APRÈS LA CLASSE
&
NIGHT OF THE TARANTA
THE NEW SINGLE "LA FESTA PATRONALE"
OUT FRIDAY, MAY 5
with Sony Music Italy
"The band plays
Jousts shanties and cafes
At the patronal feast
Gourmet sweets and cupeta
At the patronal festival
Fairs and livestock
Blasphemies and cronies
Golden clothes for you
At the patronal feast"
As of Friday, May 5, "La Festa Patronale" is on the radio and available digitally, the new single from Salento's Après La Classe, who give the public a festive comeback with the collaboration of the Popular Orchestra Notte della Taranta.
An exciting fresco of the Patronal Feast that from the first listen takes us to the stage of the popular ritual among processions colored by rose petals, illuminations, shanties, merry-go-rounds and the band playing. The protagonist is the fatalistic patron saint linked to daily life, to a secular environment animated by collective passion, in the continuous exchange between sacred and profane.
The Salento band, in collaboration with the Notte della Taranta Foundation, returns to an active cultural intervention with a text that makes the inner treasure of every community more accessible: the patronal feast. A hymn to the beauty of waiting, to that magical moment that separates us from the day of the feast, when all "our people are waiting for it."
The unreleased song is a ballad full of surprising snapshots and intimate awe, with an ethno-pop sound that tells in an almost autobiographical way about a man who, by mirroring himself in the lights of the feast, wants to celebrate the value of depth and imagination of the past in order not to get lost in the demonic contemporary perception of himself.
The song pays homage to all the Patronal Feasts. It opens with the announcement, sung by Antonio Amato accompanied by Valerio Combass Bruno's bass, of the day of the Feast. It is the voices of Francesco Arcuti and Marco Perrone that take us into the colorful atmosphere of the town celebrating its patron saint. Alessandra Caiulo, Consuelo Alfieri and Giancarlo Paglialunga complete the fresco of cheerful sounds between the tambourines of Roberto Chiga and Gioele Nuzzo, the violin of Giuseppe Astore and the unmistakable sound of Gianluca Longo's mandola.
The cover is signed by Max Brunetti whose artistic vision gives body and life to the saint who becomes, with the use of artificial intelligence, Antonio the friend and confidant, imperfect and fallible.
The track will be available here:
https://epic.lnk.to/LA_FESTA_PATRONALE
"Après La Classe, with "La festa patronale," points out Federico Capone a member of the scientific committee of the La Notte della Taranta Foundation, offer a lively fresco of what is the feast in honor of the patron saint of every town, whether large or small, in southern Italy; that they know the dynamics of the feast is clear from the opening verses, in which they describe the accompaniment of the statue of the saint, with the clergy at the head followed by representatives of the institutions and local notables, band and confraternity. And the faithful who, in religious silence, march on, creating an orderly line escorted by wings of the crowd. The patronal feast is a "great feast," brought to life by so many other figures, sometimes in opposition to each other, from the grandmother who prays from the balcony throwing rose petals, to the children dressed in white, to those engaged in more secular and venal tasks, preparing the market.
The beauty of this piece, and the bravura of Après La Classe, lies in showing the thousands of colors of the illuminations, in making the smells of coffee and copeta.
And then the battery of fires: the carousels light up, the trumpets blare. La festa patronale begins."
Après La Classe will present "La Festa Patronale" and their greatest hits on tour throughout Italy:
June 29 Imola Summer Fest, Imola (BO)
June 30 Etnica Festival, Vicchio (FI)
July 14 Ornano Grande, Teramo
July 21 Agri In Salento, Salice Salentino (LE)
July 25 Scapp Festival, Mattinata (FG)
The Popular Orchestra will present the song on the 2023 tour in Italy and abroad:
May 13 Jazz Festival, Vicenza
May 13 Patronal Festival, Specchia (LE)
May 20 Italian Cultural Institute, Novi SAd (Serbia)
May 22 Crazy Week, Milan
June 2 Singapore
June 10, Cernusco sul Naviglio (MI)
June 12 Patronal Festival, Tricase (LE)
June 14 Reopening Theatre, Sant'Agata Bolognese (BO)
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Title: La Festa Patronale
Après La Classe & Popular Orchestra La Notte della Taranta
Release Date: 05/05/2023
Label: Get Up Music
Under license Epic Records distribution: Sony Music Italy
Production: Apres La Classe, Get Up music, La Notte della Taranta Foundation
Credits
Apres La Classe:
Francesco Arcuti (vocals), Marco Perrone, (vocals) Valerio Bruno (bass)
La Notte della Taranta Popular Orchestra:
Antonio Amato (voice), Giancarlo Paglialunga (voice), Consuelo Alfieri (voice), Alessandra Caiulo (voice) Roberto Chiga (tambourine), Gioele Nuzzo (tambourine), Gianluca Longo (mandola), Giuseppe Astore (violin).
Additional musicians
Guitar: Emanuele Pagliara
Drums: Gianmarco Serra
Keyboards: Pasquale Carrieri
Recorded and mixed: Alex Fazzi - Laboratori Musicali, Trepuzzi (LE)
Mastering: Francesco Guadalupi - Om Studio Mastering Room, Brindisi
