Friday, June 21st | 7:30 PM
Copertino | Garofano Vigneti and Cantine
Ticket 12 euros
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Neapolitan by birth and ideals, also known as Dario Bass, Dario Bassolino is a pianist, producer and composer active in the national and international electronic jazz (and not only) scene. He has productions to his credit with Nicholas Count, LNDFK andPellegrino, among the others. He collaborated with Nu Genea, Kurtis Rosenwinkel, Jason Lindner, Asa Chang, Pink Siifu, Chester Watson, Paolo Fresu, System Olympia, Ghemon, Fitness Forever, Giuseppe Vitale, Stefano Costanzo, Pasquale Mirra, Voodoo Kid, Missey And many others. Bassolino is his new project. It was released onMarch 1stCittà Futura, the first album by Bassolino, a new artistic project by the Neapolitan pianist, composer and producer, active in the national and international nu-jazz (and not only) scene, but above all leading exponent of the new and lively Neapolitan music scene.. The record came out digitally and as a 12″ LP on two seminal labels, Berlin-based Jakarta Records and the Neapolitan Periodica Records, label of “neapolitan electronics and funk music.” The soundtrack to an ideal film populated by gangsters, fortune tellers and “jacket” singers. animated by the voices of squares teeming with life and by a sound screened toward the stars but firmly anchored in a Sunburned land. A groove-laden record from the sound “shady, pulpy, grotesque and romantic” which is rooted in the past to design a new visionary “future city”. Produced together with Paolo Petrella, the album is enriched by a respectable group of singers and musicians – among themLinda Feki (LNDFK) and Andrea De Fazio (Parbleu, Nu Genea) – who dialogue with each other while maintaining their respective identities. “Underlying this is a strong collective idea: each musician has his own expressive and timbral space, trying to break certain genre stereotypes and trying to defuse the risk of ‘revival’. The challenge is all there.”. Among mantric percussion and Arabic melodies, metropolitan blues and cinematic atmospheres, sonic hallucinations, neo-melodic homages and orchestral discofunk the six tracks take turns – Napoli Visionaria, ‘E Parole, Oro di Miele, Città Futura, Malavita and Fuga Finale – of a record “enigmatically pop, prog- and jazzfunk-influenced”, as Bassolino himself defines it, a musician influenced by very different artists from Hermeto Pascoal to Goblin, from Tullio De Piscopo to Franco Califano, passing by Lucio Battisti and Airto Moreira. First of all, though, Città Futura is a work that proudly claims the affirmation of a “southern” sound, in its sociological meaning, instead of the inflated “Mediterranean” style. Through an inextricable tangle of memory 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 is in the most popular expression forms that one finds the most authentic photography of a society. “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 is a representation of society” says the artist from Campania, admirer of Gilles Deleuze and Alberto Sordi,, Mario Bava and Elio Petri,, Monicelli and Sciascia,, Volontè and Rodolfo Sonego, as well as Antonioni and the Neapolitan fortune teller Gennaro D’Auria.. In short, a “Gramscian” record. Inspired by a decade of crisis, realized in the midst of the crisis of our time.