People of the Moon · Nu Genea · Italy (2026)
Nu Genea are a duo from Naples, Massimo Di Lena and Lucio Aquilina, and they’ve spent years digging through the city’s musical past like archaeologists, mixing old Neapolitan sounds with disco, funk and Mediterranean rhythms. Their third album takes that curiosity even further out.
People of the Moon pulls in influences from all over: Brazilian MPB, Arabic melodies, Afrobeat, disco, even a touch of rock, and somehow it never feels scattered. The guest list helps too, with Spanish flamenco singer María José Llergo and British musician Tom Misch both showing up to add their own flavor to the mix.
It’s the kind of record that sounds like it was made for dancing under open sky, warm, hypnotic, a little strange in the best way. Ten tracks that treat the whole Mediterranean, and a bit beyond, as one big shared playlist.
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