SANDA NECOLE BLUES
new single out on April 29th

Sanda Necole blues is the manifesto of a sound called “Tarabtella”, a contemporary electronic fusion of the soul-stirring Arabic musical tradition of tarab and the driving rhythm of Puglia’s tarantella. It’s a hymn to the meeting of East and West, tradition and modernity, underscored by lyrics sung in the raw Bari dialect and, in moments, Arabic. Sanda Necole—St. Nicholas—is the saint who protects my city, Bari. Born in the Middle East, devotion to him has spread worldwide, from Turkey to Siberia. He is a saint of border crossings, of layered identities: marked by his birthplace but never fully bound by it. This song tells the story of a young migrant escaping a fate of oppression and death by crossing the Mediterranean—a sea that is both promise and tomb. It’s a blues born from an ancient chain of songs, strung across time like a thousand-year-old rosary. But this is also the story of my hybrid city, Bari—a place reshaped by new generations of citizens from countless ethnicities, redefining what it means to “belong.” They unravel the concept like a carpet unfurled for sharing a meal cooked by all. A city marked by people carrying the scars of genocide, oppression, and discrimination, yet drawing from these wounds a fierce, generous creativity offered freely to the world. This city already exists: a mosaic of identities and generations, inclusive and curious, as boundless as its sea, pulsating between East and West
like the beat and melody of this song.

official videoclip directed by Domenico Larocca