Author: Cesare

“After an initial moment of bewilderment and daze,” stresses artistic director Cesare Liaci, “we decided to start making music again: first on the web and now, finally, live. The experience of #Seiacasa has been useful not only to hear and play fresh proposals and old friends of the festival but also to deepen and dissect one of the main questions of this period. What will happen to live performances? How will we organize concerts following the anticovid rules? So,” Liaci continues, “playing with “Where is my mind?” title of a iconic Pixies’ song, we decided to title this edition of the festival #whereismylive.”.

After tackling the lockdown with the web format #SeiACasa, the Sei festival – realized with the support of Fus – Single Fund for the Performing Arts of Mibac and Regione Puglia and Teatro Pubblico Pugliese in the “Programmazione Custodiamo la cultura in Puglia”, in collaboration with Ferrovie SudEst (official carrier), Vestas Travel and Vini Garofano, and with media partners Radio Wau, RadioSonar, RKO, Alpaca Music, Le Rane and Sei tutto l’indie di cui ho bisogno – thus offered a rich summer season that also included book presentations and meetings.

From July 18th to August 22nd in the Castello Volante of Corigliano d’Otranto kicked off the fourteenth edition of the SEI festival, conceived, produced and promoted by Coolclub, under the artistic direction of Cesare Liaci. The festival kicked off in July with Inude, Les contes d’Alfonsina and Giardini di Mirò, continuing in August with Beatrice Antolini, Dente, Vinicio Capossela, Napoli Segreta, Giovanni Truppi, Erica Mou, Lucio Corsi, Julielle, lefrasiincompiutiediElena, Bartolini and La Malasorte. Instead, the long-awaited live performance by Pixies scheduled in Lecce for August 29th and promoted by Sei Festival in collaboration with Dna Concerti and Locus Festival has been postponed for a year. The U.S. band will perform on August 16th, 2022, also in the Salento capital.

The Castello Volante program was completed, moreover, by two appointments of SEIYoung, a review dedicated to young bands and artists Under 35, also promoted by CoolClub, in collaboration with the Sei festival, with the support of Mibact and Siae, as part of the “Per chi crea” program, which hosted La Municipàl and Motta.

Thanks to support from the Puglia Sounds Live 2020/2021 Programmingof the Puglia Region (FSC 2014/2020 Patto per la Puglia – Investiamo nel vostro futuro), the festival was held in the Castello Volante of Corigliano d’Otranto in September as well. Friday 4 saw the official presentation of Albanian cellist Redi Hasa‘s first solo album. “The Stolen Cello” (Decca Records). On Friday, September 11th, the Sei Festival hosted “Cosa sono le nuvole” with singer Rachele Andrioli and accordionist Rocco Nigro. Finally, on Tuesday, September 5th, Salento trumpeter Cesare Dell’Anna and Albanian pianist Ekland Hasa performed a complex and refined repertoire investigating the border musics of the two countries facing each other on the Adriatic Sea.

Lee Ranaldo, Leah Singer, Calcutta, Franco126, Sergio Cammariere, Joan as Police Woman, Finn Andrews, Giant Sand, Patrick Watson, Be Forest, Diaframma, Any Other, J.P. Bimeni & The Black Belts, Gabriele Poso Organik Trio, Contini, Dimartino and many other guests: the “summer session” of the SEI Festival was held in Salento between July and August 2019.

The festival, signed by CoolClub, under the artistic direction of Cesare Liaci, supported by Fus – Fondo Unico per lo Spettacolo del Mibac and the Puglia Region (Public Notice for the Performing Arts and Cultural Activities FSC 2014-2020 – Patto per la Puglia), supported by B94, Vestas Travel and Candido 1859 in collaboration with the Municipalities of Corigliano d’Otranto, Lecce and Gallipoli, Indie Pride, CoreACore, RadioWau and other public and private partners, accompanied residents, fans and tourists throughout the Salento summer.

The SEI Festival, conceived, organized and promoted by Cooperativa CoolClub, under the artistic direction of Cesare Liaci, supported by the Apulia Region under the Public Notice for the Performing Arts and Cultural Activities FSC 2014-2020 – Pact for Apulia and, for the first time, by Fus – Fondo Unico dello Spettacolo of Mibac, under the patronage of the Municipalities of Lecce and Corigliano d’Otranto and the Distretto Produttivo Puglia Creativa, for the second year was the winner of the “Sillumina” call for entries by Mibac and Siae.

