I wrote this composition because the riff just came to my mind, then I decided to dedicate it to the master painter.
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Flavio Russo: Bass, Guitars, Drum Machine
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Caravaggio DEMO

This bass duo was composed and recorded because of a lady I knew by sight. I always considered that woman to be one of the most beautiful maids I've ever seen, then one night I finally met her, and I confirmed my theory. She still is an absolute beauty!
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Flavio Russo: Electric Basses
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A.C. DEMO

I had a one night affair with a documentary maker I first met in Berlin, and I absolutely fell in love with her. She did not. I clearly remember that around that time my car died in the middle of a night rainstorm while I was on the highway and I had to spend the night at a gast station. While I was driving back home in the early morning thinking about that woman, the main riff came to my mind as to set my heart and mind free from her spell, and it did.
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Flavio Russo: Bass/composer
Giuseppe Scalici: Guitar
Frank Julyan: Drums
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Instrumental Madness DEMO

I wrote this tune thinking about some people that I know and all the people I don't know that get caught in different religious cults and hardly come out of them, most of the time absolutely screwed up. I recorded this on my father's old 6 strings. It had never been recorded before and I like to think it's time for "her" to say something, finally.
Flavio Russo: Classical Guitar
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Cult DEMO

I wrote this poem during the first Covid-19 pandemic, while walking disgusted by the whole thing and looking at some high light poles on a green area. The bass came after that very naturally.
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Flavio Russo: Bass, Spoken Words
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High Poles DEMO

I was listening to Frank Zappa and the Mothers intensively when I wrote this track, and still, I felt like injecting it with the metal sound I am very close with.
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Flavio Russo: Bass, Guitars, Drum Machine
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Matisse DEMO

I wrote this bass line on a summer of some years ago, Inspired by the great short story by Edgar Allan Poe.
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Flavio Russo: Bass, Guitar, Drum Machine
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The Devil In The Tower DEMO

By Flavio Russo

Wägner is a musical project that I have been thinking to start when I was living in Berlin in 2017. The name came to my mind because of the famous German composer (who I ladmire for his absolutely intense music and for being an animal right activist) and from the Woody Allen's movie "Annie Hall", where Allen clearly admitted that after 10 minutes of listening to Wagner he had the pulse of invading Poland. After being back to my hometown of Palermo, Italy, where Richard Wagner himself composed the mithical "Parsifal", I started to look for musicians. After I found a guitar player (Giuseppe Scalici) and a drummer (Frank Julyan), we could only record one live-demo track and this first line-up then disbanded because of disagreement over my musical direction and the name of the band itself (!). At that point, after rehearsing other 2 guitar players (Giacinto Insinna and Sergio La Mantia) and founding difficulties in getting a good drummer, I decided to produce and record all the music by myself. Since I plan to move to Dublin very soon, I may chose to hire new musicians for the firs live show ever, so the future is yet to come. Talking about my musical influences here, you can hear Megadeth, Black Sabbath, Frank Zappa, John Zorn, Jazz, Blues.

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