Sun

SUN is a band formed by DARIO SULIS (vocals, percussion), ALESSANDRO PALACINO (woodwinds) and DIEGO SPITALERI (piano, keyboards).

The band released its first album called “ETHNICITY” in 1997 for R.T.I. Music. Recently the record was reissued by the label “Teatro del Sole”.
SUN music is mediterranean-ethnic oriented with strong new age influence very open to ambient and jazzy sound.
It’s a work of crossing influences to get a personal sound based on the search of integration among traditional vocal forms and advanced instrumental structures.
FESTIVALS:
MARSALA JAZZ FESTIVAL
(Marsala / July 1995)
MUSICA CONTRO LA GUERRA
(Caltanissetta / December 1995)
IBSEN STAGE FESTIVAL NORWAY
(Oslo / September 1996)
YOUTH FOR THE PEACE PROCESS
(Oslo / September 1996)
MUSICA NUOVA IN SICILIA – CONCERTO PER FALCONE
(Palermo / June 1997)
QUINTO FESTIVAL LUSO - ITALIANO DI ARTE E CULTURA
(Faro, Portimao / July 1997)
WOMAD
(Palermo / September 1998)
CONCERTO DEL 1° MAGGIO 2000
(Palermo)
FESTA NAZIONALE DI LIBERAZIONE
(Roma / September 2000)
RUMORE AL SUD
(Trani / October 2000)
LA NOTTE DELLE STELLE
(Palermo / August 2001)
SUN INTERPRETA SCARLATTI
(Palermo / Teatro Massimo / November 2001)
SUN INTERPRETA SCARLATTI
(Piana Albanesi - Provincia Reg. di Palermo / January 2002)
IL BAULE DEI SUONI
(Fondazione Teatro Massimo / April 2002)
SUN INTERPRETA SCARLATTI FESTIVAL DI ORTIGIA
(Siracusa / July 2002)
SCAVI APERTI
(ESTATE BOLOGNESE / Bologna / August 2002)
IL COLORE DEL MARE - SUONI MEDITERRANEI
(Messina / September 2002)
WOMAD
(Taormina / June 2003)
TOUR U.S.A
(Baltimore, New York / September 2004)
TOUR ETHIOPIA 2006 (February 2006)
NAVI CHE PARTONO
SAILING SHIPS CONCERT
(Stuttgart 2006)
Sun is also active composing music for theatre and dance. Following there are some of the works for which the band has composed and performed live:
MOLO S. LUCIA
MAKALL..
LIGHEA
KU ..
BENJI
MUOVONO ARCANGELI, IL VENTO E I COLORI
DE BATTEMENTS D’AILES, EN BATTEMENTS D’ELLES
PIANTANDO SESSO E CHIODI SUL PAVIMENTO
LE FORME DEL FUOCO
The song SUN from the CD ETHNICITY is on board on ALITALIA flights.
In September 2000 Sun has received the MEMORY AWARD from the Foggia Festival Jazz (Steve Lacy was aworded in the same year).
Sun has recorded a minicd and performed for the ONU summit held in Palermo in December 2000.
In 2001 the band worked on the project to reread the music of the great Alessandro Scarlatti, the Sicilian baroque composer borned in Palermo. The project was sponsorized by the TEATRO MASSIMO, Palermo Opera Theatre. Sun played the concert named "SUN INTERPRETA SCARLATTI" in November 2001 into the prestigious TEATRO MASSIMO stage with a large orchestra supporting the trio. The concert became also a CD called "SCARLATTI RENDERING", issued by CNI and produced by SUN and TEATRO MASSIMO. This last project receceived a good deal of attention from the press and radio coverage.
One of the last works of the band is a sort of sound track for a novel book called "LUNGO LE ARTERIE DEL MONDO" which was issued from RAITRADE (RAI, Italian National Television Publishing Company).
In June 2003, SUN opened the 2003 WOMAD at the Convention Building in Taormina.
The band is also busy into the job of interpreting classical music in a third stream way cooperating with some classical musicians. The last concert of this type was held by SUN at TEATRO GRECO in Taormina in which the band played its own interpretation of some Bach violin sonatas.
Always in 2004 SUN toured the States playing also in Baltimore, Wahington DC and NYC, helding also some lectures-auditions into some of the major universities about its own use of ethno-mediterranean roots in elaborating new music, incorporating traditional and heritage sounds into new forms of composition.
SUN music is largely used as music for images by film directors or in television. The last band’s work is a series of compositions for a DVD on Italian Immigration in Argentina, a collection of tunes called "MOLO NORD" (NORTH PIER).
SUN is collaborating with a choir specialized in Gregorian Chants, to a new production based on elaborations, interactions and investigation about the Gregorian Chants heritage as the base of Occidental music tradition but also as a genuine mediterranean vocal form in its pure form of reliogious inspiration.