LUCA VASTA - Ti Voglio Bene Tour 2025
Luca Vasta must live more than one life; she must be more than one person. This is the only way to explain how fearlessly and tirelessly the half-Sicilian artist implements her numerous cross-genre heartfelt projects. But more on that shortly. The latest product of her diversity is “Luna,” an Italo-Pop album that continues the cosmic album trilogy after “Alba” and “Stella,” containing far more than just Italo-Pop.
The genre recently experienced a renaissance with the releases of the Crucchi Gang, the radio presence of the Abruzzanti Boys, Giovanni Zarella on ZDF, and the music travel guide “Azzurro” by Eric Pfeil, but Luca Vasta has been supplying us with one original Italian pop hit after another for years. After an English-language album and two Italian ones, she now presents “Luna,” the third in her second native language, which she recorded and produced in Sicily alongside Philipp Steinke. Thus, we come to the sleeves-up ethos of this multi-talented individual: Of course, she writes her songs herself, releases them on her own label “Gelato Records,” produces her videos, handles the artwork, and has established an extremely popular Instagram music-cooking session during the pandemic alongside her cookbook “Pasta alla Vasta.” Since 2017, she has also been producing and hosting the Berlin music show “Lunedi Live,” where she makes music with illustrious guests. Unfortunately, there isn’t enough space here to detail her no less varied past, which includes having her own music show on VIVA.
Luca Vasta has already released the songs “La Mia Storia,” “Estate,” “L’amore,” and “Baby Tu” from “Luna.” Especially “ESTATE” and “L’amore” are perfect harbingers and representatives of the album. In the former, Vasta cleverly connects the atmosphere of past Italo-Pop classics with a modern disco beat, gifting us two summer hooks. The song “ESTATE” is also the title song of the film “Ferragosto (AT),” which comes to theaters this year. The song “L’amore” has already been used 6.2 million times on TikTok and is equally danceable.
A wonderful string arrangement elevates the spaghetti-pop, as Vasta calls it, to an elegant level without losing sight of the vintage disco influences. In “Gianni,” dedicated to the murdered fashion icon Versace, a hint of Abba shines through along with Vasta's very own Italian melancholy. It’s perfect how a minimalist guitar-string combination was chosen here at the expense of an opulent structure. The unpretentious sadness of the musician and the recurring sea as a place of longing are excellently represented in the pop number “Santa Maria.” “Sorrento” instantly radiates lightness and good vibes, providing the perfect soundtrack for the next trip to Italy. The title track “Luna” connects to her predecessor album “Stella,” with a folkier pop sound leading to an opulent arrangement.
Launched by piano sounds reminiscent of Sanremo, Lucio Battisti, and the ‘70s, Vasta impressively raises her voice to “Senza di te.” With the last piece of the album, Luca Vasta demonstrates once more that she has neither written and recorded a retro nor a purely Italo-Pop album, nor a sentimental acoustic, nor an entirely modern dance album. It’s better: she has combined all of that. Yet another proof that she is more than one person and more than one musician.
Doors open: 7:00 PM
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