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“Strip in Midi Side” came to light in the summer 2007 as the brand new project of Luigi Buonaiuto (Giotto), Emanuele Sirica (Maks), and Marco DeFilppo (Amon). The team, already tried and tested with years of experience collaborating in various cover bands, immediately focused on an intensive phase of song-writing, searching for a sound that was able to blend a rock/metal/post-punk background with an electronic sound (synths and drum-machine), heir of two decades of avant-guarde Anglo/American but mostly German sounds. Since December 2007 the band has been giving amazing live performances in which the “show-entertainment” feature, together with powerful rhythms, has created a mix of rock, avant-guarde electronica and entertainment that has become the band’s trademark: known as the “stripping experience”.

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The current line-up of “Nuove Officine Rumori” goes back to 1996 when the group was first formed under the name of “Noisy”. The original nucleus of the group comes from the Newest Industry/Zona Industriale project which produced an album “Ateo prego” in 1995, performed in numerous concerts and took part in various compilations such as “Fuori dal Mucchio”, “Stacca la Spina”, “Arezzo Wave ‘97”. The most obvious influences range from the New Wave/Post Punk of the early ‘80s, to the Noise of Sonic Youth/Husker Du, to Post Rock, Progressive and new Wave sounds, all naturally dismantled and rebuilt in N.O.R. style. In September 2007 the group’s debut album “NuoveOfficineRumori” was released, self-produced in the Real Sound Studio.

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Quarto Profilo is a rock band from Treviso whose members are Giuseppe Pinarello (vocals), Edoardo Giommi (guitar), Rudy Michelutti (guitar), Alberto Marenco (bass) and Andrea De Marchi (drums). Their music draws its inspiration from the sound of the seventies and has its roots in historic bands such as the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin. With simple, straight-forward, but never banal lyrics, in the tradition of the best Italian songwriters, their songs reflect the hopes, the difficulties, the dreams and the troubles of today’s younger generation: they are stories told in an everyday language with a certain poetic touch. The history of Quarto Profilo goes back to the distant year of 1995 when a group of musicians coming from various musical experiences, after playing cover songs in numerous venues, started to dedicate themselves to writing their own material. This original band produced two albums: “Quarto Profilo” in 1996 and “Voci” (Voices) in 1997, followed up, after a number of changes in the band’s formation, by two more albums: “Ogni Cosa Che Rimane” (All That Remains) in 2000 and “Cento Parole” (A Hundred Words) in 2002. During these formative years the band had a very full schedule of live performances in the provinces of Treviso and Veneto, the most important of which was, without doubt, the 29th August 2001 when the group opened the concert for the legendary Deep Purple in S. Lucia di Piave (TV) playing for an hour to 11,500 spectators. In 2003 the singer Giorgio Barbarotta and the guitarist Stefano Silenzi left the band but the others decided to continue. With its present line-up the band published its fifth album “Il Cuore Non Lo Sa” (The Heart Doesn’t Know) in 2005, produced by Simone Chivilò (Massimo Bubola, Radiofiera, Marian Trapassi) and Ricky Bizzarro (Radiofiera) for Sonny Boy Music Production. The release of the album was followed by the summer tour of 2005, another tight schedule of live performances for the group. In the summer of 2006 the group was once again back on the recording studio for the pre-production of 12 tracks many of which will end up on the new album due for release in 2008.

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The band was formed in 2001 after an online meeting between Antonio Rafaschieri and Gianni Pollex. For about three years the sound of the band was very much based on the unrestrained sounds of the British invasion starting with the Beatles, passing through Pink FLoyd and Led Zeppelin and arriving at the more recent U2, Oasis and Coldplay. Afterwards, with the arrival of the drummer Beppe Garavelli, the bass player Giorgio Cutrignelli and the guiatarist Bepy Capasso, the sound scene changed and headed towards an easier musiciality, tending more towards an Italian style pop-rock in the wake of artists who have left their mark such as Lucio Battisti, Vasco Rossi, Ligabue. The objective of Wide today is to regenerate the music which is travelling faster and faster towards an unknown horizon which promises no good. The aim of the band is to write great songs, catchy tunes, sometimes thoughtful other times danceable, imprinting in the listener’s heart touching choruses which are easy to sing along to.

