Death Roars + Oh Calcutta!

DEATH ROARS (ITA)
+
OH! CALCUTTA (ITA-POR-ISL-USA)

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“Death Roars” è un duo formato da Jack D’Amico al fender rhodes, effetti [pianista, improvvisatore partenopeo che vive a Roma, attivo nella scena underground e sperimentale, collabora con i Gronge, storico gruppo romano, e diverse formazioni e ensemble, come EPO, Tricatiempo, Forefront] e Walter Forestiere alla batteria [batterista, improvvisatore pugliese, attivo nell’ambito della musica sperimentale, di matrice afroamericana, e free-form]. La nostra musica, ed estetica è riassumibile in una citazione di Emil Cioran: “Che cosa succederebbe se il volto umano esprimesse fedelmente tutta la sofferenza di dentro, se l’espressione traducesse tutto il tormento interiore? Riusciremmo ancora a conversare? Non dovremmo parlare nascondendoci il volto con le mani? La vita diventerebbe decisamente impossibile se i nostri tratti palesassero l’intensità dei nostri sentimenti. Nessuno avrebbe più il coraggio di guardarsi allo specchio, perché un’immagine insieme grottesca e tragica mescolerebbe ai contorni della fisionomia macchie di sangue, piaghe sempre aperte e rivoli di lacrime irrefrenabili.” Due identità, diverse nel loro somigliarsi, che si mescolano creando connessioni inaspettate e surreali.

Jack D’Amico [fender rhodes, fx]
Walter Forestiere [drums, objects]

#1 ▶ https://soundcloud.com/jackdamicowalterforestiere/sets/death-roars [free download]
#2 ▶ https://jackdamicowalterforestiere.bandcamp.com/

LIVE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g21gb8ISgk

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Oh! Calcutta! Is two guitars, bass and drums. It’s post rock, noise. It features arpeggios, distortion, improvisation and it’s the project in which four jazz musicians go back to their roots, playing the music initially inspired them to pick up an instrument and to start playing. Four eclectic players from different countries met in the the jazz department of the Conservatorium of Amsterdam. Spending a lot of time listening to music and living life together is something can strongly contribute to shape the sound a band: as soon as they started playing together there was a natural mutual vision on how the music should sound.
Oh! Calcutta!’s early modus operandi consisted of creating new tunes out of group jams at the rehearsal. The band roughly recorded several impro takes and started out saving the good ideas happening, trying to shape them into a tune the could play again, and they could include in their setlist.
After months a tune from each member’s pen was rehearsed, and a killer songlist was ready to be performed live and recorded in a studio. The results can grab the ears of different kind of listeners, because of the strong emotional component and of the multiple influences from different genres.

Tristan Renfrow (USA) and Valdimar Olgeirsson (Iceland) are in the rhythm section, and they team on songs’ epic crescendos on which Dario Trapani (Italy) and Pedro Branco (Portugal) blend their guitar sounds with tons of reverbed arpeggios, feedbacks and loud fuzz.

It’s dynamic, intense and epic.
“a lot of distorted guitars and a lot of love.“

Pedro Branco [guitar]
Dario Trapani [guitar]
Valdimar Olgeirsson [bass]
Tristan Renfrow [drums]

a seguire aperitivo e cineforum a tema montano: https://www.facebook.com/events/1052951551435510/