Erika Sofia sollo & Fabrizio Bozzi Fenu
Impro marsigliesi

Impro 4#

Swagog

Crooked Hip

African Feedback (2005)  

For African Feedback I travelled in Western Africa with a CD player and a selection of experimental, electro-acoustic and improvised music. This "portable memory" represented my background as a musician or, in other words, my personal "cosmogony". My favorite records. I did propose a listening of those sounds to people completely unaware of them and I did ask for a description. I did never explain what they were listening to.They listened the music through headphones and I recorded whatever happened while they were listening.The presence of the headphones permitted not to have traces of the original musics in the new recordings but just the "feedback" received from the listener. The dynamics of misunderstandings, of interest or indifference in front of my propositions in sound constituted the focal point of my curiosity and reflection. Recordings took place in November 2004 in Dogon and Mossi villages between Mali and Burkina Faso.


African Feedback 2 Excerpt

Erika Sofia Sollo - voice
Benedict Taylor - viola
Olie Brice - double bass

Live recorded at CRAM FEST 2016 - Hundred Years Gallery - London - 
hundredyearsgallery.co.uk/cram-festival-2016/

CRAM Fest 2016 Part IV

Musica e arrangiamento di Stefano Risso, testi di G. DeVal/S. Oggero Viale/E.S. Sollo

LAPSUS LUMINE
Stefano Risso, contrabbasso, composizioni, arrangiamenti
Erika Sofia Sollo, voce
Sabrina Oggero Viale, voce
Giulia DeVal, voce

Tre voci e un contrabbasso regalano l’inaspettata possibilità di giocare con timbri differenti, personali e intimi, di intrecciare linee melodiche che in contrappunto delineano armonie. Si vive di sottrazione, di emozioni – che solo le voci sanno toccare così a fondo – camminando tra il silenzio sussurrato all’urlo che spaventa, dal timbro acido respirato a singhiozzo, al leggero sibilo che pare aver solamente sognato.

Lumen

Scivolando (Slippin')

Fabrizio Bozzi Fenu: chitarra, elettronica
Erika Sofia Sollo: voce, elettronica
Gino Robair: percussioni, elettronica

PROGRESSO RENAISSANCE original soundtrack

Erika Sollo - voice
Fabrizio Bozzi Fenu - guitar and el.
Mauro Basilio - cello
Michele Anelli - double bass

Où Est Sophie - POk poT

The Ferris Wheel (Donovan)

I'm a vocalist and improviser based in Turin, Italy. I'm mainly active in the fields of contemporary jazz, improvised and experimental music, focusing on the exploration of the human voice, and on free improvisation, as a soloist or in ensembles. 
I started my careeer as a contemporary jazz singer, studying with musicians and teachers such as Maria Pia De Vito, Diana Torto, Susanne Abbuehl, Norma Winstone, John Taylor, Stefano Battaglia.
Some years later I approached the world of experimentation and free improvisation. I was a founding member of the improvisation collective Green Brötz Turin. That experience, and a long stay in Berlin, led me to play with some of the most representatives artists among the Italian and international experimental scene, like Gino Robair, Martin Mayes, Achille Succi, Paolo Sanna, Eyvind Kang, Jessika Kenney, Patrizia Oliva, Stefano Giust, Tristan Honsinger, Francesco Cusa, Lisa Mezzacappa, Luca Pissavini, Gianni Lenoci, Emilio Gordoa, Gianni Mimmo, Walter Prati, Benedict Taylor, Viv Corringham, Angelo Contini, Nicola Guazzaloca, Tomomi Adachi, London Improvisers Orchestra, Pasquale Mirra, Stefano Risso, Matt Mottel, Utku Tavil, Fabrizio Bozzi Fenu, Jim Black, Ernst Reijseger and many others.
My research is currently based on creating new sounds, exploring the possibilities of the voice in an unconventional way, with the use of "extended techniques" and electronic effects. Part of my activity is focused on sound poetry and improvised performances using texts and graphics scores.