'La Prima Estate' starts again with Mogwai, then Air and Lucio Corsi
At the Parco Bussola Domani in Lido di Camaiore the fourth edition of the festival. On the bill, among others, St. Vincent and Grace Jones
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Good music at the centre, overlooking the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Apuan Alps, and protagonist among debates, meetings and relaxation on the beach. The festival La Prima Estate returns to Lido di Camaiore (Lucca) for its fourth edition on the last two weekends of June, from 20 to 22 and 27 to 29.
In a natural setting that embraces the colours of summer, a unique stage, just a few steps from the sea, is once again lit up, focusing as always on artistic quality and an international outlook. Air, Grace Jones, TV on the Radio, Spiritualized and Yard Act are among the big names arriving exclusively for the festival with their only Italian date. Plus St. Vincent, Nic Cester, Moodymann, Tony Humphries, Mogwai, Peter Cat Recording Co. and Ramona Flowers.
In the tricolour quota Lucio Corsi and Calibro 35, together with first room right, the CAM Sound System project with Sara Mautone and Il Mago Del Gelato. A playbill that looks beyond the streaming of the moment by focusing on artistic depth, in that BussolaDomani Park that several years ago hosted Frank Zappa and Miles Davis and now for La Prima Estate has applauded Jane's Addiction and Michael Kiwanuka, Jamiroquai and Lana Del Rey, Anderson Paak and Duran Duran in past editions.
New this year is a contest designed to support emerging talents on the Italian music scene. It is Next Stage: La Prima Estate, the initiative organised with the Milanese venue Detune, which has selected six names to open each evening. Tare, Le Nora, Giacoprudente, Rip, Nicaragua and La Gente are the artists who will take the stage in front of the festival audience before the big international live acts.
The First Summer starts on Friday 20 June with the best of alternative rock. The post-rock of Scotland's Mogwai, fresh from the acclaim for their latest album The Bad Fire; the psychedelic and electronic sound of Spiritualized, led by Jason Pierce; and the post-punk of Yard Act, the cynical and disenchanted English quartet that has even received praise from Sir Elton John. Saturday 21 June is the turn of Air, the French duo that has coined an inimitable language of elegant and highly suggestive electro-pop; and St. Vincent, the undisputed queen of American indie rock and one of the most hypnotic, seductive and chameleonic talents around, who has won three Grammy Awards this year. Italian flag for Calibro 35, among the most enterprising and refined projects on the alternative music scene, just released with their new album Exploration; and Prima Stanza a Destra, the intimate and visionary project of a 21-year-old artist.
