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Artist: SounDank
2 Italian boys explore the electronic side of the life... [+] Read More
Artist: Enzo Masetti
Enzo Masetti gave up a career in classical music to become one of the Italy's top film composers of the mid-20th century. Between 1936 and 1959, he wrote more than 60 film scores, many of them for movies that saw extensive international release, and culminating with the music for the two most popular Italian movies ever issued internationally up... [+] Read More
Artist: Donato Da Cascia
Madrigals, caccia, a ballata and a virelai were attributed to this Italian composer from Florence. Two voices dominate the panorama of Donato's production though one piece with three voices is attributed to him. On occasion his syllabic rhythms were interrupted by metrical or melodic forms of imitation. ~ Keith Johnson, All Music Guide [+] Read More
Artist: Mina
The woman who would later be affectionately called La Tigre di Cremona (The Tiger from Cremona), Mina, one of the most popular and influential postwar Italian artists, was born in the province of Lombardy in 1940. Her first performance came in 1958 at a club called La Bussola, near Lucca, where Italdisc-Broadway producer David Matalon was... [+] Read More
Artist: Gianni Basso
Gianni Basso was one of the lights who began shining on the European jazz scene following the end of World War II. He began as a clarinetist and first played professionally in Germany and Belgium in the late '40s with the Raoul Falsan Big Band. By the beginning of the next decade, he was established as a commercial "GB" or "general business"... [+] Read More
Artist: Gabin
The original Gabin -- a French actor known for his portrayals of jaded, faded anti-heroes in 1930s and '40s-era films -- might have chuckled ironically if he had been told that, a half-century after his heyday, two Italian musicians would name a fledgling lounge music project after him. But if he had listened to the music, he would have... [+] Read More
Artist: Giovanni Cavaccio
An Italian composer who served at least two decades in Bergamo and visited the Bavarian court, Rome and Venice. His repute went beyond the boundaries of the Italian borders as works of his could be found in Germany and Austria. The compositions of this organist, singer and poet include numerous masses, hymns, madrigals, motets, and compositions... [+] Read More
Artist: Giovanni Antonio Terzi
Two books of music survive from this Italian lutenist and composer. It is clear that Terzi loved instrumental music but wrote a number of accompaniments for voice with two lutes. The compositions with two lute parts can be played as duets and the single lute parts could also be played as solos though indications given are for ensemble work. The... [+] Read More
Artist: Pietro Valente
Pietro Valente was born in Padua, 29th April 1982 and start s to play drum at the age of 8.He got some experiences to perform since he was 15, with rock bands in the pub and also other places in Padua.He decided to become a professional musician was in 2001, after graduated the high school. When he matriculated at the Università della Musica di... [+] Read More
Artist: Bartholomeus Brollo
The predominant genre of compositions for this Renaissance Italian composer was sacred music. Specifically he wrote at least one mass movement, a Gloria, various rondeaux and two "praises". The latter (i.e., the "laudi"), had texts in Latin and Italian. Chracteristic of Brollo's works are imitative lines, one voice repeating the shape of the... [+] Read More
Artist: Sound Lovers
The Soundlovers are comprised of three Italian producers: DJ Molella, Phil Jay and Roberto Santini. Accompanying them are two singers: Nathalie Aarts and German Leguizamon. The group released their first single, "Run-Away," in 1996 and followed it with two more singles that did well on the European club circuit. Their next club anthem,... [+] Read More
Artist: Toothpaste 2000
Toothpaste 2000 evolved from the Seattle duo the Cowboy and the Spingirl, an alias for bassist/guitarist/vocalist Frank Bednash and guitarist/vocalist Donna Esposito. The two got together in the mid-'80s and released the Ear Candy album, plus several singles, on the Parasol label. When drummer Duff Drew joined, the band's name was changed to... [+] Read More
Artist: Paul Peuerl
Initially an organist at Horn in Lower Austria, Peuerl went to Steyr in Northern Austria. He was known as an organ builder, renovator and repairer who built organs in the style known as "Praetorious". As a musician Peuerl collected a number of instrumental works between 1611 and 1625. In 1613 he composed a volume of songs but Peuerl is most... [+] Read More
