About Me
Hey folks, my name is Diego and viale Kennedy is my first adventure in songwriting. It aims at expressing italian identity and lifestyle with humor and romance that should sound familiar and weird at the same time. I use to label it as escape music. Another way to say "there's no laughing matter...".
Uploaded songs are demo versions, sorry for the fake brass. First album will be released through new "chanson d'auteur" label, definitely in September.
For further informations about me read blog.
viale Kennedy's Favourites:
Giorgio Gaber, Lee Perry, Mina (early), "il bocconiano" Nanni Svampa, Peter Sellers, Bob Dylan, Italo Calvino, Armando Trovajoli, Dino Risi, The Beach Boys, Bruno Martino, Carlo Fruttero & Franco Lucentini, Adriano Celentano (early), Gloria Jones, Lucio Battisti (early), Kevin Shields, Nick Drake, Michele Serra, Leonard Cohen, The Mighty Diamonds, Edoardo Bennato (early), Mario Monicelli, David Bowie, Jim Morrison, Guido Cavalcanti's "Dolce Stil Novo", Buster Keaton, The Ronettes, Edoardo Vianello, Sergio Endrigo, Toni Visconti, Marc Bolan (early), Luigi Tenco, Ivano Fossati, Scritti Politti, Eugenio Montale, Giordano Bruno's "Eroici Furori" and "Spaccio della Bestia Trionfante", Lambchop, Flaming Lips, Tim Burton, The Raveonettes, Johnny Cash, The Stranglers, John Barry, Scott Walker, Domenico Modugno, Roberto Rossellini, Junior Marvin, Santo & Johnny, Raymond Queneau, Antonio De Curtis alias "Totò", Chet Baker, Mia Martini, Gilles Deleuze, Sex Pistols, Bryan Ferry, The Everly Brothers, Burt Bacharach, Piero Umiliani, Violent Femmes, Paolo Villaggio, Kid Creole and the Coconuts, Raymond Scott, Jerome David Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye", Simon & Garfunkel, Hannah Arendt's "The Human Condition", Caetano Veloso, Franca Valeri, Damned, Ken Boothe, Rino Gaetano, Michel Foucault, Buddy Holly, The Everly Brothers, Donovan, Dani Siciliano, Luchino Visconti, Love, Isaac Hayes, The Wailers, Samuel Beckett's "Mal vu mal dit", George Delerue, Petronio's "Satyricon", Sly & The Family Stone, Oscar Wilde, David Essex, Shangri-Las, Booker T & The MG's, Sonny Bono, Elvis Costello, Eddie Cochran, High Llamas, Matia Bazar (very early), Sonic Youth, Sun Ra, Buzzcocks, Fennesz, Michelangelo Antonioni, Diana Ross and The Supremes, Georges Bataille's "Histoire de l'oeil", The Skatalites, Iggy Pop, Pink Floyd, Lars Von Trier's "Dogville", Grace Jones, Matthew Herbert, The Bee Gees, Sofocle's "Antigone" and "Edipo Re", Steely Dan, Velvet Underground, Apuleio's "Amore e Psiche", Os Mutantes, Vittorio De Sica, Prince Far I, Guy Debord's "La société du spectacle", John Lennon, Valentino Rossi, Piero Piccioni, Suicide, Sven Lindqvist's "Sei morto! Il secolo delle bombe", The Del Reys, The Ramones, Polyrock, Paul Weller, Charles Baudelaire, Arcade Fire, Badly Drawn Boy, Brian Eno, The Clash, George Cukor's "The Women", The Byrds, Jim Jarmusch, Johnny Cooper Clarke, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Kraftwerk, Syd Barrett, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Sly & Robbie, A Certain Ratio, Herbie Hancock and The Headhunters, Michel Eyquem de Montaigne's "Essais", Marvin Gaye, Ambitious Lovers, Daniel Lanois, Culture Club, Jean Baudrillard's "Symbolic Exchange and Death", Talking Heads, Young Marble Giants, Alberto Sordi, Sergio Caputo, Henry Mancini, Jean-Luc Godard, The Smiths, Voltaire's "Candide ou l'optimisme", Jarvis Cocker, Fabrizio De André, The Mamas & Papas, Giovanni Boccaccio's "Decameron", Spacemen 3, The Breeders, John Donne, Julian Cope, Belle and Sebastian, Cornershop, Beck, Alighiero Noschese, Add n to x, Bobby Conn, Joy Zipper, David Pajo, Mogwai, Grandaddy, Piero Piccioni, Damon Albarn, Super Furry Animals, Charles Darwin, Adam Green, Roberto Benigni, Cat Power, Piano Magic, Yo La Tengo, Stanley Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove", Jim O'Rourke, Ennio Morricone, Bonny Prince Billy, Angelo Badalamenti, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Devendra Banhart, Vetiver, Sebastien Tellier, Monica Vitti, Greta Garbo...
