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Vesuvio
E Zezi (workers' group) by Marcello Colasurdo have been (and are) the most clearly "political" representatives of Neapolitan popular song.
They were born in Pomigliano d'Arco in '75, and Pomigliano d'Arco is not just any place: there was Alfasud, "the factory," the failed attempt to create an industrial hub on a farming background. A paradox and a forced situation whose failure has left barren ground both for popular traditions and for the hopes of redemption and development of a territory that today no longer has an identity.
The Zezi believe in Culture and Art as tools for redemption and the recovery of identity, but when they talk about Culture, they essentially look at popular culture, from which they draw the lifeblood of their music. A new music but with roots firmly planted in the past, speaking of the present with the strength of an identity deeply rooted in history.
"Vesuvio" is one of their most beautiful pieces.