CARACAS DUB / REGGAE / FUSION / ELECTRONIC / MEDITERRANEAN (ITALY)

Caracas is the result of a fruitful partnership between Valerio Corzani (Mau DISCOGRAPHY: Mau, Mazapegul, Gli Ex, Interiors) and Stefano Saletti (Novalia, Piccola Banda Ikona, Café Loti, Sete Sois Sete Luas Orchestra). GHOST TRACKS, The two composed, arranged, played and produced the homonymous 2017, MATERIALI SONORI 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-instru- CARACAS, ments of that fertile basin - oud, bouzouki, marranzano, derbouka, tamorra 2015, MATERIALI SONORI – 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 STREAMING: South America, from some US soul-jazz to the dub hybrids of the british :: http://matsoncloud.com/index.php/s/gGK2mlo5tu7Nj3B Onusound…). Password: caracas

A world-reggae project therefore, with very peculiar contours and pro- :: https://soundcloud.com/caracas-4 :: phile, 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… Booking: All original tracks, played live also by Erica Scherl at the violin, Eugenio Marisa Segala saletti at vocals and guitar and Filippo Schininà at drums, enlarging the +45 / 25 61 82 82 timbrical range of the sound. [email protected] www.secondtotheleft.com : 4 - 8 musicians Band Size Skype: marisa.segala.bennett CARACAS ON STAGE: TESTIMONIALS VALERIO CORZANI: bass, electronics and looping, vocals (spoken) “Caracas mix feelings, amalgamate alchemy and cross pieces of the planet using the STEFANO SALETTI: guitar, oud, bouzouki, cavaquinho, chorus, melodica, 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” electronics and looping - Daniela Amenta “L’Unità” con

“A true masterpiece of mimicry ... an album that brilliantly combines enjoyment and rigor, soul ERICA SCHERL: violin, keyboard and body” - Antonello Cresti “Rockerilla” EUGENIO SALETTI: guitar, vocals 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 “ SERGIO VITALE: trompet - Federico Guglielmi “Blow Up” NANDO CITARELLA: vocals, marranzano (Jew’s harp), “Caracas is a kind of divertissement-homage to the upbeat rhythm, declined and re-inter- tammorra (Napolitean Tambourine) preted in sound and geographical scenarios, always different: torrid world-dub, Mediterra- ROBERTO SALETTI: video art nean-dub, desert-dub, reggae with bouzouki, oud and jew’s harp, with some refreshing sprays PLAYED AT of electronics” - Jacopo Tomatis “Il Giornale della Musica” ITALY VIDEO “Caracas always manages to surprise diverting world emptiness (aiuto…. vacuità world) and “Lian Club” - Roma exercises in style, exhibiting iterative and enveloping architecture, changing and undulating, “Dromos Festival” - Oristano dancing and caressing” - Ciro De Rosa “Blogfoolk” EL PRESIDENTE - Fabio “Fiandrix” Fiandrini made the direction of the video “El “Orso Bianco” - San Piero In Bagno (FC) Presidente”, spotlight track of the album, which recieved enthusiastic appreciation by “A journey across the Mediterranean made by two fantastic contributors who push their boat “Villa Villacolle” - Cesena (FC) the musical critic. to different routes further away ... two extremely creative and continuous evolving artists” :: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqrmgnWUR00 :: - Tonino Merolli “Raropiù - Mensile di Cultura musicale, Collezionismo e Cinema” “Festival Brodetto” - Fano “Duda’s” - Rieti Caracas is a crossroads of sounds across borders … a record that surprisse for its beauty and for the unexpected” - Francesca Molari “Corriere di Romagna” “Auditorium Parco della Musica” - Roma FACEBOOK “Cantina Bentivoglio” - Bologna 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, https://www.facebook.com/Caracas-Valerio-Corzani-e-Stefano-Saletti-1437931743189326/?fref=ts 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” PRESS PICTURES “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 Photos - Bio - Press - Riders mood” - Lugi Bertaccini, “E20Romagna” https://www.dropbox.com/sh/kz5ztp7vc8mo7it/AAD6gSnXiEteO3tTecnTJpO4a?dl=0

