About Me
Giorgio Li Calzi was born in 1965. His first group, when he was 12, was inspired by Suicide, Contortions, Kraftwerk. Directors such as Paradjanov, Arrabal, Topor, Svankmajer, left a sign in his music. In 1990 he began to play the trumpet and he studied in the early 90s with Enrico Rava, who convinced Giorgio to become trumpet player.
Also in 1990, Giorgio Li Calzi won in Roma the award for the best European composer at the Competition for Young Jazz Talents (RAI/Ives St. Laurent) and began to compose music for theatre and dance. He began to work in the advertising world and in 1992 won in Milano the award for the best Italian composer, for his FIAT jingle. His groups, made up of Italian, African, Arab, Asian and Brazilian musicians, play at international festivals, and at cinema festivals, too, like special event (2 cd dedicated to the cinema): in 2001 and 2002 he played in Torino Film Festival and in Berlinale (Berlin Film Festival).
In 2003, Wolfgang Flur, historical member of Kraftwerk, remixes his song Sweet home with Elena dancing, and makes a new song called I was a robot, the single of his next project cd, YAMO, and title of his autobiography, too. In the same year, Lenine, the great brazilian singer and guitarist, records an incredible version of Mercedes Benz (J. Joplin), for the new album: TECH-SET.
June 2004: his new cd TECH-SET is out for the label Il Manifesto.
May 2005, new live project: Giorgio Li Calzi + Aleksandr Nevskij - new music and phonosphere to "Aleksandr Nevskij", the Sergej Ejzentejn's masterpiece, directed in 1938. Giorgio, as the only performer, plays live (trumpet and electronics) on a new edit of the movie (55'), cut by himself. This show was originally produced by the Italo-Russian society Russkij Mir (Torino), in partnership with Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino.
He's working on his new album.
CDs: Giorgio Li Calzi (1994, Philology), La nuit amricaine (1996, Philology), Suk (1997, Philology), Santa Lucia (1997, Polo Sud), Imaginary film music (2000, Philology), Autoloop (2000 BMG/Ricordi), Tech-Set (2004, Il Manifesto)
