Scialla [7" Vinyl]

Nu Genea - Scialla [7" Vinyl]

After a near three-year hiatus, Napoli's premier jazz-funk/Balearic/Afro-cosmic fusionists finally return to action with a typically colourful and awe-inspiring single on their own imprint. Sonically, it offers a subtle evolution from the sun-kissed joy of their last outing, 2023's superb Bar Mediterraneo album. In its' original A-side form, 'Scialla' is a bright, joyous slab of dancefloor-ready samba-soul laden with jaunty horns, infectious percussion and jangling acoustic guitars, topped off with a vocal sung in the band's own Neopolitan dialect. Arguably even better is the flip-side 'Ritmo version', a superb, drum-heavy studio jam where Nu Genea successfully layer up the beats, timbales and hand percussion while stripping out most of the vocals. In a word: essential!