Due o Tre Cose Che So Di Te is the first in a series of collective concerts featuring peripheral music featuring The Garden of Love, Solo Per Me and Nothing to Lose

The proposed groups are peripheral not only because of their lateral view of reality but also for specific personal reasons: Nothing To Lose are a group of musicians directly and indirectly linked to the Franco Serantini Library (Institute for Social History, the Resistance and Contemporary History of the Province of Pisa) and therefore to anarchism; Solo per Me offer a genre that could be considered a glitch in the most current electronic music; and The Garden of Love because they have played four times in Lucca in forty years and on two occasions the power was cut off.

THE GARDEN OF LOVE

The Garden of Love was formed in 1984 in Lucca as a minimalist electronic keyboard/vocals duo (composed of Andrea Martini and Raga - No Fun) and became a four-piece post-punk collective (drums/bass/guitar/vocals), then a quintet, with multi-instrumentalist Virginia Monteverdi, who recorded an album. They are currently a trio.

Massimo Bianchini: drums

Carlo Salvetti: bass

Andrea Martini: harmonica, vocals

SOLO PER ME (ONLY FOR ME)

This is a minimalist musical project that originated in Versilia primarily as a means of survival (by Brunilde Galeotti): a sequencer and a voice, promising that it will be enough.

Broken samples, loops and synth bass underpin the lyrics, nursery rhymes that have grown up too fast, partly sung and partly growled.

Valeria Rita Niccoli joins on vocals, her ethereal and nuanced voice intertwining to create intense expressive contrasts.

Brunilde Galeotti: sequencer, vocals

Valeria Rita Niccoli: vocals

NOTHING TO LOSE

Formed in Pisa in 2023, they blend post-punk, dark and psychedelia, electric riffs, dreamlike harmonies, scratchy vocals and hypnotic rhythms (between socialism, anarchy and combat rock): all this is brought to life on stage by the four-piece band, the magic number of rock “n” roll:

Mariangela Priarolo: vocals, rhythm guitar, cembalo

Adriana Brachetti: drums, percussion, vocals

Giulio Pasquali: bass, artistic direction

Giovanni Bruno: guitars, sound effects, vocals

The adjective “peripheral” is already stated in the title, which is a paraphrase of an important 1966 film by Godard: Two or Three Things I Know About Her. The film essentially explores the link between the individual and the urban environment (1960s Paris in the midst of transformation), moving from considerations on the limits of language communication to the main product of capitalism, namely mass culture. The music on offer will attempt to do the same. The poster depicts a significant location in the city of Lucca: the San Vito skate park in 2020. This neighbourhood shares many urban and sociological characteristics with the nascent (we are in the 1960s) Parisian banlieues: almost a leap in time in keeping with Godard's typical