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Archipélagos is a jazz progressive band born in Bruxelles in May 2019, led by the drummer Francesca Remigi, finalist at the Maastricht jazz Awards 2020 and winner of All You Have To Do is Play 2019 e Nuova Generazione Jazz 2021 (Italia Jazz).

Archipélagos’ music draws inspiration from some socio-political concepts theorized by thinkers such as Noam Chomsky, Zygmunt Bauman, Roberto Saviano, Samuel Huntington and William McNeill, with the aim of expressing some of the key notions of their thinking through music, such as the liquidity of social relationships, the decadence of the concept of “society” as perceived nowadays, the decay of the capitalist free market economy, the evolution of the armed forces’ organization, the development of an almighty and unbridled individualism…

Compositional solutions and refined sounds inspired by modern jazz, by contemporary classical music, by progressive-rock music, by Indian carnatic music, by electronic music and free jazz characterize the unique aesthetic of this international quinted, meeting point of different cultures and musical heritages.

The band performs in festivals and venues all over Europe, such as the Rassegna Montagnola (Festival della Balotta, Bologna), Jazz Maastricht 2020, So What’s Next? Jazz Festival 2020 (Eindhoven), Roskam Brussels 2020,...

Archipelagos’ first album Il Labirinto dei Topi gets published in January 2021, recorded at TubeStudio in July 2020 and produced by the Italian label “Emme Record Label”.