FOLK STUDIO is the first issue of a compilation that is part of a wider project that sees different bands of the new folk musical area going beyond the common concept of nowadays neo folk music. The Green Man, Roma Amor, Having Thin Moonshine and Egida Aurea wanted to catch the true spirit of the genre by linking their music to the old Italian folk music. Acoustic instruments typical of their origin places have been used creating a real modern folk music. During the 60s Italian beat bands tried to do the same by mixing dialect and modern music (check the I Pelati or Bertas) but during the years folk music has been confined to regional boundaries. Now the times are right to revive the concept and on the five tracks of this 10" you'll find ballads (like The Green Man's "Idda"or Egida Aurea's "Criu du ventu"), tangoes (check Roma Amor's "La tradida") and rumbling cavalcades (like on "Evoe" by Having Thin Moonshine or the second track by The Green Man "La baronessa di Carini"). The bands presented the 10" in Milan the thirty first of March giving the official start to the project. The real new Italian folk music has started to spread...