About this Event
Alessio Bondì is a singer-songwriter from Palermo, Italy.His songs offer a new and exciting perspective on the Sicilian dialect, which he privileges as a key to the unconscious—never confined to purely traditional contexts nor considered a second-rate language.
After an inspired debut, acclaimed by both the public and critics (Sfardo, 2015), Bondì’s music seems to pursue an increasingly deeper immersion into a Sicily that is at times sensual and percussive (Nivuru, 2018), at times inspired by peasant spells (Maharia, 2021), and at times infused with classical guitars and ancient melodies (Spaccaossa OST, 2022); supported by growing interest both in Italy and abroad.
With his fourth album, Runnegghiè, Bondì creates a world of extreme opposites, dense with doom and sweetness, violence and joy, with references to the Sicilian oral tradition, enlivened by a contemporary touch.The production by Fabio Rizzo, who also produced all of the singer’s previous LPs, highlights a Sicily marked by ritual drums, lamentations, and Mediterranean guitars, with one foot in the archaic and the other in modern beatmaking.The dialect becomes the key to a shared, communal emotion, allowing one to transcend the self and reach a collective, pre-linguistic ecstasy, where it no longer matters who you are, only that you become lost in others, in music, in Everything.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Grace, 20-22 Highbury Corner, London, United Kingdom
GBP 13.62
