Radiodervish
Lingua Contro Lingua

THE REVIEW

Radiodervish are often referred to as one of the most interesting emerging bands in the Italian music scene, but in reality, they have been performing concerts and gifting us with memorable pieces for years without ever missing a beat. If you consider their previous project under the name "Al Darawish" (in Persian "visitors of doors"), from which Radiodervish originated, you actually go back to the '80s.

Reviewing Radiodervish is difficult because their music is cultured, elegant, emotional, precious, timeless and placeless, making you vibrate, especially in those magnificent acoustic concerts, where, in magical silence, their pieces, enriched by a touching and beautiful voice (alternating and blending Italian with Arabic), take shape as dreams, feelings, and scents of near and faraway lands...

Radiodervish was born in '98 from the meeting between Michele Lobaccaro from Puglia (bassist and guitarist) and Nabil from Palestine (singer), determined to create a project where cultures, religions, sounds, languages, and traditions of the Mediterranean and the East (Italy, Puglia, the Arab world, Palestine) meet and merge into a single melody, with sounds that can be both modernly electronic (keyboards and synthetic beats) and classically acoustic (piano and acoustic guitars).

Their first album "Lingua contro lingua," released by "Consorzio Produttori Indipendenti," is, for me, their masterpiece (but even the subsequent albums maintain high standards, further expanding their horizons to different languages and cultures), if you do not consider the live acoustic album released with "Manifesto" in 2001: a true masterpiece...

Ancient stories, stories of women, stories of victims, love stories... memories, encounters, dreams, travels, cities, searches, secrets, words... gardens, queens, comets, angels, knights...

Premio Ciampi '98, "Lingua contro lingua," the meeting of two worlds, is a beautiful album, to have at all costs, beyond tastes and genres.

MASTERPIECE!