Description
In De Mirabilibus Mundi, Moreno Viglione imagines a journey through time and space, across the largest continent on the planet from east to west, a journey that starts from the easternmost island (Japan) and ends on the westernmost island (Ireland), through seven stories set to music that evoke the experiences of the great travellers of the past by sea and land. Inspired by the charm of ancient illustrated maps that showed fantastic animals and magical and mysterious places, by the novels of Jules Verne, by the travel chronicles of Marco Polo and by the European travellers of the eighteenth century who were the first to experience travel as an end and not just a means. A world crossed by carriages, by travelling circuses with their illusionists and extraordinary exotic attractions, hot air balloons that crossed the skies, caravans of nomads wrapped in the mystery of magic and the first wonders of technology.
Each piece was created using only acoustic instruments and real objects, many of which were self-built or modified to imitate particular ethnic instruments.
Moreno Viglione: guitar, 12-string guitar, mandolin, banjo, bouzouki, ukulele, bass ukulele, resonator guitar, sitar guitar, hurdy-gurdy, flute, whistle, choirs, hand clapping, rubber band, various cans, pencil guiro etc.
