Turbo Sud / Ma3azef (Napoli Classica Special) 29th September 2021

Tracklist:

Medley (Gianni Celeste - Chiove / Gigi D’Alessio - Comm’è difficile / Cinzia Oscar - Sola / Anna Russano - Amore)
Maria Nazionale -‘ O Rammariello (ft. Mauro Nardi)
Gianni Celeste - ‘E Cammino
Tony Bruni - Spinamaria
Mimmo Del Sud - Femmena Doce
Nino D’Angelo - Uocchie ‘E Mare
Cinzia Oscar - Una Storia Impossibile (ft. Franco Ricciardi)
Tommy Riccio - Nun Me Ne ‘Mborta
Franco Ricciardi - Levammo Tutte Cose A Mieze (ft. Ida Rendano)
Franco Moreno - Mille Pazzie
Mario Da Vinci - O’Motorino
Franco Ricciardi - Vaco Pazz Pe Te
Gigi Finizio - E Dint’a A Nuje
Nino D’Angelo - Nu Poc E Te
Gianluca Capozzi - Che Ce Vedimme A Fà (ft. Brunella Gori)
Franco Moreno - Nuje Core E Core
Mauro Nardi - E Pe' T’Ave'
Franco Ricciardi - E’ Troppo Bello
Carmelo Zappulla - Sulu Nu Suonno
Mauro Nardi - Fra Nuje (feat Maria Nazionale)
Cinzia Oscar - Piangere
Sal Da Vinci - Guagliò

Turbo Sud / Ma3azef (Neomelodico Special) 13th November 2021

Turbo Sud / Ma3azef (Festa 'e Sant'Antuono Special) 13th January 2022

https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/turbo-sud-settimana-santa-special-14th-april-2022

Turbo Sud - Settimana Santa Special - 140422

A journey into a mixture of sonic memories from Puglia, in the South East of Italy, through music by artists from the region and recordings that took place locally by musicians passing by. The show includes traditional music genres such as Pizzica, the forgotten story from the early nineties of its electronic counterpart Tecnopizzica, folk songs from cassette tapes sold at street stalls, and ballads sung in local dialects. All together with a multitude of other stuff spanning from an edit of 'Salento Love', a dubplate recorded by Busy Signal in 2013, to experimental Electronic music, Industrial Noise and Ambient releases from underground labels such as Canti Magnetici and the cutting-edge catalogue from the eighties of Minus Habens Records.

Tracklist: 

Valerio Daniele - None none nanna (ft. Alessia Tondo)
Gaspare Sammartano - Otto Rovesciato
Gruppo Folkloristico Gricanico - Klama
Maria Valentina Chirico - Live at Castrignano de' Greci, Live Excerpt 1
Pierpaolo De Giorgi e i Tamburellisti di Torre Paduli, Gino Ingrosso - Transpizzica
Mascarimirì - Tammurria
Luigi Paoli - La Vecchiaia è 'na carogna
Nightmare Lodge - Dismemembering The Holy Virus
Alessandro Chiga, Dario Bellezza - ??? (unreleased)
Niceta Petrachi - Malachianta
CA PO - Tra Morte e Sepoltura
Donato Epiro - Nessuna Natura
Roberto Chiga - Solo
Dj Gruff, Roberto Chiga - Live @ Abba Vive 2010
Cesare Dell'Anna, Andrea Sammartano - Tecnopizzica 1998
Busy Signal x Donato Epiro - Salento Love [Heavy Hammer Dubplate] / Rubisco
Piero Arnò - Envelope Return
Nightmare Lodge - Lui Solo !
I Cantori dei Menamenamò - Lunidìa mattina
Andrea Sacco - Lu pover cor mij feritë feritë
Armonie dei due Mari - Varca D'Ore
Enzo Del Re - Goccia

Turbo Sud / Radio Alhara (Puglia Special) 10th April 2023

This episode explores the discography of the legendary Neapolitan saxman, songwriter and composer James Senese who founded the Italian cornerstone band Napoli Centrale, one of the most important ensembles in the panorama of Italian prog-rock and jazz music. Famous for singing primarily in Neapolitan and experimenting with influences going from prog-rock to funk, soul, jazz and Neapolitan music, James Senese played a decisive role in the rise of Napoli's music scene of the '70s and '80s. His working-class Neapolitan identity and the complex experience of being of black descent in postwar Italy have been recurrent themes in his music career. He grew up in one of the toughest outskirts of the city and is the son of Anna Senese, a Neapolitan woman, and James Smith, an African American soldier of the 92nd Infantry Division, redeployed in Naples for a few years following the Salerno landing in 1943.