Artist: Johann Georg Pisendel
As a prominent violinist, Pisendel toured European and German cities and states. His skill developed early and brought him under the tutelage of Torelli. Between 1709 and 1718 he made several concert trips even while appointed as the Konzertmeister for the Dresden court. He visited France, Berlin and Italy but returned to Dresden in 1718 where... [+] Read More
Artist: RAF
Born in Margherita di Savoia, Italy on September 19, 1959, Raffaele Riefoli entered the music business in 1983, when his debut album Self Control was released as Raf. The album proved successful on the Italian charts, with two singles -- "Change Your Mind" and "Hard" -- performing very well. Almost five years later, Raf delivered his second... [+] Read More
Artist: Acqua Fragile
Often compared to Genesis and Gentle Giant, the Italian progressive band Acqua Fragile featured lush harmonies similar to those of Crosby, Stills & Nash while lead singer Bernardo Lanzetti was often called the Italian Peter Gabriel. Formed in 1971, Acqua Fragile spent two years gigging before Italian progressive giants PFM discovered them and... [+] Read More
Artist: Léonard Hodemont
A student at Liege Cathedral who was a senior "duodenus," student at Louvain University, canon at Liege Cathedral and later St Materne, Liege, and finally the maitre de chant for the Cathedral. Hodemont composed motets and other forms of sacred music. On one occasion he composed a piece for eight voices and refused to split the choir into two... [+] Read More
Artist: Aldo Dona
An appealing and emotive vocalist, Aldo Dona has been part of the Italian music scene since the early '40s. When recordings were issued on 78s, that was what he made; in the '50s and '60s he began releasing 45s, including the double-sided hit of "I Balli Sudamericai" and "La Danza Dello Scoiattolo." The excitable Italian pop music market seems... [+] Read More
Artist: Vincenzo Righini
As a singing teacher and conductor Righini excelled. His compositions demonstrate a keen awareness of the capacity and limitations of the human voice. Joining an opera troupe from Prague in 1776 Righini composed his first three operas including "Il convitato di pietra" (1776). This was not only successful but it was performed in Vienna and... [+] Read More
Artist: Anthonello de Caserta
Appropriately Anthonella who was an Italian composer. He wrote a number of pieces including ballades, rondeaux, ballate, and possibly a madrigal. Given the context and nature of the works, it is possible that there were two composers with the same (or similar) names: one in the French media and the other in the Italian. De Caserta experimented... [+] Read More
Artist: Mario Nascimbene
Italian composer Mario Nascimbene was one of the first European composers to find a niche in Hollywood in the years after World War II. He established himself in Italian-made movies such as OK Nero, Rome, 11 O'Clock (1952), Chronicle of a Murder (1953), and Angela and the 100 Years of Love (1954), before coming to the attention of Joseph L.... [+] Read More
Artist: Marco Uccelini
This Italian composer held two major positions during his life. They included choir master for the Este court at the cathedral in Modena after his settlement there (he was the instrumental director initially) and a similar position with the Farnese court in Parma. Uccelini composed operas, ballets and instrumental works but none of the ballets... [+] Read More
Artist: Vinicio Capossela
Perhaps best likened to an Italian Tom Waits, singer/songwriter Vinicio Capossela channeled influences spanning from two-fisted novelist John Fante to poet and philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge to forge an experimental, profoundly literary approach to popular music quite unlike anything else in the contemporary European sphere. Born in... [+] Read More
Artist: Totore Chessa
A master of the two-row melodeon, Totore Chessa remains committed to the musical traditions of the Italian island of Sardinia. Whether playing solo or accompanied by traditional instruments including launeddas, a pipe organ that creates a bagpipe-like drone, and the mouth harp-like trunfa, Chessa skillfully summons the flavors of the old world... [+] Read More
Artist: Stefano di Battista
Italian saxophonist Stefano di Battista has released a trio of albums as a leader, two of which were never issued in the U.S. The third, a U.S. release in 2000 from Blue Note, is self-titled and mainly features di Battista's own compositions. In addition, it includes "Song for Flavia" by Rosario Bonaccorso and a pair of songs by Jacky Terrasson,... [+] Read More
