There are musicians that have no use for light. The shadow is their muse, the darkness is their driving force. When the night finally flicks the switch on the mirrors of reality, their interior depths become more visible and the unconscious takes over the stage.

Then there are others, whose song challenges the demons of the noonday sun, who draw their strength from timeless traditions, freeing us of evil and healing us from the burning, swelling bite of the tarantula. But everyone’s true time, the time that raises us up and charges us, refreshing itself at every new moon, when the slim crescent calls up ancient dreams and regenerates daily forces to start over once more. There is nothing like the new moon to perfectly symbolize this new beginning, the journey that begins once again, destiny that recreates itself.

NOVILUNIO is the title of the second album by REDI HASA and MARIA MAZZOTTA, the Albanian cellist and the vocalist from Puglia, who since 2010 have been reinventing the musical traditions of their places of origin. Two complementary talents who inspire each other in a perfect fusion between the sumptuous, lyrical and introspective sound of the cello, which Ludovico Einaudi cannot live without, and one of the leading voices of the rebirth of Salento’s musical heritage: luminous and magical. A combination that pays homage to its origins while engaging in creative experimentation, a symbolic union between the archetypes of night and day.