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Nosound Origin Rome, Italy Genres Art rock, progressive rock, psychedelic rock, space rock[1] Years active 2002–present Labels Kscope UK Website www.nosound.net Members Giancarlo Erra - Guitar, vocals, Keyboard
Paolo Martellacci - vocals, Keyboard
Paolo Vigliarolo - Guitar
Alessandro Luci - Bass guitar
Gigi Zito - PercussionPast members Gabrele Savini - Guitar
Mario Damico - DrumsNosound is an Italian progressive rock band that started as a vision by Giancarlo Erra. All of the early recordings were composed, played, produced, engineered, and released by Erra. As time passed, this music became more popular and the demand for live performances increased. Giancarlo then assembled a band of gifted musicians who would eventually become full time members to play the music of Nosound. The band is noted for playing music in several different genres including progressive rock, post rock, and ambient music.
Nosound has been influenced by artists such as Pink Floyd, Porcupine Tree, No-Man, Arvo Pärt, Brian Eno, and Genesis.
One of the band's latest releases, Lightdark, has seen a good deal of success in several countries and is growing in popularity.
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Band history
Giancarlo Erra era 2002-2006
Nosound started as a project by Giancarlo in 2002. He created several solo works, at least one of which is unreleased. His early demo recordings date back to 1998 with an eight track demo titled Radici and a 19 minute instrumental track on the demo CD Maslova. Bassist Alessandro Luci contributed to some of the early tracks. Giancarlo describes the music as "evocative and intense, with personal songwriting". Waves on Russia was the first officially released Nosound demo in 2002, followed by the first promo which was for Sol29
Nosound era 2006-present
These demos generated enough interest for Giancarlo to play his music live. Since there was no "band" per se, it was necessary to assemble a number of quality musicians that could play his music. With time Giancarlo found enough musicians to create a full band. The official Nosound debut album Sol29 was released in March 2005. A short tour followed and resulted in a live DVD The World is Outside in 2006, which contained unreleased material. With all the positive feedback from the live material on the DVD, the very limited edition (100 copies) live CD 'Slow, it goes' was issued in the first half of 2007. The CD was recorded live at Stazione Birra, Rome on 24 Jan 07 and included a Lightdark promo video. In anticipation of the new album, the exclusive EP Clouds, containing three out takes from the new album Lightdark was released. This lineup continued through Clouds, which saw a change of guitarists when Gabriele Savini was replaced with Paolo Vigliarolo.
Lightdark, Nosound's 2nd official album was released in February 2008. It features collaborations with singer Tim Bowness (No-Man) and Marianne DeChastelaine on cello. A remastered edition of Sol29 was released in conjunction with Lightdark.
In July 2008 the band signed to the new post-progressive label Kscope/Snapper, and planned to play a few festivals before returning to the studio later this year to start recording their 3rd release due in 2009. A new 2 cd digipack edition of studio album Lightdark was released on September 15 on Kscope label. This 2 disc edition of the album included an exclusive five track bonus disc including the video for Lightdark.
In 2009, their latest album called A sense of loss was issued. It featured a four-string band collaboration which gave it a space rock atmosphere.
Band members
Official Nosound members 2002–2006 - Giancarlo Erra – Lead guitar, Lead vocals, Rhythm Guitar, Keyboards, Drums, Bass
- Alessandro Luci – Bass guitar
2006–2007 - Giancarlo Erra – Lead guitar, Lead vocals
- Paolo Martelacci – Keyboards
- Gabrele Savini - Acoustic guitar, Rhythm guitar
- Alessandro Luci – Bass guitar
- Gigi Zito – Drums
2007–2008 - Giancarlo Erra – Lead guitar, Lead vocals
- Paolo Martelacci – Keyboards
- Paolo Vigliarolo - Acoustic guitar, Rhythm guitar
- Alessandro Luci – Bass guitar
- Gigi Zito – Drums
Discography
Compact Discs
Year Album Artist 2011 The Northern Religion of Things Nosound - Giancarlo Erra 2010 sol29 (2010 Remaster) Nosound 2009 A Sense of Loss Nosound 2008 lightdark 2CD Nosound 2008 lightdark Nosound 2008 sol29 (2008 Remaster) Nosound - Giancarlo Erra 2006 Slow, it goes Nosound 2005 sol29 Nosound - Giancarlo Erra 2002 Waves on russia Nosound - Giancarlo Erra 2001 Maslova (unreleased) Nosound - Giancarlo Erra 1998 Radici (unreleased private promo) Nosound - Giancarlo Erra Downloads
Year Album/Song Artist 2009 Fading Silently Nosound 2008 the world is outside Nosound - Giancarlo Erra 2007 Clouds Nosound 2006 Slow, it goes Nosound 2006 Sol29 Nosound Promotional Compact Discs
Year Album Artist 2008 lightdark Nosound 2004 Nosound Promo 2004 Nosound - Giancarlo Erra DVD
Year Album Artist 2006(?) Sol29 promo clip DVD Nosound - Giancarlo Erra 2006 the world is outside Nosound - Giancarlo Erra Notable or frequent contributors
- Tim Bowness – vocals on lightdark - "Someone starts to fade away"
- Marianne de Chastelaine – Cello on lightdark - "The misplay", "Kites", "Lightdark"
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External links
Categories:- Musical groups established in 2002
- Italian progressive rock groups
- Psychedelic musical groups
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