The first track of the project 'Totò Poetry Culture' is out

The first track of the project was released yesterday, Friday 10th September, on digital platforms Totò Poetry Culture, adventure of the Neapolitan duo composed of the poet/performer Gianni Valentino and from the producer/musician Lello Tramma.

Together, the two artists studied the poetic production of Toto to create a rainbow of electronic music – digital and analog – with which to update those ancient compositions. In a beat that floats between electro dub, chill, funk, ambient, soul, folk, house atmospheres, the verses of the Prince of laughter and courtship pulsate with contemporary sounds right in the season in which the 70th anniversary of Malafemmena.

Better known by his pseudonym Totò, registered as Prince of Byzantium, de Curtis was the author of dozens of poems: love, family, social. And of some memorable songs, which are still sung everywhere on the planet: from the Mediterranean to Asia, to Northern Europe.

However, his mask in the cinema and theatre has – often and involuntarily – distanced fans, even the most devoted, from the verses that he signed with artistic autonomy and which were only later understood in their dimension, passion and depth.

There is an innate sense of rhythm and music – despite being illiterate of the pentagram – in the Neapolitan artist and the Totò Poetry Culture project regenerates its sources and lets them rise again. Precisely in the year of the special anniversary of what is a monument to eternal, cursed and wretched love: Malafemmena.

To that ambivalent feeling, radiant and desperate, psychotic and intoxicating, Antonio Focas Flavio Angelo Ducas Comneno de Curtis he titled rhymes and assonances of crystalline grace. In his sound, the poet-prince has traced a moon with which private emotions, intimacies, biographical facts, penances, excesses still illuminate.

The project debuted online with a first track, an intense and fast mashup between Core illiterate e Lost love, on the fateful date of August 11th. On that distant day in 1951, for the Piedigrotta Festival The Song, “Malafemmena” was performed for the first time in the theatre by the singer Mario Abbate.