World Music Scene in Rome

This report was filed by Angel Romero.

The ancient city of Rome (Roma in Italian) is one of the oldest and greatest capitals of the Mediterranean. Western Europe is becoming a land of immigrants and Italy is no exception. The outstanding L’Orchestra di piazza Vittorio, based in Rome, was created in piazza Vittorio, a square in central Rome where Italians are a minority. An Italian musician had the idea of forming an orchestra with all immigrants and put up a 16 piece orchestra with musicians from Tunisia, Morocco, Senegal, Cuba, Ecuador, Argentina, India, Romania, Hungary, and the USA.

Record stores

Libreria Rinascita is a bookstore and record store that carries world music. Address: Via delle Botteghe Oscure 5. Phone:  06 699 22 436.

Disfunzioni Musicali, located in the university area sells CDs and vinyl. Address: via degli Etruschi 4-14.

Ricordi Media Store sells CDs, music videos,  musical instruments, and music books.  Via Cesare Battisti 120 D. Phone: 06 679 80 22. It also has stores in Via del Corso 506, Viale Giulio Cesare and Piazza Indipendenza.

Caro Vinile...Caro Cinema sells collector's items, such as albums, posters and photos. Address: Piazza del Paradiso 42. Phone: 06 687 40 05.

Other record stores: Feltrinelli, via V. Emanuele Orlando 78/81; Feltrinelli, Largo Di Torre Argentina 5/A; and
Libreria del Viaggiatore, Via del Pellegrino 78.

Live music

La Palma Club Jazz, world music, Gypsy. Address: Via Giuseppe Mirri 35, Rome. Phone: 06 / 43566581 - 43599029 - 4386737. E-mail: info@lapalmaclub.it

Record labels

CNI. Italy's leading world music label. The label's roster includes  artists like Agricantus and Lucilla Galeazzi. Address: Compagnia Nuove Indye, Via Luigi Luciani 7, 00197 Roma, Italy, E-mail: international@cnimusic.it

Different Lands Records is an independent record label whose aims are the exploration of new musical worlds and to extend the musical idioms of world beat, jazz and new instrumental music. Italy. E-mail: f.armani@agora.it  (Fabio Armani)

Il Pontesonoro. Italian folk and world music label. Address: Via Pereira 66, 00136 Roma, Italy. Phone: +39-6-3549 1998, Fax: +39-6-3534 6137.

Publications

Cous Cous published by CNI.

Museums

The National Museum of Musical Instruments has a collection of 800 musical instruments. Address: Piazza di S.Croce in Gerusalemme 9. Phone: +39 06 7014796. Open: 8 - 19 (7 p.m.).

If you know of other interesting information about Rome for the world music community, please contact info at worldmusiccentral dot org

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