A heart shatters, not into falling pieces, but into soaring notes, carried by the wind like a final breath. That breath lifts the soul of a true Neapolitan musician, James Senese, to eternity. Born amid the ashes of war, he was a child shaped by hardship in the northern suburbs of Napoli. The entire city […]
Black and White: The return of the cult album of Neapolitan Power
Warner Music Italy has re-released an important album by Il Giardino dei Semplici, which made history in the avant-garde Neapolitan music of the early 1980s: B/N (Black and White). The album has been re-released on white vinyl, and has been made available digitally at the same time, remastered in 24 bit. However, this is not […]
When the impossible becomes achievable
Enrico Fagnano on ‘Gli anni impossibili’ his new book – By N. Yakova ‘Gli anni impossibili’ (The Impossible Years) tells of a period during which, in Napoli, there were people who, despite belonging to different political currents, followed all the same direction, that one toward the growth, reaching the impossible. A phenomenon that lasted just […]
Los Carosones. The epiphany of La Dolce Vita
Contaminations, as we know, enrich. And the whole of Southern Italy knows something about it. Since ancient times, in the land that was once called the Magna Graecia, different hegemonies have followed one another and different cultures contaminated us. The result of those contaminations emerged in the language, in life-style, in the way of thinking, […]
Alan Sorrenti – Oltre la Zona Sicura (Beyond the comfort zone).
50 years of music career of Alan Sorrenti and his upcoming album. Half a century in the music business is something that is worth to celebrate especially for an artist who has never stopped renewing himself while remaining young forever. We celebrate the 50-year career of Alan Sorrenti who made his debut in 1972 with […]
The queen of Napoli from the earth to the moon
Life music and thoughts of singer songwriter Teresa De Sio That of Teresa De Sio is a “Libero Cercare” (free searching) that she has experienced in different forms of art. From dance to theater, from music to literature… Up to fashion! A consumer of music, movies, poetry, Latin American literature, and more, she let herself […]
Ernesto Vitolo new release: Organismi.
Ernesto Vitolo is one of the pillars of the Neapolitan musical phenomenon that developed in the seventies and that the journalist Renato Marengo called Neapolitan Power. Neapolitan Power is actually the magical result of cultural contaminations that began after the Second World War especially in Southern Italy where U.S. Army left later than in the […]