PESCARA. The Delle Monache brothers from Pescara, the saxophonist Piero and the DJ Andrea aka Deliuan, are on an intercontinental flight, heading to Burkina Faso. The occasion is Republic Day on June 2nd for which the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Italian Embassy have organized a celebration with music. On the program is the Salhara project, tenor sax and cymbals, among the most experimental on the contemporary scene: a unique set that ranges with mastery and transport from World music to Techno, passing through UK House to Amapiano, the new frontier of jazz music -electronics. A feat is also planned. musical by the local band Griko Junior. «It is an important event» declares Ambassador Gabriele Di Muzio «to strengthen the image of our country and of Italian culture in Burkina Faso, as well as an opportunity for the artists who come to visit us to be appreciated and to increase the their creativity thanks to the positive contamination with another musical culture”. Ambassador Di Muzio has already collaborated with Piero Delle Monache on the occasion of a tour (promoted together with the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome) which saw the musician from Abruzzo as protagonist with his band and which also stopped in Johannesburg, where Di Muzio he was consul general. It was 2013. «Every time I return to Africa», observes Piero Delle Monache, born in 1982, among the best 10 Italian jazz musicians of the future according to the magazine GQ «I feel that music truly has something magical, it harbingers unthinkable situations, it opens up wonderful scenarios». Instead, it will be the first time for his brother Andrea Delle Monache, aka Deliuan, born in 1988, DJ, videomaker and co-founder of Caption, one of the events on the Adriatic coast most awaited by the nightlife and underground music crowd. «Salhara is a name that evokes tropical sounds, but it is also a play on words» explains the DJ producer, «because it is the name of the street where we lived as children and where we grew up. With this duo we push ourselves to the boundaries of musical avant-garde, on paths that are still little-trodden, but the great thing is that we feel right at home doing it.” The duo performs three live shows in Ouagadougou: the concert hall of the Hotel Ricardo, today in the Italian restaurant Rosa dei Venti and tomorrow the tour will end with the institutional concert in the auditorium of the Hotel Lancaster Ouaga 2000.
