The Medeidae project was born from the elective meeting between Umberto Maisto and Pasquale Fama. Their creative partnership has been solidified through significant milestones: from the production of the track “Addó sta Scritto” (2024), performed by Antonella Maisto, to the composition of music and lyrics for the cine-concert project by Michele Signore. This project, based on Elvira Notari’s silent film masterpiece “La Santanotte,” was developed in collaboration with the Silent Frame ensemble for prestigious stages such as the Teatro Bolivar in Naples (Elvira 150 Festival) and the Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival in Bologna.
From these initial sparks arose the need to create a space for expressive freedom: a “Song-Laboratory” far removed from passing trends, where notes and words merge along the thread of poetic research. The name itself, Medeidae, is a deconstruction of the word Diomedeidae — a tribute to Baudelaire’s “L’Albatros” — a poem symbolizing the contrast between an intense spiritual longing and the aridity of the material world.
The beating heart of Medeidae is experimentation. Fama’s lyrics and the sonic explorations of Maisto and Enipeo create "auditory images" through a refined linguistic pastiche of Neapolitan, Italian, French, Portuguese, Spanish, and English. These are woven into a mosaic that blends a personal vision of ethnic music, a song form with an esoteric vocation, and an expressive language inspired by poetry.
Today, Medeidae presents itself as an essential acoustic ensemble, where classical and Portuguese guitars dialogue with the voice, weaving textures that resonate with both the archaic and the contemporary.
