We didn't post much after PIN III, sorry.. But we're not "on holidays", yet: working on the participation of our beloved Paolo Benvegnù to the Fête des Cultures, at the Château de Bettembourg, on July, 11th.
It's gonna be a long day and night of party.. detailed infos will follow soon. Can you already imagine Paolo playing here, at nighttime? 8)
This magic has just gone.. we still have to recover! And we're not just saying we're tired.. but most of all that it has been two nights full of emotions.
On Friday, two comebacks. Atleticodefina, coming back one year and a half after, with a new band, a new cd.. rocking the house even more. Emidio Clementi, two years after his reading at the first PIN, giving us the honour of welcoming back to the scenes Massimo Volume, 6 years after their split-up.. One hour and a half of uninterrupted shivers. Then, the big party until 3, with DJ Moostash..
On Saturday, two really nice pop concerts. Ariadineve, with their mix of pop-styles, and the elegance of their front-woman Eleonora. Il Genio, with Alessandra and Gianluca transforming their electro-duo in a live-band, well supported by two ex Jennifer Gentle on guitar and drums. Then, more party until 3, this time with Mad Fred.
Oh, not to forget: the wonderful participation of Pas and Mimì to Sentieri Sonori, on Saturday morning. Always not easy to get up so early the morning after, but it was a pleasure and a honour to have them with Raf and Berardo, for a great chat and two acoustic songs.. more shivers!!
As usual.. no, more than usual, we need to thank you all. First, the bands: we're lucky enough to take here great artists, who then happen to be really nice human beings. Second, the public: it's such a busy period, in Luxembourg, but you've been a lot, and most important you've been a great public, attentive and warm. Last but not least, d:qliq staff: Serginho and his mojtos, Fred, Manu..
Now, next event on July 11th: Paolo Benvegnù live at the Fête des Cultures, in the Château de Bettembourg. We'll tell you more soon..
Stay tuned on here, also because.. some souvenirs of PIN III will follow soon!! Quite a few nice pix, maybe also.. some videos?
The big nights are getting nearer and nearer.. Next weekend, Panoplie Italian Nights III at d:qliq!!
After telling you a lot about the bands, let us tell you more about something else.. the buffet. ;) On both nights, we have the pleasure to offer you a free buffet of Italian food!! Could you think of anything better to get ready to a long night of music?
Let us thank our friends of Locanda (Italian restaurant/hotel, 121 r.te de Thionville) and Bondani (Italian food shop, 139 av. du X Septembre) for their support.
You will be able to taste a selection of tramezzini, salami, prosciutti, formaggi, focaccia, insalata di riso, insalata di pasta.. which would already be worth more than the 1o euro of entrance fee!
Doors will open around 6.30pm.. first arrived, best served!
Last but not least, let us present you Ariadineve, the opening band of Saturday, June 13th @ Panoplie Italian Nights III.
Mauro Ermanno Giovanardi (ex La Crus singer) as guest, Paolo Benvegnù and Lele Battista as producers: here it is Buone Vacanze, debut album by Ariadineve, released in January 2009.
After D’Estate, first cool single that last summer had a great success in Italian radios, Ariadineve have released last winter Buone Vacanze, presented by the single Lo Specchio, featuring Mauro Ermanno Giovanardi.
Ariadineve are Eleonora Tosca, Fabio D'amico, Stefano Campanini, Murizio Fusco e Luca Damonte. Their style mixes vintage sounds and modern British verve, not forgetting the tradition of Italian songwriting.
After a Friday with male rockers, Saturday at PIN III will be dedicated to more melodic sounds, and female vocalists.
Probably lots of you (certainly all Italians) already know them, at least for their single Pop Porno, but let us present the headliners, big sensation of Italian indie-pop, Il Genio!
Il Genio got together at the beginning of 2007, when Gianluca De Rubertis (formerly keyboards player of Studiodavoli) and Alessandra Contini decided to give life to their songs, composed on computer, home of the new millennium.
The project starts quickly: only two months after, they are already playing live, not only in Salento (where they both come from), but also in big cities such as Milano, Roma and Bologna, reaching a really high number of visit/friends on their official myspace.
