Kakawa is an explosive, hybrid musical project born from the encounter between three musicians: Frei Rossi (producer), Dario Giovannini (multi-instrumentalist) and Lawless (singer). Frei is Italian, Dario is of Japanese mother, Lawless is Gambian. All the members of Kakawa love and are influenced by the sounds and music coming from the geographical areas of cocoa (South America and Central Africa). In Kakawa's music, as in the cultural and geographical influences of its members, remote spaces and times coexist, a whole compressed and articulated sound world, from the sounds and chants of initiation rites to drum machines, from percussions to synths, from guitars to samplers, from south to north, from past to present. Between hybrid imaginaries, between geographical, temporal and aesthetic extremes, the project unfolds and articulates itself, without a place or even a precise time. Kakawa is a "once upon a time" that extends between the various extremes of the globe. A genre that could be defined as World Electro Patchanka. The sound is defined in the studio by producer Leonardo "Fresco" Beccafichi (Jovanotti, Frankie Hi-nrg), in effect the fourth member of the band, who manages to ferry this sound caravan towards more Urban and contemporary shores.