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Author: Francesca Maragliulo

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SEI FESTIVAL 2024

SEI D’AUTORE AT THE CASTELLO VOLANTE OF CORIGLIANO D’OTRANTO

Cristiano Cosa, Kyoto, Proto, Rossana De Pace, Isobel Kara, Lit up Fuse, RicordaCassandra and Shabby are the eight finalists of SEI D’Autore. Friday, June 28th and Saturday, June 29th (9 PM – free entrance) the atrium of the Castello Volante of Corigliano d’Otranto hosts the third edition of the contest dedicated to young Apulian singer-songwriters promoted by Coolclub‘s SEI festival. The project is intended to support new talent by giving the opportunity to eight under 30 artists (singers, composers and authors – in whole or in part – of the songs) to perform to conquer the stage of SEI, which during summer will offer a rich program of concerts and events around Salento. After an initial selection, the double date in Corigliano d’Otranto will designate a winner who will be included in the line up of the 18th edition of the festival characterized by the claim Perdersi per ritrovarsi. From 6:30 PM on the terraces of Nuvole, cocktail bar and bistro of the Castello Volante, it will be possible to taste an aperitif and appreciate the renewed menu proposed by chef Diletta Bagordo, sipping a drink from Michele Contini’s carefully chosen list.

Friday, June 28th(9 PM – free entrance) on the stage will alternate Cristiano Cosa, multi-instrumentalist from Taranto with an artistic path with a strong singer-songwriter imprint, contaminated by brit pop, rock and funk influences; Kyoto, a solo musical project by singer-songwriter, drummer, producer and performer Roberta Russo, which blends beatbox technique with dark and cinematic electronics; the singer-songwriter Proto studied singing and piano since childhood and in the following years also approached guitar, ukulele, bass, percussion and other instruments; Rossana De Pace, a voice rooted in the Mediterranean, combines pop art music with the lyrics of modern songwriting.

Saturday, June 28th (9 PM – free entrance) before knowing the name of the winner, the second night will see the following confront each other Isobel Kara (Chiara Ritelli and Emanuele Balsamo), a musical and theatrical project rooted in classical, sacred and popular music reaching to the sounds of pop; Lit up Fuse, band mixes the raw directness of punk with the energetic drive of techno and the typical warmth of hip-hop samples; RememberCassandra (Alessio De Sangro) with sounds derived primarily from the European scene, ranging between electronic and the domestic and international alternative world; Shabby (Sabrina Cagnazzo), a singer-songwriter who offers songs (in English and Italian) that reflect her personal experiences and feelings, with the goal of making the listener feel understood and connected.

Designed, produced and promoted by Coolclub, the SEI Festival is realized with the support of the Culture Ministry and the Region of Puglia, the patronage of the Province of Lecce and the municipalities of Lecce, Corigliano d’Otranto, Melpignano and Specchia, the Distretto Produttivo Puglia Creativa and Assomusica with the support of Vini Garofano and in collaboration with Castello Volante, TicketMaster, A.R.Va srl, Razmataz Live and other public and private entities. During summer the stage will take turns CCCP – Fedeli alla Linea, Rufus Wainwright, Dardust, Beach Fossils, La Crus, Bar Italia, Yīn Yīn, Parbleu, I Hate my village, The Bluebeaters, Dov’è Liana and many other guests for an exciting and varied musical journey. Active pre-sales on Dice and TicketOne.


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SEI FESTIVAL 2024

FRIDAY, JUNE 21st WELCOME PARTY OF THE SEI FESTIVAL AT GAROFANO VIGNETI AND CANTINE IN COPERTINO

A sound walk at sunset in the vineyard, selections by Francesco Fisotti, music by neapolitan producer Bassolino, wine, food and an unusual and special cocktail: on Friday, June 21st(from 7:30 PM – ticket 12 euros including a glass of wine – presales available on Dice.fm and Ticketmaster.it) Garofano Vigneti e Cantine in the Tenuta Li Monaci Estate in Copertino hosts the Welcome Party of the 18th edition of Coolclub’s SEI Festival.

