08/05/2008
Mentre le registrazioni del nuovo disco proseguono imperterrite, la data del primo concerto che segna il ritorno dei Torpedo si avvicina.. tra una settimana saremo sul palco dell'Alpheus di Roma a sperimentare i nuovi pezzi con la nuova veste del gruppo. Non nascondiamo l'emozione e la frenesia che stanno precedendo questo evento, e che lo renderanno speciale e unico. ...ci vediamo sotto il palco!
31/03/2008
Le note continuano a riempire le nostre giornate in un modo o nell'altro. Il disco procede. Le ritmiche di basso e batteria sono ormai chiuse e da oggi si parte con le chitarre, mentre, problemi tecnici a parte, in parallelo si sta cominciando a rifinire delle parti di tastiere. Intanto sembra ormai deciso che l'uscita del disco avverrà dopo l'estate, anche se non credo resisteremo allo sfizio dell'anticipazione per i primi di giugno... vedremo. E il 15 maggio ricominciano i concerti. L'occasione? La tappa romana del Jack Daniel's Tour in compagnia degli Après la Classe...
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T O R P E D O B L O B
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L'Ingranaggio is Torpedo's second album, released in June 2004 by V2 Records. Starting from punk sonorities, "heated up" in time by contaminations with Jamaican features, the 15 songs on the album are really impactful and they focus, especially through the lyrics, on important social matters. It's an album through which the band is strengthening its own sound, making it open to all kinds of influences. The album is enriched by striking supports: Sandokan (trombone), Rachid (featuring in "A decine di metri dal fondo") and Sud Sound System (featuring in "Alibi - Rootz vrs").
April 2005 will se a new release of the album, with a fresh and improved artwork and a bonus track, the videoclip of the single "Le mani sopra Roma".
In June 2005 comes "Amatemi", a new movie by director Renato De Maria, with Isabella Ferrari in the leading role: the soundtrack is supervised by Riccardo Sinigallia, who decides to put in the score also "Tunnel", the ending track of "L'Ingranaggio".
Torpedo's adventure starts in 1998: back then the band is called The Tommy's Killers and it mixes a punk inclination with ska-rocksteady sonorities filled with certain upbeats that were soon going to characterize their performances.
They are, already from the beginning, thrown in an intense live activity that brings them on the stage of a festival in Rome called Enzimi 2005, thanks to which they stands out as one of the most interesting and lively groups of the Roman underground scene. A label, Altipiani, notices them and in 2001 they release their first album "Radio Torpedo Indipendente", distributed by Il Manifesto. In winter 2001, some of the songs on the album are selected to be part of the soundtrack of the late tv-show on Rai Tre, called "Okkupati".
Between December 2001 and August 2003 they are engaged in the Radio Torpedo Indipendente Tour, followed also by a promo tour through the studios of several Italian radios, a tour that helps Torpedo getting the attention of target radios and increases their success as well. This is the most intense time for the band, who performs on the stages of many of the most known Italian music events, having the chance to play with already established realities, such as Roy Paci & Aretuska, Punkreas, Banda Bassotti, Sud Sound System, Michael Rose... Torpedo's music, thanks to the experiences accumulated on stages and in outdoors venues all over Italy, even if maintaining the upbeat features, has been contaminated by nuances borrowed from dub, drum'n'bass and, most in general, from electronica.
Discografia/Discography:
Radio Torpedo Indipendente -2001- Altipiani/Il Manifesto
Apparecchio Mediatico [single] -2003- Altipiani
L'Ingranaggio -2004- V2/Sony Music
L'ingranaggio [new edition] -2005- V2/Edel