From 8 to 10 October Romaeuropa Festival presents the second edition of LineUp!, the review that brings together some of the most interesting female names of the new Italian music scene; curated by Giulia Di Giovanni and Matteo Antonaci, LineUp! is a musical journey in the name of inclusiveness and gender equality with an eye to the narratives and new identities conveyed by pop and urban sounds. Three days that will see the new voices of the contemporary scene as protagonists at the Slaughterhouse, from electronics to jazz up to R’n’B.
It starts on Saturday 8 October at 9 pm with the Italian-Moroccan singer and performer LaHasnaborn in 1993 and already an artist selected by MTV New Generation together with the producer Salam Carther, who gained national attention thanks to his very personal mix of soul, hip hop and Arab influences, LaHasna brings his imagination made of irony to the Romaeuropa stage, double meanings, romanticism and multiculturalism that have led it to be appreciated by the public and by professionals, thus opening numerous live shows, including those of M ¥ SS KETA, and guaranteeing positioning in some of the best Spotify playlists.
Then, at 10pm, the contaminated sounds of Navathe Italian-Persian singer-songwriter who has settled in Milan for several years where she has made herself known thanks to the original mix of sounds on which she moves, from pop to dance culture, from Lana Del Rey to the hypnotic imagery that looks mostly to the electronic scene , among all Apparat, and thanks also to the visual collaboration with the multidisciplinary artists Matteo Strocchia and Marco Servina.
Producer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, daughter of two different cultures (Italian mother and Arab father), born in Tunisia, raised in Naples and now based in Paris, LNDFK will be live on Sunday 9 October with Kuni, his debut album that has illuminated the Italian music scene and in which he holds together jazz, neo-soul and R’n’B sounds in an original and alien amalgam, influenced by sound moods of international stars such as Kendrik Lamar, Kamasi Washington, and Flying Lotus. Fresh from a busy calendar of dates in Italy and abroad, LNDFK has conquered a prominent position by establishing itself among the most interesting record releases of 2022.
A sophisticated and international style in which elegant R&B drifts, pop and old-time arrangements intersect in a perfect balance of tradition and experimentation, on October 9th at 10pm LineUp! hosts the singer-songwriter and producer Joan Thiele, half Italian and half Swiss-Colombian origins, raised between Cartagena and Italy, she already boasts important collaborations with Mace and Venerus. In Romaeuropa you present Act III – The error, the third and last chapter of your project. The concert is sold out.
On October 10, the day before the coming out day, LineUp! hosts the Eclissi Talk project by Pietro Turano, the stories of the podcast cycle of the same name (available on Spotify, Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, Spreaker, Deezer) born in the autumn of 2021 and developed by Pietro Turano together with Dante Antonelli for Cross Productions ( Skam Italy). Six episodes dedicated to stories of self-determination and revenge of six LGBTQ + people coming from apparently distant ages and universes but who in the same way have been imprisoned in the shadow cast by intolerance and misunderstanding of the world around them. Through a short dramaturgical score Turano turns the spotlight on LGBTQ + themes and accompanies a debate in the presence of the podcast protagonists, the writer Michela Murgia and guests from the world of entertainment and the Italian music scene.
To close LineUp! on 10 October at 9 pm the Roman leg of the XXL tour of Elasi, Alexandrian singer-songwriter, composer and producer who travels through real and imaginary worlds. Trained in Italy and abroad, her sound is an explosion of sounds without geographical and stylistic boundaries, fluid and colorful. In his first EP Campi Elasi develops remote collaborations with ethnic musicians from all over the world (from Mali to Brazil, from India to Armenia), his latest work Oasi Elasi is a journey to dance, with bewitching sounds and full of energy from world-electronic music to choral music up to art-pop experiments.
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