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                                                        AZZECCA







                                                          Review by Ben E Zander





   PHOTOGRAGHY BY NAT GOLDIE (@ARTBYGOLDIE)

                                                        Azzecca has been hosting    Azzecca is a Chicagoan, you
                                                        parties for quite some time  can tell how much she
                                                        focused on creating         treasures this city. The
                                                        environments where patrons  relaunch of Cosimea
                                                        can feel free to express    debuted as an official ARC
                                                        themselves. Her event series  after party, August 30. I
                                                        Dirty Disco, which she built  asked her to detail her
                                                        and trademarked over the past  feelings on how Chicago’s
                                                        couple of years, is undergoing  ARC Music Festival, where
                                                        a rebrand to “Cosimea”. An  house come home, is special
                                                        LGBTQIA group from Texas    to her. “I am so proud to be a
                                                        approached her and requested  Chicagoan, and I feel like
                                                        she return them the name, as  with ARC we finally have
                                                        they had settled the moniker  something that showcases
                                                        first, but never trademarked it.  the history and importance of
                                                        Azzecca graciously obliged,  this city in the world of dance
                                                        and her rebranded event series  music. I think it’s often
                                                        is set to debut at the end of  forgotten that Chicago is
                                                        August 2024. I was curious if  where house music began,
                                                        anything was set to change.  and until ARC we didn’t
   PHOTOGRAGHY BY NAT GOLDIE (@ARTBYGOLDIE)                                         really have an event that
                                                        “The focus on creating inclusive  emphasized the importance
                                                        environments is definitely still at  of our city on a global scale.
                                                        the forefront of the project,  Getting to be a part of this
                                                        but I wanted to be a bit more  event means the world to
                                                        specific about the type of music  me. The Cosimea launch
                                                        people can expect at the party,  party will be an ARC after
                                                        and eventually on my record  party, and I can’t think of any
                                                        label. My new brand Cosimea  better way to launch this next
                                                        is “An Exploration of Forward  phase in my project.”
                                                        Thinking and Otherworldly Club
                                                        Sounds.” I want to use my
                                                        platform to introduce artists that
                                                        I think are really pushing
                                                        boundaries and creating new
                                                        spaces in the industry.”   P O Z E - M A G A Z I N E . C O M







   PHOTOGRAGHY BY NAT GOLDIE (@ARTBYGOLDIE)
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