Honolulu Records is the most sincere and caring way we found to give a concrete life to our musical and artistic thoughts: a possible way out of the traditional labels' market and a solution to avoid wasting the creativity and the ideas of a community of musicians. Honolulu is an independent label for non-commercial (mainly) improvised art music. We are a collective of musicians with a deep love for research and experimentation. Our aim is to produce music that is a spontaneous and necessary expression of our time and to involve an audience as wide and as various as possible. We would like to help create connections between musicians, creative people, different artistic fields and to try spreading good music as much as we can. Honolulu Records provides assisted self-production and supports artists in releasing their music by lowering the printing costs and taking care as a collective of the bureaucratic and organisational aspects of the process.

Simone Nannicini e' un performer musicista (chitarrista e cantante) che affronta i temi della black music variando dal funky al blues, soul, jazz e R&B. Diplomato alle Civiche scuole di jazz di Milano di Franco Cerri e laureando magistrale in chitarra jazz presso il Conservatorio G.Verdi di Milano, continua a coltivare la passione per il blues nata in adolescenza, facendo parte di diverse formazioni musicali nell'ambito del jazz del funky e del blues. Esibisce in questo contesto un repertorio di brani riarrangiati appartenenti alla tradizione americana da Ray Charles a Stevie Wonder, da Robben Ford a Stevie Ray Vaughan, da Eric Clapton a Jimi Hendrix, da James Brown a Otis Redding. Inizia il mestiere dell'arte di strada nel 2009 in occasione dell'Umbria jazz festival: qui parte il suo viaggio….

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