“[Sound is] a haunting, a ghost, a presence whose location in space is ambiguous and whose existence in time is transitory” – David Toop

King of the Opera is the new project of Alberto Mariotti, the natural continuation of his previous artistic experience as Samuel Katarro.

Alberto Mariotti is considered one of the most promising artists of the Italian indipendent music scene. He has released two albums which have been loved by critics and appreciated by a huge audience.

His music is based on the deconstruction of the classic blues form that he mutates with elements from psychedelia, acid rock, songwriting, wrong pop and more. Think Jennifer Gentle produced by Brian Wilson, or Real Estate if Black Heart Procession gave them the beating of their lives. 

As the first studio album as King of the Opera is being prepared, Alberto Mariotti's music, formerly praised by some well-known artists as Patti Smith, Pere Ubu and Julian Cope, has evolved in such a way that is increasingly directed to an international audience.

King of the Opera started composing his weird blues songs in the spring of 2006, without the least intention of being inspired by the devil's music. He still doesn't know why his style is so close to this genre because Alberto is a passionate listener of new wave, psychedelic music and similar sounds and is a proud supporter of all that the 80's have to offer, musically speaking. 

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ARTE & SCIENZA

More guitars? https://soundcloud.com/postbong
More electronics? https://soundcloud.com/skillaci
More voices? https://soundcloud.com/musicaperbambini
More silence? shut down

Gioele Pagliaccia plays the drums most of the time. He also composes on guitar wich he has been playing as long as the drums.

These are some of his projects:

-IL DUO-

The group is made of Gioele Pagliaccia on the drums and Giulio Campagnolo on Hammond B3. They play a mixture of funk, jazz, soul with deep grooves that owe a lot to cities like New Orleans and New York. The two often mix different genres such as jazz, drum&bass, latin rhithms, exotica, rock and more. They often invite special guests on stage, such as Antonio Gallucci, Michele Polga, Rosa Brunello, Glauco Benedetti and many others. They are currently working on a recording  so stay tuned!

Giulio Campagnolo: Hammond B3

Gioele Pagliaccia: drums & percussion


-GLI STELLARI-

A funk-cosmic-jazz-brass band made out of 4 horns and drums. Stellari played countless shows togheter from jazz clubs, to festivals, weddings, country fairs, street parades and other odd places. 

Sergio Gonzo: trumpet

Antonio Gallucci: tenor sax

Luca Moresco: trombone

Glauco Benedetti: tuba

Gioele Pagliaccia: drums & percussion


-AUT TO LUNCH-

A project entirely dedicated to the great Eric Dolphy. We play tunes from his whole brief but prolific career, starting from Outward Bound to his 1964 masterpiece Out To Lunch, untill his last recordings right before he died in Berlin on that same year. The other 3 musicians involved in this projects are some of the best players in Italy today. Beside leading they'r own bands they also play as side musicians with people like Uri Caine, Gianluca Petrella, Marc Ribot, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Vinicio Capossela, Jim Black, Jamalaadeen Tacuma and many others.

Piero Bittolo Bon: alto saxophone, bass 
clarinet, flute

Alfonso Santimone: piano, Fender Rhodes

Danilo Gallo: upright bass

Gioele Pagliaccia: drums, percussion, banjo



-WRONG AND STRONG- 

A trumpet and drums duo inspired by many different genres like free improvisation, african drumming, straight ahead jazz and canadian progressive punk. They play every where from jazz clubs to squats. Their first cd is Piero Bittolo Bon's own Rufo's Records best seller.

Flavio Zanuttini:trumpet

Gioele Pagliaccia:drums & percussion

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Gioele has played and/or recorded with: Danilo Gallo, Alfonso Santimone, Henry Cook, Piero Bittolo Bon, Federico Pierantoni, Joe Lally, Massimo Pupillo, Scott Rosenberg, Will Bernard, Dave Scott Stone, Will Blades, Giacomo Ancillotto, Hal Tsuchida, Alessandro Lanzoni, Paul Santner, Igor Osypov, Claudio Mosconi, Amy Denio, Andrea Pesce, Ettore Martin, Horst Honnenmacher, Gianni Gebbia, Mikaele Pellegrino, Massimo Giangrande, Giulio Campagnolo, Davide Piersanti, Yoko Arai, Daniele Tittarelli, Hui-Chun Li, Gerhard Gschlößl, Johannes Fink, Eyal Lovett, Kenneth Dahl Knudsen, Marco Papa, Federico Eterno, Antonio Gallucci, Cristiano De Fabritiis, Fabio "Reeks" Recchia, Renato Ciunfrini, Pasquale Innarella, Tony Cattano, Fil Lorenz, Daniel Magay, Dj Økapi, Roberto Bordiga, Paolo Bacchetta, Federico Pozzer, Roberto Bellatalla, Manlio Maresca, Marco Quaresimin, Riccardo Marogna, Rosa Brunello, Sergio Gonzo, Glauco Benedetti, Alessandro Fongaro, Michele Polga, Luca Moresco, and many others.

