Aktuala has been played on NTS shows including All Styles All Smiles, with Hare first played on 6 October 2017.

Aktuala ('contemporary' in Esperanto) was a pioneering band from Italy formed in 1972. Their music has been categorised as world music, progressive rock, psychedelic, or avant garde. As with Third Ear Band, Embryo or Between, Aktuala cross-bred ancient and ethnic musics (Eastern and African culture) with rock and avant-garde forms, creating a pioneering new form of music that went beyond anything

In 1972 Husband and wife Walter Maioli and Laura Maioli, both passionate collectors of ancient and ethnic instruments, joined with sax player Caniele Cavallanti, guitarist…