Bustling squares pulsed by mantric percussion, smiling faces to the tune of Arabic melodies, buses snaking through traffic under a sun that warms like the blues.

Seagull wings beating to the rhythm of prog, and street kids singing neomelodic tunes.

We are in Naples, in the 1970s, with a few smugglers around, like in a gangster movie.

And finally, there’s a soundtrack that encapsulates this space and time: Città Futura.

This album, conceived during the pandemic, is the debut of Bassolino, the new artistic project of pianist and composer Dario Bassolino.

Dario, long active in the national nu-jazz scene, is a standout in the vibrant new Neapolitan music scene alongside names like Nu Genea.