With Jastemma of A67 the Targa Tenco for the first time in Scampia

With Jastemma of A67 the Targa Tenco for the first time in Scampia in an extraordinary concentration of Campania culture.

'Jastemma degli 'A67 wins the Targa Tenco for the album in dialect which arrives in Scampia for the first time, in an extraordinary concentration of Campanian culture, with the paintings of Mimmo Paladino and the stories of the numerous writers who participated in the project, from Viola Ardone to Angelo Petrella, from Carmen Pellegrino to Gianni Solla, from Raffaella Ferré to Raiz, from Amleto De Silva to Luca Delgado, and the preface by Stefano De Matteis.

With Jastemma by 'A67, the Targa Tenco for the album in dialect returns to Campania but for the first time touches Scampia where the Neapolitan band was born. «We are happy and proud to represent Neapolitan music and above all to bring high the name of our neighborhood, too often associated with news stories». Born as a reaction to a social condition of great hardship, 'A67 have been able to interpret the desire for redemption and the wealth of tensions that cross all the suburbs of the world, developing musical proposals of great originality, in dialogue with cinema, literature and painting. Characteristics that are also found in this album, the fifth of their career, awarded by the largest and most prestigious jury of critics and music journalists with a recognition that in the past has touched other great Neapolitan authors, from Pino Daniele to the Nuova Compagnia di Canto Popolare, from Teresa De Sio to Enzo Gragnaniello.

With Jastemma, published by Squilibri, they have in fact created a performative system in which the sung stories have germinated in the tales of fifteen writers (Viola Ardone, Alessio Arena, Luigi Romolo Carrino, Giuseppe Catozzella, Marco Ciriello, Amleto De Silva, Luca Delgado, Gennaro Della Volpe (Raiz), Raffaella R. Ferré, Nicola Lagioia, Loredana Lipperini, Carmen Pellegrino, Angelo Petrella, Alberto Rollo and Gianni Solla), in a proliferation of meaning further accentuated by the paintings and drawings made specifically by Mimmo Paladino. And, as Stefano De Matteis writes in the preface to the CD-book, “everything holds together perfectly, like the perfect geometry of an egg, similar to Virgil’s egg that gives order to chaos”. With the Targa Tenco awarded to Jastemma, a project with a choral scope characterized by the participation of some of the best expressions of Campania culture has been rewarded, and together they have outlined a grandiose fresco of human feelings.

Decreasing in a more intimate and carnal sense their vocation to explore the panoramas of the human condition, A67 have in fact turned their attention to love, dissected in all its possible latitudes, in a raw and merciless album, essential in sound and word. In the alternation of different musical registers, from rock to reggae, the different expressions of a fundamental feeling in everyone's life are reviewed but without forgetting the choices of field that have always been a hallmark of the Scampia band. As in a very painful litany, from the depths of so many hardships, however, an obstinate hymn to life rises that takes on the cadences of a seductive blues of the soul: themes and instances taken up and revisited in the stories and poems specially composed by the writers who responded to the call of the Scampia band.

The Targa Tenco for the best album in dialect awarded to Jastemma confirms the primacy of the Neapolitan language in this section, further highlighted by the entirely Neapolitan podium with, in second and third place, James Senese and Nino D'Angelo.