Behind the name
Micevice lies the figure of
Giovanni Ferrario.
As a guitarist, singer, songwriter, producer he has been trading the boards of nearly twenty years now.
He plays and collaborates with Hugo Race and The True Spirit, Sepiatone, Morgan, Vega Enduro....
AS TEARS GO BY curriculum
Born in Monti-Chiari, Italy.
1984 Forms Views. They records
Namby-Pamby (ep Tramite, 88) and
Mummycat The World N°2 (lp Crazy Mannequin, 90). The band's alive for ten years.
1995 Moves to Catania and joins
Cesare Basile’s band as guitar player.
1996 Composes music for the choreographer
Daniela Agosta, the dj
Nigel Allen, the video-maker
Maurizio Leonardi.
1997 Joins
Amerigo Verardi's band,
Lula. They record the
self-titled lp (Baracca&Burattini, 99) in Florence, produced by
Jim Wilson (Sugar/Bob Mould).
1998 Forms
Micevice with
Marta Collica (Sepiatone/True Spirit/John Parish) and the australian bass player
Cat Hope. They record
Experiments On The Duration Of Love (lp Lollypop, 99) in Melbourne.
Back to Brescia produces
Armstrong, the latest album of
Scisma (lp EMI, 99).
1999 Records and produces in Salò
Micevice second album,
Bipolars Of The World Unite cpl (lp GreatMachinePistola, 00).
Collaborates at the direction of the
Power To The Guitar Sound videoclip with Cristiano dal Pozzo and Gianluca Fracassi.
Raise A Shout, the second videoclip taken from the album, is directed by
Graziano Staino.
On tour in Italy with Micevice and Scisma.
2000 Produces
Salto Con Te of
Snaporaz (lp Baracca&Burattini, 01) and
Tunnel Supermarket of
Estra (lp CGD East West, 01).
On tour in Italy with Micevice, Scisma, Cristina Donà .
2001 Records and produces in Bologna the third
Micevice album called
Stop Here : Love Store (lp Homesleep/Sony, 02).
Collaborates at the recordings of the first album of
Cata Negra aka Cat Hope (lp Bloodstar, 01).
Records and produces with Stefano Cesca the single
Power To The Guitar Sound featuring B.J., Zanna, Hugo Race (Great machine Pistola, 01).
On tour with Micevice.
2002 collaborates at the direction of the two videoclip taken from the last Micevice album:
The Head of Your Enemies with
Kal Karmen and
Gianluca Fracassi and
Raise A Shout with
Graziano Staino, both published by Shinseiki.
Records and produces the first self-titled album of
Vega Enduro (lp Great Machine Pistola, 2002) in Brescia.
European tour with Sepiatone and Hugo Race+True Spirit. On tour in Italy with Micevice.
2003 collaborates at the recordings of
The Goldstreet Session with
Hugo Race +True Spirits in Berlin (lp Glitterhouse, 04).
Joins the
Morgan band and tours
Le Canzoni Dell'Appartamento in Italy.
Two songs from the second Micevice album are used for the soundtrack of
Paolo Virzì’s movie
Caterina Va In Città .
Produces
You Monster Headache with
Micevice (ep Desvelos, 04).
2004 Records and produces the first album of
Filofobia in Arezzo (lp Desvelos, 04).
Records and produces
Big Time 25:33 p.m. of
Vega Enduro in Brescia (lp Desvelos/Macacorec, 05).
Collaborates with
Davide Catinari’s DVega in Cagliari.
Joins the project
Roma'n'Cess thought by
Graziano Staino for the poet
Pig Maglione.
Collaborates at the recording sessions of
Non al Denaro Non all'Amore Né al Cielo, remake of the
Fabrizio De Andrè album made by
Morgan in Milan (lp Sony, 05).
In studio in Catania with
Sepiatone for
Dark Summer (lp Desvelos, 04), in
Bologna with
Goodmorning Boy for
Hamlet Machine (lp Urtovox, 04).
On tour with Morgan, Hugo Race, Vega Enduro.
2005 In studio with
Hugo Race+True Spirit for
Taoist Priest (lp Glitterhouse, 06).
Records and produces the first
Primochef del Cosmo forthcoming album in Sassari (Desvelos) and
Lanterne Magique, the Grimoon album in Mestre (Macacorec, 06).
On tour in Italy with Morgan, Sepiatone, Vega Enduro.
2006 In studio with
Morgan & Le Sagome for the recording sessions of
Da A ad A in Milan (Sony, 07).
Recording the
Hugo Race+True Spirit new album
53rd State in Berlin (08).
Records sessions for the singer/songwriter Edo with
Jean-Marc Butty (PJHarvey/Venus) and
Stefane Goldman in Paris.
On tour in Europe with True Spirit; in Italy with Morgan.
Pre-production of
Headquarter Delirium (Pocket Heaven, 08).
2007 Records and produces
Headquarter Delirium, the first album under his name, at Bipolar Studio Monti-Chiari. Many musicians and different sound engineers
join the sessions (Stefano Pini, Sergio Carnevale, Roberto Dell’Era, Nicola Manzan, Marco “Nonna†Posocco, Marco Carusino, Manuel Agnelli, Marta Collica, Michelangelo Russo, Max Trisotto, Matteo Dolla, Marco Tagliola, Marco Parente, Jean-Marc Butty, Hugo Race, Gabriele Ponticiello, Enrico Gabrielli, Aua, Asso Stefana, Andrea Fusari, Enrico Gabrielli).
Other recording sessions at Bipolar in collaboration with
Gabriele Ponticiello: produces and records the
Grimoon album
Les 7 Vies du Chat (Macaco Rec,08); records and co-produces the
Zabrisky album Northern Highway (Shyrec, 08); produce and records in collaboration with
Max Trisotto the new
Record's album (08).
On tour in Italy with Morgan & Le Sagome, Opening solo for Afterhours Italian tour. On tour in Italy and Europe with
Jean-Marc Butty.
2008 Looks after the re-issue of the first Micevice album
Experiments On The Duration Of Love (My Honey – March 08).
Joins the recording sessions of the new
P.J. Harvey/John Parish forthcoming album at ToyBox studio in Bristol.
Discography:
Experiments On The Duration Of Love - lp Lollypop, 1999
Bipolars Of The World Unite cpl - lp GreatMachinePistola, 2000
Power To The Guitar Sound - ep GreatMachinePistola, 2001
Stop Here : Love Store - lp Homesleep/Sony, 2002
You Monster Headache - ep Desvelos, 2004
Headquarter Delirium - the new album is released on April 25th 2008.
Label: Pocket Heaven (Luxembourg)+ Solaris Empire (Germany)
Distribution: Broken Silence - Panoplie ASBL
Booking:
Italy - Estragon Booking – Alessandro “Cecca†Ceccarelli –
[email protected]
Europe - Pocket Heaven – Robert Weis -
[email protected]
www.micevice.com
