TRAIN to ROOTS and SHAKALAB – Spanish Tour 2025

🇪🇸 Three unmissable concerts to experience all the energy of reggae and the unique vibes of two great bands in one concert!
Tour dates:
📍 Madrid – La Nazca – Thursday, February 20, 2025
📍 Reus – Los Submarinos – Friday, February 21, 2025
📍Barcelona – La Nau – Sunday, February 23, 2025

🎟️ Tickets available now in SeeTickets!

Don’t miss this unique opportunity to experience reggae at the highest level!

WICKED DUB DIVISION – UBUNTU

Ubuntu is the new single by Wicked Dub Division, their first release of 2025. The title is a word of African origin describing the powerful interconnection of individuals toward others. The music embodies the band’s desire to explore new artistic universes, while keeping their roots firmly planted in the land of dub music.

The Italian band describes the theme of the song as follows: “In this historical moment of profound selfishness and chaos, a sense of humanity is more necessary than ever. Alone we are nothing because everything around us takes shape in the encounter with the other. Art, with its creative force, reminds us of this and music is a vital element of the connection between individuals.”

Ubuntu is available on digital platforms and a video clip will soon follow.

4 awards for “The Devil is Dragan Cygan” at Castelli Romani Film Festival

Awards and honors for “The Devil is Dragan Cygan”

TRAIN to ROOTS – Sardinia

Summer begins and half the world meets in “Sardinia” to enjoy the beaches, sea, sun, good food and excellent wine, but hardly any of them know about the problems of this Mediterranean paradise.

Hence the need to talk about it in a song that, in an almost ironic way, invites the listener to take a tour with the band to places where the exploitation of the land, landscape and even local labor for decades if not centuries, as in the case of the abandoned mines of Sulcis Iglesiente, has left indelible traces in the physiognomy of the island and in the lives of Sardinians.

In stark contrast to its themes, the song unfolds over a catchy ska base where vintage sounds are mixed with Sardinian choir samples and distorted synths.

Sardinia, like the previous single Gaza, is released on the historic Neapolitan label Phonotype Records.

TRAIN to ROOTS – Gaza

I Train To Roots present the single
Gaza
, a preview of what will be their eighth album. A piece born out of the need to take sides, to take a clear and unambiguous stand against the ongoing massacre of civilians in the Gaza Strip and beyond.

The text takes inspiration from a poem by poet Peppino Mereu, published in the late 1800s titled Nanneddu Meu, a protest song in which, in the form of a letter to a friend, Mereu denounces the state of misery and oppression in which the lowest social strata found themselves in the late 19th century in Sardinia. Nanneddu becomes Muhammeddu and the scenario of misery and oppressed people moves to the Palestine of this new millennium. More than 100 years after the poem’s publication, unfortunately, the same lines describing the state of oppression in Sardinia can be brought back to the Palestinian people.

Recorded in analog mode at Roble Factory Studio, the track features electronic sounds such as the use of analog synths and a very urban drum pattern.

This single also marks the beginning of Train To Roots’ collaboration with the historic Neapolitan label Phonotype, the first record label in Italy and one of the first in the world, with a unique cultural heritage of more than 100 years of music. In the words of Nicola Tranquillo, label partner, “Naples does not allow itself to be intimidated and wants to demonstrate its rejection of silence in the face of what is happening in Palestine. Accustomed to encounter, welcome, and dialogue, we are convinced that the sea unites, and that is also why we want to entrust the meeting between Naples and the reggae made in Sardinia by Train To Roots with our message.”

Gaza
is available on digital platforms and is also released in 7-inch format along with another single by Neapolitan ska/rock band Bisca.