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Marco Catalano

Drummer, Composer, Director, Vocalist, Pianist

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  • Hi everybody. My name is Marco Catalano, aka Mick. I was born in 15 January 1983. I live in Turin, north Italy. I play drum since I was 9 and keyboards since I was 15.
    1992:
    I started to play drum in a band with my brother (Luca) and some friends. The band's name was "Klepsydra". We play some songs of our favourite groups, like Queen, Deep Purple, Iron Maiden, Nirvana and things like this. We played together until 1995 and made a demo ("Before").
    1996:
    In this year my brother and I, with other two guys, set up a new prog-band, called "Avantgarde". We made just our songs, very experimental music, inspired by Dream Theater, Gentle Giant, Bon Jovi, and other bands. We made some demos ("Two rises day") but the band finished in 1999.
    2000:
    After prog experience with Avantgarde, we changed style and band's name. In this time I started to make my music, my personal compositions. Then from Avantgarde's remains born a new group, this time we were 5 members, called "Karisma". We made some pop-rock, always composed by ourselves. With this group we played in so many places, in the north of Italy and not only. We partecipate to some festivals, like Saint Vincent, Asti, Salsomaggiore. We made 3 demos-cd: "Limitezero", recorded at FlyingStudio in 2003; "Merry KarisTmaS" recorded in our studio in 2004; "Non più di 6", recorded in 2006 and mixed at beginning of 2007. Then the band has broken.
    2004:
    In this year Ainur's concept project born. The band born when Gianluca Castelli, my brother and I spoke about The Silmarillion at the Earendil's fantasy society. Each one composed music and we decided to create some songs about The Silmarillion stories. Then we knew other musicians that can have a part in Ainur's project, so we got them in it.
    2005:
    Ainur made their first concert in "Concordia Theater", Venaria, (TO) in January 13th 2005, and we made others during that year. In summer I have an extraordinary experience with my brother and Alessandro Armuschio, playing and singing around the Europe, from Zurich to Stockholm.
    2006:
    Ainur's project was going .. the concert at the Agamus School of Music, in april, Electromantic Music proposed to us to record an album. We made it among june and august of that year. The album came out in january 2007; it is called "From Ancient Times". In this year my project about Harry Potter's sixth book born.
    2007:
    In this year Ainur release their 2nd album "Children of Hurin" in two versions (normal & deluxe). We played in several places in Italy. Harry Potter's project was going on and I called some friends to record some parts in this album.
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    Member Since: 2/11/2007
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    MICK - DISCOGRAPHY

      2000 - Strange new sound 2000 - Across the events 2001 - Rainbow 2002 - Age of miracle 2002 - Lament of the sky 2003 - Istinct 2003 - Boys and girls 2003 - Sentinels of the eternity 2004 - Sweet rose 2008 - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (in production)


    AVANTGARDE - DISCOGRAPHY
      1996 - Avantgarde (demo) 1998 - Two rises day (demo)


    KARISMA - DISCOGRAPHY
      2000 - Iperuranio 2003 - Limitezero 2004 - Merry KarisTmaS 2008 - Non più di sei


    AINUR - DISCOGRAPHY
      2006 - From Ancient Times 2007 - Children Of Hurin 2007 - Children Of Hurin - Deluxe Edition (cd+dvd+book)


    Influences: Dischi che mi hanno cambiato la vita:
    Albums of my life:

    Angra (Holy land), Ayreon (Human Equation), Chicago (Best of 80'), Clarke Di Meola Ponty (Rhytes of guitar), Crosby Stills & Nash (Crosby Stills & Nash), Deep Purple (In rock, Machine head, Perfect stranger, Purpendicular), Def Leppard (Hysteria, Adrenalize, Euphoria), Al Di Meola (Best of), Dream Theater (Images and words, Scenes from a memory, Six deegres of inner turbulence), Dvorak (Symphony n.9), Eagles (Hell frezees over), Echolyn (As the world), Emerson Lake & Palmer (Trylogy), Europe (The final countdown, Start from the dark), Explorers club (Age of impact), Fool's garden (Dish of the day), James Horner (Braveheart, Titanic, Legends of the fall), Iron Maiden (The number of the beast, Fear of the dark), Michael Jackson (Dangerous), Keith Jarrett (Koln concert), King Crimson (In the court of crimson king), James Labrie (Mullmuzzler), Liquid tension (Experiment 1 & 2), Yngwie Malmsteen (Rising force, Trylogy, Seventh sign, Facing the animal), Marillion (Holidays in eden), Brian May (Back to the light), Freddie Mercury (The Freddie Mercury album), Pat Metheny (Imaginary day), Ennio Morricone (Mission, Once upon a time in America), Neal Morse (Testimony), Nirvana (Nevermind), Pink Floyd (Wish you were here), Queen (A night at the opera, Jazz, A kind of magic, The miracle, Innuendo, Made in heaven), Chris Rea (Espresso), Rhapsody (Symphony of the enchanted lands), Joe Satriani (Flying in a blue dream), Derek Sherinian (Black utopia), Alan Silvestri (Back to the future saga), Spin one two (Spin one two), Spock’s beard (The light, Beware of darkness, Snow), Sting (The best of), Stratovarius (Dreamspace), Symphony X (The new mythology, The odyssey, Paradise lost), Roger Taylor (Happyness), The Beatles (One), Toto (Toto IV, Tambu, Mindfields), Traffic (Far from home), Transatlantic (Smpte, Bridge across forever), Tribal Tech (Reality check), U2 (Best of 1980-1990, All that you can’t leave behind), Steve Vai (Passion and warfare), Van Halen (Van Halen I, Balance), Yanni (Tribute), Yes (The ladder), John Williams (Star wars saga, Harry Potter saga, Schindler’s list)