In September 2007, the record deal with Disastro Records, rapidly followed, two months after, by the recording session of their debut album, Il Genio. Artistic supervisors are Davide D'Antuono (A&R for Disastro), Marco Fasolo (Jennifer Gentle) and Stefano Manca (Sudestudio). It has been recorded at Ectoplasmic Garden, dark oasis of Jennifer Gentle, on tape, using every sort of vintage equipment, and mixed by Stefano Manca.
The atmosphere is ironic and sexy, elegant but winking to punk, with lyrics that are never banal. Il Genio plays electro-pop music with a retro atmosphere, singing in Italian and French. It's easy-listening but at the same time refined and elegant, between chansionniers français, modern melody of bands such as Blonde Redhead and Stereo Total's irony.
The single Pop Porno has been one of the biggest hits of last year, and the band has become the new sensation of Italian pop. Il Genio are now touring with a full band, including Andrea Garbo on guitar and Paolo Mongardi, and starting to look outside Italy: they will also play in Paris and Brussels.
After the experience with Volwo, giving birth to the cd Viva Vittoria (2002), he creates Atleticodefina in 2005, publishing the same year the eponymous debut album.
The second cd, Tutti amano tutti, was released in April 2007. The line-up included Giorgio Prette (Afterhours' drummer) and Saturnino (one the the best Italian bass players, having played with Jovanotti for a long time), and amongst the guests we can find Cesare Basile, Massimo Martellotta (Calibro 35), Syria... It is from these collaborations that the idea behind Tutti Amano Tutti was born, as a "proof of love, friendship, respect". The meeting/clash of musicians having strong personality but different and recognisable style gave birth to a strange musical alchemy.
On November 2007, Atleticodefina had a great show at d:qliq: hereafter a few videos of that night!
On May 7th, 2009, the third album of Atleticodefina has been released: Revolwo. It has been recorded by Antonio "Cooper" Cupertino @ Officine Meccaniche, the recording studio of Mauro Pagani (founding member of PFM, co-author of Fabrizio De André Creuza de ma and Le Nuvole..). Artistic producer is Giorgio Canali, founding member of CSI (Consorzio Suonatori Indipendendenti), member of PGR, who is releasing his new cd with Rossofuoco. Giorgio is also an important producer, latest example being Le Luci della Centrale Elettrica, last year's sensation of Italian indie. With Daniele Raggi (electric guitar), Riccardo Marinelli (drums), Andrea Samonà (bass guitar) and Giorgio Canali (e-bow), Pasquale De Fina (vocals, electric and acoustic guitars) has decided to record an album starting back from Volwo, his first project. Saturnino (also known for his collaboration with Lorenzo Jovanotti) on bass guitar on 3 songs, Tribalex (Ritmo Tribale) on drums and Roberto Romano (Volwo) on sax on one, Luca Bresciani on fender rhodes on another: like Tutti Amano Tutti, the cd is rich of guests and collaborations.
Revolwo has already attracted the interest of Italian press, and has been presented live in Italy throughout the month of May.
Then, Pasquale De Fina and his band will reach Luxembourg on June, to open Panoplie Italian Nights III @ d:qliq, on Friday 12th, sharing the stage with long-time friend and musical partner Mimì Clementi. And, be ready.. Pas & Mimì could give us a surprise or two, that night..
Time runs fast: just three weeks to the big event! Time for us to start giving you further info on the great bands composing the line-up of Panoplie Italian Nights III.
Let us start from what undeniably is the most awaited band: Massimo Volume! Awaited not just here in Luxembourg: their reunion (6 years after the split-up) has been one of the biggest events of last year, in Italy.
Massimo Volume formed in Bologna during the winter of 1991 and later signed their first record contract with Underground Rec, to publish their debut record Stanze (Rooms) in 1993. The band has an extremely personal sound: big impact, tension and distortion alternate with more introspective moments, that still maintain, in any case, a strong emotional charge. The record receives good feedback, both from critics and public.
