Artist:     Anita Camarella and Davide Facchini

Album:     Our House The Cinderella Sessions

Label:     Self-released

Release Date:     10.26.19

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For close to 20 years, the duo of Anita Camarella and Davide Facchini have been recording and performing in Italy and across Europe, sharing stages at festivals with international artists like Tommy Emmanuel, Frank Vignola, John Jorgenson etc with occasional visits to play in the US. Summer tours, based out of Nashville, have become more frequent lately, and this past summer a spontaneous Cinderella story unfolded for them here. Like their travels, their music seems to know no boundaries with Facchini’s superb playing of jazz, swing, folk, country, fiddle tunes on guitars, mandolin and uke. Anita is a classic trained vocalist, who prior to teaming up as both performer and spouse, specialized in music of the Italian renaissance, and brings a deep interpretive slant to everything they do. They always make for an eclectic and entertaining combination which their previous releases bare out. Their fan favorites of ““Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu”” aka “Volare” Glen MIller’s “In The Mood” and Hendrix’s “Up From The Skies” are a prime examples.

Facchini started playing guitar in his mid-teens.The first song he learned on it was Roy Orbison’s iconic hit “Pretty Woman.” This past summer, he met Wayne Moss, one of the three guitarists on that record that drove the unforgettable riff into our heads. It also drew Fachinni to his instrument. For nearly six decades Moss has owned Cinderella Sound, the oldest independent recording studio in Nashville, where artists as diverse as Linda Rondstadt, Steve Miller, Chet Atkins and Kiss have cut records.

A Nashville jam with an old friend, outstanding 5-string viola player Stephan Dudash, and bassist Bill Ferri clicked so well that Facchini booked time at Cinderella. What they came out with is called Our House, which, they explain, simply means their music. It’s where they live. They cut a handful of Anita’s diverse songs. The opener “Organize” sounds like if David Grissman and Frank Zappa wrote one for a Broadway musical. “A Summers Day” is a Shakespeare sonnet, where Anita pays homage to the bard by setting his words to music. There is one cover, Bruce Cockburn’s “All The Diamonds.” This is not all the diamonds they have yet to mine, but it is another one. If fans thought they were diverse before, they are in for a few surprises here. However like Cinderella, midnight was rapidly approaching and the plane was waiting .

Initially thinking they would finish up this new and unique room on their house, when they returned to Italy, they wisely decided there was no way they could match up what they had in both the chemistry of the players, nor how it was all captured at Cinderella’s house. And that’s how a CD they had no idea they ever would record, became this six-song EP. The glass slipper fits, and they wear it well. One spoiler alert: Bill Ferri is pictured with his fantastic sounding upright bass, that I feel would have added a beautiful touch in some places. Unfortunately it was in need of repair and only appears for the photo. As a musician, he is equally adept with gas or electric.

—Ken Spooner

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