Sunday Morning formed in Cesena (Emilia Romagna - Italy), 1998. They went through many different line-ups and genres with a remarkable number of shows in their region, also opening important bands such as The National, Pop Unknown, Last Days Of April, Karate, Archie Bronson Outfit. After a 6 years break they started working to some new tunes in the spring of 2015. The songs will then be part of the long-awaited follow-up of their first album “Instant Lovers”, published on May 2015, self-released and self-produced at their own renovated StoneBridge Recording Studio. This recording alternates more recent compositions and some of the most intriguing unreleased tracks written just before the band breakup. In 2016 Sunday Morning joined the newborn label Bronson Recordings and released their third album "Let It Burn", once again written and recorded in a few months at their StoneBridge Recording Studio. “Let It Burn” is a compact, compelling, almost totally “live-recorded” album, it is a classy collection of sophisticated indie rock songs tinged with some romance and visions of the West. There are moments of commanding liveliness and slick bravado, and then glimmers of longing, and love and sweet nostalgia. The band toured all around Italy promoting the album, also opening 7shows for the talented texan folk singer Micah P Hinson.
 
Sunday Morning took a short break in spring/summer 2018 while their singer and main songwriter Andrea Cola was hired as an intern at the famous Esplanade Studios in New Orleans where he had the opportunity to work side by side with the legendary producer Daniel Lanois: an experience that will change his songwriting and the way he produces his records once he's returned to his home, StoneBridge Recording Studio. As a result, the new songs are deeper, slower and straight to the core while the sound is bigger than life. You can feel the Mississippi river sound while you are driving west looking for neverending deserts. "Four" is the new album out on April 5th once again for Bronson Recordings.

Jacopo Casadei – bass, keyboards, mandola, vocals 
Andrea Cola – voice, guitars, keyboards, mandola
Luca Galassi – guitars, mandola, vocals 
Federico Guardigni – drums

Born Antonio Vitale in Pescara (located on the Italian East Coast), Jester served as the lead vocalist in the infamous underground rock-blues band “The Warm Morning 616″ since the very late nineties. In the meantime he started scrapping his own songs from scratch using only an acoustic guitar and his aged cassette multitrack. After WM616 disbanded in early 2003 struggling on the way to the completion of a still unreleased album -which is intended to be resumed one of these days- he then put his solo project on hiatus too, eventually starting it over in 2008. His debut solo album “Lo-fi, back to tape” (Twelve Records, 2009) came out from a careful selection of previous material archived in those early cassette tapes, the songs being basically left as they were recorded except for very sparse overdubs: “Skip James wouldn’t have been Skip James if he stood in front of a computer monitor”, Vitale later told “Lost Highways” webzine, talking about the making of his first record. The reactions were surprisingly good, with some highlights like “Uncut” magazine starring the album 3 out of 5. Vitale’s vocals are undoubtly the centerpiece of the record, getting their way through the bare instrumentation.
This simple formula went straight to the subsequent album: “Magellano” (Twelve Records, 2012) is named from the road where Antonio resides in his hometown, nearby the seaside and quite close to the town’s own port. A port which obviously smells like both salt and petrol, dust and sand, cigarettes and alcohol, where the many boats get their long-awaited rest after spending over the night going fishing: a perfect place to start from, but at the same time a place not providing so many good reasons to really come back. A trip over the sea is the concept of the whole album, which by the way is not from a strict perspective a concept album at all. The mood is sensibly darker than the previous effort, with some drums, bass and percussion here and there, slide guitars and even a mandolin, while still keeping the essential structure and arrangements, which together with Vitale’s guitar and his deep, baritonal yet cutting voice set his distinctive trademark. The songs have been often described as similar to paintings or sculptures, true operates of art.
Later on, a special limited handmade cassette tape -containing a series of both previously released and unreleased cover versions- has been exclusively released for the 2014 italian edition of the International Cassette Store Day. More music is on the way, though: a six-track EP is scheduled for a web release with the option of a limited vinyl printing in summer 2015 (possibly followed by a split single, and even an old refurbished side-project). Finally, a brand new album will eventually pop out in 2016.
Some gigs have been performed with a full band over the years, including the big and crowded “Magellano” release party in the unusual location of a clothes’ manufacturing plant. But these days Jester At Work is mainly a duo including another guitar player, or sometimes a pure solo performance. It’s the nature of the artist claiming this formula, which is granted to achieve lots of attention despite maybe lacking a little bit of “rock”.

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