Erlend Øye / La Comitiva

Erlend Øye has brought quietness to pop music with his duo Kings of Convenience, electrified clubs as the Whitest Boy Alive, and has also released multiple records as a solo musician over the past 20 years. Since 2012, the Norwegian musician has been residing in Sicily, where he co-founded the band La Comitiva with friends. The expression describes a group of people with whom you regularly hang out. In this case, a group of musicians from various countries, who first met in the summer of 2016 to jam in the historic town of Siracusa in Sicily. They later gathered at Erlend Øye's rural residence to perform interpretations of songs from Sicily, Cuba, Colombia, Mexico, and Brazil. When Erlend Øye embarked on a tour of South America, some of the musicians joined him, and La Comitiva was born. After collaborating with the Berlin stargaze Ensemble and releasing singles, the album »La Comitiva« is now being released on the Bubbles label by Marcin Oz (The Whitest Boy Alive). At Kampnagel, Erlend Øye will be performing live with La Comitiva after a concert with the stargaze Ensemble at the 2020 Summer Festival in the Elbphilharmonie was canceled due to the pandemic.

Support comes from Andrea Poggio from Milan. His project of the same name started with the album "Controluce" (2017), an art-pop work that references Paolo Conte as well as Talking Heads and Dirty Projectors. The album was produced by Eli Crews (Yoko Ono, Deerhoof, tUnE-yArDs). In 2019, Poggio contributed to the soundtrack of the film "Onoda", with which French Oscar winner Arthur Harari opened the Un Certain Regard section in Cannes. His latest album "Il Futuro", produced by Ali Chant (Aldous Harding, Perfume Genius, Yard Act), was released in May 2023. It is Andrea Poggio's proposal for the future of the Italian songwriting tradition.