>>> Dario Martinelli <<<

		M U S I C
		bands
		collaborations
		solo
		deejaying
		current projects
		downloads

A short summary of my musical activity
and some downloadable compositions...

Bands

1989: 20 Maggio
Italian-pop band, featuring keyboards, 2 guitars, saxophone and vocals. I joined as rhythm guitarist.

1989-90: Overflows
Rock band (mostly covers), featuring drums, bass, 2 guitars, keyboards and vocals. I joined as lead singer, lead and rhythm guitarist, composer and arranger.

1991: DNA
Unplugged pop-rock band (mostly covers), featuring two guitars, percussions and vocals. I joined as lead singer, lead and rhythm guitarist, composer and arranger.

1991-1994: Arkham
Pop-rock band (mostly covers), featuring drums, bass, 2 guitars, keyboards and vocals. I joined as backing vocalist (occasionally lead), rhythm guitarist (occasionally lead), composer and arranger. In few occasions, keyboard- and bass-player.

1997: Venus'n'Mars
Pop vocal quartet. I joined as composer, arranger and backing vocalist.

1997-1999: Bloom (formerly Acoustic Farm and 3 Steps)
Unplugged rock-blues band (mostly covers), featuring 2 guitars and vocals (occasionally percussions and harmonica). I joined as backing vocalist (occasionally lead), lead and rhythm guitarist, composer and arranger. In few occasions, harmonica-player.
In 1999, Bloom win an emerging bands competition in Bologna, performing my song "Non lasciarmi andare via".

2005: Instant Karma
Rock, Yesterday-free Beatles tribute-band, featuring 2 guitars, bass, keyboards, drums and vocals. I joined as guitarist and backing-vocalist

Collaborations

2003-ongoing: Petri Kuljuntausta
- Sound Happening at Galleri Leena Kuumola, Helsinki.
- "Do not feed the artists". Animal sound-based electronic composition, premiered at Sibelius Academy (Helsinki), 31/3/2005

2004-ongoing: Anna Maria Castelli
- "Estetica dell'errore", a collection of electronic music and vocalisations, broadcasted by Italian Radio Rai
- "Gaberchic", theatre show based on electronic remakes of Giorgio Gaber's songs
- "Il Cielo Minaccia Pioggia": theatre show
- "(R)esistere", pop album, scheduled for release in 2008

2004-ongoing: Ano S. Sirppiniemi
close collaborator in various projects, including the album (R)esistere.

2005: Laura Pesonen
Coreographies on "Do not feed the artists"

2005-ongoing: Paolo Bucciarelli
close collaborator in various projects, including the albums (R)esistere and Musica Minuta

Solo

1998:
Ambient/electronica concert in Bologna, at "L'araba fenice"

1999:
I write and perform the music for the dance-theatre show "De Aleph", named after Borges' work. The show is performed in Bologna and surroundings.
I win a competition for the "best pacifist song" at Mosciano Sant'Angelo. The song is called "Kimeo e Kasui".

2006:
"Sibillina" - Music for the documentary "I luoghi di Sibilla"

2008:
"Musica Minuta", experimental electronic album

Deejaying

Frozen, at the moment. Until summer 2007, I've been DJing for two Radio Programs in Helsinki.

Current Projects

- four different projects with Anna Maria Castelli (see at collaborations).

- a nightingale song-based composition called "Nightingale, you are the one", scheduled to be premiered in June 2008

- a crazy solo-album of anti-narrative 60 one minute long pieces, named Musica Minuta

- an album of animal sound-based experimental music with Petri Kuljuntausta

Downloads

available soon