After the release of the first live session of #SEEGENTILE, finally Dear officialises the start of its collaboration with Barley Arts Promotion and announces the first stages of his live tour in Italian clubs. The dates confirmed so far are:
Fri 30 March - ROME, Teatro Orione
Sat 31 March - GROSSETO, Faq (opening for Giuda)
Sun 15 April - NAPLES, MMB
Thu 26 Apr - MILAN, Biko (entrance with ARCI membership card)
Sat 12 May - GENOA, Crazy Bull
Sun 13 May - VERCELLI, Officine Sonore
Thu 24 May - ROME, Whishlist Club
Sat 2 Jun - VITERBO, La Rana Muta
#SEEGENTILE is the format of live sessions designed to bring Gentile's music to unusual venues, playing with the various nuances of this eclectic artist. His passion for tattoos, good food and records is synthesised in three exclusive live sessions in which Gentile chooses unusual situations as locations, such as a tattoo studio and the kitchens of the Santo Palato restaurant in Rome.
The first live session, released on 27 March, is filmed at Hangar Tattoo by Federica Madonna, who tattoos the artist while performing I've Seen The Devilaccompanied on piano by Susanna Sallemi.
I've Seen The Devil is a folk-based song with strong references to the religiosity of symbols. The devil and grace are two elements that textually contrast and unite within the song. The tattoo represents a being who is half woman and half demon. Federica Madonna interpreted the song with a drawing and 'engraved' it on Gentile's skin during the performance.
Dear is a young man from southern Rome who grew up in punk rock music, moving through metal, funk and soul melodies and then condensing everything into a new energy during his professional growth.
Gentle is a way of not defining one's music. A game of contrast. A synaesthetic oxymoron. He sings in English but with a Roman spirit, accompanied by his scratchy timbre, bluesy rhythm and a driving beat. He is a soul soul locked in a punk body in which the contrast between image and sound is as strong as that between name and identity. Far from 'gentle', in fact, is his energetic and unconventional live performance; a physical, sweaty and violent live performance in which the artist breaks free from the mould of musical academicism.
The imperative is to get dirty and give the audience a feeling of authenticity, roughness and strong connection. While still 16, he played in a punk rock band, while from 18 he was a member of Motherwhig, a metal band in which he remained until 2012. In 2017, his musical project emerged, the voice of Dear is enriched by a five-piece band: Giulio Pantalei (Panta) on guitar, Giordano Nardecchia (Airesis) on bass, Riccardo Bala on drums and Susanna Sallemi on keyboards. Together with them, they close their first record work at The Lab studio.
On 22 January '18 comes out Let It Shinefirst single from The PleasureEp to be released in May.
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