Turbo Sud / Radio Alhara (James Senese Special) 8th May 2023

The new chapter of Turbo Sud on @radioalhara is a sonic investigation of South Italy's extensive traditional music repertoires dedicated to the sea. Tune in for a one-hour dive into a mix of songs sung in local dialects exploring maritime culture, sailors, fishermen, water deities, seaside romance, and controversial storytellings about cigarette smugglers, alongside a selection of ambient, industrial noise and experimental Electronic music.

This show will include several archival recordings and revival reinterpretations of fisherman songs, including 'Aja Mola', a Sicilian chant used to be intoned by tuna fishermen on the island of Favignana, incorporating Arabic words with Sicilian to invoke Jesus with all his saints, asking for a fishing trip rich in abundance while also functioning as a litany for setting the pace of the movements required by the hard labour on the boat. 

Another highlight will be ballads dedicated to aquatic life, such as one dedicated to a fictional swordfish desperately trying to save his beloved after she gets caught by fishermen or a song about Cola Pesce, the myth of a merman whose legend has persisted in the literature of the peninsula since the 12th century.

Moreover, the mix will feature a diverse range of Neapolitan Music from Sceneggiata to Neomelodico. Think of beach towns and seaside locations through melodic love songs and stunning vocals recounting the life o fisherman, love tragedies, summer memories and the troubling life of a South Italian cigarette smuggler.

Tracklist:

Enzo Di Domenico - Palomma d' 'o mare
Enzo Del Forno - Capitano ‘e Mare
Maria Nazionale - Gennaro e Lucia
CAPO - Acqua Sporca-Cacosmia
Rosa Balistreri - La Trabia
Otello Profazio - La Leggenda di Colapesce
Enzo Del Re - U Navgant
Giulio Nocera - Infine Andammo Al Mare
Domenico Modugno - Lu Pisce Spada
SAMMARTANO - Fisherman spirits
Gnanzu (Canto tradizionale dei pescatori di Favignana)
V.Ancona, Sebastiano Venza, C.Cascio, Gaetano D’Angelo, N. Curatolo - V’alamó
? - Haiu a Mola
NZIRIA - Te A Lun E O Mar
Tony Brina - O Motoscafo
Sammartano - Sirene - Big Muraglione
Roberto Murolo - Mare Verde
? - E la luna 'mienze 'u mare
Carlos Casas - Puzzu 
Gigi D’Alessio, Franco Ricciardi - A Riva ‘e Mare (Slowed + Reverb)
Nino D’Angelo - Nu Biglietto P’o Mare

Turbo Sud / Radio Alhara (Songs About The Sea) 12th June 2023

This fourth episode of Turbo Sud on @radioalhara is an hour of South Italian acoustic guitar songs by songwriters, sonaturi, cantastorie e cantori, such as the legendary Sicilian singer Rosa Balistreri, pop star Domenico Modugno, and a little-known Calabrian Arbëreshë music group called Moti I Parë. The show groups together a collection of both well-known and rare records mostly from the 60s and 70s with very different themes, such as love, the struggle of South Italian's working class and the hardship and nostalgia of emigrants.