WAITING FOR SEI
Waiting for the summer concerts, Manifatture Knos in Lecce hosted a review with a Tribute to Syd Barrett (February 28th),the Austrians Ant Antic (March 21st), the presentation of the music compilationKM97(April 18th) and Irish-born singer-songwriter Candice Gordon (May 23rd). SEI also hosted PianoForme with Toni Tarantino and Clio Evans (February 9th at Teatro Paisiello in Lecce), the“Serial Things” party (February 10th at Officine Cantelmo in Lecce), the show with Dente and Guido Catalano (March 9th at Officine Cantelmo in Lecce), ClaxonFest Vol. 3 with Marco Ancona, Elektrojezus, Blumosso, Massimo Donno, Lamansarda, Edro, Kill Emil, A Copy for Collapse (April 24th at Castello di Corigliano d’Otranto), Quanto SEI Rainbow? with Sem&Stènn (April 27th at Istanbul Café in Squinzano), Quanto SEI Young? with Flows and MaYha (April 30th at Officine Cantelmo in Lecce).

SEI FESTIVAL IN SAN CATALDO OF LECCE
Bud Spencer Blues Explosion, Coma_Cose, Galeffi, Eugene In Via di Gioia, Andrea Poggio, Siberia, La Répétition – Orchestra senza confini, Gigante, Muffx, Carmine Tundo, Makai, Minimanimalist, Le Scrimmie sulla Luna, Blumosso, Serena Spedicato and Salvatore Casaluce were the musical guests of the 12th of the SEI Festival. From Thursday, July 26th to Sunday, July 29th in San Cataldo of Lecce, in addition to four evenings of music with performances by some of the most interesting realities of the young Italian rock, singer-songwriter and electronic scene, it welcomed book presentations (Carlo D’Amicis, Leonardo Palmisano, Lamantice, Matteo Casilli, Adelmo Monachese, Dino Mignogna, Roberto Guido), seminars and workshops (Gianluca Testani, Fabrizio Galassi and Leonello Bertolucci), exhibitions, installations and appointments for youngest (Kids Rock!, the photo exhibition “Apulia and Rock,” the illustrations by the Lamantice colletive and Andy Trema, author of the artist manifesto of Sei 2018, Artbit – Sensory Installation by Swapmuseum and Poiesis) and a series of activities dedicated to accessibility (Tactile Map of the hostel, Festival Program in Braille and High readability). The festival appendix also hosted Cosmo (August 9th) who exploded in the summer of 2016 thanks to the single “The Last Party”.

SEI INTERNATIONAL
The SEI Festival also hosted a section entirely dedicated to international guests with Suzanne Vega (July 14th in Corigliano d’Otranto), Hollie Cook (August 4th in Corigliano d’Otranto), Bombino (August 18th in Lecce), Mad Professor guest of the Tropical Party (September 1st in Corigliano d’Otranto).

SEIOFF
The extra section of the festival hosted performances by Lorenzo Kruger (August 28th in Corigliano d’Otranto), Serena Spedicato with “Le Voci di Genova” (August 29th in Corigliano d’Otranto), La Répétition (August 31st in Corigliano d’Otranto) and Dario Muci (August 31st in Lecce), the duo Rachele Andrioli and Rocco Nigro (September 7th in Lecce), Filippo Bubbico (September 20th in Lecce), Kalàscima (October 12th in Lecce), and Massimo Donno (December 7th in Corigliano d’Otranto).

The twelfth edition of the SEI Festival (which involved a rich partnership with Fermenti Lattici, Poiesis, Swap Museum, Sum, Km97, Manigold and with media partners SentireAscoltare, BlogFoolk and Radio Wau) was also made possible thanks to the collaboration of two sponsors who married and supported the project: the Vestas Hotel & Resort group with whom hospitality packages were designed for tourists who will follow the festival concerts and Birrificio B94, which created an exclusive production of SEI-branded craft beers.

