Rokas is a project born from the desire to give space to one’s own words and thoughts, to tell with sincerity about life, loves, friendships.

Born in ’92, Alberto Sanlazzaro in Rokas, who came out a few months ago with a super album entitled “Mostri Contro Fantasmi”.
2 albums, 15 songs, a project that is an exercise, an itinerary of the personality of the rapper from La Spezia.

“Mostri contro fantasmi, the things I’m afraid of, versus the things I’m afraid of being afraid of. It’s twisted, even though the fears themselves are always sharp, we always know what we’re afraid of just as we always know what we don’t want but less what we do want. The past has taught me suspicion and argument as it has taught me levity.”

An album that comes two years after “Nemico del cuore”, Rokas releases his second album, “Mostri Contro Fantasmi”, a work that strikes for its density of different elements and atmospheres.

Inside we also find feats and illustrious collaborations, such as the talent of the house Machete, Dani Faiv, while the productions were handled by Granato, Luke Giordano and Baci Ovunque.

An album that moves with extreme ease between the sounds of hip-hop, rap, funk-pop, R & B. Definitely worth listening to if you missed it, with a personal and direct writing, without too many turns of phrase.

And as always we could not miss the playlist of Rokas exclusively for Collater.al Mag, a little ‘to dance, a little’ to know him better or just listen to some good music.

I’ll be honest, it’s not a playlist to get to know me better, but inside I’ve put all those songs that lately when I listen to them I feel like reciting them, a bit “Moves Like Jagger” in short. Like when you’re dancing when nobody’s watching.

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28 years and 12 albums later Daft Punk have disbanded. Sad news for any music fan, a lightning bolt from the blue.

To announce it are themselves, Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo with a video that breaks their silence on social media lasted 3 years.

An enigmatic 8-minute video taken from their 2006 film Electroma, sanctions their end.
It is Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo who sets the timer and triggers the bomb, after 60 seconds, Bangalter explodes.

Two writings: one is “epilogue”, the other is today’s date, February 22, 2021 that mark the end of an era, in 60 seconds we “lose” two great artists who have made entire generations dance, excite.

On an alternative version of “Touch”, a song from their most famous album, we say goodbye with a tear in the eye or maybe even more than one, two giants of electronic music that with their synthesizers and drum machines have given us moments of carefree.

Diego Vicente is a Spanish multidisciplinary artist, illustrator, painter, designer and street artist, more precisely from Zaragoza, where he began his artistic career, where he began studying illustration. Then he moved to Aragon to further his design studies, and after a stop in England, in 2014 he stopped in Madrid to join the Boa Mistura art collective.

In the last few years, Diego has become an independent artist, he has gained experience with other professionals in his field, he has grown and matured and today he is trying to achieve new goals. Let’s discover his work together.

The artistic production of Diego Vicente is very wide-ranging, ranging from small illustrations to large-scale murals.

“Artistically, I try to connect the abstract with the figurative, painting with drawing, my more visceral side with the more rational. I try to take this fusion further and further to find new languages and readings for the same image. In this way, I often find unpredictable results that intertwine and coexist with the more controlled part of each work. Compositions charged with meanings and feelings that place the viewer in charge of deciphering them.“

His images, but especially his murals, are created with the aim of supporting city neighborhoods, making them better places, supporting sustainability, culture, diversity and the community that moves them. For these spaces, Diego donates his colourful art and enriches it with symbols and subjects with deep meaning.

In the work Ofrenda, for example, the story focuses on the actions that people can do for their neighborhood. Flowers thus become the emblem of a gift, an act of generosity ranging from the social struggle to the smallest daily gesture, capable of improving coexistence between neighbors.

Pertenezco a este fuego, made last year in Alagón, talks about the passing of time, childhood traditions, history and life in the village. It is a homage to Carlos Sierra and his poem “Cenizas”.

Finally, El olvido is a mural dedicated to the victims of repression. In creating this work Diego Vicente thinks of those who have had to control their political ideas, religious beliefs, sexual conditions, ethnic groups and origins. The work speaks of oblivion as a disease and evokes memory as the only antidote, a source of light, hope and justice.

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See more of his creations here, follow him on Instagram and visit his official website to keep up to date with his artistic output.

Known for his installations, Rob Ley is an American artist based in Los Angeles who manages to captivate the world. He currently teaches design at the University of Southern California (USC), but still manages to find time to devote himself to reinventing places.
Engaging the character and context of a place, his studio creates dynamic public artworks that intertwine with the existing landscape.

His latest work is “Pangaea”, an installation commissioned for the NCR headquarters in downtown Atlanta, Georgia.
The work takes its name from the prehistoric supercontinent and is made of a series of layered aluminum ribbons that create a collection of interconnected nodes, hubs and conduits.

As you can guess, the American artist usually uses aluminum for his installations. Here is another of his works that has undoubtedly remained engraved in the hearts of those lucky enough to observe it up close.

Titled “Field Lines”, it is located in the transit hub of Chicago’s O’Hare airport. The installation, like all his works, becomes one with the airport. The small aluminum elements are in fact a representation of dynamic air currents that oscillate between stable and turbulent wind conditions.
A bit like the currents, eddies and vortices that shape the wind and also have a direct impact on air travel both positive and negative.

Another round, another work. Today we’re going to take you on a stroll through the world of Rob Ley. Another one of those works that have certainly been able to stop space and time is undoubtedly “Endless Miles”.

One of the most critically acclaimed, the work when viewed up close appears to be composed of individual brushstrokes, while from a distance it appears to be a mosaic composition.

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But these works are just a taste, a sort of aperitif let’s say of the imagination and skill of Rob Ley and his studio, to know them all just visit the site.