Tracklist:

Rosa Balistreri - Lu rispettu
Uccio Bandello, Giuseppe Luceri - Alle undici di notte
Groupe Arbereshe di Lungro (Moti I Parë) - Ti Vasharele
Anna Cinzia Villani - Ninnamorella
Gian Campione - Li Duluri Di La Matri Santa
Otello Profazio - L'amuri Non È Ficu
Roberto Murolo - Vierno
Rosa Balistreri - Lu muttu anticu
Gruppo Folk Matera - U Suldete
Anonimo - E cavaddhu ci la faci ‘sta salita
Concetta Barra - Canzone ‘e Carcere
Ciccio Busacca - Lu treno di lu suli
Gian Campione - L’antenati
Antonella D’Agostino - Iesce sole
Domenico Modugno - Amara terra mia
Sergio Bruni - Carmela
Otello Profazio - Amuri amuri
Silvana Licursi - Qifti 
Franco Ricciardi - Annure
Tonino Zurlo - Lu frate in polizia

Turbo Sud / Radio Alhara (Chitarra e voce) 10th July 2023

Earlier this year, SSC Napoli had a triumphant victory in Serie A. After more than thirty years, a Southern Italian football team has finally clinched the Italian league, marking a historic achievement for the city and the rest of the country.

The show aims to gather Neapolitan rap and Neomelodico – two key players in a thriving and uprising local music scene. Both scenes, characterized by music sung in the Neapolitan language, are imposing themselves despite the misundersting and marginalisation fueled by Italian national media. Expect hits, lesser-known releases, low-quality unreleased recordings sourced from YouTube and Telegram, live acapella performances from Tik Tok and an array of edits and mashups. 

This music context is a complex geographical spectrum, reaching far beyond the borders of Naples itself, extending across Southern Italy, particularly in cities like Bari, Palermo, and Catania, where the historical popularity of Neapolitan music originates from the pre-unification era of Southern Italy. But also, in Rome, Northern Italy, and among South Italian communities abroad – in cities like Stuttgart and Mannheim in Germany - due to the extensive South Italian diaspora present in Northern Europe and America.

Neomelodico, a music genre born in Naples during the eighties, emerged from the remnants of classical Neapolitan Music and Sceneggiata Napoletana. It is renowned for being played at weddings, birthdays, and anniversaries within working-class South Italian families. While maintaining a strong connection with Neapolitan musical traditions, Neomelodico singers reinterpret these traditions by infusing elements of folk music, pop-rock, hip-hop, and reggaeton influences. These influences often resonate with music genres like Romanian Manele, as well as contemporary Balkan, Arab, and Turkish pop music. 

In recent years, the genre has experienced a meteoric rise on various streaming platforms, amassing millions of streams and gathering thousands to concerts. Despite all of this, only a very few singers have secured record deals with major labels over the past four decades.

Tracklist:

Nino D'Angelo - E Io Te Credo (AGOSTINO Edit)
Nando Mariano - Sparame Dint'O Core (AGOSTINO Edit)
Tony Cossentino - Tu Me Cagnato A Vita (AGOSTINO Edit)
Vale Lambo - Last Night
Marco Calone - Quando Staje Sola Tu (Chitarra e voce)
Geolier - Futuro (AGOSTINO Edit)
Matteo Milazzo - MãMã (AGOSTINO Edit)
VMONSTER ft Franco Ricciardi - CAP E COR
Ida Rendano - Smania (cover)
Christian Revo ft. Geolier - Vien Cu Me
Pino Franzese - M Manc (live acapella)[slowed + reverb]
Geolier - P Secondiglian (concerto Milano)
VMONSTER ft Rosy Viola - O' SACC GIÀ
Chiara D'Amico - Nun so' 'na bambola
YE$HUA - AMMOR MALAT (AGOSTINO Edit)
Alessia Maisto - Nun è stat facile (AGOSTINO Edit)
J Lord - Intro
Moderup ft. J Lord - Peccati
Franco Ricciardi - Annure
Vincenzo Junior - Sultato Pe' N'Ora (Acapella)[AGOSTINO Edit)
Roberta Bella - Nun Te Voglio E Te Penso (Live Acapella)
Nicola Siciliano - Sij Staje Cu Me
Bema - Amò (AGOSTINO Edit)
Carlo Bagli - Quando Tu Me Vase (AGOSTINO RMX)[Unreleased]
Nicola Siciliano - Vien Nziem A Me
Maria Nazionale - Ragione E Sentimento (Live at Teatro Palapartenope, Peppy Night)
Peppe Soks - Nennè
Carmen Zarra - T'Aggio Purtato Na Rosa (Acapella) [AGOSTINO Edit]
Gianluca Capuozzi - Scuordate sti vase
Marika Tarascio X Manuka Honey - Tiene A Esse E Pure A Me X Industrial Princess (2SICILIE Mashup)
Noemi Mesto - Nun Me Fai Cchiù Campà
Pino Franzese - Pane E Miseria (2SICILIE Edit)
La Niña ft. Franco Ricciardi - TU

