Spaccanapoli


“Spaccanapoli” stands as the climax of the musical career of two Neapolitan musicians long engaged in the field of traditional Neapolitan music. Featuring the historic worker’s group “E Zezi”, Antonio Fraioli, and Monica Pinto, found “Spaccanapoli” and, in 2000, publish for Real World Records “Lost Souls – Aneme Perze”. A long series of international tours during which they achieve big success both of public and of critic (see “press” & “info Record”). Highly appreciated in the in the whole Europe, Canada, America, Mexico, Jappon, because of the enthralling performances. The group springs from the consciousness of the complexity of Neapolitan oral tradition, which clashes with the languages of mass culture, proposing a music that represents a feasible dialogue between the expressions of modern culture and those of tradition. From RootsWorld quoted by cdroots.com: In a reckless, enormously inspired experiment with the roots traditions of southern Italy and beyond, Spaccanapoli speaks powerfully to unemployed youth whose disaffection with a corrupt system and foreclosed life prospects find voice in Piazza Dante (For thieves thrive and boast about it... / Ministers and judges are a calamity for the poor)... From the land of Antonio Gramsci and the Red Brigades, of Fellini, Rosellini and Wertmuller, Spaccanapoli already has the European folk circuit in its thrall, and now seems poised to rivet the consciousness of a new global base. - Michael Stone, ...

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