NOT NEEDED ANYMORE, THANKS! Recommend Me Some ..Modern Italian Music

RocknRollDave

OK I know this is a veeeeeery long shot, but I have a customer with an Italian restaurant who is looking for modern music in keeping with the Italian theme.

Anyone out there got any experience of modern/ classy/ cool Italian music?

littlegreenman

Al DiMeola?

RocknRollDave

Not bad. Bit more practice and a few gigs under his belt and he'll be able to think about putting in for Italy's Got Talent, you know.

octatonic

Quintorigo.

These guys kill- sort of like an Italian Tom Waits.

RocknRollDave

Ooh,cool, thank you kindly, will investigate them.


When you say "these guys kill"...you mean it figuratively, right...? 


:-SS

octatonic

RocknRollDave said:

Ooh,cool, thank you kindly, will investigate them.


When you say "these guys kill"...you mean it figuratively, right...? 


:-SS

Indeed.

rinkydinkron

Zucchero has some great material particularly Miserere. Gino Vanelli is great too.

xSkarloey

Paolo Conte all the way my man.

Seeing him at the Royal Festival Hall last November was a real treat.

You know the famous tune: "S'wonderful, s'wonderful, s'wonderful, gooda lucka mah baby......chips, chips, da dee doo dee doo....."

He is the classiest, coolest septegenarian on the planet. The gruff vocals lead some to say he's the Tom Waits of Italy, but that's missing the point, since Tom Waits ain't even the Paolo Conte of California...

Good place to start is his Best Of on Nonesuch records, the one with a black and white cover pic of him in a black raincoat.

octatonic

Edit: I seem to have posted in this thread already.

ZOMBIE THREAD!!!!

ICBM

Ennio Morricone.

Some of the classiest, coolest music ever to come out of Italy (or anywhere). Not especially modern now, but he's still working as far as I know.

xSkarloey

Holy smokes, I didn't check the date of the original thread. 

Zombie indeed. 

Spooky.

X_X

imalone

Nearly a year and nobody has suggested this:

(Have to admit, couldn't bring myself to listen to the whole thing.)

RocknRollDave

Skarloey said:

Holy smokes, I didn't check the date of the original thread. 

Zombie indeed. 

Spooky.

X_X

Indeed..I see all these notifications and I hadn't a clue what was going on..

In fact, I'm not entirely sure I can remember which client was after Italian music in the first place....

Phil_aka_Pip

The most modern Italian music I remember hearing was PFM. What happened to them? Before that, I think it was Antonio Vivaldi ...

Bucket

Rhapsody of Fire?

PolarityMan

Lacuna Coil?

Bucket

Fleshgod Apocalypse?

Oh actually, they do have one track that sounds nice throughout - all piano. Quite a lot of Romantic classical influence.