press kit - Second to the Left

CARACAS
(ITALY)
DUB / REGGAE / FUSION / ELECTRONIC / MEDITERRANEAN
Caracas is the result of a fruitful partnership between Valerio Corzani (Mau
Mau, Mazapegul, Gli Ex, Interiors) and Stefano Saletti (Novalia, Piccola
Banda Ikona, Café Loti, Sete Sois Sete Luas Orchestra).
DISCOGRAPHY:
CARACAS,
2015, MATERIALI SONORI
The two composed, arranged, played and produced the homonymous
album (which will be released in May by Materiali Sonori). The musical
red wire of the whole project is the underscoring – in arrangements and
rhytmic joints – of “upbeat”.
A kind of beneficial resonant floater which permitted both the musicians
to start an amazing instrumental trip (with even several “spoken word”
inserts) in search of a new cosmopolitan way for instruments and musics.
The starting stage is the Mediterranean sea (with any of the symbol-instruments of that fertile basin - oud, bouzouki, marranzano, derbouka, tamorra
– which characterize many tracks), after that, the music circumnavigates
the Earth, with the prow on sound miscegenation and rhytmic alchemy.
Reggae music, therefore Jamaica, is another of Caracas’ destinations,
they yet succeeded in the venture to avoid all “cliché” of the gendre born
in the carribean island, using characters of that music for crossing new
solutions, add the right amount of electronics, and trouble besides many
others ethnic basins (from Tuareg desert to sufi’s Turkey, from Hawaii to
South America, from some US soul-jazz to the dub hybrids of the british
Onusound…).
A world-reggae project therefore, with very peculiar contours and prophile, which becomes live a very fascinating show. All original tracks, a
group of four (or five) which enlarges even more the timbral range of the
proposal, and a live attitude able to making dance whoever…
All original tracks, played live also by Erica Scherl at the violin, Eugenio
saletti at vocals and guitar and Filippo Schininà at drums, enlarging the
timbrical range of the sound.
Band Size : 4 - 5 musicians
STREAMING:
:: https://soundcloud.com/caracas-4 ::
FACEBOOK:
::
www.facebook.com/Caracas-Valerio-Corzani-e-Stefano-Saletti-1437931743189326/?fref=ts ::
VIDEO - EL PRESIDENTE
Fabio “Fiandrix” Fiandrini made the direction of the video “El Presidente”,
spotlight track of the album, which recieved enthusiastic appreciation by
the musical critic.
:: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqrmgnWUR00 ::
Booking:
Marisa Segala
+45 / 25 61 82 82
marisa@secondtotheleft.com
www.secondtotheleft.com
Skype: marisa.segala.bennett
CARACAS
TESTIMONIALS
ON STAGE:
VALERIO CORZANI: bass, electronics and looping, vocals (spoken)
STEFANO SALETTI: guitar, oud, bouzouki, cavaquinho, chorus, melodica,
electronics and looping
con
ERICA SCHERL: violin, keyboard
EUGENIO SALETTI: guitar, vocals
“Caracas mix feelings, amalgamate alchemy and cross pieces of the planet using the
pentagram as a small private plane ... Two gauchos that despite of fashions have designed a
beautiful and cheerful opera, that taste of seaside and of rum”
- Daniela Amenta “L’Unità”
“A true masterpiece of mimicry ... an album that brilliantly combines enjoyment and rigor, soul
and body” - Antonello Cresti “Rockerilla”
FILIPPO SCHININA’: drums
“It moves on thin lines between the tropics and cosmopolitan dub; It works gently on harmonic
spatial sensations and evocative atmospheres”
- Paolo Ferrari “Rumore”
Special guests:
“A warm and free style, without dogmatism or intellectualism; if they were listening, Marc
Ribot and Ry Cooder would certainly smile , pleased “
- Federico Guglielmi “Blow Up”
SERGIO VITALE: trompet
NANDO CITARELLA: vocals, marranzano (Jew’s harp),
tammorra (Napolitean Tambourine)
ROBERTO SALETTI: video art
“Caracas is a kind of divertissement-homage to the upbeat rhythm, declined and re-interpreted in sound and geographical scenarios, always different: torrid world-dub, Mediterranean-dub, desert-dub, reggae with bouzouki, oud and jew’s harp, with some refreshing sprays
of electronics”
- Jacopo Tomatis “Il Giornale della Musica”
PLAYED AT
“Caracas always manages to surprise diverting world emptiness (aiuto…. vacuità world) and
exercises in style, exhibiting iterative and enveloping architecture, changing and undulating,
dancing and caressing” - Ciro De Rosa “Blogfoolk”
“Lian Club” - Roma
VIDEO
“Dromos Festival” - Oristano
EL PRESIDENTE - Fabio “Fiandrix” Fiandrini made the direction of the video “El
“A journey across the Mediterranean made by two fantastic contributors who push their boat
to different routes further away ... two extremely creative and continuous evolving artists”
- Tonino Merolli “Raropiù - Mensile di Cultura musicale, Collezionismo e Cinema”
Caracas is a crossroads of sounds across borders … a record that surprisse for its beauty and
for the unexpected” - Francesca Molari “Corriere di Romagna”
This is a record that I would personally like to suggest to you, because it is a record made with
so much tenderness, with plenty of respect for the raw materials, with many instruments,
representing the intellectual curiosity of these two all-round musicians.“
- Raffaele Costantino Musical Box – Radio2 Rai
“Borders are something that Caracas does everything to skip with a jump with both feet
together , with the help of a magic glue, the upbeat rhythm, the echo of dub. And if at times
the compass points to the Caribbean, you can be sure that the next track will take you nearby
Catania, or in Jamaica, or in the middle east..”
