karmablue

KARMABLUE is a musical project born as a concept in the mid 90's, from the collaboration between the author, composer and guitarist Giacomo Caruso, founder of STILL-LIFE, band of '80, the soprano Cristina Cappellini, the performer and experimental vocalist David Barittoni. Other musicians have collaborated with the original nucleus: Antonio Leoni (bass) and Sergio De Vito (piano) of the EPSILON INDI band, Massimo Nanni (bass), the african musician Bassidou Compaore (percussion and ethnical vo...

KARMABLUE is a musical project born as a concept in the mid 90's, from the collaboration between the author, composer and guitarist Giacomo Caruso, founder of STILL-LIFE, band of '80, the soprano Cristina Cappellini, the performer and experimental vocalist David Barittoni. Other musicians have collaborated with the original nucleus: Antonio Leoni (bass) and Sergio De Vito (piano) of the EPSILON INDI band, Massimo Nanni (bass), the african musician Bassidou Compaore (percussion and ethnical voice), Carlo Spagnoli (drums), Francesco Baldi (violin and keyboards) and Giacomo De Caterini for the supervision and artistic production. This musical group has dedicated itself essentially to the composition and recording of various tracks, culminating in the production of their first CD, called ERRATICO ESTATICO, published in 2002 by TOAST Records, an independent label of Turin (Italy). The tracks contain "in nuce" all the features of the current KARMABLUE sound, mixing rock and ethnic influences, electric sounds and Italian traditional melodic "bel canto". In March of 1999, the meeting between Giacomo Caruso and the guitar and bass player Paolo Spetia provided new stimulation and ideas to the project, to deepen the musical research, concretising in a stable creative accord. This collaboration generate a handful of songs, that will drive the group to the future. In 2002, between September and December, KARMABLUE perform in Rome at Circolo degli Artisti and Alpheus, in a concert organised by Audiocoop Lazio, a musical association of which they are part. In February of 2003, a banal accident stop the musical activity of the group for some months. During this time, a song from their first CD is selected as bonus track in a CD compilation, entitled Yatra, edited by the international organization Mani Tese against exploitation of juvenile work in the world, and published by the independent label TOAST Records, by cooperation with Audiocoop and M.E.I.. In May of 2003, at Alpheus in Rome again, KARMABLUE show their first CD and the compilation for Mani Tese. In September of 2004, they released a performance, entitled INSILENZIO, based on their first work, with music, recitative and acting, by collaboration with the producer Vania Castelfranchi and the woman writer Gloria Imparato. This performance is staged for the first time in June of 2005, and, later on, during all the first half of year 2006. In November of 2006, KARMABLUE show their second CD, entitled ACQUADANZE, released by their own label ATMAN Records, at Meeting delle Etichette Indipendenti in Faenza. KARMABLUE actually are an "open" group, from two to ten musicians, adapting theirselves to circumstances, contracting to spread, crossing the musical creativity with performers, writers, actors, jugglers... with shining stubbornness of pursuing the unique aim of "making art" with music, to communicate energy and emotions, playing everywhere the opportunity presents itself, preferring unusual venues such as bars, libraries, shops, paint galleries or small theatres, giving life to performances and small happenings that create resonance and expectation. The introspective and intimist lyrics of Giacomo Caruso explore the great themes of human search: journey, love, war, death. Their music is characterised by the extreme freedom in composition, continually oriented towards new ideas, a result of improvisation, with electric atmospheres, psychedelic echoes, by ethnic, blues and jazz influences and by a particular use of the voice.