Beach Fossils, Yīn Yīn, Bar Italia and Parbleu: after the announcement of the concerts of Rufus Wainwright (July 19th) and the CCCP – Fedeli alla linea(August 9th), the previews of the 18th edition of CoolClub’s SEI Festival continue, featuring the claim“Perdersi per Ritrovarsi“. On Monday 12th and Tuesday, August 13th(info and presales Dice – Ticketmaster) the Castello Volante of Corigliano d’Otranto will host two international evenings not to be missed among indie rock and post-punk,funk andtraditional Asian music, cumbia and afrobeat.
On Monday, August 12th (9:30 PM – ticket 25 euros + dp) Sei Festival will host, for the first time in Puglia, the U.S. band Beach Fossils and the Anglo|Italian trioBar Italia.Formed by Nina Cristante, Jezmi Tarik Fehmi and Sam Fenton, the name of this project is inspired by the famous London bar, paying tribute to the city’s rich music and cultural scene. The band mixes post-punk, lo-fi, dream-pop and shoegaze, with an experimental approach that combines rough vocals and emotional and scratchy sounds. To follow, directly from Brooklyn, the indie rock of the Beach Fossils. The quartet will offer, among others, the songs of “Bunny“. The fourth album, released in 2023 by Bayonet Records, encloses the entire emotional world of frontman Dustin Payseur and represents an evolution of the band’s sound over the years, drawing elements from the strident melancholy of “What a Pleasure,” the lush arrangements of “Somersault,” and the gritty, post-punk-inspired pieces of “Clash the Truth”.
On Tuesday 13th August (9:30 PM – ticket 17 euros + dp) the evening will welcome the band Parbleu, an excursion of equatorial groove with the union of cumbia, psychedelic Afro-Caribbean rhythms and French-style retro style. Andres Balbucea and Andrea de Fazio are leading an enigmatic ensemble of musicians in which energetic expanses of disco, futuristic funk and cinematic jazz fusion are awash in warm vibrations of Caribbean dub, Latin tropical and sunny afrobeat. On stage there is also Yīn Yīn quartet, which lives artistically on a tropical island between Europe and Southeast Asia. After “The rabbit that hunts tigers” (2019) and “The age of aquarius” (2022), the third album “Mount Matsu” was released in January, a kaleidoscope of sounds and influences, occupying a no-man’s land between Khruangbin and Kraftwerk, Southeast Asian surf music and psychedelia, stax soul and mutant 80s disco, city pop and Japanese instrumental folk.
Throughout the summer the SEI, a festival conceived, produced and promoted by Coolclub, realized with the support of the Ministry of Culture and the Region of Puglia with the support of Garofano Wines and in collaboration with numerous public and private entities, will offer its musical journey around Salento.