From Friday, July 28th to Sunday, July 30th, the Ostello del Sole in San Cataldo of Lecce hosted the 11th edition of the SEI Festival. On the three evenings Handlogic, Inude, I Misteri del Sonno, Uro, Montana, Buckwise (July 28th), Canova, Colombre, Giorgio Poi, Maffei!, Buckingum Palace and Dj Vadim (July 29th) and, for a new and special project, La Municipàl and La Giovane Orchestra del Salento conducted by Claudio Prima (July 30th) took turns on stage. From 8:30 PM the Hostel was open to the public with a literary aperitif involving Omar Di Monopoli, Ilaria Macchia and Simona Toma, an exhibition and workshop for children on the Beatles by Fermenti Lattici, and an installation by artist Paolo Ferrante. Until July 27th, the festival also offered the workshop Artbit – MuSei that sound! created by Swapmuseum with DJ, musician and producer Populous. After the three-day event in San Cataldo, the festival offered some “out-of-scheduled” performances: Lo Stato Sociale and Baustelle (Saturday, August 12th and Sunday, August 13th in Melpignano as part of the collaboration with the So What Festival), Mannarino (Wednesday, August 16th at Parco Gondar in Gallipoli) and Le Luci della Centrale Elettrica (Saturday, August 19th in Lecce’s Roman Amphitheater).

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)

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Cat Power, Mannarino, Avion Travel, Afterhours, Bud Spencer Blues Explosion and Brunori Sas were the main guests of the eighth edition of Sud Est Indipendente.

On Thursday, July 24th in Torre Regina Giovanna in Apani, in the province of Brindisi, the festival kicked off with a concert-event by Cat Power an icon of the global alternative rock scene, organized in collaboration with Torre Regina Giovanna and Radar Concerti. The U.S. singer-songwriter arrived for the first time in Salento for one of the two Italian stops on her “Sun” world tour. The all-female evening was opened by three Apulian singer-songwriters, Una, Mery Fiore and Sofia Brunetta. In closing space was given to the selectinos of Panic Indie Rock.

On Friday, August 1st, the festival moved to Parco Gondar in Gallipoli (LE) for a concert by Afterhours, one of the cult bands of rock made in Italy, for one of the dates of the “Hai Paura del Buio? – Tour 2014.” The concert was opened by Muffx, I Misteri del Sonno, La Gente and closed by Ballarock‘s DJ.

On Friday, August 8th, Lecce ‘sRoman Amphitheater featured Avion Travel, who, almost 10 years after their last tour together, returned to perform in concert with the historic lineup (Peppe Servillo, Fausto Mesolella, Mario Tronco, Mimì Ciaramella, Ferruccio Spinetti, Peppe D’Argenzio) that made them known and loved by the general public.

On Saturday, August 9th and Sunday, August 10th, Sud Est Indipendente met the Green Sound Festival, promoted by the social promotion association “LeMiriadi49,” organized in collaboration with the environmental educators group “Il Formicaio” and CoolClub. Guests of the first evening were Non Giovanni, Leitmotiv and Brunori Sas, who presented songs from his new record project “Il cammino di Santiago in Taxi.” On Sunday Thee Elephant presented their eponymous debut album, a record of songs written with the intention of mixing the strong tones of the lyrics with a biting and at the same time elegant rock. Sharing the stage with them is Brindisi singer-songwriter Oh Petroleum. Closing is the unmistakable blend of the Bud Spencer Blues Explosion with their third album “BSB3.”

On Wednesday, August 13th, the eighth edition of the festival ended in Piazza Libertini with a concert by Roman singer-songwriter Alessandro Mannarino for a leg of the tour the artist has been taking to the stages of Italy to promote his new album “Al Monte.“[:en]#SEIfestival 2014 – July 24th @ Torre Regina Giovanna in Apani, Brindisi featuring Cat Power

August 1st @ Parco Gondar of Gallipoli (LE) with Afterhours, Muffx, I Misteri del Sonno, La Gente and Ballarock’s dj set

August 8th @ Roman Amphitheater in Lecce with Avion Travel; 9/10 with Non Giovanni, Leitmotiv, Brunori Sas, Domenica Thee Elephant, Oh Petroleum and Bud Spencer Blues Explosion

August 13th in Lecce with Mannarino

[:it] 2013 is the year of Kings of Convenience and Daniele Silvestri, an edition that featured many up-and-coming bands on stage. The first year with the “artist manifesto”

[:en]On Thursday, August 16th, 2012 , it was Torcito Park in Cannole (Le) that hosted the sixth edition of the Sud Est Indipendente. The festival returns this year to its origins and, after two itinerant editions, offers a single date dedicated to folk and its contaminations.

2011 is a special year for Sud Est Indipendente, perhaps the most artistically full-bodied edition. Headliners include Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Kiddycar, Vinicio Capossela, Piet Mondrian and One Dimensional Man.