Tide Records presents

IDOLS & GODS the new album by WENDY?!   

Press release / Bio

About Wendy?!

The band Wendy?! starts in 2008 around the guitarist and singer Lorenzo Canevacci, former guitarist
of Bloody Riot, among the most famous Italian Hardcore bands of the '80s.
The first album “Eleven” is released in 2012, followed by “Notebook” in 2014 and “Idols & gods” in 2017, both for Tide Records, and get a good response from public and from national and international press.
In the sound of Wendy?! you can find riffs for those who love hard rock, the punk energy and attitude,
the dark post-punk atmosphere, the rough sound of alternative rock and above all, a way of writing
“songs” that harkens back to the 70’s and classic rock.

In the temple of feedback

“Talking about “In the temple of feedback”, the new album by Wendy?!, I have to go back in the time when, with a bunch of other angry teenagers, moved by the oppression of the anti-terroristic period, we picked up our instruments trying to transform our rage in a creative way. Those where the years of the political street fights, and our need to express with music was linked to our desire for revenge and revolt.
Four decades have passed, everything has changed, but if we focus on the essence of our lives, of the basic values, everything is the same. We are no longer teenagers, of course, but our urgency, our desire to use rock n 'roll to state the distortions of this society and express our thoughts with music is stronger than ever. For today's 58-years-old Lorenzo, Wendy?! are exactly what Bloody Riot were for the teenage: a way to communicate thoughts and values through the music he has always loved: rock'n'roll, the real one.

Nowadays a new form of repression is blowing and we are driven by the urgency to use music as a form of expression. For more than a year, the whole world of live music has been gagged and stopped, so we decided to use the spare time to write, arrange and record new songs to release a new album, despite of what was happening around us.
“In the temple of feedback”, day after day, song after song, has shown us that it is always possible to improve. We are very happy and proud of this new album and I believe it is a further step forward, in song writing, performance, and production.”

(Lorenzo Canevacci)

Wendy?!:

Lorenzo “mr. Grady” Canevacci: voice and guitar
Alessandro Ressa: rhythm guitar, keyboards, back vocals
Paola “Croft” Altobelli: bass and back vocals
Luca Calabrò: drums

   Tide Records presenta

The way becoming the CD by ONE SOUND DUO   

Press release/Bio

ONE SOUND DUO

To produce and compose music in the very moment of its execution: in a sense, ONE SOUND DUO was born thus, by letting a time made of silences and sounds free to flow, until a music happens, like a sudden answer to some question. There is no time to think, no arrangement before; one’s own instrument becomes the expression of the self, of individual history, listening to many years, many sounds. The way becoming is a path that initially leads nowhere, with no fixed intentions; it creates itself in the very moment one travels through it. Even mistakes are unpredictable elements introducing to new directions, helping to find new solutions.

The presence of the Other, the hearing of the Other, the positive and comfortable sound produced by the Other, leads to travel through the same path more than once; it is not a repetition but a new way towards new solutions, before coming back to silence; a freedom of expression that finds in itself the limits of its own path.

Spacedrum and double bass, two instruments so far apart for their acoustics, look for a fusion into one sound; they ask questions and propose solutions. The first belongs to the grouping of the handpans: it is a melodic metal percussion that puts the rhythm into play with a scale of notes, and that, in the range of its limitations, permits a harmonic discovery on which the second, the bass belonging to the grouping of the stringed instruments, inserts itself with its deep notes; they fuse together, as in a blacksmith melting, linking quality of notes, pauses of silence, manifold leaps of other harmonic intervals.

Later, the compositions blend with electronic sounds and field recordings; thanks to reverberations and several other effects, they create the illusion of a wider sound, becoming once again something else. It is an always-moving arrangement that, even without any staff, travels through, enters into, and goes beyond electronics. A non-rational way that originates from and rests on that vital energy accompanying every one of us since our birth. Pauses are inside, silence at the end.

