Peculiaroso

Peculiaroso was born in 2008 as a solo project.

I sing, compose and play all instruments.

From time to time I had occasional collaborations with musicians for my live shows. One of those is the amazing Chris Hughes, drummer of the Band Hugo Race & The True Spirit. I’m a multi-instrumentalist, singer, writer, actor, painter, sculptor. As a self-taught musician I started playing guitar and piano during my childhood and saxophone in my teenage years to a background of Fats Domino, Chuck Berry, The Rolling Stones, Ry Cooder, Lou Reed, David Byrne, John Lurie, Arthur Russell, Fela Kuti and Miles Davis which is my favourite ever. I was always attracted by the universal timeless music. My sources of inspiration have been musicians such as Prince, Dizzy Gillespie, Mongezi Feza, Kevin Ayers, Paul McCartney, Maria Callas, Giuseppe Verdi, Albert Ayler. I’ve been working with other artists such as Hugo Race (ex Bad Seeds), Marta Collica produced by John Parish well known also for Pj Harvey production, Dj Hausmeister playing various instruments such as Lap Steel Guitar, Banjo, Alto and Baritone Sax, Guitar, Bass, Harp. In 2011 I released my own solo Album called Manimal. When I came back to Europe after living in UK and USA, I re-released it again in 2014 and then it got more visibility and several reviews in magazines and webzines such as the famous Italian Rock Magazine RUMORE. Manimal is a real Low-Fi album of definitive raw rock’n’blues entirely recorded and mixed in my bedroom in Berlin with an old four tracks tape recorder. Only the song Emily was recorded in a studio in Bruxelles. The eleven mono tracks resonate stereo massively as a noisy huge traffic jam starting in the Los Angeles of Ry Cooder and Beefheart passing thru Iggy’s jugular and the Glam of Bowie to finally get in the middle of Fela’s Kalakuta Republic. There are trumpets, saxophones, flutes, bottlenecks and broken glasses. The entire album is a powerful drawing of a low-fi blues manifesto.