It comes out on Friday 9 January VIOLENTthe new album by Luca 'O Zulù Persicovoice and pen of 99 Possecreated together with the multi-instrumentalist Caterina Bianco. In conjunction with the release of the album, a tour that will cross all of Italy.
PRESENTATION TOUR
January 16, Naples – Trianon Viviani Theatre
05 February, Rome – Fort Trionfale
06 February, Fosdinovo (MS) – Archives of the Resistance
07 February, Ferrara – Arci Bolognese
08 February, Turin – Babelica
February 18, Fornacette (PI) – Fly Space
February 19, Valddotta (LU) – Cristoforo Colombo Theatre
February 20, Milan – Theater Space 89
March 20, Alezio (LE) – El Barrio Verde
VIOLENT
Violent is the concept album of the show of the same name which collects the multiple evolutions of 'O Zulu's solo project, born from his meeting with the producer and multi-instrumentalist Caterina Bianco, engaged in audiovisual research with the FANALI collective and currently on tour with Tropico.
Initially designed for theater and tied with a double thread to Revolutionary Vocation – The never authorized autobiography of Luca Persico (Edizioni Il Castello, 2024), Violent today it is transformed into a record divided into three acts, each dedicated to a decade of the artist's human and musical journey: the first spans the years with the 99 Posse up to the events of Genoa 2001, the second tells of the crisis, the rebirth and the return to the stage, the third opens with the birth of his son, the moment in which 'O Zulu finds freedom and lightness, letting himself be guided by the pure pleasure of making music.
The lyrics of 'O Zulù, here free from the patterns of the song form, take on new strength accompanied by sound scenarios that are sometimes symphonic, sometimes electronic, painted live layer after layer by the violin and synths of Caterina Bianco.
Around the words, the refined artistic production of Caterina herself, with Michele De Finis and Antonio Dafe, weaves atmospheres that are now more minimal and crepuscular, now more articulated, respecting those words and trying to extend their meaning.
Luca 'o Zulù Persico introduces the album like this: “I have spent my life trying to find words. Today I discover the importance of silence. I have spent my life trying to make words stronger with the song form, with the beat, with the arrangements. Today I explore the violence of my words when you remove all the superstructure and let them vibrate, free, in a soundscape painted layer after layer by the violin and synths of Caterina Bianco, who accompanies them without setting limits.
Violent it is the common thread that binds my words in a work that I wanted to divide into three acts because three decades have passed since the beginning of this story and because at the end of each decade something happens that influences, changing it, my writing. Punctually. Each act therefore contains the writings of that decade: The first retraces the years of enthusiasm, struggles and success with the 99 Posse, up to the events of Genoa 2001. The second tells of the crisis and rebirth: the exit from the group, the trips to Palestine, Iraq and Kurdistan, the addictions, the margins, the rediscovery of love and finally the return to the stage. The third opens with the birth of my son Raul, and as a direct consequence, with the explosion of unprecedented creative freedom in my artistic life. It ends together with the “Covid emergency”.
Violent it is a journey to rediscover published words, which starts from unpublished words (until today) as if to tell the story that led me there. Violent it is the opportunity to tell the B side of the journey, the story of that restlessness, of that annoyance, of that sense of unease that have always accompanied me but which gradually become better and better defined until in the end, which is also the beginning of this journey, the very figure of my writing.”
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
