Palermo, ‘Mondo Sounds’ return at the Verna Spazio Open

June 15, 2023 at 1:39 pm

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palermo – come back world soundThe music festival that connects the “south of the world”, able to make Sicily the international center of new global music: on 22 and 23 JulyButAverna Spazio Open in Palermo (Cantieri Cultural alla Zisa), two days that will allow the public to travel to the stable and explore the world through the sounds and rhythms of every latitude.

Name world soundIn fact, a clear reference to world music is included, a very broad spectrum that goes from traditional music, to folk, rock, jazz, urban music, to the most contemporary electronic experiments: this is the soul of Mondo Sounds broadcast through this edition. Will be done through guest artists.

July 22 will take the stage afropalermo collectiveAfrobeat to Afropop inspired collective “Felkutian” formed by Nigerian singer and musician chris obehiAccompanied by a band of cadences, winds and a choir, it will propel the stage’s sights, colors and sounds of present, past and future Africa.

then i Pach Kama and TribesAn Italian-Argentine musical group founded in 2018 in Palermo. The music project has its roots in the most fascinating South American rhythms: Colombian cumbia, Cuban son, Argentinian chacarera are some of the styles born from the encounter between the indios. Spaniards and Africans of whom Latin American culture is the daughter.

Dj Karaba is a French producer, born to a Congolese father and a French-Italian mother, specialized in Afrohouse and infectious dance: his music is electric and spicy, with no pauses or moments of recession.

dj husky, Sandro Orrù born, one of the pioneers of national old school hip-hop. Known for the originality with which he reinterprets scratch and rap techniques, DJ Gruff expresses himself in hip-hop culture as a turntablist, DJ, beatmaker, rapper, and producer. DJ Gruff’s musical output is very rich, collaborations with musicians, MCs, breakers and street artists from all over the world are constant.

July 23 will be the turn of lero lero ,Alessio Bondi, Fabio Rizzo, Aki Spadaro and Giovanni Parinello), a nascent collective of Sicilian artists, dedicated to the recovery and reinterpretation of Sicilian oral tradition music in a contemporary key. A return to the essence of Mediterranean music, which seeks to be a cultural and non-folk act. The songs of the work, of prison, of resentment, of love, handed down over the centuries on the island, meet the artistic background of the four composers and performers with samples of their voices, rhythms, chords, beats, original sound documents .

Lade ft Dj Fleq An Afro-Italian singer of Nigerian descent, she started out in the gospel choir of a Palermo church and moved to Las Vegas as lead singer of the jazz group Virginia Brown and the Shameless, with whom she recorded two albums and toured. World. will perform with Dj Flake

Beatmaker from Palermo, born in ’94, who has collaborated with underground artists from the United States, England and Jamaica.

populous, aka Andrea Mangia, is a DJ and producer from Lecce. He made his debut with two albums, Instrumental Hip Hop and Behind the Backstory. A global approach to the creative process has recently led him to focus on new Latin American rhythms, filtering them through a European lens.

NicodemusDJ Connector of worlds, scenes and people from the mid nineties. The music heard on his releases is full of expression, reflection and care; is both open and deeply focused, a rarity in today’s overcrowded music industry.

GodblessComputer (Lorenzo Nada) Trained as a beat maker, producer and DJ, fueled by an early passion for samplers and vinyl. In 2011 Godblesscomputers came to life, the moniker of a musical project that, inspired by the rhythmic and stylistic elements of black music, ventured into electronic territories, while maintaining the core warmth and groove of its sound.

Due to its global nature, the festival is organized by Cult ass. Maia and the Donkey Jonathan Livingston ODV – Proposing a great cultural opening in a contemporary key, questioning the stylistic features of Western music: “Mondo Sounds, before being a festival, was born as a connection between the south of the world and the need to rediscover one’s own and others’ roots , Explain artistic directors Fabio Rizzo and Francesca Perricone, From African, South American, Caribbean rhythms to Mediterranean sounds, voices from all four corners of the planet and every note, every cadence, to communicate with Sicilian tradition and identity, will take us to places far away, but different cultures close to the heart , in a tropical and urban environment, ready to pulsate body and soul”.