Iosonouncane presents ‘Approdi sonori’ playlist at Internazionale
Musician Iosonouncane presented a curated playlist titled “Approdi sonori” during the Internazionale festival in Ferrara, Internazionale reported on October 21, 2026, using the musical selections to map his lifelong relationship with water and the sea.
Mapping a Life Spent Away From the Sardinian Coast
Born in 1983, the artist grew up between Buggerru and Iglesias in Sardinia, spending his formative years with the sea directly in front of him. Now a 43-year-old living 25 years away from his hometown, he constructed the audio map to reflect on an element that no longer shapes his daily routine. “The idea was to trace with some musical choices a sort of potential map of my relationship with water, and more generally with the sea,” Iosonouncane explained during the festival appearance recorded by Internazionale.
That relationship is deeply rooted in family history. His father worked as a fisherman, spending six days out of seven off the coast of Libya before dying young at age 44. Decades earlier, that same father had begun working at age 14, spending thirty of his forty-four years in open water. When the elder fisherman returned home on Saturdays, his clothes carried the heavy scent of fish, sweat, and diesel fuel from the trawler engines. Before washing up, he would strip off his work clothes and put on Pink Floyd records, creating the earliest musical memory for a two- or three-year-old child.
The Musical Selections Shaping the Sound Map
The playlist moves across distinct artistic touchstones, opening with The Caretaker’s 2008 track “Von Restorff effect” from the album Persistent repetition of phrases. That record draws upon studies of memory disorders. While questioning his own reliance on a pure notion of memory, the musician noted that every human builds an unconscious geography through language that echoes across a lifetime.
From there, the playlist incorporates the Scottish band The Bathers with “Garlands” from their 2023 album Sirenesque.
Italian singer-songwriter Fabrizio De André contributes “Da a me riva,” a sparse track depicting the quiet acceptance worn into the bodies of fishermen and miners from the artist’s native region. Iosonouncane likened the physical toll on those workers to a rugged coastline continuously battered by the tide.
Robert Wyatt’s “Sea song,” the opening track from his 1974 album Rock bottom, enters the sequence through a connection to Venice, where Wyatt had purchased a secondhand organ before a severe fall from a fourth-story window. The resulting album mirrors the musician’s own mental imagery of Buggerru—a static, stagnant sea juxtaposed with soaring vocal delivery.