Thursday, June 12 – 8:00 PM

B7L9 Art Centre

Tickets available on Tunis Events : https://tunis.events/fr/events/kgrEM8

B7L9 and the Italian Cultural Institute of Tunis present Saracena by Cesare Basile.

Sicilian singer-songwriter Cesare Basile is performing for the first time in Tunisia, presenting his latest musical project: Saracena.

Saracena is a song of exile and separation.
A song of rupture—from childhood, from places, from language.
A song of stones and forgotten names, of abandoned houses, of anger and nostalgia.

It is a long chant, written and recorded in a single breath over the span of two weeks, while chewing on the words of ancient and modern poets:
the Arabs of Sicily like Abd al-Jabbar Ibn Hamdis, the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, the verses of Santo Calì, and popular stanzas about the abandonment of a Saracen island—all carried in the silences between the melodies of his Cantaturi.
These seeds, crushed together in the mortar of memory, tell stories of uprooting and departures.

Join us at B7L9 for a unique live performance by Cesare Basile (strings, vocals, electronics), Marco Giambrone (electric guitar, vocals, electronics), and Massimo Ferrarotto (percussion, vocals, electronics) — an unforgettable musical journey awaits!