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Andrea Celeste was born in Pontedera on the 31st of August 1986. When only 11 years old she started giving her first public performances and took up the study of classical singing and piano under the guidance of M. Vittorio Scali. Her talent did not pass unnoticed and she was invited, while still an adolescent, to share the stage with some of the most important national and international Gospel projects and singers such as the St. Jacob’s Gospel Choir directed by M. Massimo Bracci, the Joyful Angels directed by M. Vijay Pierallini, and the American singer Cheryl Porter. In 2002 Andrea won a scholarship for the International Gospel Seminar in Castelbrando where she shared the stage with Mario Biondi and Cheryl Porter. It was Cheryl Porter herself who, in 2007, asked Andrea Celeste to join Vox Box, Cheryl’s new project, which gave its debut performance alongside Gianni Morandi (one of Italy’s most popular artists) during his concert in Bologna. A tireless professional, Andrea Celeste pursued her studies to improve her vocal technique and attended numerous workshops with Maestros such as: Terron Brooks, Ashley Davis, Huntley Brown, Michael e Regina Winans. At the same time Andrea was also very busy in the recording studios, lending her voice to various gospel, R&B, soul e jazz projects, and participating in mainstream events such as the Milano Gospel Festival for 3 years in succession (a dvd of the festival’s greatest moments was distributed throughout Italy by the newspaper “Il Giornale”).

In July 2007, Andrea started work on her first solo album. Produced by Roberto Vigo for the Philology label, “My Reflection” is the long-awaited debut of this young talented artist who wrote the music and the lyrics of the songs and then entrusted them to outstanding performers: Gianluca Tagliazucchi (piano), Dino Cerruti (double bass), Rodolfo Cervetto (drums). This album can boast the collaboration of some of the greatest names in Italian Jazz as guests: Roberto Izzo, Stefano Cabrera, Marco Moro, Filippo Gambetta, the incomparable Dado Moroni (co-author of the song “Real”), Riccardo Fioravanti, Enzo Zirilli, Pietro Leveratto and Andrea Pozza. The result is a delicious jazz, dressed in velvet and embellished by the voice of this splendid artist and her capacity to balance, with rare elegance, mellow tones and extraordinary power.

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A lifetime passion for music, Pierref began studying classical guitar privately at the age of 12. After a number of experiences as a guitarist in various rock and prog-rock groups, he started to take an interest in jazz and in deepening his musical knowledge. From 1991 to 1995 he followed courses and seminars at the “Scuola Popolare di Musica di Testaccio” in Rome where he studied theory and solfeggio, ear training, harmony, arrangement and improvisation with renowned teachers such as S. Pogello, M. Tiso and M. Lazzaro. In the meantime Pierref successfully completed his degree course in architecture and after a long period of silence in which he dedicated his time to his career, he began to experiment with digital music, creating his own personal style of electronic music with influences ranging from prog-rock to jazz to classical. In 2006 Pierref produced his debut album “Nuvole e Pioggia” (Clouds and Rain), created entirely with his computer and midi instruments. In October 2007 he went on to produce his second album “Estatika”: 11 tracks with a more electronic and ambient feel to them. For the title track Pierref also produced a 3D graphic video.

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The group Sat 11 was formed in Pordenone in October 2001. In August 2002 their first two tracks, Seven and Elettrica, were hosted on the Vitaminic site where they received great acclaim from online listeners and where the track Seven reached the top of the ‘most downloads’ charts on a number of occasions. At the same time the band started playing live in various venues in the province of Pordenone. In February 2003 they produced their debut album “Sat Eleven” which received excellent reviews from online music sites, fanzines and even from the United States. In October 2003 the band was interviewed on the radio show “Rock Machine”, transmitted by Radio Amica in Palermo and dedicated to the most important up-and-coming bands on the Italian music scene. In 2004 the band continued with its live performances, playing twice at the renowned Velvet rock club in Pordenone. At the beginning of 2005 Sat 11 were chosen as one of the five groups to represent their area in the finals of the Friuli/Veneto Orientale section of the national Italian Rock competition. In August of the same year they came third in the “Summer Music” (2005) competition and the singer received the best voice award. In May 2006 the band used the hours of free recording time that they won in the “Summer Music” competition to record the demo single “Oltre l’Aurora” in the Angel’s Wings studio in Varmo (UD). At the beginning of June the band was invited to perform in Rome, in the Gardini di Castel Sant’Angelo, on the National Day for Cancer Patients: an important occasion which saw the participation of many illustrious people from the entertaiment industry, medicine and politics. In August of the same year, although not actually competing, Sat 11 received another award from the “Summer Music” (2006) competition for succesfully giving a fiery and energetic performance notwithstanding the serious illness of one of their members. In January 2007 the band started to work on a new album produced by the renowned jazz guitarist and producer, Ruggero Robin, and at the same time reached the regional finals of the Italia Wave 2007 competition.

