From Friday, July 15th to Sunday, July 17th, 2016, theOstello del Sole in San Cataldo of Lecce hosted the tenth edition of SEI Festival, a festival conceived and organized by the CoolClub Cooperative, under the artistic direction of Cesare Liaci, and under the patronage of the Municipality of Lecce. (click on title to continue)
The three-day seaside event kicked off on Friday, July 15th, with Taranto’s Telepathic Dreambox and Brindisi’s Plof. Immediately after on stage there is Go!Zilla, a fuzz psychedelic punk band formed in late 2011 in Florence suggesting a sound that takes inspiration from 90s grunge atmospheres and 60s garage/surf singles mixing all with a punk-minded attitude during live performances. In closing, the Tre Allegri Ragazzi Morti returned to the SEI Festival, presenting, among others, tracks from Inumani. Davide Toffolo, the band leader signed the “artist’s manifesto” of this tenth edition dedicated to the theme of Xylella. “When I heard this news I thought it was an important topic to make a drawing that somehow also expresses our position with respect to an attempt to defend the territory. It seemed to me a strong image this one of the Dead Boys around a centuries-old olive tree, ready to defend it”, Davide Toffolo underlines.
On Saturday, July 16th, the second night of the festival hosted A Morte l’amorefrom Taranto, La notte, a Florentine band (evolution of Two More Canvases) with songs in Italian and saturated and psychedelic sounds. Municipàl proposed tracks from their debut album “Le Nostre Guerre Perdute,” produced by La Rivolta Records with the support of Puglia Sounds Record. Main guests are the Ministers, one of Italy’s most followed and appreciated rock bands, who have racked up a series of sold-out tours around the country with their Cultura Generale Tour.
OnSunday, July 17th, the festival concluded with a long day of music that started in the late afternoon with Elektrojezus, Heidi for president, Giorgio Tuma, who returned five years after his previous album with “This Life Denied Me Your Love,” Lim aka Sofia Gallotti, an evocative ambient music project that combines esoteric spaces with existentialist and dreamy atmospheres, and Niagara, the Turin-based duo composed by Davide Tomat and Gabriele Ottino (already together in projects such as N.A.M.B. and Gemini Excerpt).
And for rock lovers, the SEI Festival come up with an unmissable out-of programm: onWednesday, August 17th, inLecce’s Roman Amphitheater, came Peter Hook – member and founder of New Order and Joy Division, pioneer of 80s and 90s music, a true legend for his “inventions” in the field of dance music – with his new band The Light.[:en](Click on Title to continue)
#SEIfestival 2016 – July 17/19 @ San Cataldo of Lecce
TRE ALLEGRI RAGAZZI MORTI, GO!ZILLA, PLOF, TELEPATHIC DREAMBOX
I MINISTRI, LA MUNICIPAL, LA NOTTE, A MORTE L’AMORE
NIAGARA, LIM, GIORGIO TUMA, HEIDI FOR PRESIDENT, ELEKTROJEZUS
August 17th in Lecce Special Event with Peter Hook and The Light
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.[:]