STEFANO SALETTI VALERIO CORZANI MUSICIAN - COMPOSER MUSICIAN - RADIO SPEAKER - JOURNALIST - PHOTOGRAPHER Musician and composer who plays traditional mediter- ranean 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 He is the founder and band leader of Novalia and the Pic- cola Banda Ikona. Mau (www.maumau.it) and leaded the group Mazapeg- ul, touring with both through Europe and the Middle Many of Saletti’s original compositions are sung in Sabir, a East. In 2005 he founded Daunbailò and in 2009 Gli Ex, 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 recording with them the albums “Canzoni della penom- to Istanbul, from Marseilles to Algiers, from Valencia to Palermo, until the early decades of the twentieth century this bra” (2009) and “Primavera Autunno Inverno” (2011). 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 Valerio Corzani performed with renomated artists such Charts Europe). The CD contains original compositions together with rearrangements of songs by Mediterranean as Marc Ribot, Roy Paci, Jimmy Villotti, Gabriele Mirabassi, authors who have spoken in music of the struggle against power, suffering persecution, arrests and violence. The Maria Pia De Vito, Dodi Moscati, Andy J. Forest, Gabriella group’s previous album “Marea cu Sarea” was awarded the “Coups de coeur du jury” award at Babel Med 2009 in Marseilles. Ferri, Peppe Voltarelli, Simone Zanchini, Riccardo Tesi, Antonio Infantino, Teresa De Sio. • In recent years Stefano Saletti and the Piccola Banda Ikona have toured extensively, playing at major interna- tional festival in Italy, Canada, Portugal, Spain, France, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Morocco, Hungary, Greece, Egypt and In 2012 Valerio partnered with violinist Erica Scherl and created a new project: “Interiors”. Their first album Germany. “Liquid” released in 2013 is a travel connecting electronic and acoustic sounds, sublimated by sinuous rhythmic • 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 architectures. Interiors performed at many prestigious Italian clubs and festivals, such as Lugo Contemporanea, a live Cd called “A Night in Sicily” and in 2010 the cd “Live a Vila Real de Santo Antonio”. Calagonone Jazz, Leggere la Città (Pistoia), Dromos Festival (Oristano), Hallo Bigallo (Firenze), Dialoghi di Trani, • In 2015 he released the CD “Caracas” with Valerio Corzani and the CD “In Search of Homerus” a collection of Festival Adriatico Mediterraneo (Ancona), Chamoisic Festival (Chamois, Aosta), Centro di Ricerca Musicale Te- 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. atro San Leonardo (Bologna), Festival delle balle di Paglia (Cotignola), Turba (Lugano)… • With the musician and producer Hector Zazou and the singer Barbara Eramo he released on 2010 the CD “Ori- ental Night Fever”, a re-interpretation of various Disco ‘classics’ from the seventies. Caracas, with Stefano Saletti, is his latest music project. Their first omonimus album was released in 2015 under • 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, Massi- Materiali Sonori Records. mo Popolizio, Manuela Mandracchia, Maurizio Panici, Piero Maccarinelli, Predrag Matvejevic, Ondadurtoteatro, Marco Delogu and Renato Giordano. Corzani always combines the activity of musician with that of journalist and radio speaker. Currently he collabo- • He composed the soundtrack for the film “Sotto la Luna” by Franco Bernini (Rai 2) and “Un matrimonio” by Pupi Avati. rates with “Il Manifesto”, broadcasts for the second channel of Radio Svizzera Italiana and is an author, producer • He is the composer of the song “Ebla”, the theme tune for the international tv program “Mediterraneo”. and speaker for Radio3 Rai. • 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 Ouas- sini, 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 TECHNICAL RIDER CARACAS Valerio Corzani, Stefano Saletti, Erica Scherl, Eugenio Saletti

Mixer CHANNEL LIST 4 monitor 2 multieffetti Channel Instrument MIC / D.I. INSERT / Backline: AUX 2 guitar amplifiers 1 Sampler AKAI L D.I. AUX 1 bass amplifier 2 SAMPLER AKAI R D.I. AUX 2 music stands 3 iPad L D.I. AUX 4 guitar stand 4 iPad R D.I. AUX 1 Keyboard holder with load platform 5 Lap Top L D.I. AUX 6 Lap Top R D.I. AUX Valerio Corzani: bass, iPad, vocals 7 Bass D.I. AUX Stefano Saletti: oud, bouzouki, electric guitar, 8 OUD / BOUZOUKI D.I. AUX sampler, melodica, vocals 9 ELECTRIC GUITAR 1 Mic AUX 10 ELECTRIC GUITAR 2 Mic AUX Erica Scherl: violin, lap top 11 VIOLIN D.I. AUX Eugenio Saletti: electric guitar, vocals 12 VOCALS El Guitar 1 Mic AUX 13 VOCALS bass Mic AUX Info: Stefano Saletti: 3384928303 14 VOCALS El Guitar 2 Mic AUX

STAGE PLAN

EUGENIO SALETTI VALERIO CORZANI (Electric Guitar - Vocals) (Bass - iPad - Vocals)

STEFANO SALETTI (Oud - bouzouki - El. Guitar - ERICA SCHERL Sampler ) (Violin - Lap top)