- Guido Festinese “DiscoClub”
“Traces of a slow and hypnotic step, cross North Africa and Southern Italy, dub and Turkey,
creating a path and an embracing and elegant feeling, that the Anglo-Saxons would call the
mood” - Lugi Bertaccini, “E20Romagna”
ITALY
“Orso Bianco” - San Piero In Bagno (FC)
Presidente”, spotlight track of the album, which recieved enthusiastic appreciation by
the musical critic.
:: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqrmgnWUR00 ::
“Villa Villacolle” - Cesena (FC)
“Festival Brodetto” - Fano
“Duda’s” - Rieti
“Auditorium Parco della Musica” - Roma
“Cantina Bentivoglio” - Bologna
FACEBOOK
https://www.facebook.com/Caracas-Valerio-Corzani-e-Stefano-Saletti-1437931743189326/?fref=ts
PRESS PICTURES
Photos - Bio - Press - Riders
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/kz5ztp7vc8mo7it/AAD6gSnXiEteO3tTecnTJpO4a?dl=0
VALERIO CORZANI
STEFANO SALETTI
MUSICIAN - COMPOSER
MUSICIAN - RADIO SPEAKER - JOURNALIST - PHOTOGRAPHER
Musician and composer who plays traditional mediterranean instruments (bouzuki, oud, tzouras, mandola),
acoustic, classical and electric guitars, piano, percussion,
sampler and programming.
In the ’90’s Valerio played bass with the Italian band Mau
Mau (www.maumau.it) and leaded the group Mazapegul, touring with both through Europe and the Middle
East. In 2005 he founded Daunbailò and in 2009 Gli Ex,
recording with them the albums “Canzoni della penombra” (2009) and “Primavera Autunno Inverno” (2011).
He is the founder and band leader of Novalia and the Piccola Banda Ikona.
Valerio Corzani performed with renomated artists such
as Marc Ribot, Roy Paci, Jimmy Villotti, Gabriele Mirabassi,
Maria Pia De Vito, Dodi Moscati, Andy J. Forest, Gabriella
Ferri, Peppe Voltarelli, Simone Zanchini, Riccardo Tesi, Antonio Infantino, Teresa De Sio.
In 2012 Valerio partnered with violinist Erica Scherl and created a new project: “Interiors”. Their first album
“Liquid” released in 2013 is a travel connecting electronic and acoustic sounds, sublimated by sinuous rhythmic
architectures. Interiors performed at many prestigious Italian clubs and festivals, such as Lugo Contemporanea,
Calagonone Jazz, Leggere la Città (Pistoia), Dromos Festival (Oristano), Hallo Bigallo (Firenze), Dialoghi di Trani,
Festival Adriatico Mediterraneo (Ancona), Chamoisic Festival (Chamois, Aosta), Centro di Ricerca Musicale Teatro San Leonardo (Bologna), Festival delle balle di Paglia (Cotignola), Turba (Lugano)…
Caracas, with Stefano Saletti, is his latest music project. Their first omonimus album was released in 2015 under
Materiali Sonori Records.
Corzani always combines the activity of musician with that of journalist and radio speaker. Currently he collaborates with “Il Manifesto”, broadcasts for the second channel of Radio Svizzera Italiana and is an author, producer
and speaker for Radio3 Rai.
Many of Saletti’s original compositions are sung in Sabir, a
lingua franca used by sailors, pirates, fishermen, merchants
and ship-owners in Mediterranean ports to communicate with one another: from Genoa to Tangiers, from Salonika
to Istanbul, from Marseilles to Algiers, from Valencia to Palermo, until the early decades of the twentieth century this
form of sea-faring “Esperanto” developed little by little availing of terms from Spanish, Italian, French and Arabic.
• In May 2012 he released the CD with Piccola Banda Ikona called “Folkpolitik” (Top ten on the World Music
Charts Europe). The CD contains original compositions together with rearrangements of songs by Mediterranean
authors who have spoken in music of the struggle against power, suffering persecution, arrests and violence. The
group’s previous album “Marea cu Sarea” was awarded the “Coups de coeur du jury” award at Babel Med 2009 in
Marseilles.
