SUSTANZA, the new single by WUM

The band presented itself to the public only a few weeks ago, with a mix of ideas and skills, including music, dance, research, languages, tradition and a solid look towards the future.

Characteristics immediately received, first by the insiders, then by the hunters of musical innovations. A simple and concrete image that of WUM, who move on the minefield of new music with the right recklessness, which makes them free to experiment, independent and creative to the maximum power.

"Substance comes from a text that was kept in a drawer for a long time but that the news of recent times has pushed us to take out. Love for one's city and for one's people can no longer be a pretext to justify but rather must push us to say clearly what is wrong, what is not acceptable. Even when it hurts us, especially when it hurts. It's time to go back to thinking about the substance, 'a sustanza as we say in Naples (Ommo 'e sustanza is our saying: man of substance not appearance). To understand who has this substance and who doesn't. If clothes, watches and gold chains add something to the substance of a person. If guapparie, violence and gomorrate can still be the face of this city.”

With this new single, WUM continue their journey that starts from traditional music and develops into the production of original songs in a contemporary language using traditional instruments together with electronic instruments, groove and sounds of the global musical language.

Carmen Famiglietti's voice and dance, Massimo D'Avanzo's mandolin, ciaramella and clarinet, and Francesco Manna's tammorra and riq come together in this song in a game of references that range from Mario Merola's Guapparia to Pino Daniele's Anglo-Neapolitan. The video that accompanies the song's release represents a distorted reality, a Neapolitan matrix crossed by a humanity with faces frozen in disturbing emoticons. WUM cross this space in search of the uagliune ca nun vonne bucie, the kids who no longer believe in lies, to whom this song is dedicated.

Sustanza is the second single that anticipates Obsidian new album by WUM soon to be released after the previous single Nun me chiamme Rosa. The title of the new album refers to obsidian, a black and shiny volcanic glass, which forms following the cooling of magma, assuming a chaotic arrangement. This new collection of unreleased songs is born precisely from this "chaotic arrangement", a metaphor both of Vesuvius and of our times in general.