Turbo Sud / Radio Alhara (Rap Napoletano, Neomelodico, Edits) 14th August 2023

The show delves into a peculiar niche of South Italian music repertoires exploring themes connected to the life of donkeys and horses. Expect old songs tipically recited by horse cart drivers in the streets of places such as Napoli, Palermo, and Salento, as well as a selection of other sort of songs entirely dedicated to the life of the two species.

The mix will explore the intricate relationship between man and these animals, the hardships of farmers life in post-war Italy and the love for these creatures, but also their dreadful exploitation that used to take place in mines and fields, or still happening in contemporary clandestine horse racing.

Turbo Sud / Radio Alhara (Ciucci, Cavaddhi, Trainieri, Carritteri, etc...) 12th September 2023

Turbo Sud is back on Radio Alhara after a four-month silence. The show paused due to the most recent and tragic exacerbations of the Palestinian genocide perpetrated by the zionist colonial entity and its occupation forces since longer than 76 years. Before giving any introduction to today's episode, it is vitally important to state that Turbo Sud will always stand unequivocally against zionism and always be in support of a free and decolonised Palestine from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.

This episode marks the first takeover on the Turbo Sud show, and OEOAS, the Electroacoustic Orchestra Sonic Arts Workshop from Naples, will be today's guest. The orchestra was born in the Department of Electronic Music at the Conservatory San Pietro a Majella in Napoli from an idea by musician, composer, and professor Elio Martusciello in 2014.

OEOAS is a horizontally organised orchestra, an open container focused on improvisation, sociality, and collaboration through the use of a sign language called "OEOAS protocol". Since its foundation, the project has included more than 550 musicians, including professionals, amateurs, and students, and various forms of collaborative work, such as one with the musicians of Alexandria and Cairo - the latter is featured on this broadcast.

The first recording in the show will be "Rosso" (2020), a 21-minute-long track released in the first and only publicly available OEOAS album. As a result of an intense recording process that lasted a week, a hundred musicians from all over Italy created this composition driven by the urgency of collective action as both a musical experience and a social act.

The second part of the show will be a 37-minute excerpt from an unreleased live improvisation held at the Goethe Institut of Cairo in 2023 as part of a 3-day workshop and concert titled Mortajal X OEOAS by OEOAS members and musicians from Cairo under the co-direction of Palestinian musician, educator, and researcher Huda Asfour and the Italian composer, improviser, researcher, and OEAOAS's member Valentina Ciniglio.

Turbo Sud / Radio Alhara w/ OEOAS (Orchestra Elettroacustica Officina Arti Soniche)

[ENG] One hour broadcast of online-found recordings of rallies, pickets, and protests organised over the past months in South Italy in solidarity with the people of Palestine and their Resistance. The stream includes recordings from strikes organised by:
@centroculturalehandalaali, @comunitapalestinesepuglia, @giovanipalestinesipalermo, @cambiarerotta_bari, @scirocco_collettivo_unipa, @antudo.info, @si.cobas, @retestudentescapalestinanapoli @fgc.calabria @caracol_albergheria

[IT] Trasmissione di un'ora di registrazioni trovate online di comizi, picchetti e proteste organizzate nei mesi scorsi nel Sud Italia in solidarietà con il popolo della Palestina e la loro Resistenza. Lo streaming include registrazioni di scioperi organizzati da:
@centroculturalehandalaali, @comunitapalestinesepuglia, @giovanipalestinesipalermo, @cambiarerotta_bari, @scirocco_collettivo_unipa, @antudo.info, @si.cobas, @retestudentescapalestinanapoli @fgc.calabria @caracol_albergheria