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Music, rhythm, harmony … emotion. Is it possible to imagine a world without music? I don’t think so. We are immersed in music. The world that surrounds us is a creator of music, a drop of water that falls is rhythm, is music. For some of us, though, it is not enough to be enshrouded in these vibrations that we call music. Some of us feel the need to take an active part in this creation, they feel the need for a greater involvement in this emotion; sometimes occasional, other times so intense as to dedicate their entire existence to the satisfaction of this need. A need that goes beyond any form of technical ability to create music, an urge that is hard to resist, perhaps, impossible to avoid. How does one define such people? Musicians? Artists? … I don’t know … but I feel, in some way, to belong to this group.
The Mediterranean sea, centre of an ancient world, melting-pot of cultures, its waves have forever carried from one end to the other of its shores the emotions of peoples and of nations, at the same time both distant and close; this sea has mixed and left intact all that it has come into contact with. It is impossible for me not be influenced by it, impossible for me not to subconsciously acquire the method … move and mix, stop and leave intact. The raw materials? The sounds, the vibrations, the emotions of this our world. The instruments? Whatever is able to produce the sounds and that I am able to use.

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Corrado Rossi was born in Bergamo and graduated in piano dedicating himself at the same time to the composition of both classical music (soundtracks and piano solos) and electronic music. His passion for home recording and his research into the beauty of sound and arrangements, led him, about two years ago, into the ambient genre where he has created a very personal style in which electronica blends with piano and orchestra and a clear melodic line is strengthened with chill-out rhythms. His first CD “Corrado Rossi” which came out in 2006 is predominantly an ambient style album, but it also contains a number of electronic soundtracks and tracks with just piano and orchestra. The CD contains 15 tracks including some collaborations with “The Wimshurst’s Machine”, an ambient/new-age ensemble from Turin. Musicians who have inspired Corrado Rossi are to be found amongst the leading composers from the 80’s such as Mike Oldfield, the Alan Parsons Project, Jean Michel Jarre, Kraftwerk and Pat Metheney, along with other great pianists such as Keith Jarrett and Dave Grusin.

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Armida, a pagan and esoteric character in Torquato Tasso’s poetical “Liberated Jerusalem”, who first intrigues and then stirs the emotions. Her self-referential nature, in love with herself and herself alone, nonetheless needs to reflect itself in the being that it has succeeeded in subjugating, Rinaldo: necessary as the proof of her romantic power and essential for upholding her seductive identity. All of this places her inexhorably in a condition of fragility, to the point where she undergoes an uncontrollable evolution, withdrawing from her role as an expert manipulator of diabolical magic arts and gradually moving closer to the universe of affection and sentiment. Her story, in the year 2000, lays the foundations of the group “ArmidA”, born through the meeting of four individuals who mix their musical ideas and search at the same time for a common and distinctive identity. Like the historical character, theirs is a continuing research for hidden emotional states, brought to the light by a sound that oscillates from psychedelic to progressive while remaining faithful to a strong postgrunge matrix. It is the meeting point between breathtaking atmospheres and walls of granite sound that shatter on contact with harsh melodies wrapped in whirling rhythmic spirals. Live shows in local circuits are met with glowing response from the public and from the critics: a response which accompanies the band right up to 2006, the release year of their first ep “Ring a ring‘o roses” which, notwithstanding the burning down of the recording studio and all the instruments, still records 2,879 downloads from the official site in just one year. With glowing reviews in various specialized websites, the performances in local and national competitions, as leading band or as support band, continue. Amongst their various perfomances in 2007, the ArmidA reached the semifinals of the national “Angeli del Rock” competition, they were amongst the 80 groups chosen nationally for the “Music Village”, their track “The Big Flare” was used to open the national radio show “Demo” on Radio 1, and they were selected for the soundtrack in an upcoming short movie.

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