Foja announce four special dates for the month of February: Milan (02/02), Turin (03/02), Rome (09/02), Naples (14/02), will be the cities that will host this special tour for the Neapolitan band.
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Dario Sansone, frontman of Foja, describes these four dates as follows: “We are finally bringing “Miracoli e Rivoluzioni” around the major Italian clubs. This tour has an enormous emotional value for us, because it will allow us to embrace our audience scattered across the country after three years and meet again through our songs. These will also be the last four concerts of our historic and beloved guitarist Ennio and each stop will be even more exciting, partying on and off the stage.”
“Miracoli e rivoluzioni” is an album that has the feel of the present, the past, the future, in which the traditional structures of the song are permeated with sounds and facets that continually change their horizons. And so Enzo Gragnaniello and Davide Toffolo, Clementino and Lorenzo Hengeller, Alessio Sollo and Alejandro Romero are precious traveling companions who with their contribution have made “Miracoli e Rivoluzioni” a cornerstone in the repertoire of this band, an enormous act of love that reaches those with open ears and hearts.
Five singles with as many videos were extracted from the album. The latest, in chronological order, is the splendid “Santa Lucia”, published on November 22, 2022 featuring Clementino and the extraordinary participation of Isa Danieli:
FOJA are exponents of a new sound of the Neapolitan folk tradition. They have released four studio albums, participated in several soundtracks of animated feature films. They have been nominated for the David di Donatello and the Nastri d'Argento for best original song, and collaborated with international artists such as Pauline Croze, La Pegatina, Shaun Ferguson, Weslie, Black Noyze, Alejandro Romero.
They put their soul into everything they do. Each album is a journey into a very rich, visionary and mixed culture, elements of artistic and human wealth and growth.
Training:
DARIO SANSONE – voice and guitar
ENNIO FRONGILLO – electric guitar
LUIGI SCIALDONE – guitars and mandolin
GIULIANO FALCONE – electric bass
GIOVANNI SCHIATTARELLA – drums
MIRACLES AND REVOLUTIONS – The album
MIRACLES AND REVOLUTIONS is the new album by FOJA, released in April 2022. In this latest work there are many collaborations with guests who shared the miracle of a fragment, of a creative spark: ENZO GRAGNANIELLO, unmistakable voice and soul, present in a very profound “'Nmiezo a Niente”; DAVIDE TOFFOLO of TRE ALLEGRI RAGAZZI MORTI, voice and authority in the ironic and reflective “A cosa stai pensare?”; CLEMENTINO, who puts his flow at the service of a heartbreaking ballad like “Santa Lucia”; the piano of LORENZO HENGELLER who frees ten fingers full of swing in the intense “Stella”; the poetry of ALESSIO SOLLO in “L'Urdema Canzone”; ALEJANDRO ROMERO, international guest in the Neapolitan reinterpretation of a classic like “A mano 'e D10S”, dedicated with heart, soul and bandoneon to Diego Armando Maradona, to his sporting and human revolution.
And finally ALESSANDRO RAK and his illustrations, the poetic genius of stories like “Yaya and Lennie – The Walking Liberty”, the animated feature film by Mad Entertainment from which “Duje comme nuje” is taken, a song about absolute love included in the soundtrack of the latest work by the Neapolitan director, linked to the leader of Foja Dario Sansone by a decade-long friendship and collaboration.
“Miracoli e Rivoluzioni” is sensitivity, commitment, pure passion, a project that delivers an imaginary that must only be experienced, with that freedom and creativity that make Foja one of the most important Neapolitan bands of the last twenty years, authors of a stylistic revolution that has elevated the new Neapolitan music by putting it in relation with the sounds of today and the vision of tomorrow.
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Foja were born in 2006. They have four studio albums under their belt, 'Na Storia Nova, Dimane Torna 'O Sole, 'O Treno Che Va and Miracoli e Rivoluzioni. With their second and third albums they were placed in the final five of the Targhe Tenco in the category of best album in dialect. Touring Italy for years, they have performed on prestigious stages, always selling out, including those of the Teatro di San Carlo with a show directed by Franco Dragone (Cirque du Soleil), the Arena Flegrea with a special show that combined music and live illustrations, the Courtyard of the Reggia di Capodimonte, the Royal Palace and Castel Sant'Elmo in Naples in front of an audience of over six thousand people. Their music has been successfully used in several films such as The Art of Happiness (EFA European Film Award) and Gatta Cenerentola, obtaining the nomination for the best original song both at the David di Donatello with the songs “'A malia” and “A chi appartieni”, and at the Nastri d'Argento with “'A malia”. Since 2018 they have started recording collaborations with international artists (Pauline Croze, La Pegatina, Shaun Ferguson, Weslie, Black Noyze, Alejandro Romero). In November 2018 they sold out the dates of their European Tour in the best clubs of the main capitals and, in 2019, they flew overseas for their Canadian and US Tour between clubs and large theaters. In 2020 they closed their first decade of recording activity with the special box set “Dieci” which collects their entire production, including several non-album songs and an unreleased track.
In 2021, two new singles were released simultaneously, “ADDÒ SE VA” and “TU”, the first signs of the new recording project. In June, 'A Mano 'e D10S” was released, a Neapolitan version of “(INRI) La mano de Dios”, a song written by Alejandro Romero and dedicated to a timeless champion, Diego Armando Maradona. The video clip for the song was also released, directed by Michel Liguori and produced by Anartica Film, partly shot inside the Ex San Paolo stadium now the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium. At the end of October, “Duje comme Nuje” was released, a single and video featured in the soundtrack of “Yaya e Lennie – The Walking Liberty”, a new animated film by Mad Entertainment directed by Alessandro Rak and of which Dario Sansone, leader of Foja, is also assistant director, artistic director and author of the music together with Alessandro Rak and Enzo Foniciello. On April 8, 2022, the new album entitled “Miracoli e Rivoluzioni” was released.
Article published on 25 January 2023 - 16:45
