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Napoli Centrale
12+ albums
Progressive rockJazz Rockitalian progressive rockFusionjazz-rock
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Napoli Centrale is an Italian jazz-progressive rock group founded in Naples in 1975 by musicians James Senese (died 2025) and Franco Del Prete, who, following the disbandment of their previous R&B band The Showmen (later known as Showmen 2) wanted to pursue a different musical path. Considered one of the most important groups in Italian jazz-rock/jazz-fusion panorama, the band leader for many years was the saxophonist James Senese (died 2025) who, together with the drummer Franco Del Prete, decided to carry on the previous experience with the group "Showmen" and create new sounds. Napoli Centrale is properly the name of the main railway station in Naples: the continuous flow of different people in a popular-cultural meeting, well symbolizes Napoli Centrale music. Senese, who composed the music, was mainly influenced by John Coltrane, Miles Davis but especially by Weather Report: that "ethnical" fusion with the addition of Senese's Afro-Neapolitan soul, created a unique genre. Napoli Centrale first album is the eponymous(1975), which contains the most famous Campagna. Bass guitar is played by the british Tony Walmsley, while keyboards by the american Mark Harris. Lyrics deal with poverty, emigration, exploitation and with the inexorable passage from a rural society to an industrialized one. The language is stricly neapolitan and well expresses the moods of a poor population, forced to leave the beloved "land" and family, to find a job in a factory. The second album MATTA
top songs
albums
Napoli Centrale
Ngazzate Nire
Mattanza
Zitte! sta arrivanne 'o mammone (feat. Lucio Dalla - Enzo Gragnaniello - Raiss - Zulu)
Cammenanne
Napoli Centrale con James Senese
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Qualcosa CA Nu'mmore
'Ngazzate Nire
'Ngazzate nire (Remastered 2023)
Zitte! Sta Arrivanne 'o Mammone
Un'ora sola ti vorrei
Featuring James Senese