It really closes the artistic life of La Crus as a band. There had announced the dissolution of the group to follow roads Soloists (Ermanno Mauro Giovanari) or with other projects (Cesare Malfatti). There was a live disc and a farewell tour that we have followed and witnessed.
Attention, concentration: this is the Bandabardo is ready to relieve a lot ‘of rhythm and vitality in the new tour’ to Ottavio arena ‘departing Oct. 24 from Naples. After the success of the MEI, the Tuscan band is preparing to make known to the public live the concept album “Ottavio.” It heralds a dramatic spectacle tones, which incorporates the structure of the album himself, or rather the “drama in four acts with grand finale: the true story of Ottavio from birth to rebirth.”
Returning from the concert of Coldplay at the Forum of Assago, I still have a lot of adrenaline in the body and awareness of having taken part in something really special. The concert was great, not only for the musical aspect. There was a time when they played in pointing to one of the footbridges. Or the resumption after the break, when they appeared on the stairs from the opposite side of the hall, to play a couple of pieces in noise in the audience. The video-balls and rain of colorful butterflies.
The wonder in their eyes for the welcome received. And people: hot and passionate, a chorus of ten thousand people dancing and vibrant.
Among our historical songwriters Francesco Guccini is perhaps the most sympathetic, with his always be available to people who follow him and decisively away from the logic of marketing. So, very quiet, the teacher is running Modena in Italy a few tour dates per month and disks without having to be promoted (the last “Portraits” dates back to 2004). The latest news speak of his work on a new novel and simultaneously to a new disk, which seems to have prepared some pieces.
Among these seem safe at night n.4 Song “dedicated to his Pavana (the country in which they live long) and” The Testament of a clown, “both performed live in the past few months. His concerts are always very participatory and fans gather at least three different generations.
Who loves the songs of Guccio loves it also follow live where, between a piece and the other is cimenta often in stories and gossip, and each performance leaves something special in those who take part. If you do not want to lose, here you are next scheduled date.
Sixteen years have passed from the debut album of Blind Melon, sixteen years since cantilenante and hypnotic debut single “No Rain.” Wednesday, September 10, the Rolling Stone of Milan, will return to play (the only date in Italy) played their last “For My Friends” along with old classic repertoire. Here the current formation of the band: Travis Warren - voice and acoustic guitar Christopher Thom - guitar, steel guitar, mandolin and harmonica Rogers Stevens - guitar and piano Brad Smith - bass, flute and voice background Glen Graham - drums and percussion
Now the eighth year The Fragrant City music festival authors of the most interesting will host this year (from August 26 to 29) among others: Cristina Dona Vinicio Capossela and Nada (in photo) over to Marta on Tubes and 2008 Winners of the competition Siena Rock.
Among the many events worth reporting the 26 / 8 in Piazza San Francesco an evening that will see all Cristina Donà Nada (formerly joined on stage last Sanremo). And then the final evening of 29, entrusted to Vinicio Capossela that promises a new show and thought affixed to Siena, in the splendid Piazza del Campo.
Last week he transited in a Tour of Italy Mavis Staples: legend of soul and blues great interpreter, champion of human rights, friend of Martin Luther King, extraordinary item came from gospel. In the past, has collaborated with artists like Bob Dylan and Prince, among others.
This year has brought around his latest disc extraordinary “We’ll Never Turn Back,” an album produced by legendary blues Ry Cooder. Here our live report of photographic evening of July 27 at the festival MonfortInJazz.
The eagerly awaited new disc of new Vinicio Capossela is intitolera Alone and will be published on October 17. These are the words with which the same Vinicio said the new project:
The new album is a disc for piano and instruments inconsistent namely those elements that can stay around the piano and give him an aura of dust sound. Voice and piano are central in this disc is mainly ballads. The instruments are inconsistent from choir, give space and depth. Of the piano as a sweater.
Perfectly in line with the latest live performances, there is not that dire.
We just have to wait until the autumn, when will start immediately for a new tour which we are already the first date, to which other will be joined for sure. The list below.
The music often meets art in various forms and ways. One of the ways, perhaps one of the most evocative, is when a band invades the space of playing in the salt museum. E ’success on June 17 when the last of the Icelandic band Sigur Ros took possession of the spaces of what is perhaps the most important museum of modern art in the world, or the MoMA in New York.
The Sun, the English newspaper known for large fired and not always reliable, announces that in the last dates of tour George Michael, those attesissime of 24 and August 25 in London, Britain is preparing a big surprise. Andrew Ridgely, the other half (less fortunate) of Wham! Should climb on stage to return to propose together with old companion adventurous artistic pieces that imposed the band in the rankings worldwide in the’80s. The occasion would be perfect, since those two evenings will be filmed for the realization dvd official tour.