Negramaro
Mentre tutto scorre

It's as clear as day that this year the summer song was "Estate" by Negramaro, finally a real song and not the usual three-word chorus! After participating in the Sanremo festival, in the young artists' category, naturally immediately eliminated from the competition, it took the Festivalbar to introduce this young group of good musicians with a name as dense and dark as their Salento!

In their early appearances, Negramaro were immediately unjustly labeled as the local copies of trendy English bands, yet in their songs, they reveal talent and intelligence. The Puglian band shows that they have listened to and studied the lessons of Radiohead and Coldplay, however, they manage to enliven them and fill the sounds with color with a healthy dose of pop-rock made in Italy, which always meets with the favor of the public.

Negramaro plays uncompromising rock, songs that seem to be at times traversed by a shiver of anger that coats with corrosivity the subtle melancholy that seems to envelop the entire album. The emotional warmth of the more intimate ballads, both those that musically exhibit a slightly dark intense atmosphere, and those that develop as more enveloping and acoustic songs, always have a subtle echo of sadness and nostalgia.

In the tracks of TUTTO SCORRE (Sugarmusic), all entirely composed by the singer Giuliano Sangiorgi, one can hear that contradictory blend of disillusioned irony and romantic idealism that can spark immediate affinity even in the more mature listeners, those less distracted by the radio noise. When Italian rock has songs of good quality and merges with melody, an album like this is born that can be listened to with kindness, amusing and slow, unpredictable and melancholic, glorious and fragile, like life... if only it could never end.