Music
I remember that day - a Sunday - as it would be today. My father gave me the permission to use his stereo set in order to play just a record chosen by me. It was the Fifth of Beethoven. Ok, for someone I could choose more carefully, but that someone don't know what kind of record my father had got... (Anyway from then I was committed to give a better discography to my family). I can visualize myself - a children - sat in the middle of the living room, carefully listening to what come from the speakers. It was magic!
When I was eleven years old I begin to study guitar. Our first class was a sort of introduction to the instrument. The teacher explain us 3 chords (I remember well: they were D, E and A major) just to understand what a guitar is and the way to play it. During the second class, I asked the teacher to explain us more chords because I couldn't invent more than seven songs having only 3 three chords. Everyone laughed, but the teacher asked me to play something that I wrote... And i proudly did! Naturally I was able to play just one of the seven songs before the teacher kept me silent, but - guys - it was the my very first concert!
And then there was Rock Music: during the last seventies I founded a Prog Rock band, named "Pull In Dot Of Music Soul". Nothing notable came up, but I'm sure the acronym P.I.D.O.M.S. could win the "Worst Name for a Rock Band" contest even today! The singer/keyboardist, Roberto Ceteroni, played a central role in that crew, in my grew-up process and in my music: our friendship never end and this is one of the best thing in the life.
When I discover New Wave (and David Sylvian's Japan, miles away over all the other bands), I founded a band named "Compagnia delle Indie" (more or less like a "British India Company". Ok - once again - please consider I'm not so keen to invent rock band names!) We began to play something mixing "the Police" geometrical harmonies and the "Japan" esotical melodies. In italian language ... No, we didn't have a lot of success indeed. But something good came up and I met Davide Pinelli.
Davide wrote a song with a beautiful melody that fits with one of mine with a weak melody but a good arrangement (based on a strange drum machine programming: thanks a lot, Steve Jansen!). So we prepared a song "La mia città" ("My own city") that took part in play-off phase for 1985 Castrocaro Festival (the most important unsigned artist festival in Italy at the time). After an year from "La mia città", Davide, me and some others musician found The Black Sheep, a band that played a pop rock à-là "Man at Work". We didn't make a lot of concert but the songs were so good that everyone who was listening for them, immediately understand the commercial potential. Why nothing happened? In Italy "nothing happened" happens a lot. And then... Davide goes on (with all my blessing in life!) and I returned to the University to finish my studies in Sociology. And then I buried my music passion for years. Such a shame.
After my studies I return to the music. I wish to show my song writing and arranging skills, so I composed Bella come il mare (Beautiful like the sea), one of the RDA ("Roughly Demoes Album") that I publish here (just for a sake of remembering, please take in account that I'm a composer NOT a singer!). My compositions stand the quality level of the published songs in those years but I never was considered by italian pop music industry. Or - better said - I tried and ... "nothing happened" !
But all of that technology returned in a job opportunity: I became a Multimedia consultant before to know it. But music passion flames always burned me and electonic music was my actual fever at that time. After a while I met Patrizia Biscu, a friend, a colleague, a music companion and then a beloved partner. With her - a fabulous singer with a unique vocal texture and a non common pitch extensions - all became very simply. In 1999, we formed the Broken_Silence, as an electronic downtempo band. In 2000, we formed the Aurasonora, a trip-hop collective line-up. Something made with love and passion, something that is in my head, in my hear and in my heart so far. But sadly everything broke up in 2006 and nevermore it will be again.
What could be made without the voice of Patrizia? Nothing, except some electronic tunes in which I carried on different electronic styles. But as electronic musician I prefer to use my hacker name, gained a lot of time ago: Liquidsilver.
And then - when all have been sayed and all have been played - I restart from the roots: the Blues. With my actual line up (the Empty Legs), with Pierpaolo Letizia e Francesco Russo, we have some gigs, some rehersals, some projects and a lot of good time to pass with...
When I was eleven years old I begin to study guitar. Our first class was a sort of introduction to the instrument. The teacher explain us 3 chords (I remember well: they were D, E and A major) just to understand what a guitar is and the way to play it. During the second class, I asked the teacher to explain us more chords because I couldn't invent more than seven songs having only 3 three chords. Everyone laughed, but the teacher asked me to play something that I wrote... And i proudly did! Naturally I was able to play just one of the seven songs before the teacher kept me silent, but - guys - it was the my very first concert!
And then there was Rock Music: during the last seventies I founded a Prog Rock band, named "Pull In Dot Of Music Soul". Nothing notable came up, but I'm sure the acronym P.I.D.O.M.S. could win the "Worst Name for a Rock Band" contest even today! The singer/keyboardist, Roberto Ceteroni, played a central role in that crew, in my grew-up process and in my music: our friendship never end and this is one of the best thing in the life.
When I discover New Wave (and David Sylvian's Japan, miles away over all the other bands), I founded a band named "Compagnia delle Indie" (more or less like a "British India Company". Ok - once again - please consider I'm not so keen to invent rock band names!) We began to play something mixing "the Police" geometrical harmonies and the "Japan" esotical melodies. In italian language ... No, we didn't have a lot of success indeed. But something good came up and I met Davide Pinelli.
Davide wrote a song with a beautiful melody that fits with one of mine with a weak melody but a good arrangement (based on a strange drum machine programming: thanks a lot, Steve Jansen!). So we prepared a song "La mia città" ("My own city") that took part in play-off phase for 1985 Castrocaro Festival (the most important unsigned artist festival in Italy at the time). After an year from "La mia città", Davide, me and some others musician found The Black Sheep, a band that played a pop rock à-là "Man at Work". We didn't make a lot of concert but the songs were so good that everyone who was listening for them, immediately understand the commercial potential. Why nothing happened? In Italy "nothing happened" happens a lot. And then... Davide goes on (with all my blessing in life!) and I returned to the University to finish my studies in Sociology. And then I buried my music passion for years. Such a shame.
After my studies I return to the music. I wish to show my song writing and arranging skills, so I composed Bella come il mare (Beautiful like the sea), one of the RDA ("Roughly Demoes Album") that I publish here (just for a sake of remembering, please take in account that I'm a composer NOT a singer!). My compositions stand the quality level of the published songs in those years but I never was considered by italian pop music industry. Or - better said - I tried and ... "nothing happened" !
But all of that technology returned in a job opportunity: I became a Multimedia consultant before to know it. But music passion flames always burned me and electonic music was my actual fever at that time. After a while I met Patrizia Biscu, a friend, a colleague, a music companion and then a beloved partner. With her - a fabulous singer with a unique vocal texture and a non common pitch extensions - all became very simply. In 1999, we formed the Broken_Silence, as an electronic downtempo band. In 2000, we formed the Aurasonora, a trip-hop collective line-up. Something made with love and passion, something that is in my head, in my hear and in my heart so far. But sadly everything broke up in 2006 and nevermore it will be again.
What could be made without the voice of Patrizia? Nothing, except some electronic tunes in which I carried on different electronic styles. But as electronic musician I prefer to use my hacker name, gained a lot of time ago: Liquidsilver.
And then - when all have been sayed and all have been played - I restart from the roots: the Blues. With my actual line up (the Empty Legs), with Pierpaolo Letizia e Francesco Russo, we have some gigs, some rehersals, some projects and a lot of good time to pass with...