Like many others, I was intrigued by the performances disseminated online by this new and extravagant duo. April 26, 2019, Municipal Theater of Caserta: I went there, live!
But how much can this network product ever fill a room ?! Sold out!
Viviana Cangiano e Serena Pisa, in art Ebbanesis, they are two talents, little to say!
Keeping the attention of a packed theater for about two hours with a guitar, a few rearranged songs and a few other artifices is not easy.
The surprise was first of all that of being faced not with the usual phenomenon of the well-packaged web but with two experienced actresses, rather than singers, a show not improvised but the result of painstaking work.
And so, after an opening with an a cappella piece in the dark, I found myself in front of an essential stage, with two artists dressed in bright red, seats, a guitar, two microphones, a table and a bottle of water. Sunny Viviana, a bit severe Serena, a consolidated binary artistic scheme that has always worked… but then the magic begins!
The intertwining of the two voices is surprising even when dealing with apparently banal pieces.
We go from blues, al pop, al neomelodic, al Neapolitan classic, to genres that are less easily cataloged, confusing styles and traditions.
With or without guitar, like two vocal acrobats, you see them jump into the void, without a net, facing complicated harmonies.
As a musician I must emphasize that seeing Serena put down the guitar and slip, without taking a reference note, into a perfect a cappella duet, without hesitation - perhaps “cold”, immediately after a bar with the audience - has a certain effect.
There are also many vocal registers used, an almost masculine tone in songs such as "O 'digger" or "Bohemian Rhapsody", Credible voices in pop-Neapolitan-neo-melodic, good in English passages and even in a desecrating Ave Maria of Schubert.
Queen of the evening is the Neapolitan language, artfully used to sing anything, with a surprising flexibility.
The eclectic Neapolitan descent can already be felt from the name of the duo "Ebbane-sis"Halfway between the ancient talkative of the Neapolitan parking ("had it”Means money) and the English SIS-ters.
Three unpublished songs, in Neapolitan obviously, the rest cannot be defined unpublished just because it has a reference author but, if you have listened to something, the impression is that of being faced with a completely different thing.
In short, music, theater, parking and Neapolitan drama become a single, very original genre that flows into a light, self-deprecating, pleasant, irreverent, non-trivial show that leaves some reflection - let me do it - on how little it is sometimes enough, instrumentally speaking, to create so much!
Brave! (I already said it?!)
Good music everyone!
