Elio e le Storie Tese

Terribly funny and clever at exactly the same time, sometimes foul within their lyrics and intensely gifted officially, Elio e le Storie Tese aren’t just a comedy act, yet an exceptionally talented band, frequently in comparison to Frank Zappa because of their irreverent mixture of styles and sounds — quite simply, perhaps one of the most original Italian bands ever. The roots of Elio e le Storie Tese time back to the finish from the ’70s in Milan, where upcoming vocalist and flutist Stefano “Elio” Belisari, Luca Mangoni, and soon-to-become supervisor Marco Conforti went to the same college. After recruiting various other music artists, the band’s initial gig occurred in 1980. By 1985 the lineup consolidated about Belisari, Sergio “Rocco Tanica” Conforti on keyboards and drum machine, Nicola “Faso” Fasani on bass, Davide “Cesareo” Civaschi on electric guitar, and — down the road — Paolo “Feiez” Panigada on saxophone, with Mangoni within the function of comic counterpart to Belisari and improbable dancer (exactly like an ironic edition from the Happy Mondays’ Bez). Every year the music group built up a solid fan base, specifically in Milan, and its own fame became also wider after some performances in cult Television programs such as for example L’Araba Fenice and Lupo Solitario. Including classics of Elio e le Storie Tese’s repertoire such as for example “Cassonetto Differenziato per il Frutto del Peccato,” “Cara Ti Amo,” and “John Holmes (Una Vita per il Movie theater),” focused on the eponymous porn professional, the debut record Elio Samaga Hukapan Karijana Turu, released in 1989, finished up selling a lot more than 100,000 copies. The EP Los Sri Lanka Parakramabahu Brothers Featuring Elio e le Storie Tese adopted in 1990, however the genuine breakthrough came with 1992’s Italyan, Rum Casusu Cikty, where the music group — right now with Christian Meyer on drums — demonstrated all its crazy and irreverent creativeness, both arrangement-wise and in the lyrics, able because the bandmembers had been of quoting Led Zeppelin, Television commercials, 1970s Television show Mork & Mindy, and Italian poet Ugo Foscolo with similar ease. Paths like “Servi della Gleba,” “Il Vitello dai Piedi di Balsa,” and “Supergiovane” had been types of a almost limitless creativeness and an exceptionally personal comical look at of the globe, and guests such as for example Riccardo Fogli, Enrico Ruggeri, acting professional Diego Abatantuono, and Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares (within the solitary “Pipppero”) produced their songs a lot more interesting. For the time being, the music group had started essential collaborations with radio network Radio DJ and with the humor trio Gialappa’s Music group, composing the theme tracks for their different displays. In 1993 Elio e le Storie Tese released Esco dal Mio Corpo e Ho Molta Paura, an anthology of unreleased paths spanning from 1979 to 1986, adopted in 1996 by Eat the Phikis. The second option album’s leading monitor, “La Terra dei Cachi,” shown for the reason that year’s release from the Sanremo Music Event (where it completed second), reached the very first notch from the Italian graphs, where it remained for eight weeks, turning Elio e le Storie Tese into a genuine ethnic (and mass) sensation. In the next years the music group embarked on an extended Italian tour, and released the Del Meglio del Nostro Meglio, Vol. 1 in 1997. But on Dec 23, 1998, Panigada passed away of a human brain hemorrhage while playing on-stage along with his jazz part project, Biba Music group. Craccracriccrecr was focused on the saxophonist and released in 1999; nevertheless, the recording was considered by some to become not as outstanding as its predecessors. For the time being, the lineup from the music group had expanded to add second keyboardist Antonello “Jantoman” Aguzzi. In 1999 Elio e le Storie Tese also released the soundtrack towards the Gialappa’s Music group film Tutti gli Uomini del Deficiente, highly inspired by 1970s noises from disco to prog. The dual CD Manufactured in Japan — documented, regardless of its name, in Milan — and Cicciput implemented, respectively, in 2001 and 2003, the last mentioned including the melody “Litfiba Tornate Insieme,” focused on the Italian music group Litfiba as well as the frictions between its guitarist, Ghigo Renzulli, and previous vocalist Piero Pelù. Because of its following tour the music group started a fresh project called Compact disc Brulé, rendering it possible after each show to get a CD like the initial hour of this night’s set. The very best of these recordings would later on become officially released inside the live anthologies Il Meglio di Ho Fatto 2 Etti e Mezzo Lascio? (2004) and Il Meglio di Grazie per la Splendida Serata (2005). Preceded from the solitary “Parco Lambro,” Studentessi noticed the light in 2008.