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About Me

Marta Collica is an Italian songwriter active in Europe and Australia. Founding member with Giovanni Ferrario of the italo-Austalian band Micevice, she began recording and touring in 96. Since 2004 shes part of the new John Parish band and together they recorded the new album Once Upon a Little Time which has seen a worldwide release last september (Thrill Jockey,Usa). She's also well known for her collaboration with Hugo Race in their outfit Sepiatone and for touring as keyboard player and vocalist in the latest band formation of Hugo's True Spirit. Firmly part of the Italian underground music scene, she founded the band Songs with Other Strangers, a creative encounter between a diverse group of international songwriters and musicians (Hugo Race, Cesare Basile, Stef Kamil Carlens, Manuel Agnelli, Marta Collica ,Giorgia Poli and Jean Marc Butty).Beside singing, Marta plays piano, rhodes, hammond, synth she likes to explore a wide range of electronic and analogic sounds; her original style combines minimal arrangements and a unique kind of playing, stumbling unpredictably between delicacy and distortion.In Martas solo act the shape of her songwriting is stripped back to the intensity of voice, piano and guitar with occasional guest interventions, driven by experimenting with the moment of performance. The live set gives and intense interpretations of the collection of new songs she wrote and recorded at home and at The Cave studio in Catania under the name Pretty and Unsafe (together with Hugo, Cesare Basile, Enrico Sorbello, Giorgia Poli, as Daniele Grasso and John Parish mixed the tracks) as well as some ballads from the new second album of Sepiatone Darksummer produced by Hugo Race together with Mick Harvey.

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Member Since: 8/9/2006
Band Website: sepiatone.net
Band Members: PRETTY AND UNSAFE live set: Marta Collica voice, keyboard, guitar + guests (Giorgia Poli, Cesare Basile, Giovanni Ferrario etc.) SEPIATONE: Marta Collica vocals, keyboard, synth - Hugo Race vocals, guitar, electronics, Giovanni Ferrario bass - Dade Mahony drums
JOHN PARISH AND BAND: John Parish vocals, guitar - Marta Collica: vocals, Keyboard - Giorgia Poli: vocal, bass - JeanMarc Butty drums
HUGO RACE AND THE TRUE SPIRIT: Hugo Race vocals , guitar - Bryan Colechin vocals, bass - Michelangelo Russo trumpet, trombone, effects - Giovanni Ferrario vocals, bass - Chris Hughes drums, percussions - Brett Polliness drums - Marta Collica vocals, keyboard
Influences: Many in no particular order....lee hazelwood, velvet underground, serge gainsbourg, wilco, francoise hardy, flaming lips,portishead, epic soundtracks, john parish, hugo race, giovanni ferrario, cesare basile, luigi tenco, al green, marianne faithfull, dusty springfield, howe gelb, carol king, pj harvey, lisa germano, world spinning, moon appearing, american poetry from the sixties, old east children illustrations, lost flat landscapes, indonesian gamelan, string orchestras, leaves trapped in icy pools, lagoons and bullrushes, wild animals, oak trees, scent of moss an blackberries, mould creatures, autumn, getting older, love, stillness and restlessness................................................ .................................................... ............................................................ .........................................................LIT TLE GODS music and words Marta Collica, Hugo Race, Images Michelangelo Russo little gods

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Sounds Like: Marta having fun, dreaming, getting upset then happy again
Type of Label: Indie

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Marta Discography

Marta CollicaDiscography and collaborationsMicevice:Experiments in the Duration of Love , 2008 MyHoney Rec.An Introduction To Sepiatone Minty Fresh 2008(USA) Marta Collica Pretty and Unsafe 2006 Desve...
Posted by marta on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 04:46:00 PST

when you think you got it

whatever you are thinking nowand whatever shape are giving to what you can't really seethere will be always something you can't getfar from your eyes and comprehensionsimply lost in the history of som...
Posted by marta on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 12:45:00 PST

new year´sky

happy happy brand new 08Berlinfor a couple of hours i was on the top of a roof in the easti climbed up in the dark and tried to laugh about my vertigoit workedthe sky up but close enough to our heads...
Posted by marta on Tue, 01 Jan 2008 09:55:00 PST

ChrIstmas etc.etc.

bonsoirei'm in berlinoutside it is coldno snow, i would had liked that..though...ii have the feeling it is a good dayreceiving a lot of phonecalls since the morning as me and other few friends without...
Posted by marta on Mon, 24 Dec 2007 11:13:00 PST

Pretty Unsafe: Interview - Draksummer Review by Robert Mießner (German)

http://www.satt.org/musik/07_04_desvelos.html
Posted by marta on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 05:04:00 PST

Pretty and Unsafe album Review on Le Cargo (french)

Pretty and Unsafe album Review on Le Cargo (french)by Melanie Fazihttp://www.lecargo.org/spip/marta_collica/artistes-3961. html
Posted by marta on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:13:00 PST

LIVE PRETTY AND UNSAFE

LIve PRETTY AND UNSAFE frid 9 march Padova Carichi Sospesi tuesd 13 march Mestre Centro Culturale Candiani thursd 15 march Chioggia (VE) Big Fish Lab wen. 21march Torino Teatro a Vento thursd. 22 mar...
Posted by marta on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 03:19:00 PST

PRETTY AND UNSAFE CD OUT NOW

Marta' solo cd PRETTY AND UNSAFE will be out the 5th of february through Desvelos/Audioglobe. You can request it directly to Marta on this webspaceIt is already reviewed in some italian magazines as R...
Posted by marta on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 03:17:00 PST