• In recent years Stefano Saletti and the Piccola Banda Ikona have toured extensively, playing at major international festival in Italy, Canada, Portugal, Spain, France, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Morocco, Hungary, Greece, Egypt and
Germany.
• He is also the musical director of 7SóisOrkestra and Les Voix du 7 Sois, two Mediterranean orchestras that
brings together musicians from Portugal, Spain, Morocco, Israel, Croatia, Sudan and Italy. In 2008. they released
a live Cd called “A Night in Sicily” and in 2010 the cd “Live a Vila Real de Santo Antonio”.
• In 2015 he released the CD “Caracas” with Valerio Corzani and the CD “In Search of Homerus” a collection of
tunes from soundtracks for theatre, both published by Materiali Sonori.
• In 2014 produced the CD “Emily” by Barbara Eramo, the singer of the Piccola Banda Ikona.
• With the musician and producer Hector Zazou and the singer Barbara Eramo he released on 2010 the CD “Oriental Night Fever”, a re-interpretation of various Disco ‘classics’ from the seventies.
• As a composer he has also worked on film soundtracks, dance, theatre, poetry and television.
• For the theatre he has worked with: Giancarlo Giannini, Pupi Avati, Pamela Villoresi, Omero Antonutti, Massimo Popolizio, Manuela Mandracchia, Maurizio Panici, Piero Maccarinelli, Predrag Matvejevic, Ondadurtoteatro,
Marco Delogu and Renato Giordano.
• He composed the soundtrack for the film “Sotto la Luna” by Franco Bernini (Rai 2) and “Un matrimonio” by Pupi
Avati.
• He is the composer of the song “Ebla”, the theme tune for the international tv program “Mediterraneo”.
• He also composed a suite in five movements based on “Le bateau Ivre” by Arthur Rimbaud, read by Jean-Louis
Trintignant and he worked on the making of “Coppi Arrive”, a ballet presented at the “Museum of Contemporary
Art in Prato, Florence.
• He also wrote music performed with the Tunisian poet Monchef Ghachem.
• He played with many international musicians like Hector Zazou, Alexander Balanescu, Eyal Sela, Jamal Ouassini, Wafir Shaikheldin, Juan Pinilla, Talya Solan, Margarida Guerreiro, Kahwa, Ganoub, Badu N’Dyaie, Rashmi V.
Bhatt, Nour-Eddine, Abraham Afewerki, Saleh Tawil and many other...
• In conjunction with the “Associazione Ikona” he organized many ethnic and avantgarde music events, with
Jan Garbarek, Michael Nyman band, Wim Mertens, Third Ear Band, Tuxedomoon, The Residens, Steven Brown e
Blaine Reininger, Daniel Schell, Micrologus, Klezroym, Saleh Tawil, Nour-Eddine, Archedora and Paramashivam
Pilai.
• He has also studied and researched traditional Italian music and twentieth century avantgarde music.
CARACAS
High resolution pictures on: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/kz5ztp7vc8mo7it/AAD6gSnXiEteO3tTecnTJpO4a?dl=0
SCHEDA TECNICA
CARACAS
Valerio Corzani, Stefano Saletti, Erica Scherl, Eugenio Saletti
CHANNEL LIST
Mixer
4 monitor
2 multieffetti
Backline:
2 guitar amplifiers
1 bass amplifier
2 music stands
4 guitar stand
1 Keyboard holder with load platform
Valerio Corzani: bass, iPad, vocals
Stefano Saletti: oud, bouzouki, electric guitar,
sampler, melodica, vocals
Erica Scherl: violin, lap top
Eugenio Saletti: electric guitar, vocals
Info: Stefano Saletti: 3384928303
Channel
Instrument
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
MIC / D.I.
Sampler AKAI L
SAMPLER AKAI R
iPad L
iPad R
Lap Top L
Lap Top R
Bass
OUD / BOUZOUKI
ELECTRIC GUITAR 1
ELECTRIC GUITAR 2
VIOLIN
VOCALS El Guitar 1
VOCALS bass
VOCALS El Guitar 2
D.I.
D.I.
D.I.
D.I.
D.I.
D.I.
D.I.
D.I.
Mic
Mic
D.I.
Mic
Mic
Mic
INSERT /
AUX
AUX
AUX
AUX
AUX
AUX
AUX
AUX
AUX
AUX
AUX
AUX
AUX
AUX
AUX
STAGE PLAN
EUGENIO SALETTI
(Electric Guitar - Vocals)
STEFANO SALETTI
(Oud - bouzouki - El. Guitar Sampler )
VALERIO CORZANI
(Bass - iPad - Vocals)
ERICA SCHERL
(Violin - Lap top)