Artist description a real time acoustic, electronic duo

Music Style music

Musical Influences open spaces, closed spaces, small places, peoples faces,

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Artist History 1994 while alessandro was still studying at the conservatory, where I am happy to say they did not succeed in driving the ten penny nail through his head, he met Peter who was playing studio boredom, programming and creating strange sound tracks fro art galleriesThe question was can the two of us do this live on stage? - do what?whatever comes to mind musically. The answer has developed into our current stage show which incorporates theater, video and performance into a 'seemless' musical concept

Group Members Alessandro Palmitessa: saxes, clarinet, flutes, keyboards, electronics, percussionPeter Avanti: electronic/acoustic percussion, keyboards, voice, funny sounds

Instruments anything we can fit in the wagon

Albums What a Way to Live, In the Meantime

Press Reviews Keyboard Magazine, Discoveries: Avanti lays out unsettled, constantly percolating zones of percussion, synths, and samples that play against Palmitessa's honking, squeaking, squealing, and anthem-esque saz lines like a dancer spinning and twisting through the traffic of a city sidewalk. ...the effect can be dreamlike. But these dreams are populated with a spray of images across a surreal landscape that bends back and forth between the swinging and the spew of Ernst and DeChirico.

Location Cologne - Germany

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