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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

Curatorial music platform showcasing regional music styles, sonic experiments and archival audio-video materials of South Italy. Run by @agostino2801. Monthly radio show on @radioalhara on the second Monday of every month.