Article by Alessandro Amendolara | Photo of Giorgia de Dato
When I was a teenager, I had the most beautiful holiday of my life in Salento. I had everything: the best years, my friends, many girls to be won, lu sule, lu mare, lu ientuthe beers (other things that rhyme) and the freedom to scroll through the Salento streets with ball music, singing at the top of our playlists made on registered drawers, including “Aurora dreams“It was the song we used to load ourselves before throwing ourselves into the most unbridled clubbing. A few years later, with that company we tried to recreate that magical holiday, but too many pieces were missing: the world had changed, the situations had changed and perhaps the first to have changed were us, together with our cultural references. These are those moments in which you realize lucidly that the people who manage to mature, to evolve but to remain consistent with themselves are truly rare and Subsonic I really think they are part of this whole. So I put on the same Dr. Martens that I had the first time I heard them at the Hiroshima Mon Amour and I slice at the Alcatraz: will they still be the same guys I crossed the Murazzi, storming them with questions and proposals of embarrassing collaborations?
While walking, I will review some number: 2024 marks the publication of their tenth studio album (Augmented reality), which carry around first for the theaters and then to the Italian summer festivals with “La Bolla Tour”; In the following year, their desire to move does not seem to end and organize the “Club Tour 2025”, paying homage to their fans scattered throughout Europe with six dates in February and return to Italy in March for another nine, starting from the Alcatraz in Milan with two consecutive evenings.
In the meantime, after a typical Milanese drizzle, I enter the club with their music in the headphones, I greet the many friendly faces (including ENSIthat I hoped was there to give us the duet in Waiting for the sunbut I will have to wait for the concert of Neffed in November …), I take the first average blonde of the evening and punctual as Equitalia, Samuel He gets on stage with his members and greets us by opening with Eden.
The acoustics tonight is perfect and the boys decide to leave with a “augmented reality” selection: Sand fist He immediately jumps us, among the riffoni of Max Casacci and the Drum & Bass bases of the very soft Boost; Africa on Mars Enter you with his tribal beat e No fault It makes us reflect on the migratory issues that unfortunately bitterly distinguish the last decade.
With Gunshot We go back in time to the end of the nineties, as a forerunner at the moment Clubbing who is about to arrive, not before leaving us undergoing with Dawn. Takes the floor Boost who reminds us of their first sold out at the “zero track” and explains that this tour was born from the band's roots, why “It all started in the clubs and it is always nice and right to return “: can we blame him? Then the alcatraz can only inflame itself with a nostalgic combo with a very high content of beat: Glaciation opens the set and people start jumping and then totally loses control with Discolabirinto (very curious that at that moment there was Andy of Bluvertigo by my side). We do not have time to recover, which attack vigliamente with Quick cloudsalmost like a dj-set they mix below New obsessionmake us feel an echo of “Motel Connection” with Breathe and pay homage to the vate Franco Battiato with the cover Up Patriots to Arms. I admit that I am tried by this assassin combo, but luckily the spiner of berrette is really a few steps from me!
We go out of the EDM of ADM and enter a moment of the more “social” concert, with the introduction of Samuel a The circles of treesa particularly touching text of Casacci, who already concentrated on environmental and behavioral issues already in 2014, which ten years later they are even more current increasingly worrying. Unfortunately, everything is also strengthened in the text of the next Missiles and droneswhich becomes a starting point to reflect on our collective future with Silent sun.
Following Depine, A piece that seems not to have been written in 1999 because in turn it focuses on aspects still very present in the contemporary world (in turn linked to the overall social fresco painted by the band in the three previous songs), which lead and expand in the universe as an alternative dreamlike universe of Aurora dreams.
The thaumataric power of the concert rite brings us from this moment of collective self -awareness to a saving sabbat that is embodied in the notes of All freewhich makes us shout in great lungs that we will free ourselves from all these evils, because we are tired of feeling sterile criticisms towards us like those of Ogoshi petrol.
When the first unmistakable notes of All my mistakes, I have the confirmation that the boys of Turin have remained faithful to themselves and that in addition they have matured a social consciousness that has even raised them, giving us a kaleidoscope of sensations that manage to raise us as people, both by exploiting the endorphinic power of the dance and the power of words, always well calibrated and weighted.
While my brain Elucubra abstruse thoughts, the involuntary strait of a guy next to me makes me go back to this land and realize that we arrived in closing with Roadswhich finally leaves room for the last song of the evening, Bluea piece originally designed for United Africa which definitively sanctions the position of the Subsonics on issues such as discrimination and prejudice.
If I had for a second the doubt that the boys had changed, the two hours spent together tonight have unequivocally sanctioned that the Subsonics remain the Subsonica and “aging” improve like the best Piedmontese wines.
Now I get dressed, I start Aurora dreams of the headphones and like that summer in Salento I sing the lunch along the road that accompanies me towards my trusted kebabbaro and “I can tell me alive“!
Click here to see the photos of the Subsonica in concert at the Alcatraz in Milan or browse the gallery below:
Subsonica – The lineup of Club Tour 2025 at the Alcatraz in Milan
Eden
Sand fist
Africa on Mars
No fault
Gunshot
Dawn
Glaciation
Discolabirinto
Quick clouds
New obsession
Breathe
Up Patriots to Arms (Cover by Franco Battiato)
The circles of trees
Missiles and drones
Silent sun
Depth
Aurora dreams
All free
Ogoshi petrol
All my mistakes
Roads
Blue
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
