Antonio Marotta's new album: an act of "tradition and betrayal"

Neapolitan artist Antonio Marotta – a former collaborator of the unforgettable maestro Roberto De Simone – continues to build bridges between innovation and the folk roots of his homeland. With RITUAL, his fourth album, out on vinyl June 15th, Marotta crafts a sonic journey suspended between ancestral memory and contemporary electronics. A work that moves along the border between the roots of Campanian tradition and the hypnotic pulses of European club culture, turning ritual into a physical, collective experience.

In the tracks that make up the album, seven beats and seven loops (plus one bonus track) coexist, inspired by the Seven Madonnas of Campania and pierced by the deep call of the drum, whose primal, visceral beat is able to unite earth and spirituality, body and trance.

In its grooves, RITUAL (released by Maledetta Discoteca) doesn't look to the past with nostalgia: it deconstructs it, contaminates it and puts it back into circulation in an attempt to regenerate it. His is a genuine act of cultural resistance, one that rescues tradition from the dust of folklore to restore its strength and vitality. An act of "tradition and betrayal", which turns popular heritage into living matter, ready to be reignited in the present. Because ritual is not an artifact to be preserved, but an experience to be lived through, as well as "a sonic resurrection capable of restoring to rhythm its sacred power and its function as social connector".

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