Yo Yo Mundi, Daniele Sepe
Live@ Ercolano (Na), Villa Campolieto

THE REVIEW

When I read about this double concert, this combination that De Angelis had arranged for the annual festival that takes place in Ercolano, I was happy. I was happy for the simple fact that such a pairing, two artists tackling two completely different yet so similar musical genres, is not something you find every day.

The evening opens with Yo Yo Mundi, with a concert of about an hour and a quarter on the Resistance, specifically about the Tom band. They alternate musical moments with actual recited pieces, all accompanied by images and footage from the era.
The show talks about the massacre of the Tom band, a partisan formation that fell into an ambush set by the Nazi-Fascists on the hills of Monferrato.
They open the concert with the beautiful reinterpretation of De Gregori's "Le Storie di Ieri" , included in the beautiful "Volume 8" by the award-winning De André-De Gregori duo. They continue their concert performing songs like "L'ultimo testimone" and a beautiful version of "Bella Ciao", which is in no way inferior to the beautiful version by the Modena City Ramblers.
Pieces from Fenoglio are recited, intense and heartbreaking, capturing the audience's attention, which reacted to the show with great participation.
Seeing Yo Yo Mundi live is a great experience, not for nothing has the English newspaper "The Guardian" defined them as "the Clash with an accordion".

Right after, the moment comes for Neapolitan Daniele Sepe accompanied by his skilled group and a pleasant presence (in addition to an enchanting voice) that is Auli Kokko.
As many may know, Daniele Sepe is a sax virtuoso, an artist always committed to social issues, very interesting for the fact that he managed to introduce a genre (jazz) that was not considered at all in these places into the social centers circuit.
The performance was truly stunning, as expected. He performed a sort of jazz tainted by whirlwind rhythms, funk, and rooted in Neapolitan music.
The concert was not at all tedious, despite the calm audience not exactly composed of young people, and it was definitely danceable.
It is worth noting the quality of the musicians accompanying him on stage, who follow him in solos and rhythmic constructions, all aided by the splendid voice of the Swedish singer with Finnish origins, Auli Kokko.
And above all, a grand finale with an unexpected encore performed "on the fly" which was "Les amoureux des bancs publics" by Georges Brassens, interspersed with the splendid Neapolitan song "Je te voglie bene assaje", with mastery and entertaining the audience, meanwhile, crowding the stage to sing and dance.

In short, a great evening indeed, where the protagonist was a certain type of music that, from combat folk to free jazz, managed to keep the audience glued to their seats, offering them notes and popular culture that are often forgotten by many.