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Kavisha Mazzella
Kavisha has her own website (and publishing company!) so doesn't need this little page, which is here merely to provide some details of her earliest work.
I Papaveri, Flowers in the Desert, cassette, Kitchen Records Co-operative, 1990
Side 1
1 A Turin la rosa bianca
2 Fammi restari
3 Angellarem
4 San Giuseppuzzu
5 La famiglia de Gobbon
Side 2
6 Canzone delle donne
7 Sento il fischio del vapore
8 Bella ciao
9 E Trallalleru
10 I tre falciatori
10 Vu l'umbrella
These songs were recorded in front of a live audience at Shelter Recording Studios Western Australia.
Project Coordinator: Andy Priest
Produced by Giri and Kavisha Mazzella
Engineered by Andy Priest
I Papaveri are an Italo-Australian folk group based in Fremantle Western Australia.With their own special vision of music they make the ancient contemporary. They marry the wide open spaces of Australia with the rustic village music of Italy. I Papaveri suffer from a passionate love of this music together with an equally heavy dose of Commedia del Arte.
Christine Evans: Backing vocals, mandolin, soprano sax
Peter Grayling: Backing vocals, cello, mando-cello, mandolin
Sanjiva Margio: Lead vocals, guitar, percussion
Giri Mazzella: Lead vocals, recorder, percussion.
Kavisha Mazzella: Lead vocals, guitar, accordian.
Cover art: Jinesh Wilmot
Released through Kitchen Records Co-operative Ltd
P.O. Box 91 Fremantle W.A. 6160
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Rich 'n' Famous
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Best Song in the World, 1991
1. I wanna fix your car (John Reed) 3.33
2. Yellow (Kavisha Mazzella) 2.44
3. Secret Parking Squad (John Reed) 2.06
4. T-Bone Steak (John Reed/Jim Fisher) 3.07
5. Cadillackerwacker (John Reed/Jim Fisher) 2.21
6. Fever (J. Davenport/E. Cooley) 4.32
7. Do you wanna dance? (R. Freeman) 4.12
8. She moves through the fayre (trad.) 4.22
9. Woman be wise (S. Wallace/J. Beech) 2.52
10. Polly (trad.) 4.40
11. Because of you (John Reed) 2.50
12. Baby song (Kavisha Mazzella) 3.03
13. The Double-gee, Thistle and Ford Anglia Folk Club Whale Song (John Reed/Jim Fisher) 2.25
14. The Best Song in the World (John Reed/Jim Fisher) 3.24
Kavisha Mazzella, vocals, guitar, accordion; Lee Buddle, sax, flute, vocals; Gary Burke, double bass; Peter Grayling, cello, vocals; Reuben Kooperman, drums; John Reed, vocals, guitar, cittern
Recorded live at the Beach Club Yanchep May 1991. Engineered and produced by Lee Buddle. Remixed at Sound Mine Studios. Released on chrome audiotape by Kitchen Records.File:Freotopia music kavisha https: australiancinema.info img joysofthewomen.jpg
Joys of the Women
Joys of the Women (Franco di Chiera, 1993) WA; doco about the choir founded in Fremantle by Kavisha Mazzella, Le Gioie delle Donne
Director Franco di Chiera of Electric Pictures approached Kavisha Mazzella in 1992 to make a film about her Fremantle women's choir Le Gioie Delle Donne (The Joys of The Women).
One of the women in the choir was Emma Ciccotosto, who was the subject of an autobiography written with Michal Bosworth, and then a play also called Emma, presented by Deckchair Theatre in the Customs House in Phillimore Street in 1992, the play by Graham Pitts and featuring Rosemarie Lenzo as Emma Ciccotosto.
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References and Links
The photo of the band Rich 'n' Famous is courtesy of Bob Sommerville, Fremantle Workers Club 21 April 2012.
This page incorporates material from Garry Gillard's Freotopia website, that he started in 2014 and the contents of which he donated to Wikimedia Australia in 2024. The content was originally created on 25 April, 2021 and hosted at freotopia.org/music/kavisha/index.html (it was last updated on 13 May, 2024), and has been edited since it was imported here (see page history). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.