Member Since: 6/1/2006
Band Website: maurizioravalico.com
Band Members: It so happened that the best things I've managed to do in my musical life are all duo collaborations: AFROSHOCK was a duo with Davide Giovannini (on drum kit), most of the music of EZZTHETIC was the result of endless hours spent in the company of Leonardo Gementi (electronics), my last release is series of improvisations by me and Isambard Khroustaliov (electronics), and these days I have just started recording my next album with Oren Marshall (tuba)...
Influences: King Crimson, Igor Stravinski, Ray Barreto, Morton Feldman, the Drummers of Burundi, Jorge Alfonso, Bela Bartok, Ornette Coleman, Leonard Cohen, John Cage, the winter seafront of my hometown, Lucio Battisti, Juan Formell, The Beatles, Peter Hammill, Egberto Gismonti, Le Quan Ninh, David Sylvian, Meredith Monk, Neil Young, Eddie Palmieri, Fela Kuti, Pink Floyd, Simon Phillips, Jon Hassel, Miguel Angà Dìaz, David Byrne, Luigi Russolo, Joni Mitchell, Peter Gabriel, the psychedelic experience, The Head Hunters, Paoli Mejias, Max Roach, Grace Jones, The Who, Steve Reich, Tom Waits, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Paul Shutze, James Brown, Demetrio Stratos, Lenine, Johan Sebastian Bach, Stevie Wonder, Trevor Horn, The Rolling Stones, Maracatù and virtually anything that comes from Pernambuco, John Bonham, Luciano Berio, Jaco Pastorius, Henry Cow, Freddie Mercury, the Kodo Drummers, Henry Miller, Wassily Kandinsky, Max Ernst, Umberto Eco, Philip Jose Farmer, Bansky, Oscar Wilde, Luis Buñuel, Groucho Marx, you sure you want to hear them all?
Sounds Like: I'd rather you tell me
Record Label: whichever is available when I have finished a job
Type of Label: Indie