He toured in Italy, France, Germany, U.S.A., Dominican Republic, Slovenia and Japan.

He is a Bosphorus Cymbals and Artbeat Sticks endorser.

He gives drum lessons both privately, at Accademia Musicale in Schio and on skype too. Write an e-mail for prices, etc... gioelepagliaccia80@gmail.com

Thanks for reading this!

BIO
I Kenny Muore Sempre sono un trio di alternative rock in lingua italiana fondato a Prato nel 2011 dal chitarrista Niccolò Fioravanti e dal bassista e cantante Paolo Pierattini i quali convocarono Francesco Pique’ alla batteria, col quale avevano già condiviso altri progetti negli anni passati. Dopo il debutto al Controsenso Club, all’epoca tempio dell’underground pratese, i tre iniziano subito a suonare nei locali di Firenze, Prato e Pistoia proponendo i brani che andranno a comporre il primo demo (2012). Voce urlata, chitarre e basso rigorosamente distorti, batteria serrata dall’inizio alla fine sono gli elementi che caratterizzano il suono degli esordi.
Registrano il primo EP omonimo nel 2013 per lo più presso la Casa in Piazzetta (PT) con l’aiuto di Lorenzo Maffucci (Mangiacassette, Solki, Blue Willa). Il risultato è un lo-fi aggressivo ma orecchiabile (Carla, Roberto), episodi heavy metal (Oti Oti), romantiche ballate punk (Rossella). I testi, a metà tra il divertito sfottò (Chicco, Roberto) e l’angoscia kierkegaardiana (Flusso Canalizzatore), sono tutti opera di Paolo che si rivela essere un autore creativo e un giocoso disseminatore di citazioni cineletterarie. Dall’EP verrà poi selezionata la traccia Flusso Canalizzatore per essere inserita nella compilation Rock Contest Controradio 2013 scaricabile da XL Repubblica.

ASTIO
Il primo album Astio, frutto della collaborazione con Marco Balducci (La Camera Migliore, Granprogetto, Farewell to Hearth and Home), uscirà il 15 Gennaio 2016 per le etichette “Santavalvola” e “Millessei Dischi”. Astio segna un salto di qualità nei suoni e nella composizione dei brani. I suoni sono più calibrati, le distorsioni
ricercate, i pezzi respirano di più, appaiono le tastiere. Ai tradizionali sfoghi punk (Pussanghera, Che M’importa) si affiancano commistioni noise-punk (Esoftalmo), brani più tranquilli e stratificati (Solitudine, Felice), il tutto comunque fuori da clichè di sorta.

Astio è stato registrato a Legri, per lo più in full live in pochi giorni di fine estate. L’equipaggiamento era la vastissima collezione di microfoni, pedali e amplificatori messa insieme negli anni dal polifonico Marco Balducci. Il mixaggio, creato artigianalmente in spaesatissime serate nel solito rifugio Legrese, è stato ultimato avvalendoci solo delle nostre orecchie, della infinita pazienza di Marco e facendo riferimento ai nostri ascolti recenti (Grandaddy, Pavement, Deus) e passati (Nirvana, Motorpsycho, Dinosaur Jr.). Il master è stato affidato alle esperte mani/orecchie di Francesco “Veleno” Baldi.

Selton is a band from Brazil that used to play on the streets of Barcelona and now rocks in Milan.

Monique is a charango teacher and ceremonial musician.
20+ years of exploring & studying the charango. 10+ years of teaching it.

Work as visiting artist at Berklee College Music Valencia, discussing themes of cultural appreciation and LGBTQ+ visibility. 

2023 Composer-in-Residence at Visby International Centre for Composers (Sweden).

They run CHARANGO WITH MONIQUE, the platform where they teach charango lessons as well as making arrangements of medicine music for charango. Instagram@charangowithmonique

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