Giovanni Napolano

is a musician, producer and cultural curator born and raised in Naples now based in Barcelona. His artistic practice articulates around the hauntological study of the Mediterranean through its sound’s continuum. He recently released a record Le Macerie di Babilonia (Sferic, 2022), where under the mythical metaphor for the fall of Babylon, in usage in the Rastafari culture, he assembles a broken sonic collage through the ruins of the West. A sort of uchronic regression session where the ghosts of the past re-sound and inform the present. Under his alias NPLGNN, he explores the wide sonic spectrum of the hardcore continuum moving along its vaporous and layered timeline, posing a particular emphasis on the role of the sound-system as ritual totem and catalizer. He runs different DIY projects, such as the editorial platform MBE series and the series of events Babylon. In 2022 he started a sub-side of MBE series called Trance Mediterranea, an ongoing personal research that presents thriving, ancestral, popular practices from the Mediterranean region. Popular dances and rituals are observed not as anachronistic vestiges, but as celebratory and current folk customs that continue to hold an influential role in the bonds of contemporary society. Among other things he actively collaborates with Noods Radio (UK) and Stegi.Radio (GR).