Buio pesto

Buio pesto

Buio Pesto is a musical dialectal band from the small town of Bogliasco near Genoa, Italy.

The name of the group is an Italian way to describe something very dark, but at the same time the word "pesto" can also refer to the typical Ligurian pasta sauce, the Pesto. As a matter of fact the band's logo, characterized by a strong green colour, resembles a Ligurian basil leaf, which is the most important ingredient for Pesto.

The musical style varies from rock, to rap, to reggae and to folk music. The most important characteristic of their lyrics is the stong sarcasm and comic irony which gives the music a peculiar goliardic touch.In 2005 Genoa gave to Buio Pesto the Disco D'Oro (Gold record) because they reached 50.000 albums sold.

History

"Buio Pesto" were founded in 1983, even if their "professional" period came in 1992 with recording of their first album, "Voglio una fidanzata" (I want a Girlfriend), published first by Deadline / Discomagic and then in 1996 by Sony. Significantly, in 1995 the music career of Buio Pesto changes fully, along with their decision to sing in the local dialect, in Ligurian.

From then until now, they sold 60.000 records and performed more than 400 concerts (with a total of 680.000 people among the audience), and collected more than 254.000.000 Lire for charity.

Their second album, "Cosmolandia", was released in 1998, with more than 3,000 copies sold, and contains an unedited song "Cosmolandia", sung by Franco Malerba, the first Italian astronaut in space for the NASA in 1992 with the Space Shuttle Atlantis STS-46.In 1999 the Space Shuttle Discovery STS-103 was launched from Cape Canaveral transporting on board the album. "Cosmolandia" was the first Italian album to fly to space.

Buio Pesto even produced the first Sci-Fi movie entirely shot in Italy: InvaXön - Alieni in Liguria.

Buio Pesto had various guests in some of their albums as Marco Masini and Elio e le Storie tese, and the Ligurian folk singer Piero Parodi.

The Band

The main members of the band are:

* Massimo Morini – main vocals and keyboards
* Davide Ageno – guitar and vocals
* Nino Cancilla – electric bass
* Gianni Casella - vocals
* Danilo Straulino – drums
* Federica Saba – vocals
* Massimo Bosso – lyrics, vocals and production
* Maurizio Borzone – violin and vocals

The staff of Buio Pesto counts 45 members altogether.
The initial group comprised Alex Pagnucco (bass) and Andrea "Pagen" Paglierini (vocals).

Discography

;Dead Line / Discomagic:
*"Voglio una fidanzata" (1992, per la Sony nel 1996);Grigua/Discolandia
*"Belinlandia" (1995)
*"Cosmolandia" (1998)
*"Colombo (2000)
*"Zeneize (2001)
*"Paganini (2001)
*"Basilico (2004)
*"Palanche" (2006)
*"Liguria" (2008);Videolandia / Discolandia
*"Belin che video!" (2001)
*"Buio Pesto al Teatro Carlo Felice" (2002)
*"Buio Pesto" (2005)

External links

* [http://www.buiopesto.it official website]
* [http://www.francomalerba.it/amicoligure/buiopesto.htm Franco Malerba and the Buio Pesto]
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0452262/ IMDB's InvaXon]


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