Passi Egizi | JULY 1ST

“P A Ƨ S I Ʃ G I Z I” – SABRINA OGGERO VIALE TRIO

There are journeys that do not cross space, but rather the deep time of civilizations.
Journeys that begin with a voice and open, note after note, a threshold: towards ritual, myth, the night, memory.

With P A Ƨ S I Ʃ G I Z I, conceived by Sabrina Oggero Viale on the occasion of the bicentenary of the Egyptian Museum in Turin, the concert becomes a sonic experience of passage. Not a simple evocation of ancient Egypt, but an imaginary journey among powerful and ambivalent presences: creator and destroyer goddesses, figures both revered and feared, temple singers, priestesses—voices that seem to emerge from a remote time and yet still speak to our present.

At the center is the song: guide, invocation, living matter. It is the voice that leads us through the nocturnal journey of the Sun God Ra, bringing us before the “false door” of the temple, where the boundary between life and the afterlife becomes a question, a doubt, a vertigo. It is the voice, once again, that calls upon Princess Ahmose—whose mummy is preserved in Turin—and finally opens a space of light with Amel—hope, in Arabic—as an invitation to rejoice and sing, now as then.

Different languages—English, Italian, French, Arabic, and grammelot—merge into a sonic line that unites eras and worlds. Jazz, folk and ritual singing, pop, and improvisation intertwine like sand, wind, and breath. Alongside the voice of Sabrina Oggero Viale, the classical guitar of Loris Deval and the trumpet with live effects by Tiziano Codoro build an acoustic and electric landscape, both fragile and visionary: nocturnal atmospheres, ritual chants, and delicate lyrical suspensions suddenly crossed by jazz and shamanic solos.

P A Ƨ S I Ʃ G I Z I is a sonic bridge between what was and what continues to vibrate. A contemporary ritual in which the ancient is not contemplated from afar, but awakened: like a buried voice that calls to us again, from other times, toward hope.