 
Orlando Lostumbo is a Roman double bass player operating since the early Eighties in various fields, ranging from rock to jazz, ethnic and classic music. Toward the end of the Nineties he joins the ethnic band Handance as an author and guitarist; later on he joins the jazz band Lost in Jazz as a double bass player. From 2008 to 2010 he works as a double bass player in the classical orchestra L’Armonica Temperanza. In 2009, under the pseudonym “Sine Tempore” he realizes his first CD, entitled Il viaggio di Ulisse. In 2010, as a double bass and keyboard player, he founds the band Cosmogram, which blends electronic and progressive sounds with video projections. With this band he performs in several theatres in Rome, and in 2012 he takes part in the festival 24 fotogrammi. In 2013 he joins the orchestra Diletto Barocco, where he currently plays the double bass. In 2014 he realizes the musical project ONE SOUND DUO with Claudio Ricciardi (spacedrum and didgeridoo), playing the double bass, the electric bass, and various synthesizers; together they produce for Tide Records the CD The Way Becoming.

Claudio Ricciardi begins studying jazz guitar during high school, and then he studies double bass for some years. In 1975 he takes an interest in non-European music and joins the vocal group of harmonic chant Prima Materia, founded in the United States by Roberto Laneri. His studies of Biology and Anthropology bring him to the discovery of the didgeridoo, and in 1997 he starts studying and playing this aboriginal instrument, learning also how to construct and carve it. After playing in some bands in the 2000s (Saz-Didgeridoo duo, Handance, Timelines), in 2013 he begins studying computer electronic music with Giuseppe Verticchio. Later on, after discovering the Spacedrum, he meets the double bass player Orlando Lostumbo and founds with him the ONE SOUND DUO. He is the author of the LP entitled La coda della tigre (Ananda, n. 2, Roma 1977); the CD Inside Notes (EDT, Torino 2001); the CD Prima Materia (Die Shactel, Milano 2005); the CD Voci (Una Musica, n. 7, Torino 2006); the CD The Way Becoming (Tide, Roma 2014). He is also the author of the book L’albero che canta. Il didgeridoo (Wondermark, Brescia 2011).

One Sound Duo

Orlando Lostumbo:
-Electric Upright Bass
-Electric Bass
-Syntesizers
-Samples
-Computer Effects
-Audio Editing/Treatment

Claudio Ricciardi:
-Spacedrum Deep sky, Atlantico
-Yidaki in C
-Voice
-Computer Effects
-Samples
-Digital Piano
-Audio Editing/Treatment

TIt's a nicely balanced set that never fails to entertain and does
a great job of moving the band's legacy forward.
(Music Street Journal - Gary Hill - US)

Non se ne fanno mica più di dischi r'n'r così.
(Rumore - Manuel Graziani - IT)

...un'altro ottimo lavoro, dove pezzi tiratissimi si mischiano a ballate
col solito spirito fiero e combattivo di chi ha usato la musica
anche come bandiera.
(Classix - Renato Massaccesi - IT)

This album is becoming more fantastic and entertaining
than many of the enormous rock bands.
This album is simply amazing as well as this band themselves.
(Rock Era Magazine - Amged Mahmoud – EG)

Un album che merita attenzione.
(Rock Hard – Niccolò Carli - IT)

On "Idols & Gods" Wendy?! offer a well banced mixture of hard rock,
70's rock, alternative rock, punk and singer/songwriter style..
(MusikZirkus - Stephan Schelle - GE)

Gran bel disco,
e si narra che dal vivo i Wendy?! siano ancora meglio.
(Classic Rock - Gianni Della Cioppa - IT)

Il terzo long-playing dei Wendy?! rappresenta una conferma per un gruppo
che non ama le etichette e si propone al pubblico con uno spirito libero
e autenticamente rock’n’roll, con canzoni di gran pregio
e arrangiamenti grintosi, ardenti e affascinanti..
(True Metal - Francesco Maraglino)

… un sound corposo, energico e soprattutto
capace di suscitare emozioni profonde.
(Rock Impressions – Gianlcarlo Bolther)

I Wendy?!... si situano in un enclave albionica che confina
sia con i territori del Duca Bianco che del Re Cremisi. Bravi.
(Buscadero - Andrea Travaini)