WELCOME PARTY
Characterized the claim “Perdersi per Ritrovarsi“, until August 30th the event will offer its musical journey around Salento. Among guests, just to name a few, CCCP – Fedeli alla Linea, Dardust, Beach Fossils, La Crus, Bar Italia, Yīn Yīn, Parbleu, I Hate my village, The Bluebeaters and many others. Waiting for the first date that will welcome singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright to Piazza San Giorgio in Melpignano on Friday, July 19th, this special evening celebrates the arrival of summer, the Music Festival and the official presentation of the festival program. From 7:30 PM we start by strolling through the vineyard, sipping a first glass of wine and listening to a musical selection on headphones by Francesco Fisotti. At 9 PM space for the live performance of Bassolino. The neapolitan pianist, composer and producer will offer songs from his debut album “Future City” (Jakarta Records – Periodica Records), a groove-laden record with a “shady, pulpy, grotesque and romantic” sound that is rooted in the past to draw a new, visionary “future city.” Produced together with Paolo Petrella, the album is enriched by a group of singers and musicians-including Linda Feki and Andrea De Fazio (Parbleu, Nu Genea) – who dialogue with each other maintaining their respective identities. “Underlying there is a strong collective idea: each musician has his or her own expressive and timbral space, trying to break certain genre stereotypes and trying to defuse the ‘revival’ risk. The challenge is all there,” Bassolino explains. Through an inextricable memory tangle and invention, history and imaginary, life and storyboard, the album passionately re-reads and re-actualizes the pop culture of the 1970s to try to interpret the present, with the political conviction that it is in the most popular forms of expression that the most authentic picture of a society can be found. “I am often inspired by philosophy and sociology: in fact, music for me has an explanatory value of a certain historical and social space, it’s a representation of society,” the neapolitan producer continues. A “Gramsciano” record: inspired by a decade of crisis, made in the midst of the crisis of our time. Immediately after, to conclude the evening, the salentine DJ and producer Francesco Fisotti (founder and artistic director of the “Quattro Bambole Music” label) will return to the console with his fresh selections.

AN UNUSUAL DRINK
During the evening, in addition to Food Est ‘s food proposal and Garofano wines, it will be possible to taste “Ok, bitter.” The cocktail was designed for the occasion by historian “Quanto Basta” from Lecce, winner of numerous awards in the world of “spirits.” The drink (Girofle rosé by Garofano Vigneti and Cntine, Cynar, lemon juice, orange bitter) is citrus and dry from the bitter ending and retraces, in the choice of ingredients, typical pairings and echoes of Girofle’s tasting profile, enhancing its fruity and slightly earthy line.

SEI FESTIVAL

Designed, produced and promoted by Coolclub, under the artistic direction of Cesare Liaci, the SEI Festival is realized with the support of the Ministry of Culture, the Region of Puglia and Nuovo Imaie, the patronage of the Lecce Province and the municipalities of Lecce, Corigliano d’Otranto, Melpignano and Specchia, the Creative Apulia Productive District and Assomusica with the support of Vini Garofano and Justweed and in collaboration with Castello Volante, TicketMaster, A.R.Va srl, Razmataz Live and other public and private entities. Info and program 3331803375 – www.seifestival.it.

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RUFUS WAINWRIGHT – JULY 19th

Friday, July 19th | 9:30 PM
Melpignano | Piazza San Giorgio
Ticket 40.50 euros.
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Described by Sir Eltohn John as “the greatest living singer-songwriter,” Rufus Wainwright returns to Italy for a solo show in which audience will be transported by melodies steeped in folk tones and flashes of traditional American songwriting. Praised by the New York Times for his “genuine originality”, Rufus Wainwright has distinguished himself on the music scene as one of the finest vocalists, songwriters and composers of his generation. Each concert takes on the guise of a small sonic treasure chest from which sounds emerge that embrace more classical sounds, blending with scenes from the folk and pop traditions. A versatile minstrel who juggles the facets of his soul with passion and honesty, bringing out melodramatic overtones as well as assertive sounds through an amiable and refined fusion of different musical genres. 2023 was the year in which Wainwright, son of folk artists, embarked on a journey to rediscover his family’s musical roots, resulting in the album Folkocracy, which also features numerous folk duets with artists like Chaka Khan, John Legend, Anohni and others. Born in New York and raised in Montreal, Rufus Wainwright has released ten studio albums, three DVDs and three live albums to date, including the GRAMMY® – nominated Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall. He has collaborated with artists like Elton John, Burt Bacharach, David Byrne, Boy George, Joni Mitchell and many others. He has written two operas and numerous songs for film and television. For several years he has been working on his first musical of John Cassavetes’ Opening Night for the West End with Ivo van Hove, which is scheduled to debut at the Gielgud Theater in March 2024.