    Film che mi hanno cambiato la vita:
    Movies of my life:

    American flyers, American history x, Back to the future saga, Braveheart, Cast away, Close encounters of the third kind, Forrest Gump, Good Will hunting, Harry Potter and the philosopher' stone, Highlander, Jaws, J.F.K., Jurassic park, La vita è bella, Last samurai, Legends of the fall, The Lord of the rings saga, Matrix saga, Munich, Non ci resta che piangere, The Godfather I & II, Once upon a time in America, The pianist, The prestige, Schindler’s list, Shine, The Sword in the stone, Jaws, Star Wars saga, Superman, Terminator 2, Titanic, Truman show, Usual sospects.

    Libri che mi hanno cambiato la vita:
    Books of my life:

    The lord of the rings, Harry Potter saga, The Da Vinci code, The Hobbit, The Silmarillion, L'atlante della Terra-di-mezzo

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    My Blog

    Recensioni - Indiana Jones e il regno del teschio di cristallo

    Recensione di "Indiana Jones e il regno del teschio di cristallo" Sono un amante del cinema di Spielberg da quando sono nato. Da piccolo ho visto Incontri ravvicinati, ET, Lo squalo chissà quante volt...
    Posted by Marco Catalano on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:07:00 PST

    Recensioni - La donna che visse due volte

    ciao a tutti. Da oggi inizierò a recensire alcuni cd, film, dvd che avrò modo di vedere nel corso della vita. è da un po' che ci pensavo e finalmente ho deciso di iniziare. Inizio subito con un film c...
    Posted by Marco Catalano on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 05:44:00 PST

    Domani mi laureo

    Domani mi laureo. finalmente dopo anni finirò la triennale di Lettere.da un lato nn sono preoccupato, conosco a memoria la tesi. dall'altro vorrei dire troppe cose e avrò solo pochi minuti a disposizi...
    Posted by Marco Catalano on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:54:00 PST

    Sito on-line!!!

    Ciao a tutti.Finalmente dopo molto tempo sono riuscito a mettere il mio sito on-line.Andate su www.marcocatalano.it e troverete un sacco di cose: news, info, foto, mp3, video... Ho appena aggiunto i p...
    Posted by Marco Catalano on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 03:58:00 PST

    NARN Drum Session Record Day Two

    Oggi 20 agosto 2007, secondo giorno di registrazione di batteria insieme al basso. Io e Beppe abbiamo registrato insieme le seguenti tracce: - Ouverture- The fall of Nargothrond- Glaurung's death- Tol...
    Posted by Marco Catalano on Fri, 31 Aug 2007 04:08:00 PST

    NARN Drum Session Record Day One

    Oggi 19 agosto 2007 ho iniziato le registrazioni delle basi di batteria del secondo disco degli Ainur "Narn I Chin Hurin - The children of Hurin", nello studio Play di Bricherasio. Nell'arco dell...
    Posted by Marco Catalano on Fri, 31 Aug 2007 03:41:00 PST

    100 my space friends

    ciao a tutti.oggi ho raggiunto quota 100 fra gli amici di MySpace.grazie a tutti quelli che hanno accettato le mie richieste e quelli che mi hanno contattato per conoscermi.insomma, grazie a tutti voi...
    Posted by Marco Catalano on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 08:23:00 PST

    Hi friends

    ciao a tutti.qui scriverò un po in italiano un po in inglese.così possono leggere tutti.che dire...questo è il mio blog.benvenuti!!! ------------------------------------------------------------ -------...
    Posted by Marco Catalano on Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:20:00 PST