Hola La Poyana

Hola la Poyana is the solo project of Sardinian musician Raffaele Badas.
This sort of one-man band initially developed through a few essential instruments (acoustic guitar, voice, and stomp box), and took its first steps in 2012 with the self-produced folk-blues EP Lazy music for dry skins. The album was well-received and was later promoted with dozens of gigs throughout Italy. This adventure continued with the more sophisticated, full-length record A tiny collection of songs about problems relating to the opposite sex (2014), released by the Sardinian label Hopetone Records and followed by two years of relentless shows.
In 2018 Raffaele started the production of his new album.
Despite HLP having started as a solo project, the experience gained by Raffaele and his need not to repeat himself, lead him to a change of direction towards a greater diversity of his music, with the significant involvement, within this 5 tracks' record, of a bunch of musicians/friends from various Italian bands such as Rigolò, Lilies on mars, Was, Memory of Sho, and Don Leone.
The EP is titled A long cold summer and was released in October 2020 by several Italian record labels.
Hola la Poyana has shared the stage with Micah P. Hinson, Geoff Farina (Karate), and Duke Garwood among many other musicians.