Federico Albanese Announces Fall EU Tour Dates & New Single “First Poem”

This past winter, XXIM Records released Blackbirds And The Sun Of October, the latest album from Italian artist, producer, pianist and composer Federico Albanese. His fifth studio album, and the follow-up to his debut release for the label, the 7-track EP, Days Of Passage, Blackbirds And The Sun Of October, was inspired by – and entirely written and recorded in – Albanese’s home region of Monferrato in Northern Italy. “It’s an album about coming home, and reconnection,” he says. “Above all, about heritage.”

This release, his first full-length album for XXIM Records, marks a new chapter in his already stellar career. Restlessly creative, Albanese’s ever-evolving quest for new sounds and experimentation has been more extensive than most.

Today, Albanese announces a string of fall and summer European tour dates. He has also shared the new single “First Poem.”

On the composition, he elaborates:

“The album recording was finished when ‘First Poem’ arrived. I wasn’t writing with intention anymore -just playing, letting my hands wander. But something about this piece felt different. It was quieter, simpler, and more vulnerable than anything I’d planned to include. It didn’t sound like the rest. It didn’t sound like me, really. But maybe that’s why it stayed. Sometimes the most honest moments come when you stop trying to say anything at all. It’s like this piece said something I didn’t know I needed to say.”

Federico Albanese Tour Dates

7/18 – Urbisaglia, IT – Anfiteatro Romano
7/25 – Ibiza, ES – Suau Festival
7/31 – Castelfranco, IT – Sottosopra Festival
10/14 – Zurich, CH – Bogen F
10/15 – Essen, DE – Zeche Carl
10/26 – Groningen, NL – Lutherse Kerk
10/17 – Utrecht, NL – Tivoli Vredenburg
10/18 – Kolderveen, NL – Vegafabriek
10/21 – Leuven, BE – 30CC Sadsschouwburg
10/23 – Rosselare, BE – De Spil
10/24 – Rotterdam, NL – Lantaren Venster
10/25 – Strombeek-Bever, BE – CC Strombeek
10/30 – Naples, IT – Auditorium Novecento
10/31 – Rome, IT – Romaeuropa Festival
11/1 – Parma, IT – Il Rumore Del Lutto
11/19 – Vienna, AT – Porgy & Bess
11/20 – St. Polten, AT – Festhaus
11/21 – Linz, AT – Posthof
11/22 – Munich, DE – Bergson
11/23 – Lisbon, PT – Centro Cultural De Belen
11/30 – Milan, IT – Teatro Parenti