Expand / To Feel Embraced
This time I’ve been expanding way beyond Italy – hence the title – and way beyond minimalist music. The mix opens with an excerpt from a live set by Mace, one of Italy’s most interesting urban…
The Happy Arsenal of the Broken: Toni Esposito & the Napoli Power
German Marxists in Naples In the mid-1920s Naples became a refuge for a group of Marxist theorists loosely associated with what later came to be known as the Frankfurt School. The city had long been a…
Avant-garde on the Balera: Franco Battiato’s Classical Contemporary
Franco Battiato is a balera singer turned avant-garde composer, and that’s precisely where the strength of his music lies. The Italian term balera doesn’t have a perfect equivalent in English: think of an unpretentious, all-ages working-class…