Ciao duemilaundici
I wanted to list my best picks for 2011 when Vice.com asked me to do so for them. Here you find the page including other friends’ choices (italian only).Here’s my rewind list, with no particular order. It’s mostly related to music – but it’s enriched with something donated by the www and who digs in...
Palm Wine’s picò work in progress pt. 2
Just received these pictures from Fabian Altahona / Africolombia.My picò is almost done, I’m excited. Master William Gutierrez painted it starting from an excpert from The Palm Wine Drinkard by Amos Tutuola, read it in my first post. It’s not finished yet. I will have a subtitle on the top saying: “The Awakening of Sound”. Fabian suggested...
Palm Wine / Dj Rupture vs. Maga Bo "Dreamachine / Beyond Digital Mix" ltd. ed. C60 Tape OUT NOW!
Here I am, after five intense months of gestation my tape is finally OUT!It features a mix of fieldrecordings I’ve captured in Morocco last year at the Master Musicians of Joujouka festival on one side, and a mix done by Dj /Rupture and Maga Bo, part of their project Beyond Digital – Morocco on side B....
Kanaval
I’m reading Cut ‘n’ Mix by Dick Hebdige, finally. I bought it at Subcultures, popular music and social change symposium at the London Metropolitan University about a week ago. I promise I’ll review the symposium soon or at least point at my favorites contributions. I’d like to share an extract from the beginning of the...
Mondo Candido
Il 17 agosto è morto Gualtiero Iacopetti. Quando ho appreso la notizia stavo lavorando a un progetto video con Invernomuto per una grande azienda italiana. Un lavoro sugli archivi storici. Da lì abbiamo estratto un piccolo frammento, che per qualche ragione riverbera il mondo cane di Iacopetti. Eccolo: L’occasione è buona per condividere un altro video...
Palm Wine’s picò work in progress
Thanks to Fabian Altahona/Africolombia I’m having my own Picò from Barranquilla, Colombia.Here more info about Picòs soundsystem culture and an interview to Fabian I’ve translated a while ago (in italian). The painter William Gutierrez is working on the canvas right now. I asked him to interpret an excpert from The Palm Wine Drinkard by Amos...
Fire, more fire
James Franco is blurred in the background, like a white marble statue.On July 12, Dutty Artz will release Kalup and Franco’s Turn It Up EP. More info here.For many reasons I’m dazed by these images. I’m going deeply into Kalup Linzy’s work via his website, to be taken smoothly, as a tv serie. Maybe I’ll...
