The new Serie A season has just begun and it is time for the likeable young climbers from the south - U.S. Lecce welcome - duly. Erstmal in football we need to see how to set up the guys like that, but musically, the yellow-red schonmal quite far forward:
Sud Sound System - Giallurussu simmu
Sud Sound System is a dancehall reggae band from the Apulian region of Salento and now not only in the south of Italy (though not necessarily for the fans of Bari 
) Extremely popular. The reason for the continuing popularity here, too, of course, legendary live performances, the joy of playing with a proliferation of Jamaican rhythms with local musical elements (Pizzica, Taranta) and connect Salento dialect. Think globally, act locally to make Mugge - so it is!
Unlike a number of other Italian bands who were dedicated to reggae to fall on Sud Sound System with intelligent reinterpretation of traditional styles, musically by recording and reinterpreting folk elements from her home Salento, lyrically by addressing social, economic and political issues of the Italian South. Of course there is their fan base in Puglia and in the Italian Mezzogiorno in general - the main cultural and social change in a country in transition, of course, but also speaks northerners.
Sud Sound System - Qui Sarò
Sud Sound System are in the process was not a new phenomenon - their first official public appearance outside her home to south stage in 1989 in the centro sociale Leoncavallo, precisely in Milan. But their story begins much earlier and is closely associated with Italian student culture. Together has been the core of the band as well as in the university - and traditionally left - Bologna, the city had been the birthplace of the Ragamuffin sizes "Isola Posse All Stars" and the "Rough Ryders" on joint projects and band members (especially on drums Gopher , treble on the guitar and Giorgio Pizzi on bass) are closely intertwined with the history of the SSS. Here already one of the classics as the band's "t'a sciuta bona".
Sud Sound System - Sciamu a ballare
From the beginning to position themselves politically SSS. Singer Don Rico, is active in the "Onda Rossa Posse" and the movement of the centri sociali. From that time one of the first self-produced audio cassettes is titled "Baghdad 1.9.9.1", an opinion against the first Gulf War. In Salento Militant P and Papagianni now bringing their first demo tapes out of Love and Unity ", still classics of the two.
Sud Sound System - Chiedersi Come Mai
Things will get serious with the first 12 "" Fuecu / T'a sciuta bona ", stirring up the 1991, the Italian music scene. With countless live performances, attendances and TV-radio airplay, the charismatic troupe earned a loyal fan base beyond their home and beyond the traditional left-wing social centers. Two slabs of 1992 included some of the best-known songs to this day the group: "Reggae International", "Punnu Ieu" and "Turcinieddhri e Chiappalu. The real breakthrough, however, succeed in 1996 with the albums "omu na petra" and "Tradizione" Sud Sound System finally make a wider audience. Here you will find, for example, Soul Train, a play that addressed the exodus from the Mezzogiorno.
In 1997 she also achieved some success in Europe to take attack, Sud Sound System are also welcome guest at the big 1st May-concerts in Rome. 2005 SSS enter into a transfer of "Rock RAI policy", moderated by Adriano Celentano on the rest, and play "Le Radici Ca Tieni.
Sud Sound System - Le Radici ca tieni (live rock politics)
All in all, were musically excellent Sud Sound System to all lovers of Reggae, Raggamuffin and similar cheery game directions hereby highly recommended. If in addition a certain predilection for left ideas and tobacco substitute herbal mixtures occurs, you should really like SSS. Reggae with attitude - like it!
Band Members to date:
- Don Rico - Vocals
- Papa Gianni - Vocals
- GGD - DJ
- Terron Fabio - Vocals
- Nandu Popu - Vocals
Discography
- 1991 - "Fuecu / T'a sciuta bona"
- 1992 - "Reggae International" e "Punnu Ieu"
- 1992 - "Turcinieddhri" e "Chiappalu"
- 1994 - "Salento Showcase '94"
- 1996 - "Comu na petra"
- 1996 - "Tradizione"
- 1997 - "No Playback - Comu Na Petra Remixes"
- 1999 - "Reggae Party"
- 2000 - "Salento Showcase 2000"
- 2001 - "Musica Musica"
- 2002 - "GialluRussu" inno ufficiale dell'US Lecce
- 2003 - "Lontano"
- 2004 - "Fuecu su fuecu", raccolta + 2 inediti
- 2005 - "Acqua pe sta terra"
- 2006 - "Live & Direct 'Set CD / DVD Live
- 2007 - "Salento Showcase 2007"
- 2008 - "Dammene ancora"
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SSS for me was always one of the most interesting bands in Italy. However, I found the plates always very mixed - some class plays, but also has a lot of what I do not necessarily cut by the socks. But the last CD is really a killer!
In addition to classic dancehall, the band also has the courage, with a Schlagerfuzzi as Neffa (which is also a past in the autonomous scene) has einzuspielen a piece.
Thanks for the report - finally information about the band in an understandable language for me ... ..
Well, since I rejoice, however, that I have taken time but then your taste.
The new CD is in fact really great, but I think it is time again to actually live music, that the club needs to be experienced at the concert in order to experience true to the music. I've never been able to experience the guys, but they raved about the concerts. And I'm just a layman when it comes to reggae and its variants ...
I'm ahead of you so what - I have the band views here in Cologne with an open air. Since they have convinced me, however, not completely - but what may have lain at the rather sterile atmosphere of the location. What has irritated me then most was the fact that not a typical reggae singer on the stage, but a guy that goes directly from the cliché book, came from the Italian Department Schlagerfuzzi.
Probably you have to enjoy SSS in a small club ... ..