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Kosmic Daydream is:
Jeniffer De Los Santos - Kosmic Goddess
Adam Hirschman - Bass
Jimmi Dylan - Guitar
Jose Cruz - Drums

Jen and Adam founded Kosmic Daydream in 2001. Their first several performances were as an acoustic duo. Since those humble beginnings, and with the addition of Jimmi Dylan and Jose Cruz, the band has evolved into an electrically charged musical juggernaut.

The band’s influences are a whirling, swirling, blend of British Blues (think Led Zeppelin, Janis Joplin, and The Kinks) with punk edginess (The Ramones, Blondie, and The Clash)… all the while carving out their own sound and style.

NUR
folk / folk-rock / blues
NUR is the fruit of an idea shared by Massimo Loriga (sax, clarinet, harmonica) e Daniele Cuccu (guitar, laud, mandola). The two were joined in 1998 by Massimo Perra (accordion, barrel organ), a long-standing musician with a ‘traditional’ musical background, and the group was completed with the arrival of Valter Spada (bass) and Giovannino Scano (drums), both veterans in the blues genre and Vittorio Pitzalis (vocals and guitar), the father-figure of Sardinian blues. The aim of the group is to salvage traditional Sardinian music, reproposing it with ‘modern’ arrangements and instruments, convinced that the survival of tradition also depends on modern interpretations (and that this can also make it more accessible to the younger generations). In February/March 2001 the NUR recorded their debut CD ‘NUR’, eleven tracks characterised primarily by the harmonies and crossovers of Massimo Loriga’s sax and Massimo Perra’s barrel organ and by the sobriety of the arrangements. The release of the CD was followed by an intensive live shedule. During the three years that followed the release of their debut CD, the group changed formation and began to prepare the material that would be used on their next album. Vittorio Pitzalis and Giovannino Scano left the group and were replaced by Alessandro Picciau (drums) and Paolo Berria (vocals). AFter a long gestation, at the end of 2004 the NUR finished recording the album ‘Chentu Colores’ which saw, apart from the new formation, the participation of numerous guests: once again Enrico Frongia; Diego Deiana (violin), Alessio Sanna (hammond and moog), Elio Rinaldi (cello), Sandro Fresi (hurdy-gurdy) and members of the Cordas et Cannas (Francesco Pilu, Gesuino Deiana e Lorenzo Sabattini). The ‘hundred colours’ of the album title allude not only to peace, as underlined by the homonymous opening track, but also to the possibility of bringing together ‘peacefully’ different musical sounds and experiences. In this second album, alongside the acoustic sounds, various rock influences make their entrance felt but without altering the basic compositional structure which remains hinged on traditional Sardinian music and, in particular, on the accordion and barrel organ of Massimo Perra.

listen to “Chentu Colores”