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SANTAMAREA – JULY 20th

Saturday, July 20th | 21:30 PM
Corigliano D’Otranto | Castello Volante
Ticket 12 euros
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The Santamarea band was born in Palermo in early 2022 from the musical encounter between three brothers (Stefano, Francesco and Michele) and their acquired sister(Noemi). The band gets noticed right away in the local music scene with openings at concerts by Zen Circus, Gomma and Emma Nolde. In 2023 they participated in the 24th edition of Musicultura, winning the Musicultura 2023 Absolute Award, as well as the PMI Award for Best Record Project, the coveted Best Lyrics Award and the Piero Cesanelli Critics’ Award. May 4, 2023 the homonymous single “Santamarea” was released, produced by Roberto Cammarata (La Rappresentante di Lista, Omosumo, Waines), the winning track of Musicultura 2023, represents itself as a true manifesto song of the poetics of the Palermo-based band, both for its evocation of a marine imagery embellished with allegories and symbolism and vivid and decadent images, and for its electronic and choral, post-rock and Mediterranean sounds. The band is currently at work on the recordings of their first full-length album.

 

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THE MUSIC OF FORT – JULY 20th

Saturday, July 20th | 21:30 PM
Corigliano D’Otranto | Castello Volante
Ticket 12 euros
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A diary of experiences lived between folk, indie-pop and songwriter: “La musica di Forte” is Lorenzo Forte ‘sproject. From the Salento region, born in 1988, he is a self-taught singer and guitarist, who, after playing in some rock bands, begins his new adventure as a singer-songwriter. In 2020 he debuts with “Amore doni, amore vuoi” : nine songs about love and hate, about the passing of time and the difficulties of holding firm in a world of relative certainties. In 2022 two songs from the album(Bo and Anni) are included in the soundtrack of the fifth season of the successful series Skam Italy directed by Tiziano Russo. May 2023 sees the release of ENI, a second record work produced by Ada Music Italy. It’s characterized by a soft and raw sound at the same time, many questions and few answers. ENI is an authentic and complicated record that tries to say and understand all that we often keep only to ourselves. Romantic, intimate and melancholic, the singer-songwriter tells stories of everyday life that belong ,in one way or another, to each of us . A journey through vintage sounds, melodies with a singer-songwriter flavor, cryptic lyrics and arrangements that are at times bursting, at times minimal; a journey in which cathartic and obsessive moments give way to moments of respite and reflection, with typical northern European sounds immersed in the most traditional Italian singer-songwriter music. In 2023, director Tiziano Russo, after Forte’s collaboration for Skam Italy, chose the song Fulmini for “Noi anni luce”, his first feature film with Caterina Guzzanti and Fabio Troiano. Over the years, Forte has performed at various festivals and clubs and opened live shows for Gazzelle and ComaCose. He was a finalist for the Fabrizio De André Prize 2024.

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EMMA NOLDE – JULY 20th

Saturday, July 20th| 21:30 PM
Corigliano D’Otranto | Catello Volante
Ticket 12 euros
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Emma Nolde was born in Tuscany in 2000. At the age of fifteen she starts writing songs in English, but not long after that, Italian songwriting takes over. At the RockContest 2019 she won the Ernesto De Pascale award for best song with lyrics in Italian for the song “Nero Ardesia” and in September 2020 Toccaterra, her first album, was released on the Woodworm/Polydor label. Toccaterra was received by the public and insiders in a really important way and Emma is, without a shadow of a doubt, considered one of the future voices of Italian music. The albus was a finalist for the Tenco Prize in the Opera Prima section. An unreleased together with Generic Animal“,a bunch of keys, an umbrella in the middle there“, was released in November 2021. Emma is featured with a track on Zen Circus‘ featuring album that was released in May 2022. The track is titled “the devil is a child.”“Dormi“, Emma’s second record, comes two years after “Toccaterra” and was anticipated by the singles “Respiro” and “La stessa parte della luna“, both co-produced by Francesco Motta, who worked with Emma on the production of the entire record, released in September 2022. These have been years of intense live and studio activity, years in which the artist was able to observe, absorb and prepare for what will be the follow-up to Dormi, which promises to attest Emma as one of the pivotal voices of the new Italian music scene.

