Vintage Italian groove, a tribute to the great Bob Dylan, raw, early punk, and artistic photography: this autumn's Cousinà Late Show is packed with four events, every night from Thursday the 20th to Sunday the 23rd. First up is visiting guest Pearz, at 9 p.m. on Thursday, followed by Twist of Fate on Friday and The Boogers on Saturday, before concluding on Sunday at 7 p.m. with the exhibition "Urban Poetry" by photographer LuRo.
Pearz is the solo project of Francesco Perini, a Florentine musician based in Los Angeles. Perini took his first steps in the Tuscan capital, when in 2003 he and four friends formed The Hacienda, an indie rock band that quickly gained recognition in Italy and even more so abroad, performing on European stages and even opening for Oasis in Milan, alongside Deep Purple and Kasabian. But while the group has been on hiatus for ten years, Perini has been busy: in 2020, he released his debut album, "Nocturnal," with its nocturnal yet funky atmospheres, a blend of Italian cinema, nu-jazz, and lo-fi hip hop. This style is also impeccably captured in this year's latest effort, "Pacifico."
Twist of Fate, made up of Gianni Zanata (vocals, guitar, harmonica), Sergio Sorresu (bass, vocals), Nanni La Nasa (piano, keyboards), and Giangi Pala (drums), will offer the public their "ABCDylan," a tribute to the music and poetry of the "minstrel of rock," which, retracing his repertoire, also recovers all of Dylan's influences, from the Sioux people to Walt Whitman, from Malcolm X to the legendary Elvis and Robert Johnson.
The Boogers originated in Cagliari in 2017, a disciple of the early 1970s UK "pub rock" movement—the precursor to the upcoming punk—and had just recorded their debut album. The eight-song set features unreleased tracks and revisited blues classics, blending a raw, live-accurate sound crafted by Bobo Boncompagni (vocals), Giuseppe Secchi (bass), Alessandro Rizzu (guitar), Graziano Galletti (drums), and Pierpaolo Demontis (harmonica).
"Urban Poetry" is a photographic exhibition of LuRo's shots, which, between everyday flashes and the surrealism of urban spaces, carries out a visual research that looks to "contemporary poetic realism", captured in the smallest and most marginal details.
