With Mater Nullius, Calabrian multi-instrumentalist Davide Ambrogio brings to the stage an intense and visionary live performance in which oral tradition, archaic rituality, and contemporary sonic research merge into a deeply immersive experience. Rooted in the linguistic and musical heritage of the Aspromonte region, the project unfolds as a symbolic and spiritual journey: a fourteen-part voyage exploring the fracture between contemporary humanity and nature, transforming the concert into a rite of passage shaped by memory, catharsis, and renewal. In Mater Nullius—literally “mother of no one”—drums, rattles, chains, and ancestral voices interact with electronics, sound design, and layered acoustic landscapes, generating a powerful and original sonic language suspended between the sacred and the profane, darkness and light, the archaic and the futuristic. Recorded between Il Bosco in Alia and the Gurfa caves, the project moves like a visionary procession of dialect songs, ritual pulsations, and inner imagery, restoring to live performance the force of a collective, physical, and transformative experience.
Davide Ambrogio grew up in Cataforìo, a small village in the Aspromonte mountains in Calabria, where he first came into contact with the world of oral tradition. A member of several groups, including Linguamadre, with whom he won the “Premio Loano Giovani,” he stood out in 2021 as a solo artist, receiving the “Musica contro le Mafie” and “Ethnos Gener/Azioni 2020” awards. Deeply connected to his Calabrian roots, Ambrogio has drawn on this heritage to create his own original musical language and released his debut album Evocazioni e Invocazioni in November 2021. The album was featured in the Transglobal Music Chart and the World Music Chart Europe, and was named a “Top of the World Album” by Songlines Magazine upon its release. He has performed at major festivals and events across Italy and Europe, including SponzFest, Musicultura, Premio Nazionale Città di Loano, Premio Parodi, Mare e Miniere, Les Suds d’Arles, Le Plancher, Rio Loco, Festival Imaterial, Sacred Spirit Festival, Fira B Manresa, Mucem Marseille, Opéra de Lyon, and many others. Over the past two years, Davide Ambrogio has been working on his second album, titled Mater Nullius, set for release on November 14 via Viavox, a work that explores the modern human disconnection from nature and the need for spiritual and human rebirth. Recorded in Alia (Sicily), between “Il Bosco” of the Cortese family—a meeting place for creative minds and free spirits—and the Gurfa caves, it is a powerful fusion of ancestral soundscapes and contemporary vision.
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