Who: La Superluna di Drone Kong
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La Superluna di Drone Kong is Nikki’s (Fabrizio Lavoro) musical project.
Nikki has been on the air since he was 18, but even before that he has been playing, recording or dealing with various forms of rock’n’roll.
After the first hard rock/metal bands with which he found himself a minor playing near American military bases in Italy, he released the album ‘Rock normale’ in 1994.
In the midst of the grunge era, the Bon Jovi-style ballad ‘L’ultimo bicchiere’ became one of the most listened to songs in Italy.
With guitar, voice and turntables, he opened Jovanotti’s stadium concerts in the late 90s.
After some time spent abroad, mainly in New York, he returned to radio with the show Tropical Pizza, starting a long series of musical collaborations, on the radio, in the studio and on stage.
(plays lead guitar on Tarm’s ‘i Cacciatori’, on the album ‘il Giardino dei fantasmi’ n.d.r.)
In 2017 he founded Tropical Pizza Soundsystem, the first DJ set played entirely live by a band,
bringing Comacose and Ex-Otago on stage at the Deejay 2019 party at the Expo, in front of 30,000 people.
The first Superluna album was released in 2019 and was entirely recorded/mixed at home and then presented live with the first official concert at Cox18 and subsequently at Miami Festival.
Each song is illustrated by an artist from the independent comics world and the project was also presented in the 2019 edition of Lucca Comics.
The Superluna live band version also appeared opening of the Pinguini Tattici Nucleari concerts and closed its first club tour at Rocket in Milan.
In 2022 Superluna Rock Music was released, an album with a more psychedelic nature.
‘If guitar riffs are the mantras of Rock’n’roll, I’ve been meditating every day since I was 12’.
A video in the style of Saul Goodman’s was shot for the punk-environmentalist song Idea.
After summer openings for Tre Allegri Ragazzi Morti, Fask and Dargen D’amico, Halloween Boogie is released on 24 October 2022, a blues for children, inspired by Bennato’s metaphor-filled fairy tales and Robert Johnson’s primordial recordings.
The song is accompanied by a cartoon in which a vampire version of Nikki leads the village children in boogie-woogie choreographies.
In October 2023, Nosferatu and the b-side Spettro are released.
The song shows a darker and more hypnotic side of Superluna.
It’s the story of a nearly 700-year-old vampire who falls in love and begins to perceive reality differently.
Spettro is instead a tribute to Jim Jarmush’s Sqürl soundtracks, with reverberated dark-surf guitars and a choir that sings from beyond the grave.
The voices of those who are no longer with us remind the living that love goes beyond death.
The third album of Superluna is expected in 2025, recorded between Milan, Padua and Los Angeles.
It is anticipated by the Ep Boost and the single ‘You Spin Me Round (Superluna Version)’ to be released in October 2024.