La Niña — Trans Musicales Rennes, 2025

Filmed live performance by La Niña for the American radio station KEXP, recorded at the ESMA in Rennes during the Trans Musicales festival, on December 5, 2025. A Neapolitan singer-songwriter, La Niña (Carola Moccia) sets Neapolitan-dialect singing, tammurriata, Mediterranean trance and electronic textures in dialogue. Backed by an all-female ensemble blending mandolin, frame drums, keyboards and voices, she performs six songs — ‘O Ballo d”e ‘Mpennate, Oine, Mammama, Salome, Tremm’ and Guapparia — in an intense, ritualistic live capture. This KEXP session documents a contemporary world scene where the folk tradition of southern Italy and modernity answer each other, carried by spellbinding vocal harmonies and ancestral percussion. A world live concert to discover for the originality of a project that reinvents Neapolitan heritage, filmed at one of Europe’s most respected discovery festivals. A filmed live performance ideal for exploring world music and the new Mediterranean scene, a rare live concert bringing Neapolitan song, ancestral frame-drum rhythms and electronic textures together on a single stage.