Turbo Sud / Radio Alhara (Pro-Palestine Rallies In South Italy) 15th May 2024

This mix includes recordings found online from the student intifada, specifically from university student encampments and rallies in solidarity with Palestine that have been taking place in major cities in southern Italy, including Bari, Napoli, Palermo, Cosenza, and Catania. The broadcast also contains music, including unreleased songs for Palestine, political songs, and releases from 2024 on various international compilations for Palestine, including: ENOUGH! by @dreaminglive, We Will Stay Here - Music for Palestine by Love Boat Records & Buttons, RESIST COLONIAL POWER BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY by @purpletapepedigree.

All the field recordings come from the following Instagram accounts: Giovani Palestinesi Palermo, Giovani Palestinesi Napoli, Centro Culturale Handala Ali, Udap01948, Scirocco Collettivo Unipa, Intifada Studentesca Bari, Cambiare Rotta Bari, Rete Studentesca Palestina Napoli, Studentx Palestina Catania, Aula Studio Liberata Cosenza, FGC Calabria, Potere Al Popolo Cosenza, GC Cosenza, Collettiva Medusa. Except from two recordings gently provided by Melis Epistrefopolous.

Music by Julia Boutros, Nicolas Jaar, Jerusalem In My Heart, Sara Persico, Mayssa Jallad, Melis Epistrefopolous, Maimaimaikr, Rabih Beaini, AGOSTINO, 0comeups.

Turbo Sud / Radio Alhara (Intifada Studentesca in South Italy) 10th June 2024

Inspired by Angela Davis's essay "Are Prisons Obsolete?", this mix explores a recurring and equally stigmatised and controversial theme in South Italy's music landscape: the prison system and the suffering of detention. Davis advocates for a society without prisons, challenging traditional notions of crime and punishment. Starting from those notions, this radio show aims to dive into South Italian music culture and its historical perspectives on imprisonment, navigating through its contradictions and complexities, intertwined with the dramatic and systemic social inequalities of this side of the country: extremely high unemployment rates, low wages, informal economy, undocumented work, and the oppressive shadows of organised crimes. 

The mix features Neapolitan music such as Sceneggiata and Neomelodico, folk revival alongside political songs, the OST of the underground cult movie "Mery Per Sempre", and now-forgotten ethnographic recordings of jail chants passed down orally in Sicily and Puglia. While these songs all confront the theme of detention, they are seldom juxtaposed, as they are by artists and informal performers coming from very diverse historical periods and social class backgrounds. The show aims to resonate with Davis's vision of a fairer future where equality, safety, justice, and well-being of all can and must be fostered also through the abolition of prisons.

Turbo Sud / Radio Alhara (A' Libertà / Are Prisons Obsolete?) 15th July 2024

This episode focuses on the discography of the Neapolitan rap duo Co'Sang, to celebrate their highly anticipated return with a new album titled Dinastia after a twelve-year hiatus. Formed by rappers Luchè and Ntò in 1995, Co'Sang played a pivotal role in the rise of Italian Hip Hop. Their signature style was defined by the use of the Neapolitan language and their raw portrayal of life in the city's marginalised neighbourhoods, in a period where Naples was hit by dramatic events like the waste management crisis and the infamous Scampia Feud—a bloody conflict between Camorra factions for control of the drug trade in the early 2000s.

Co'Sang's music seamlessly blended the gritty aesthetics of gangsta rap with deeply local stories, featuring a mix of old-school hip-hop beats and stark depictions of street life in Naples and Southern Italy. Their first two albums recounted stories of poverty, systemic neglect, Camorra violence, police brutality, and state oppression, offering a powerful voice to the struggles faced by those living on the city's fringes.

Turbo Sud / Radio Alhara (Co'sang Special) 9th September 2024

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