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NEBÜLA – JULY 21st

Sunday, July 21st | 9:30 PM
Corigliano D’Otranto | Castello Volante
Tickets available at the box office.

 

 

Nebüla, the stage name of Azzurra Buccoliero, singer and multi-instrumentalist of the band Blùmia, who between 2016 and 2019 was a protagonist of the Apulian electronic music scene with the album “Wild Type“. After the Blùmia interlude, the Taranto artist based in Milan embarked on the adventure of her new solo project Nebüla, releasing the first LP “Supernovae” (Seahorse Records, 2021), characterized by sounds very close to the Italian indie scene. Her new single “The Voicesof the Desert“, a mix of electronic sounds and psychedelic guitars with pressing rhythms, is an intense composition with dream-pop overtones, charmingly melancholic, telling about the sense of loss of the ego in contemporary man, immersed in a silent nature where the song of wolves speaks to our wild and animal part: a duel between irrationality and control. “The Voices of the Desert” is the single anticipating her new EP, produced by NOS Records and distributed by Believe Music.

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MALADÉ – JULY 26th

Friday, July 26th | 21:30 PM
Corigliano D’Otranto | Castello Volante
Tickets available at the box office

 

Maladè is the alias of Vincenzo Guerra, a drummer from Puglia. Maladé corners the interlocutor, leaving him suspended between hate and love. The word takes on a different meaning when used to express a state of mind. In this case it emphasizes melancholy, loneliness and dissatisfaction. The project translates into music the urban Mediterranean scenarios of the Adriatic side. The musical themes, minimalist and recurring, interpret the visual and social everydayness that the artist has experienced for much of his life, an everydayness from which one is often forced to escape in order to accomplish goals. Maladé ‘s astonishment manifests itself in the goal itself: to narrate that enemy everyday life that nevertheless unwittigly characterizes his artistic language. Music becomes the need to tell about the contrast of emotions that would otherwise risk implosion: running away from one’s homeland or living with the melancholy of it?

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THE BLUEBEATERS – JULY 27th

Saturday, July 27th | 21:30 PM
Corigliano D’Otranto | Castello Volante
Ticket 10 euros
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With the release of the last episode linked to Shock!, the single NON SENTO PIÚ released in 2023 digitally and on vinyl on the Tour named after him, The Bluebeaters will present a setlist drawn mainly from the last two albums with Pat Cosmo on vocals, Everybody Knows (2015) and Shock! (2020). The former, released by Record Kicks, a record stuffed with super classics of the Jamaican genre (Somebody Has Stolen My Girl, I Don’t Know) with a few bets in Pop like Toxic or When Love Takes Over, the latter released by Garrincha Dischi, with songs instead all Italian and original songs, including the single Mamma Perdonami (feat. Coez) and Non Sento Più. In short, lots of news and still a great desire to make the audience dance to the band that par excellence has been playing Ska and Rocksteady with attitude and passion for 30 years. In fact, in 2024, on March 18, The Bluebeaters celebrated 30 years since their first appearance on stage at Hiroshima Mon Amour in Turin.

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KATANINO – JULY 28th

Sunday, July 28th | 21:30 PM
Corigliano D’Otranto | Castello Volante
Ticket 21.50 euros
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KATANINO (D’Arpa Mattia) is a singer-songwriter who tries his hand at experimenting with his traveling companion from URLO Records (Daniele Spano). The two men mix different styles and genres of music to the extent that they cannot label their music. The project was born as a game, the name “katanino” is a homage to his grandfather’s name “Gaetano” (in Salento dialect) and for this he releases the first single “GAETANO” on July 21st, 2020.
The song tells of the feeling of melancholy and renewal which is perceived at the end of a story, of a love, of a summer. The single surpasses 24,000 listens on Spotify. In 2023, he presented his musical project during the “La Notte della Malota” festival by opening the concert to Maestro Pellegrini (Zen Circus). He releases his new single IO E TE on May 31st, 2024 and presents it in live preview in metrobus in lecce for the festival “La musica che gira intorno”. IO E TE is a love song with pop and soul sounds, it tells the beginning of a love story with a comic vein.