ULTRANCE [NSR018S] by NZIRIA
ULTRANCE is the new single by NZIRIA.
NZIRIA chooses trance sonorities to represent the growing tension of an entire city until its explosion, including samples of Neapolitan stadium choirs, friends' voices and Hardcore kicks.
“I cannot explain the experience of this event, which to some would have been a simple victory to celebrate in a bar, and to others would have had no effect. In Napoli, winning the national Championship meant winning not just a sporting recognition, but a social one."
With the end of the championship, Napoli began to change, turning more and more into a huge open-air museum of rosettes, festoons, murals, altars dedicated to Maradona, and monuments made of paper and plastic hung in the remotest corners of the city.
The city turned blue and white, the colours of Napoli football, among graffiti of flying donkeys (‘o ciuccio), flags, scarves and smoke bombs.
A continuous party has begun, and as the end of the championship approached, following calculations and scores, the tension grew more and more. Maxi screens mounted in every neighbourhood, streets closed to traffic, subways completely saturated - and many, many fireworks - until the last game, when the team finally won the cup and the city could explode in a whirlwind of celebration and festivities, that had been brewing for months. I’ve never seen anything like this before.”
NZIRIA is an experimental project by artist and dj Tullia Benedicta, born and raised in Ravenna from a Neapolitan family. Hard Neomelodic, the term used by the artist to describe their music, is the sound created to make a new space of hybridisation of different concepts, like North and South, traditional and contemporary music, masculine and feminine identity.