Credits

Etta Scollo

"Les Siciliens"

Song sung live:

Stories, poems und legends of an imaginary and ordinary Sicily.

Etta Scollo

Vocals and Guitar

Hinrich Dageför

Mandolin - Drum - Shell Trumpet -Trumpet - Tenor Fiddle

Frank Wulff

Mandolin - Nickel Harp - Cajon - Musical Saw - Soprano Fiddle - Tammureddu - Marranzanu - Flute - Tenor Fiddle

Cathrin Pfeifer

Accordion

Detlef Raschke

Bass Clarinet - Flute - Drum

Sebastiano Scollo

Renaissance Lute - Tammureddu - Daf - Bass Drum

The music of

tracks 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10 stem from Etta Scollo, along with the adaptation of the folk songs 11 and 12, as well as all arrangements apart from track 10, arranged by Ferdinand von Seebach, and track 12, arranged by Sebastian Scollo, Etta Scollo, Frank Wulff and Hinrich Dageför.

Transcription of all songs:

Ferdinand von Seebach

The use of

the following poems are thanks to the kind permission of the following listed authors, publishers, families and trusts:
Le olàm by Sebastiano Burgaretta, from the volume with the same name, und Arvulu von Biagio Guerrera, from the book Idda, both published by Il Girasole Edizione in Valverde (CT).
La peddi nova, A li matri di li carusi, La ballata del Prefetto Mori, La tristizza by Ignazio Buttitta, the Buttitta Trust.

The Text of

track 5 was taken from : Codici marinu by Giovanni Meli and La Carestia by Domenico Tempio.

The text of

folk song 8 was originally collected by Rosa Balistreri.

The music of

track 9 stems from Ennio Morricone
P) Fonit Cetra a division of Warner Music Italia

The recordings

are excerpts from concerts between 25. to 30. September 2007 in the Theater Bar jeder Vernunft in Berlin.

Recording by

Kay Wäcke

Concert sound engineer:

Stefan Wulff

Equipment:

Kay Wäcke, O-Ton Studio, Ballsaal-Studios

Editing:

Peter Schmidt, Arne Denneler, Etta Scollo, in Ballsaal Studio (Berlin)

Mixing:

BlackPete in the Ballsaal-Studios (Berlin)

Technical Assistance:

Arne Denneler

Mastering:

Darcy Proper in the Galaxy Studios (Mol/Belgien)

Produced by:

Etta Scollo

Use of images

appearing front and back covers with kind permission of owner Pasquale Marchese

For the songs and images for which the copyright is currently unclear, the producer agrees to comply with the law relating to authors rights with regard to eventual ownership claims provided.

Graphic Project:

Etta Scollo

Translation into German:

Sabine Witt

Translation into English:

Martin Purvis

Thanks to:

The trust and the whole Buttitta family, Nara Bernardi, Elsa Guggino, Sebastiano Burgaretta, Biagio Guerrera, Pasquale Marchese, Gaetano Pennino and the Antonino Uccello Museum, Chiara Morale and the Uccello family, Gianluigi Giovanola, Jochen Richert, Peter Schmidt, all the Musicians, Guest stars, Technicians and Organisers, as listed above.

Etta Scollo plays one of the guitars by plucked instrument maker Henning Doderer
www.doderer-guitars.de.

contact / Booking / Info:

etta (at) ettascollo.de
kontakt (at) musicandante.com

All song texts and the respective translations, unpublished materials along with information and photo material are to be found at
www.ettascollo.de.