Music From Mullets #28 w/ Frinda di Lanco & Granita di Fichi

Music From Mullets #28 is an episode about MUSICA DEL SUD – We’re talking about artists and labels from the south of Italy:  Sicily, Calabria and Napels. You will notice that these songs are sung in Neapolitan, a language spoken by 7,5 million people mainly in Southern Italy which is is closely related to Italian, but it has evolved its own unique characteristics like different pronunciation of certain consonants, a tendency to drop unstressed vowels at the end of words and unique verb conjugations. Neapolitan has a rich history and culture, especially in literature and song. It is considered a source of pride for its speakers.

I’ve been collecting vinyl records from Southern Italy for a while now and still find it hard to distinguish where exactly these records are from, as there is very little known about those labels, that sometimes only released a handful of records. The first hour of the show features music from the Sicilian labels Sea Musica, Giesse and Step record, but also other small Italian labels with uncertain origin like BOOM, Gulp, Near, Aper, New Si-Re, Big Sound Record, Power Sound and so on.

One half from Catania and one half from Naples – Roberta Maugeri and Felice Angiero as Granita di Fichi are collecting vinyl records from the south of Italy and have prepared a guest mix of obscure sound from Sicily and the Mediterranean Sea that makes every collector of that genre sweat.