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Almamegretta
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Discography
Figli di Annibale (1992)
Animamigrante (1993)
Fattalla (1994)
Sanacore (1995)
Sanacore (1995 — reprises)
Indubb (1996)
Lingo (1998)
Suonno (1998)
4/4 (1999)
Imaginaria (2001)
Sciuoglie 'e Cane (2004)
BIO
This Neapolitan group's name is a macaronic Latin and Italian phrase meaning "migrant soul" and is a testament to the continued displacement and mixing of people and ideas. Multiculturalism Italian-style.
Raiss, Gennaro T, Paolo and D.RaD formed the group in the early 1990s with a musical and ideological commitment to the use of the Neapolitan dialect as oppose to standard Italian, to the exploration of musical mixing of roots music from their home region of Campania with reagge, funk, and North and Sub-Saharan Africa musical traditions, and to the exploration of political and social issues like the historical explotation of the Italian South and racism against immigrants in Italy.
In 1992, they release their first CD Figli di Annibale, a mini recording with four songs: "Figli di Annibale," "Sanghe e anema," "'O bbuono e 'o malamente," and "Pace."
A year later the group followed with the album, Animamigrante, reinforcing similar musical and political stragetegies.
The 1994 CD Fattallą included live recordings, remixed material, and a version of composer and singer Ivano Fossati's "Panama."
The group's second full-length CD Sanacore (1995) was remixed by Adrian Sherwood at London's On-U Sound Studio, bringing the group closer into the dub realm. As Raiss explained:
With dub, technology is no longer an accessory to a musician's creativity but an actual instrument for constructing a simple musical g rammer to be used with a bare bones rhythum as a base. You can lay anything over this base, and we've tried using things from Naples. For us, dub is a boat ticket to travel the world with.
Massive Attack invited the group to record & remix the its song "Karmacoma," renaming it "The Napoli Trip."
Raiss left the band in 2003 to embarked on a solo career. He was replaced by Lucariello. In November 2004, 38-year-old D. RaD aka Stefano Facchielli, one of the group's founding members died in a scotter accident in Milan.
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