Concerts follow one after the other. In 1994, major labels notice the band and, at the beginning of March, Massimo Volume sign a contract with Wea, which will publish their second work, Lungo i bordi (Along the edges). Artistic production is entrusted to Fausto Rossi, considered by the band members the example of how to make music without any kind of market oriented restriction. The relationship is not always easy, but inspired enough to give birth to one of the cornerstones of new rock. The band has finally removed all link to foreign models and the record is powerful, its sound unmistakable.
Even John Cale notices the band, proposing himself to produce the third record, Da Qui (From here), a job that will then be entrusted to Steve Piccolo (ex Lounge Lizard). We are in 1997 and Massimo Volume are now signed to the label Mescal. “Da Qui” is influenced by the project Clementi and Sommacal, carried on in the period elapsed between their two last albums: a sort of laboratory where, the new songs were shaped through live performances for voice, guitar and harmonium. Music is minimal, evocative, while the lyrics weave short stories with characters recurring song after song and creating a real, tangible poetic world, the same we find in Gara di Resistenza (Endurance race), a collection of short stories published in the mean time by Emidio Clementi, which will be followed in January 1999 by his first novel, Il Tempo di Prima (The time before) and by a new record, produced by Manuel Agnelli from Afterhours.
Club Privé catches a bit unprepared critics and audiences and marks a new escape line in the artistic path of the band. For the first time, Emidio not only reads his lyrics but sings in a few tracks. Music has traveled from the violent impact of the beginnings to flavours of jazz and lyrics themselves are not short stories anymore, but brush-strokes painting a world of feelings and memories that colour masterfully the last chapter of a musical history which becomes more and more fascinating. The tour, started straight after the publishing of the album, went on over the whole peninsula side by side with a new project, Gli agnelli clementi, a reading shared by Emidio “Mimì” Clementi and Manuel Agnelli (also with Pasquale De Fina). Later, the band recorded the original soundtrack for the movie Almost Blue, which included songs already featured in their albums and some instrumental tracks among which a cover of the classical Elvis Costello song.
On September 28th 2001, Fazi Editore published Emidio’s second novel, La notte del pratello (Pratello’s night), but in February 2002 suddenly arrived the news no one would have ever wanted to read: Massimo Volume breaking up and bringing to an end their artistic journey.
Each of them took on new projects in the following years: Vittoria Burattini played with Franklin Delano, while Egle Sommacal published a solo record, Legno. Mimì Clementi dedicated his time to the project El-Muniria, publishing the CD Stanza 218 with Homesleep Records, and to his third novel, L’ultimo Dio, published in 2004. In early 2009 Mimì has published his fifth book (fourth novel), Matilde e i suoi tre padri (Matilde and her three fathers).
But in 2008, after a six years hiatus, Massimo Volume accept to share again their music with the audience. Two main events mark their comeback on Italian stages: the participation to the Traffic Festival on a special night with Patti Smith and Afterhours and the sonorization of the movie La caduta di casa Usher (The fall of the house of Usher), a fascinating project realized on behalf of the Turin Museum of Cinema and brought to the scene, in the same city, at Officine Grandi Riparazioni (OGR). Finally Massimo Volume were ready to start again where they had stopped six years earlier with their live activity and those who were lucky enough to witness their reunion in Turin can guarantee how much this was needed in the Italian artistic landscape!
Mimì Clementi participated to the first edition of Panoplie Italian Nights, in 2007, with a reading of L’ultimo Dio, accompanied by Massimo Carozzi. At the time, he said he hoped to come back with a full band: well, there he goes!
Panoplie Italian Nights III are getting nearer.. ready for them? We can't wait.. Quite lot of work.. but you'll see, it's really worth!
But we also have more big news.. As for June 12th & 13th, for PIN III, you'd book your agenda on Saturday, July 11th!
It's gonna be a long weekend in Bettembourg, for the Fête des Cultures, culminating in a big concert, including Luxembourg's heroes Metro and.. a great Italian band you'd know.. Paolo Benvegnù!
After their gorgeous and successful gig of December, and Paolo's recent comeback with Proiettili Buoni, they're back with a big gig, full band (piano, cello..) in the wonderful framework of Bettembourg's Castle!
Not to be missed!!
Stay tuned on here for more info, first of all on PIN III!! Panoplie Team
