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Almamegretta: Interview with the masters of dub

may be true that Sanremo Sanremo, but in the city of flowers, in truth, the summer is going very placid placid. One lives in old glory. Fortunately, again, too - albeit a small budget - some event worthy of the times that were, like the jazz festival or Zazzarazzaz Rock in the Casbah, three days 'alternative' in the old multi-ethnic city. Just in the 'casbah' played Almamegretta. Mark Stewart (Pop Group) called them "one of the groups most revolutionary I've ever heard. "

The combo Neapolitan, born in '88, made resistant to a troubled history of changes, bereavement, abandonment of the leader but also Raiz Tenco plates, discs sold, in projects with Massive Attack and Pino Daniele. We meet them just to Sanremo.

After two decades of live, the desire to make music is still there. Siega Gennaro t: "We are very pleased with the show that we are carrying around. It 's very danceable, with songs that rachiudono our entire career, from first to last record. We're having fun and people enjoy. "Chatted live on that" work "but also the crisis of record "in recent years has happened all over. Once it was different, so much so that we sign with BMG. But that, perhaps, was the last time when things were going well. Now the majors are few and I do not think situations like ours concerned, which has grown to the possibility - perhaps the only chance - to move from independent and take care of everything firsthand. "That's work with the Alma Sanacore , do-it-yourself label. "By contrast, the music has never been spread so much." According to Alma, "the Web has enabled a global distribution." Well for those who chose to do crossover niche? "In some ways you're penalized everywhere, if you do not pop. Shakira sells no coincidence. Then if you do the accounts here in Italy, everything is more complicated: first it was a small market, now there is practically no more. "The good thing is that" so you must not chase popularity. You do what you like, then that is the right thing, our reason for being. "From art, you get to talk politics:" We live in one of the darkest periods of all time, removing the decades. Recently the situation has deteriorated so much - say Alma - We see an attitude of cowardice and complicity. In normal countries - not even say Democrats - would be different. Here there is no opposition and there is an indifference incredible tomorrow Italians voted out their leaders, despite all I have done. "Better to talk about music. Cd in the program? "For the moment we play. Then there is a film in Venice with our piece on the soundtrack. It 's a journey into Naples. Hopefully it will be nice. "Here the music. The light Almamegretta their dub sounds that develop into the palaces of the old San Remo. People dance, someone is dreaming. About the tour: almamegretta.net