Recently winner of Think Tank Music Award "Next Gen" assigned by Steve Zuckerman (2 grammies award for producing the cd Les Paul and friends), like an Italian PJ Harvey, Pivirama's founder and frontwoman, Raffaella, prefers plumbing the darker, more sexually frank, and sordid side of rock. IN MY MIND, the follow-up to 2005's COSA SEMBRA, revels in back-alley moodiness, borrowing the atmosphere of trip-hop but spiking it regularly with loud outbursts of guitar and drum tumult. "In My Min...
Recently winner of Think Tank Music Award "Next Gen" assigned by Steve Zuckerman (2 grammies award for producing the cd Les Paul and friends), like an Italian PJ Harvey, Pivirama's founder and frontwoman, Raffaella, prefers plumbing the darker, more sexually frank, and sordid side of rock. IN MY MIND, the follow-up to 2005's COSA SEMBRA, revels in back-alley moodiness, borrowing the atmosphere of trip-hop but spiking it regularly with loud outbursts of guitar and drum tumult. "In My Mind" rides a jazzy, swinging drumbeat, while electric violin colors "Quello Che Sembra." Unifying it all are Raffaella's intensely felt vocals.
The cd is out in Italy and Usa with Renaissance records and Koch distribution.
In my mind has been considered in Italy by the critics as a precious and rare pearl in the universe of the independent music, thanx to the band’s experimental attitude, the innovative sound, the frontgirl’s sexy vocals, and their ability to mix acid guitars up with pianos, violins, on a very straight drums and bass section.
Pivirama songs are very dark, eclectic, and dissident. The band is tight and the powerful rhythm section in particular serves as a nice backbone for the anxious and uncertain soundscapes that the music paints as a whole. "I Love U" and "In My Mind" border on avant garde rock which is cool; they are songs geared for the more sophisticated ear…but both have alternative radio potential. "Quello Che Sembra" is in many ways the standout track because of its soft, sexy, yearning, and catchy melody. The music on "Quello Che Sembra" is sleek and passionate; the band really struts its stuff and the violin really works as a pretty embellishment upon the prowess of the band.. "Psych post rock and glitters. A virtual bridge between '70s psichedelia and new century post rock. It sounds as it comes from a cold northern land but it is warmed by our being mediterranean.." That' the way Raffaella likes to describe her music.
The band has been performing in more than 100 gigs in the past 2 years also sharing the stage with famous artists such as AFTERHOURS, AFRICA UNITE, GIORGIO CANALI PATTI PRAVO and even with international artists as ROBERT PLANT and ARTHUR MILES.
Pivirama is also being invited to take part to several tv and radio shows all over Italy. Now, Raffaella is also working on her new album, the third in her career, the first as a solo artist...
they also say about us in italy:
radio1rai: " a brilliant rock band enriched by the vocals of a rock lady and an hypnotyc violin... A strong impact experimental rock; an incredibly beautiful electro-underground made of research, amazing vocal intrepratation. This work confirms talent and original sound of Pivirama band "
raro!: "dreamy atmospheres, a special voice, an experimental attitude makes this band surely one of the most interesting italian band of the past few years..." kronic: "a great impact sound... pivirama move very well between pop and noise balancing melodies and psichedelic openings ...a surprising debut album, much above the average of independent productions".
A video for I love u song is now available on http://www.youtube.com/pivirama and has been shooted in Palermo, among the ruins from world war II and earthquakes, in a sort of post war scenary. The same set has been used for Wim Wenders movie Palermo Shooting.
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mail: pivirama@hotmail.it
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