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Pellegrino & Zodyaco – Koinè
“There is no defined goal, rather a desire to explore new sonic languages that hold firmly to Neapolitan roots while opening up to a global and contemporary musical aesthetic.”
With the name Koinè, a term that means “common language,” the work already guards a declaration of intent in its title, where languages (spoken and musical) and dialects mingle, creating a mosaic of sounds, sensations and visions that weaves the Neapolitan melodic tradition with disco, funk, jazz fusion and world music. Pellegrino abandons the patterns associated with revivalism, experimenting with new compositional dimensions and drawing from an imagery that blends vintage instruments, ethnic percussion and Mediterranean atmospheres.
Koinè is a musical journey that embraces the risk of change while exalting its liberating power: a sequence of images and emotions, traversing the past, experiencing the present with its baggage of disillusions and expectations and projecting itself into the future in search of a need for elsewhere that reconnects us with ourselves.
The album is a eulogy of contaminations: from popular music to synth pop, contemporary songs blending with a “dance” fusion. A delicate balance between roots and change, tradition and creative drive, in which the Pellegrino & Zodyaco project draws an authentic and contemporary portrait of the Neapolitan “new school” of which it was among the first promoters with the works “Zodyaco I” (2018) and “Morphé (2020)
Pecché
A disarming opening that recounts the acceptance of a defeat, turning it into a liberating act: “Aggio perso e so cuntento, pecché nun tengo genio ‘e cagnà.” Surrender becomes stillness, the end a starting point.
Mario
An imaginary dialogue with a disillusioned friend, lost in time and the contradictions of a city (Naples) he no longer recognizes. Mario thus becomes the archetype of a universal malaise, between melancholy and self-seeking.
L’aura
The light that illuminates everything, a glow capable of restoring beauty and wonder to the world. A track that celebrates the most intimate and luminous essence of escape: the rediscovery of what surrounds us.
Palepoli
A journey into memory, Palepoli, the ancient embryonic city that gave birth to Neapolis, tells the story of a transformation. A fusion of jazz, popular music and reggae, with lyrics that explore the lights and shadows of a city suspended between anger and redemption. To understand who we are today, one must know who we were yesterday.
Saditè
A track with a suspended flavor, like a memory that persists and does not fade away. A track with a synth pop soul that captures the essence of a tangible memory, still alive in the sensations it brings to mind.
La Malìa del Sur
A tribute to the bewitching sound of the Mediterranean koine. An interweaving of cultures and sound traditions that evokes the charm of an elsewhere near and far, where past and present coexist in perfect harmony.
Faccussì
The stillness after the storm. A harmonious pause like the wave that can lull or crash over life.
Sirene
Sleeping in the depths of the gulf, mermaids still know how to enchant those who choose to listen. A seductive and timeless song, between myth and reality, that invites belief in the suggestions that survive within us.
Koinè is proof that escape, when it is conscious, can bring us back to the heart of things.
“There is no defined goal, rather a desire to explore new sonic languages that hold firmly to Neapolitan roots while opening up to a global and contemporary musical aesthetic.”
With the name Koinè, a term that means “common language,” the work already guards a declaration of intent in its title, where languages (spoken and musical) and dialects mingle, creating a mosaic of sounds, sensations and visions that weaves the Neapolitan melodic tradition with disco, funk, jazz fusion and world music. Pellegrino abandons the patterns associated with revivalism, experimenting with new compositional dimensions and drawing from an imagery that blends vintage instruments, ethnic percussion and Mediterranean atmospheres.
Koinè is a musical journey that embraces the risk of change while exalting its liberating power: a sequence of images and emotions, traversing the past, experiencing the present with its baggage of disillusions and expectations and projecting itself into the future in search of a need for elsewhere that reconnects us with ourselves.
The album is a eulogy of contaminations: from popular music to synth pop, contemporary songs blending with a “dance” fusion. A delicate balance between roots and change, tradition and creative drive, in which the Pellegrino & Zodyaco project draws an authentic and contemporary portrait of the Neapolitan “new school” of which it was among the first promoters with the works “Zodyaco I” (2018) and “Morphé (2020)
Pecché
A disarming opening that recounts the acceptance of a defeat, turning it into a liberating act: “Aggio perso e so cuntento, pecché nun tengo genio ‘e cagnà.” Surrender becomes stillness, the end a starting point.
Mario
An imaginary dialogue with a disillusioned friend, lost in time and the contradictions of a city (Naples) he no longer recognizes. Mario thus becomes the archetype of a universal malaise, between melancholy and self-seeking.
L’aura
The light that illuminates everything, a glow capable of restoring beauty and wonder to the world. A track that celebrates the most intimate and luminous essence of escape: the rediscovery of what surrounds us.
Palepoli
A journey into memory, Palepoli, the ancient embryonic city that gave birth to Neapolis, tells the story of a transformation. A fusion of jazz, popular music and reggae, with lyrics that explore the lights and shadows of a city suspended between anger and redemption. To understand who we are today, one must know who we were yesterday.
Saditè
A track with a suspended flavor, like a memory that persists and does not fade away. A track with a synth pop soul that captures the essence of a tangible memory, still alive in the sensations it brings to mind.
La Malìa del Sur
A tribute to the bewitching sound of the Mediterranean koine. An interweaving of cultures and sound traditions that evokes the charm of an elsewhere near and far, where past and present coexist in perfect harmony.
Faccussì
The stillness after the storm. A harmonious pause like the wave that can lull or crash over life.
Sirene
Sleeping in the depths of the gulf, mermaids still know how to enchant those who choose to listen. A seductive and timeless song, between myth and reality, that invites belief in the suggestions that survive within us.
Koinè is proof that escape, when it is conscious, can bring us back to the heart of things.
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