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Confusional Quartet is an Italian new wave band, which was active from 1978 to 1982, and then again after reforming in 2011 until present.
Confusional Quartet formed in 1978, playing a mixture of instrumental, avant-garde, experimental rock. They released several records on vinyl, including the single "Volare", a futurist, instrumental cover of the song "Nel blu, dipinto di blu" by Domenico Modugno, a self-titled LP, a mini LP and a limited edition of flexidiscs. They have also appeared on various compilations, and their original records have been reissued on CD.
Confusional Quartet were invited to some contemporary art events, such as the IV Settimana internazionale della Performance in Bologna in 1980, and Universität für angewandte Kunst Festival in Vienna in 1981. In 1982 they stopped their activity, until the band reformed in 2011 with the four original members (Lucio Ardito on bass, Marco Bertoni on keyboards, Gianni Cuoghi on drums, and Enrico Serotti on guitar).
In 2012 two new albums were released, Italia calibro X and another self-titled album, Confusional Quartet. The single "Futurfunk" was cowritten with Bob Rifo of The Bloody Beetroots. In 2013, drummer Gianni Cuoghi left the band and was replaced by Claudio Trotta. In 2014 the band published Confusional Quartet play Demetrio Stratos, an album made using previously unreleased material from vocalist Demetrio Stratos.
Italian rock is a form of rock music produced primarily in Italy. The music genre has roots in the country as it spread in the early 1960s from the United States with the earliest versions of rock and roll during this period being cover versions or interpretative covers of already existing songs.
Lindsay Cooper was an English bassoon and oboe player and composer. Best known for her work with the band Henry Cow, she was also a member of Comus, National Health, News from Babel and David Thomas and the Pedestrians. She collaborated with a number of musicians, including Chris Cutler and Sally Potter, and co-founded the Feminist Improvising Group. She wrote scores for film and TV and a song cycle Oh Moscow which was performed live around the world in 1987. She also recorded a number of solo albums, including Rags (1980), The Gold Diggers (1983), and Music For Other Occasions (1986).
Area – International POPular Group, most commonly known as Area or AreA, is an Italian progressive rock, jazz fusion, electronic, experimental group formed in 1972 by singer Demetrio Stratos and drummer Giulio Capiozzo. They are considered one of the most respected, innovative and important bands of the blooming 1970s Italian progressive rock scene.
Gian Luigi "Gianni" Morandi is an Italian pop singer, actor and entertainer. It is estimated that Morandi has sold about 50 million recordings.
Massimo Ranieri is an Italian singer, actor, television presenter and theatre director.
Skiantos is an Italian comedy punk band formed in Bologna in 1975. They have released ten studio albums, two live albums and five compilation albums. They participated in the Gods of Demential festival on January 12, 2007. Roberto “Freak” Antoni, leader of the band, died in Bologna at 59 years of age on February 12, 2014.
Jacques Fred Petrus was a West Indian-born businessman and a pioneer of post-disco music. He spent much of his career in Italy and the United States.
Eugenio Finardi is an Italian rock singer, songwriter, guitarist and keyboardist.
Efstratios Dimitriou, known professionally as Demetrio Stratos, was a Greek-Italian lyricist, multi-instrumentalist, music researcher, and co-founder, frontman and lead singer of the Italian progressive rock band Area – International POPular Group.
Tre Martelli are an Italian folk and traditional music band. Since 1977, Tre Martelli has been developing its work on the study, recovery and popularization of the traditional musical culture of the region of Piemonte in northern Italy.
Fonoprint is a famous recording studio located in Bologna, Italy, founded in 1976. Owner Leopoldo Cavalli, CEO Giacomo Golfieri, sound engineers Maurizio Biancani, Enrico Capalbo, Claudio Adamo and Pietro Giolito. The facility is Dolby Atmos Music certified.
Band Aid is an Italian band formed in Lecce in 1980.
The musicarello is a film subgenre which emerged in Italy and which is characterised by the presence in main roles of young singers, already famous among their peers, and their new record album. In the films there are almost always tender and chaste love stories accompanied by the desire to have fun and dance without thoughts. Musicarelli reflect the desire and need for emancipation of young Italians, highlighting some generational frictions. The genre began in the late 1950s, and had its peak of production in the 1960s.
Monuments were founded in January 1981 in Turin, Italy. The band emerged from the new wave band Tecknospray (1978–81), where the founding members played side by side as guitarist/keyboardist and bassist/keyboardist. In the new line-up Mauro Tavella and Andrea Costa immediately decided to dedicate themselves exclusively to electro - music. Their aim was to blend traditional pop melodies with the latest synthesized sounds.
Dunwich is an Italian symphonic/gothic metal band founded in Rome in 1985. Dunwich were among the first to use a female vocalist and symphonic music elements, especially brass instrument. Rockeramagazine considers them forerunners of the modern symphonic metal, defining them as the "first symphonic metal band".
The Last White Christmas was a music festival held in Pisa, Italy on December 4, 1983. Several albums were released with recordings from the event. A 35th anniversary event was held in 2018.
I Tubi Lungimiranti was a musical group formed in Fano, Italy in 1964. The group was part of the 1960s Italian Beat music movement. They later became a cult group for Dirty Acoustics and Garage Beat.
Father Murphy was an avant garde modern psychedelic band, part of the subgenre defined Italian Occult Psychedelia by Antonio Ciarletta
Bruno Romani is an Italian saxophonist, flutist and composer.
Dome La Muerte, pseudonym of Domenico Petrosino, is an Italian guitarist, songwriter and disc jockey.
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