Genny Basso's Crowdfunding Triumph for New Album 'Neapology'

Raises 6000 euros in a record time of just one week. Thus, the Neapolitan pianist Genny Basso has managed to fund his new album titled Neapology. Basso, the last student and assistant of the great pianist Aldo Ciccolini, achieved this goal thanks to 60 supporters, happy to feel like protagonists of a story of culture and music, classical, outside the mainstream. A result that seems to disprove the common belief that today only commercial music works: the crowdfunding campaign, still open for a month with new goals, on www.produzionidalbasso.com, is showing that there is a market for quality music, of international scope, also young. 'The thing that is most exciting me on this journey is feeling the sense of community, which sometimes is missing in the genre of classical music,' says Basso, 'it's a joy shared with all those who have chosen to accompany me.' The title Neapology, whose release is scheduled for May, again for the German label Ars Produktion with which Genny Basso had debuted in 2021 with the album Mozart Chopin Castelnuovo-Tedesco – Tribute to Aldo Ciccolini, stands for 'apology' and 'anthology' of the music of and for Naples and is 'a challenge and an invitation to break down boundaries, which do not exist in music, as in no form of art, between classical music and song,' explains Genny Basso. The album will indeed contain some of the most famous classic Neapolitan songs in the world (from 'O sole mio to Era de maggio) in Basso's original and unpublished arrangements for piano, and some of the most beautiful pieces of classical music, written by great composers from Rossini to Stravinsky, who were inspired by Naples. A project that, while firmly remaining in the vein of classical music, crosses time and genres and is built around Naples and its musical culture, which is reclaiming the scene also in the field of classical music, after the undisputed protagonism of the last years in cinema, fiction, and literature.