Justin Adams & Mauro Durante

(uk/it)

Justin Adams, known for his collaborations with Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin), Tinariwen, Rachid Taha and Souad Massi, has been an essential figure in contemporary global music. The son of diplomats and raised between the Middle East and the UK, the guitarist and producer fuses punk, o dub punk, dub and North African traditions with disarming fluidity. In recent years, he has also produced albums by Portuguese fado singer Lina, French-Algerian Souad Massi and collaborated with artists such as Sinead O'Connor and Juldeh Camara. Mauro Durante, on the other hand, is the heir and renovator of traditional Salento music. Leader of the historic Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino - founded by his family in 1975 - he is one of those responsible for the reinvention of pizzica and the international affirmation of Taranta as a living language. His career has crossed paths with names such as Ludovico Einaudi, Ibrahim Maalouf, Stewart Copeland, Piers Faccini and Jovanotti, always with one foot in tradition and the other in experimentation.

“Sweet Release”‘Sweet Release’, published by Ponderosa Music Records, is the second chapter in a musical dialogue that breaks down stylistic and cultural barriers. Recorded live in the studio, the album has the urgency and intimacy of a live performance, with room for improvisation and moments of pure harmony between the two artists. From rockabilly ao transe sufi, da Taranta rockabilly to Sufi trance, from the Taranta of the south of Italy to modern minimalism, the album covers a wide emotional and sonic geography, always with catharsis and healing as its central themes.