ROBERTO BERTACCHINI: drummer, percussionist, singer, actor, sailmaker, founder member of Starfuckers (all releases), Sinistri (all releases) and Sinistri++.
Roberto Bertacchini was born on September 17, 1965 in Senago (Italy), at the age of six he moved with his family to Pallerone (Lunigiana), where he lived until 1997, then he moved to Bologna. Early started to work, he became an expert sailmaker. His first experience as musician was playing drums at the age of twelve. Actived in live performance in 1987, he recorded his first LP in 1989 with the Starfuckers, his first USA release was in 1995, he first played outside Italy in 2001. He played with Damo Suzuky (2003) and Governox Ladrox. Occasionaly he performs as a singer. He also worked as actor with the Ma.Pa. Folli collective.
Roberto Bertacchini's drums techniques.
Roberto Bertacchini begins studying drums in 1977 under his brother Mauro (a seventies' jazz/rock fine drummer) he starts playing simple blues/rock rhythms, from the beginning of the nineties he moves to more complex and advanced rhythms or using the drum kit purely as a sound source, in 1997 he breaks up with everything and starts to define his own unique amazing nonmetric style.
nonmetric music is a style of music in wich context the notion of a beat is replaced with that of pulse and music development becomes an art of shape-shifting.
Nonmetric music totally involves its listeners in its creative process, requiring from them a deep concentration. This style doesn't give up the tradition, but seeks to explore the outer limits of music in all its possibilities. It is also a style of music whose goal is much more than simple entertainment, consolation or mere contemplation.
XABIER IRIONDO: … born in the Isola area in Milan (Italy) in the early seventies from basque father and italian mother.
At the age of seventeen he began to amuse himself with an electric guitar and he still does now. He made 5 albums and hundreds of concerts with the pop/rock band Afterhours, 3 albums with the indie/rock band Six Minute War Madness and 3 albums + 2 miniCDs with the A Short Apnea project. He has played live in impro sets with: Damo Suzuki, ZU, Wu Fei, Rhys Chatham, Paolo Tofani, Sinistri, Eraldo Bernocchi, Steve Piccolo, Walter Prati, Gak Sato, Gianni Gebbia and many others.
In these times he's involved as guitarist/sound manipulator in the projects Uncode Duello, POLVERE, Tasaday, EAReNOW, etc.
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