minute composition is divided.

Extraordinary musicians from different parts of the globe collaborated on the recording, including Italy, Germany, United Kingdom, Holland, Brazil: (in alphabetical order) Gaio Ariani (IT), Ferdinand Binnendijk (NL)*, Fulvio D’Abramo (IT), Gaetano Depalma (IT), Ofelia Elia (IT), Valerio Fusillo (IT), Roberto Guarnieri (IT), Fabian Hinsche (DE)*, Thomas Kolarczyk (DE)*, Annika Hinsche (DE)*, Vito Mannarini (IT), Eugenio Palumbo (IT), Roberto Palumbo (IT), Paulo Sa (BRA)*, Mauro Squillante (IT)*, Sergio Vacca (UK)

• the names shown in bold are soloists or first parts.