11 November, 6.30pm
L’improbabile piena dell’Oreto. A concert by Dimartino
Dimartino presents L’improbabile piena dell’Oreto (Numero Uno / Sony Music), his fifth studio album, a return to the solo dimension that takes shape as a continuous flow, a sonic narrative in which the songs follow one another without interruption, pursuing the idea of a constant, organic, natural movement. At the heart of the album is the river, understood as a symbolic and narrative image: a place of mystery, transformation and accumulation, capable of holding both gold and waste, crossed by legends and imaginary presences. An imaginary that also draws on personal memory, such as that of the mythological creature u sugghio – an amphibian with the body of a lizard and a human head – evoked in family stories and today reproduced in the album artwork by the artist Igor Scalisi Palminteri. The river thus becomes a visual representation of time flowing and a key to reading the entire project.
The concert, part of the L’improbabile piena dell’Oreto Tour 2026, designed to restore live the most essential and fragile dimension of the songs through a guitar-and-voice formula that places listening at the centre
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Antonio Dimartino (Palermo, 1982) is a musician and songwriter. He made his debut in 2010 with the album Cara maestra abbiamo perso and in the following years released critically acclaimed records such as Sarebbe bello non lasciarsi mai ma abbandonarsi ogni tanto è utile (2012) and Un paese ci vuole (2015), a concept album inspired by Cesare Pavese’s La luna e i falò, with the collaboration of Francesco Bianconi and Cristina Donà. In 2017 he also made his debut as a writer with the novel Un mondo raro (La nave di Teseo), dedicated to the life of Chavela Vargas and accompanied by an album recorded in Mexico City. In 2019 he released the album Afrodite, while in 2020 I Mortali came out, a record made together with Colapesce and certified Gold Disc, containing the hit “Musica leggerissima”, presented at the Sanremo Festival 2021 and become one of the most successful Italian songs of recent years (5 Platinum Discs and over 150 million streams). In 2023 the duo Colapesce Dimartino returned to Sanremo with “Splash”, certified Double Platinum and winner of the Mia Martini Critics’ Prize and the Lucio Dalla Press Room Prize. In the same year they made their cinema debut with La primavera della mia vita, winning the Nastro d’Argento for Best Soundtrack, and released the album Lux eterna beach. Throughout his career Dimartino has written for and collaborated with numerous artists, including Tiziano Ferro, Ornella Vanoni, Fabri Fibra, Cerrone and Luca Guadagnino.
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