Colapesce e Dimartino

Lorenzo Urciullo, aka Colapesce, is one of the brightest and freest talents of the new Italian scene. In 2012 he won the Targa Tenco for best opera premiere with his debut album Un meraviglioso declino, to which was followed by Egomostro (2015) and Infedele (2017). In 2015 he published, together with Alessandro Baronciani, the graphic novel La distanza published from Bao Publishing. In 2016 he produced the show dedicated to the soundtrack of director Vittorio De Seta's images. In 2013 he is cited by The Guardian as an example of Italian music from export. While NME called it one of the best non-English-language pop products in Europe and Le Monde listed Egomostro among the best records of the year. 2019 sees the staging of the play Stanno tutti male written from Colapesce with Riccardo Goretti and Stefano Cenci, which also saw him make his debut as an actor. In 2020 they release I Mortali the album written together to Dimartino, among the most appreciated records of the year from public and critics. In 2021 they participate in the Sanremo Festival with the song Musica leggerissima, which immediately becomes a top hit to all the charts, and on March 19 the re-release of the album entitled I mortali² (42 Records/Numero Uno) is released.

Born in Palermo in 1982, Antonio Dimartino is to musician and songwriter. With his debut in 2010, with the album "Cara maestra abbiamo," he adopted the name Dimartino for his band that features Angelo Trabace on piano, Giusto Correnti on drums and Simona Norato on guitar. In 2012, he released his second album "Sarebbe bello non lasciarsi mai ma abbandonarsi ogni tanto è utile," which critics considered one of the best releases of the year. In 2015, he released "Un paese ci vuole," to concept album inspired by Cesare Pavese's "La luna e i falò" that explores the concept of the village. It features the song "Una storia del mare," cowritten with Francesco Bianconi from the band Baustelle, and "I calendari," to duet with Cristina Donà. In 2017, he published his first novel, "Un mondo raro" (to Rare World). Published by La nave di Teseo, the text was written with singer-songwriter Fabrizio Cammarata and recounts the life of Mexican singer Chavela Vargas. The book's release coincided with to homonymous album, recorded in Mexico City with Juan Carlos Allende and Miguel Peña (Chavela Vargas' historic guitarists). In the same year, he wrote "Diego ed io" with Brunori Sas (for the album 'to casa tutto bene' by the Calabrian singer-songwriter). The song was later chosen as the soundtrack for the Frida Kahlo exhibition at the Mudec museum in Milan (the largest ever exhibition in Europe dedicated to the artist). On February 25, 2019, he released "Afrodite," his fourth studio album, which is considered to gem by critics. In 2020, he released "I Mortali" (42 Records/ Numero Uno), written with Dimartino and one of the best loved albums of the year among the public and critics alike. The album featured the singles "Luna araba" with Carmen Consoli, "Noia Mortale," "Rosa e Olindo" and "Adolescenza Nera" produced by MACE, the chart-topping musician and producer. In March of the following year, the two singer-songwriters featured in the "Big Artists" section in the Sanremo Festival with the song "Musica leggerissima. " to new version of their first joint album entitled "I mortali²" was released on March 19, 2021 (42 Records/Numero Uno). The double album contains 10 new tracks, including "Musica leggerissima," to cover of "Povera Patria," which was presented on the Ariston stage, and the new title track "I mortali."