After having recorded 5 albums and played hundreds of gigs all across Europe with his band Venus (as headliners, or supporting bands such as Sixteen Horsepower, Mogwai, John Parish, dEUS), Marc A. Huyghens decided to put an end to that wonderful story. He took a one-year break and then started working on a new minimalist project called JOY.
Françoise Vidick, who’d worked as backup vocalist with many different artists such as Adamo and Zap Mama, joined him to sing and play drums. Through friends, they met Swedish cellist Anja Naucler after a gig she’d played with the African singer Manou Gallo… And Joy was born! Their first demo was recorded by Duke in the Belgian countryside in September 2008 and it was mixed by Gilles Martin in Paris the following month. And now, something completely different… CALIBRO35!
There is just one kind of music Italians REALLY do better than anybody else: soundtracks. Researches begun years ago, digging dusty vinyl crates for obscure samples. The discovery of Italian ’60s and ’70s soundtracks was a crucial point; from that moment on nothing sounded as good and interesting as electrifying tracks from exploitation movies.
By the summer of 2007, time was ready and Tommaso Colliva (Muse, Franz Ferdinand, Arto Lindsay) invited an incredible jam band formed by Massimo Martellotta (Stewart Copeland, Eugenio Finardi, Mauro Pagani) on guitars and lapsteels, Enrico Gabrielli (Afterhours, Mariposa, Morgan) on keyboards and horns, Fabio Rondanini (Pino Marino, Roberto Angelini, Collettivo Angelo Mai) on drums and Luca Nano Cavina (Transgender, Lindo Ferretti) on bass to record in Milan.
Tracklist of the cd includes well known themes (two of them were used by Tarantino in his movies) as well as rare compositions by Morricone, Micalizzi, Cipriani, Luis Bacalov, Trovajoli…
We’re proud to say that their first gig ever (even before recording the cd) was last year at d:qliq: the band and the public loved it so much that we had to make them come back this year!
Françoise Vidick, who’d worked as backup vocalist with many different artists such as Adamo and Zap Mama, joined him to sing and play drums. Through friends, they met Swedish cellist Anja Naucler after a gig she’d played with the African singer Manou Gallo… And Joy was born! Their first demo was recorded by Duke in the Belgian countryside in September 2008 and it was mixed by Gilles Martin in Paris the following month. And now, something completely different… CALIBRO35!
There is just one kind of music Italians REALLY do better than anybody else: soundtracks. Researches begun years ago, digging dusty vinyl crates for obscure samples. The discovery of Italian ’60s and ’70s soundtracks was a crucial point; from that moment on nothing sounded as good and interesting as electrifying tracks from exploitation movies.
By the summer of 2007, time was ready and Tommaso Colliva (Muse, Franz Ferdinand, Arto Lindsay) invited an incredible jam band formed by Massimo Martellotta (Stewart Copeland, Eugenio Finardi, Mauro Pagani) on guitars and lapsteels, Enrico Gabrielli (Afterhours, Mariposa, Morgan) on keyboards and horns, Fabio Rondanini (Pino Marino, Roberto Angelini, Collettivo Angelo Mai) on drums and Luca Nano Cavina (Transgender, Lindo Ferretti) on bass to record in Milan.
Tracklist of the cd includes well known themes (two of them were used by Tarantino in his movies) as well as rare compositions by Morricone, Micalizzi, Cipriani, Luis Bacalov, Trovajoli…
We’re proud to say that their first gig ever (even before recording the cd) was last year at d:qliq: the band and the public loved it so much that we had to make them come back this year!