Two Argentinean sisters, Laura and Gianna Caronni, respectively a cellist and a clarinetist, and both singers, deliver on their eponymous album some of the most delicate and intelligent music of the recent years. As a duet, their sound is full of intimacy, yet rich at the same time - due to the stunningly inventive, almost minimalist arrangements. The music sounds exactly like the sum of the artists’ backgrounds: two classically trained musicians enamored with their country’s folk music.

Shades of European Impressionism, of Ravel and Debussy, influences of the South American classical composers like Villa-Lobos, and the unavoidable ghost of tango, all blend perfectly with the melancholy and determination of the folk tunes of the Pampas. Clever, discreetly sensual, and endlessly elegant, this is music for those who still cherish the values like refinement and class.

This duo brings an Argentinian flare to the musical scene ! Though they were born 10 minutes apart Gianna and Laura Caronni are completely in synchronization every second on stage. They have performed in the main concert venues in Argentina since the age of 12 as members of the Academic Orchestra of Theatre Colón in Buenos Aires and various other classical and contemporary musical ensembles.

With several musical awards to their credit they left their home in Rosario, where their studies had begun on the banks of the river Paraná, and moved to Europe in the late 90’s to complete their musical studies at the Conservatory of Music in Lyon, France.

The duo Las Hermanas Caronni (The Caronni Sisters) first appeared on the music scene in 2004, with their surprising style of music. The sisters have always played together from an early age, either privately or in public. However, for the first time they recognized a world of their own that they have explored from concert to concert, up until this first recording: an album about family, echoing their mentors - the classic South American wordsmiths, singers and musicians such as Atahualpa Yupanqui, Alfredo Zitarrosa, Homero Exposito - and their twins’ grandparents, whose influence and memory live on through the tangos and the song lyrics.

Argentina, the land of their childhood and memory, is ever present, the home to which they never stop longing to return, without succumbing to illusions about that land that they left behind. Time has passed, and “the sky of distant summer is long gone”. Only an echo of gentle nostalgia remains... That’s how life flows, just as a hopeful river flows into an ocean of promises. The listener can discern endless journeys in the notes of these thirteen pieces. The compositions, largely penned by the sisters, are singing - swelling and falling like a sail on a boat.

The traditional Argentine rhythms are woven into other rhythms gleaned during the musicians’ visits to the island of Réunion, Brazil, Spain and Africa. The rich tones of the cello and the clarinet respond to each other and become entangled, the sisters’ voices amplifying the modulations, those expressions of a freedom they won when they departed from the roots of their earlier music - the music that now seems so far away and yet so close. Like Argentina.

Sébastien Gazeau (writer)

There are people in Argentina who spend all of their lives in the same village. Their roots are deep, their traditions unique - other countries are strange, exotic, different. Then there are those who travel, migrate, and keep moving. Argentina is a country of immigrants. Some came to escape famine, war, tyranny, and discrimination. Others came with a taste for adventure. In Argentina they all got together, mixed, entangled their roots, just as their songs and their recipes have. They all love the countries they left behind, as well as their newly chosen home. They have learned about other people, enriching their traditions with the heritage of others. Although, for us Argentineans, almost no one is a foreigner; however, over the course of time, we did acquire an identity. We are all Argentinean.