On Monday 21 June, on the occasion of the Music Festival, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation presents a project for the promotion of Italian music abroad: Music For Uncertain Times. A journey in three video episodes broadcast by the foreign network of Italian Embassies, Consulates and Institutes of Culture and on the Italian Vimeo channel, the Ministry portal dedicated to the promotion of Italian language, culture and creativity in the world. Commissioned by the Farnesina, written by Andrea Lai and directed by Francesco Coppola, the project consists of three unpublished and exclusive musical performances, recorded by protagonists of contemporary Italian song in some representative places of the country’s cultural heritage: Francesca Michielin and Vasco Brondi in the Museo del Novecento in Milan, Fiorella Mannoia and Clementino at the Castel dell’Ovo in Naples and the List Representative at Palazzo Butera in Palermo.
A path that creates a dialogue between music, cultural heritage and cinematographic language. The frame is offered by three architectural gems: the oldest castle in Naples, one of the youngest museums in Milan, a monumental complex symbol of Palermo. Within them, contemporary Italian pop is the protagonist, with three exclusive live performances in new versions. The spotlights on the music are then transformed into reflections on the music in these uncertain moments, through the words of the artists collected immediately after the performances.
Francesca Michielin and Vasco Brondi are two of the most interesting artists of the current Italian music scene: she is a multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter who is celebrating her ten-year career this year, he is a pioneer of the indie scene with the project Le Luci della Centrale embarked on his solo career. They inaugurated 2021 by collaborating on the single Bad Stars. In Music For Uncertain Times they performed it for the first time live, piano and voice, at the Museo del Novecento in Milan. Fiorella Mannoia accompanied with her unmistakable voice the last fifty years of Italian music, Clementino is a column of the Italian hip hop scene of the new millennium. Two artists from apparently light years distant universes, who meet within the walls of the Castel dell’Ovo for an intertwining of guitar and rap with a view of the Gulf of Naples. A performance made even more magical by the chosen song: Terra mia by Pino Daniele. The Lista Representative – a project born in 2011 from the meeting between the singer Veronica Lucchesi and the multi-instrumentalist Dario Mangiaracina – was among the greatest revelations of the last Sanremo Festival, where it conquered audiences and critics with Amare. In his Palermo, enveloped by the eighteenth-century aura of Palazzo Butera, today a laboratory of art and avant-garde of the Mediterranean, the duo performs the Sanremo piece, in an elegant, intense and experimental version for piano and strings.
Music For Uncertain Times tells about music art among the arts. It does so through the musicians, their notes and their words, while reflecting on music in times of change, on its being a guide when the horizon changes, of being beauty against fear. It fills with music architectures born for other purposes told by the voices of art critics and curators: Gianluca Marziani at the Museo del Novecento, Paola Ugolini at Castel dell’Ovo and Claudio Gulli at Palazzo Butera. Three intense musical postcards of the new Italian beauty, three new free contents available to everyone from June 21st on Italian.
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