After a year’s break, Sud Est Independente returns in 2010 and completely transforms itself by becoming itinerant and offering six concerts between folk, rock and songwriting.
The first event was on Saturday, June 26th in the outdoor spaces of the Manifatture Knos in Lecce with a concert by Calibro 35. The soundtracks of 70s movies are the band’s signature piece. The mixture of funk, jazz, and prog rock that characterized the soundtracks of “Milano Calibro 9,” “The Cat o’ Nine Tails,” and “La Mala Ordina” came to life in an engaging and enthralling live show brought forth by musicians of the highest level.
On Sunday, July 4th, in the atrium of the Ducal Palace in San Cesario of Lecce, space was given to the first special project of the festival. Indeed, the Salento folk of Tobia Lamare & The Sellers and the Northern European folk of Norway’s Nordgarden met on stage. A beautiful and exciting concert where two cultures so far apart were united in their common passion for folk.
On Thursday, July 15th, again in the atrium of the Ducal Palace in San Cesario of Lecce, the Sei festival hosted Brunori Sas. The Calabrian singer-songwriter with his unadorned and direct songs, now disillusioned now romantic, ironic and creamy, gave the audience the imagery of the memories of today’s 30-year-olds, namely the early 1990s. The point of no return.
On Tuesday, July 27th in San Cesario, the second special project with Milan-based band Amor Fou met with Salento singer-songwriter Lucia Manca. In I moralisti, Amor Fou’s second CD, dedicated to the theme of morality in contemporary Italian society, the band’s characteristic ‘investigative pop’ is supported by a renewed sound in which ‘vintage’ melodism and songwriting open up to echoes of rock and new wave echoes.
Finally, on Thursday, August 12th, Gallipoli’s Parco Gondar hosted the last event of the festival. The opening the evening was entrusted to two interesting bands from Salento: Le Carte and Gualeve, who proposed rock-noise with alternating psychedelia and effects, grunge atmospheres, with pop openings.
Immediately afterwards Sud Est Indipendente hosted Samuel Katarro, a pseudonym behind which lies Alberto Mariotti, a 24-year-old Tuscan singer and musician who combines the sparse and essential acoustic dimension of the very first American bluesmen and folksingers and the neurosis of certain American new wave of the 1970s.
Around 10:30 p.m. the Gondar was ablaze with the high-voltage rock of Teatro degli Orrori. The band was formed in 2005 by members of two bands of great depth in the Italian rock scene, One Dimensional Man and Super Elastic Bubble Plastic. Teatro degli Orrori, from the very first record, has shown that it makes music for those who want to reflect. Rock applied to songwriting. It’s about time. It is lucid poetry. Social passion.
Last to take the stage were the Tre Allegri Ragazzi Morti, a welcome return to the Sud Est Indipendente. The band from Pordenone presented “Primitivi del Futuro”, one of the most appreciated CDs of 2010,in Gallipoli.
The evening continued, then, with a DJ set by Ballarock, namely Filippo (aka Filippiakos) and Gabriele (aka Streaker), who also involved with their selections the artists who had performed on stage. It was a demonstration that the Sud Est Indipendente is a great party of music.
.[:en]#SEIfestival 2010 – June 26th @ Manifatture Knos in Lecce with Calibro 35 band
4, July 15th and 27th @ San Cesario of Lecce featuring Nordgarden, Brunori Sas, Amor Fou and Lucia Manca
August 12th @ Parco Gondar in Gallipoli (Lecce) on stage Samuel Katarro, Teatro degli Orrori, Tre Allegri Ragazzi Morti
Since its beginning in 2006, the SEI has declared its vocation to choose heterogeneous groups and projects, to transform itself every time expanding the horizon of its proposals to offer to its audience a broad and varied overview of the music looking for different genres, from punk to singer-songwriter, from rock to ska, from folk to the upbeat rhythms. In the different locations of Salento that have hosted the festival, took turns artists like Kings of Convenience, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Cat Power, Baustelle, Gogol Bordello, Bugo, Skatalites, Daniele Silvestri, Verdena, Tre Allegri Ragazzi Morti, Vallanzaska, Teatro degli Orrori, One Dimensional Man, Russell Leetch, Is Tropical, Populous, Giuda, Fast Animals and Slow Kids, Mannarino, Avion Travel, Negrita, Calibro 35, Brunori Sas, Amor Fou, Lombroso, Dellera and many other Italian and Apulian realities such as Crifiu, Mascarimirì, Mery Fiore, Sofia Brunetta, La Gente, Una.
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