Neripè & Guappecartò
Amay

Released coinciding with International Women's Day, throughout Italy and on major digital platforms, AMAY is the first album by NERIPE' and played by the Italo-Parisian ensemble GUAPPECARTO'.

AMAY is a true concept album entirely dedicated to nine great women who, with their stories and actions, have left an indelible mark on past and present history.
The nine tracks indeed narrate a female universe, inspired by nine famous women and their innovative and courageous thinking, but at the same time, nine songs that tell the various facets of the female soul: "L'ODOR DEL PIANTO" dedicated to ROSE PARKS, an icon of the African American civil rights movement, "DANS MON REVE" dedicated to the scientist Nobel Laureate in 1903 for Physics MARIE CURIE, "UN FIORE NASCOSTO" dedicated to the Mexican artist FRIDA KAHLO, "MULTIVERSO" dedicated to the Italian astrophysicist MARGHERITA HACK, "AMAY" dedicated to AUNG SAN SUU KY, Burmese politician and Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1991, "LABIRINTOCHESONOCHESEI" dedicated to SAPPHO, the most famous poetess of Ancient Greece, "ROSA BAGLIORE" dedicated to the Italian astronaut SAMANTHA CRISTOFORETTI, with lyrics faithfully using some of her numerous tweets sent during her time in space, "UNLOCKED" dedicated to LEYMA GBOWEE, Liberian peace activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2011, "IL RICORDO MIGLIORE" dedicated to KIKKI, a mother like many others.

The album was produced by Stefano Piro, already the voice of Lythium (Winners of the Critics' Award at the San Remo Festival in 2000) who collaborates on the lyrics with Neripè and takes care of the arrangement and avails of the extraordinary contribution of Mauro Pagani, on the violin in the track, "Un fiore nascosto" and French sound engineer Laurent Dupuy (Grammy Award in 2014).

"AMAY" (literally in Burmese "Mother") is a very current album, with a taste for manouche music, tango, jazz but with pop hues. At its center are the gaze and heart of women, where lightness and depth, dreams and willpower, dance in harmony with both ancient and future music, where the intention of sound and word retain the same powerful energy at every step.

An important album to have, in every sense.