The new Serie A season has just begun and it will welcome the time, the sympathetic young climbers from the south - U.S. Lecce - due. Footballing we must first see how to set up the guys are like that, but musically the yellow-reds are quite far forward Schonmal:
Sud Sound System - Giallurussu simmu
Sud Sound System are a dancehall reggae band from the Apulia region Salento and now not only in the south of Italy (though not necessarily for the fans of Bari 
) Exceedingly popular. Reason for the continued popularity are of course also mythical live performances, the Jamaican rhythms of boundless joy of playing with local musical elements (Pizzica, Taranta) and Salento dialect connect. Think globally, make locally Mugge - so it goes!
Unlike a number of other Italian bands that have joined the Reggae prescribed fall Sud Sound System with intelligent reinterpretation of traditional styles, music by recording and reinterpreting folk elements from her home Salento, lyrically by addressing social, economic and political issues of the Italian South. Of course, Mezzogiorno is their fan base in Apulia and in the Italian general - the main cultural and social transformation of a country in transition talks, of course northern Italian also.
Sud Sound System - Saro Qui
Sud Sound System are not new - their first appearance outside officially-home southern stages they had already in 1989 in the centro sociale Leoncavallo, calculated in Milan. Her story begins but far earlier and is closely linked with Italian student culture. They formed the core of the band as well as in university - and traditional 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 (including Gopher on drums , treble on the guitar and Giorgio Pizzi on bass) is closely intertwined with the history of the SSS. There was already one of the classics of the band: "t'a sciuta bona".
Sud Sound System - Sciamu a ballare
From the very beginning, SSS position politically. Singer Don Rico is active in the "Onda Rossa Posse" and the movement of the social centers. Audio tapes from this period is one of the first self-produced, entitled "Baghdad 1.9.9.1", an opinion against the first Gulf War. In Salento Gianni bring Militant P and dad now their first demo CD "Love and Unity out," two classics of today.
Sud Sound System - Chiedersi May Come
Ernst is it with the first 12 "" Fuecu / T'a sciuta bona ", the Italian music scene, stirring up 1991st With countless live performances, TV and radio airplay presences fans earned the charismatic force a loyal beyond their homeland and beyond the traditional left-wing social centers. Two slabs of 1992 included some of today's best-known songs to the group: "Reggae International", "Punnu IEU" and "e Turcinieddhri Chiappalu. The real breakthrough, however, in 1996 with the albums "omu na petra" and "Tradizione", the sound system at last make a wider audience Sud. Here you will find, for example, Soul Train, a play that deals with the exodus from the Mezzogiorno.
In 1997 they also attack in Europe with some success, Sud Sound System are also welcome guest at the first major 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 Policy)
All in all, were the outstanding musical Sud Sound System all lovers of Reggae, Raggamuffin and cheerful game similar directions hereby highly recommended. If this comes a certain predilection for the left ideology and tobacco substitute herbal mixtures, you should really like SSS. Reggae with attitude - like me!
Band Members to date:
- Don Rico - vocals
- Papa Gianni - Vocals
- GGD - DJ
- Terron Fabio - vocals
- Nandu populations - 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 - "Dammen ancora"
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