Nu Genea, the last stop on the summer tour at Arenile di Bagnoli: "Naples, our beloved capital."
“Bar Mediterraneo”, the new album by Nu Genea, was released in May and immediately hit the stages of the most important international and Italian festivals for a long and exciting summer tour.
Having left Berlin on May 5, Lucio Aquilina and Massimo Di Lena have chosen to close their tour in Naples, their favorite capital, where they will present the album with an extended band. On Sunday, September 18 (gates open: 18.30:19.00 p.m.; event starts: 14:XNUMX p.m.) Nu Genea will be at Arenile in via Coroglio XNUMXb and will be joined by Marzouk Mejri (darabouka and vocals), Marcello Giannini (guitar and vocals), Pietro Santangelo (sax and vocals), Andrea De Fazio (drums), Roberto Badoglio (bass), Fabiana Martone (vocals), Paolo Bianconcini (percussion). As opening act for the band, Nu Genea have requested the special participation of the Neapolitan collective Napoli Segreta, with whom they curated the compilations of the same name.
Protagonists of last year's summer "good vibes" with "Marechià", and this 2022 with "Tienaté" (the single that preceded the album "Bar Mediterraneo"), Nu Genea have brought the voice of Naples everywhere in Italy (Milan, Pantelleria, Bologna, Arezzo, Ancona, Marina di Camerota, Cesena, Genoa, Agrigento, Lamezia, Locorotondo) and around the world, from the United Kingdom (Gala) to France (Rock En Seine), from Spain (Sonar) to Switzerland (Gurten), from Portugal (Vodafone Paredes De Coura) to Germany (X-Jazz), passing through Holland (Lowlands) and Belgium (Pukkelpop), captivating audiences with their unique style that combines Neapolitan culture and an engaging jazz-funk groove.
Nu Genea's "Bar Mediterraneo" is the idea of a common space, where people meet and merge. A place with doors always open to wayfarers and their lives, always exposed to the whims of fate. You can hear it in the Tunisian verses and in Marzouk Mejiri's Ney flute that break the heart of melancholy in Gelbi; in the singing of the artist Marco Castello who, in Rire, crosses the Strait of Messina to give himself to the bittersweet words of Naples; in the French verses of Célia Kameni that parade sinuously through the alleys of Marechià; or again in the drums of the late Tony Allen that accompany the mandolins of Straniero. Nu Genea's passion for Neapolitan culture expands in this album through the adaptation of a 1931 poem by Raffaele Viviani, in the song La Crisi, and in the verses of Vesuvio, a dance reinterpretation of a Neapolitan folk song by 'E Zezi, a historic working-class band from Pomigliano D'Arco.
The album was preceded by the single Tienaté, where Fabiana Martone's vocal power combines with synthesizers and strings, imbuing them with the musical roots of the South-Eastern Mediterranean.
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CONCERT ENTRANCE TO THE BEACH: 20 euros (+3 euros DICE ticketing fees)
Tickets on sale at DICE | Pre-sale link: https://link.dice.fm/T9c4232da67c
Support act: NAPOLI SECRETA dj set
L'Arenile - Via Coroglio 14 B | Sunday, September 18
Gates open: 18.30:19.00 p.m. | Event starts: XNUMX:XNUMX p.m.
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