Bandão

Bandão is a percussion orchestra directed by the maestros Francesco Petreni and Lorenzo Catacchini.

Although its roots are focused on the rhythms of Brazilian, Cuban, and African music, its repertoire offers original rhythms and draws on sounds typical of Italian musical traditions fused with characteristic rhythms from distant countries and worlds. The result is an unprecedented contamination of styles and different sounds that alternate and blend into unique music. A distinctive feature of many of the tracks is polyrhythm, that is the simultaneous execution of multiple overlapping rhythms performed at the same time.