I was born in the suburbs of Milan at the end of the Seventies. I graduated in Philosophy of Science with a tesis about Albert Einstein, entitled “Time and simultaneity: a definition”.

My musical career started in 2005, when I published my first ep “I pesci ci osservano” (Fishes are watching us). In that time I met some of the most important people of my musical life: Guido Baldoni (musician, great pianist and fundamental travel companion), Dario Zigiotto (he has been working with me for ten years, looking after the communication) and Paolo Ciarchi, which became my master, my guide. Our artistic friendship has been intense and essencial for the future of my music. He taught me how to play with linguistics, theatrical elements and improvisation.
I call Paolo Ciarchi “the long look”, as Adorno identified Gustav Mahler. In fact Paolo Ciarchi guided my sense of artistical expression and the musical composition towards a total liberation from the structured construction of songs and the standard of rock concerts, giving me new creative incentive and exacerbating a kind of propension to extemporaneous.

In 2008 the German artist Tino Seghal chose me for the performance “This is critique!” in his solo exhibition, set out at Villa Reale of Milan.

In 2009 “I pesci ci osservano” became a lp: ten songs describing the fleeting sense of lost and restlessness in time of changes. Thanks to this album, a great and long tour started and went on for a lot of time. We played in many different situations: theatres, social and recreation centres, exhibitions all over the world, from Paris to San Francisco.
In June 2010, during the "political refugee week", some foreign journalists of Rai Radio 3 (one of the most important national radios of Italy) chose "I pesci ci osservano" as album of the week.

In 2011 I started working to a new experimental project: creating, with Guido Baldoni, a new musical team, the future Fisheye Band. The project started with Guido Rolando “Giubbonsky” (sax), Francesco Piras (trumpet), Fabio Bado (drums) and Martina Milzoni (bass).

In July 2012 I entered in a recording studio with a new artistical productor, Gianluca De Rubertis, who gave me elements to guide the new sound of the Fisheye Band towards international and “more sixties” contaminations. That's how "Carrozzeria Lacan" - my last album - was born. New folk meets vintage.
But above all "Carrozzeria Lacan" is an answer. But what's the question? That's it: “What should you do if you've lost everything but anybody has told it to you? Ten non-practical answers.”
The l.p. is based on desacrating irony and a more epochal and brutal tension about reality and its description. The message, above all, is to fight for survival: love for survival always guides everything.
If I want to define this album, I'll say that it's a post-modern experiment, in which I try to talking in a good way about things that suck. I would like that people who listen it say something like: “Oh! Cool album! It's like walking in New York: it seems I can can see a porno shop, near a Buddhist temple, near a clochard picking up champagne in a garbage can.”

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Por qué estoy en Couchsurfing

I think music is a universal language. So, I'd love meeting new people through it. What I imagine about couchsurfing experiences is something like my band and I playing all over Europe (and all over the world), meeting new friends and being contaminated by new cultures.

Intereses

Music, theatre, philosophy, art, travelling.

• arts
• performing arts
• concerts
• walking
• shopping
• traveling
• survival
• music
• trumpet
• drums
• teaching
• science
• tourism

Enseña, aprende, comparte

I'm a teacher, really, it's my secondary job! And I'm also a great student.
But first of all I'm a musician, so, of course, sharing is a WAY OF LIFE.

Qué puedo ofrecer a los anfitriones

Playing music, living it all together, organizing house-concerts in the hosts homes in exchange for a couch.

Países en los que he vivido

Italy