Ɖuenɖe is a project of experimental electronic music voiced in Sicilian. It was born as a tribute to my Sicilian roots, steeped in musical and artistic influences absorbed during my life in England and Northern Europe.

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My music owes many debts. I like to experiment with sound in every way, including collecting soundscapes with all the means I can find. I have gathered many vocal influences, from jazz to the rhythm of spoken word poetry or the phrasing of Portuguese Fado and of the traditional music of South Central Asia.

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Through Ɖuenɖe, I wanted to unearth the Sicilian language and bring it to light within myself to reconnect with my roots. And in doing so, I felt the desire to make this language my own again and to release it from the well-pitched, vigorous, and emphatic form in which I had always heard it sung. I wanted the Sicilian in my music to be grating, chewed up, intimate and soft.

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