Global pop with a meaning - that's Il Civetto. Ever since the release of their debut album
three years ago, the fan base of il Civetto has grown steadily. Word has got around that Il
Civetto concerts are rousing and magical, an ecstatic modern musical experience, never
too brute, always danceable - in a concert hall, just like on record.
After several tours in Germany with a total of more than 300 concerts, appearances at MS
Dockville, the Fusion Festival, Montreux Jazz Festival, the 3000° or at the Anti-G20
Protests in Hamburg, the band now inspires an international audience from Istanbul to
Copenhagen.
Il Civetto's journey began using guerrilla tactics in the Berlin subway in 2010: Playing in the
train and shaking the wagon. Bribing the securities with kebab to play longer. Growing up
in Berlin’s club scene with appearances in Kater Holzig, Ritter Butzke or Sisyphos, the band
scores an impressive success story.
And now album number 2: F acing the Wall . Written in Morocco, Greece and Andalusia,
sung in English, German and French, recorded in Berlin - il Civetto have carried their
ecstatic-magical playground from the stage to the studio a second time with great
attention to detail. The dreamy lightness of the self-titled debut album has given way to
hard reality: F acing the Wall is a deeply touching fragment of our time. The expression of
a generation in upheaval, searching. An album between euphoria and melancholy -
wallowing, sweating, dancing - with a tingling belly and wide open eyes. Il Civetto have
become more serious, somehow more real, and yet have retained their very own,
characteristic sound. Deeply touching, always danceable.
In summer 2018 the song "So We Are Here" (video) was released as the first forerunner of
the new album. The first pre-release single, "Tout Va Changer Demain", will be
released digitally on 22 February.