ANDREA BELFI SOLO

In his live set AB faces the audience with an essential drum set, surrounded by synthesizers, a loop station, some contact microphones, an harmonica and two small-size speakers.
The acoustic elements and the electronic ones mingle, intertwine and sometimes switch places: the acoustic sounds are treated as they were electronic, and the actual electronic ones are played at the very moment.
Rhythmic patterns go beyond the mere beat as AB shapes them in cycles, ever-circling but ever-changing, both reassuring and surprising.
A careful preparatory work, which consists in a previous and much reflected upon selection of emotional scenarios, allows the live set to be spontaneous and to “live the moment”, definitively avoiding any over-conceptualization. AB main achievement is the building of “proper” songs through a radical improvisation rather than through the use of fixed and codified elements.

see also: http://www.myspace.com/andreabelfi
on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPupa0ZjmjM

CHRISTA PFANGEN

Andrea Belfi (batteria, percussioni, sintetizzatori, electronics)
Mattia Coletti (chitarra acustica, chitarra elettrica, electronics)

Electroacoustic modules covered by a dust of blues. Improvised beats suddenly splitting into streams of arrhythmia, and viceversa.Pulses of drums along with guitars sketch rhythms which are as hypnotic as they are surprising.Sounds can take many a shape, resulting sometimes obsessive and sometimes delicately lyric.


see also: http://www.myspace.com/christapfangen

STILLIVINGROOMS

Andrea Belfi: concept & sounds
Mirco Santi: films

Any room is a living room. Every room is quiet, open to be inhabitated. Every room silently awaits its inhabitants to live in it thus transforming it.

Stillivingrooms consists of an audio/visual live-set, which takes place inside an apartment’s room (or more than one room), using its physical (forniture, windowpanes, walls) and conceptual elements (intimacy, familiarity, sense of protection). The narrative sequence is divided into three parts, but it doesn’t care about following a linear time progression.
Stillivingrooms confronts the very notion of feedback: sounds are diffused by the same devices which produce them in what we might call a ‘dirty’ circle; similarly, images of interiors are projected on an actual room surfaces, unperfectly redoubling them. This process creates a trompe l’oeil/trompe la conscience which gently pushes the audience to perceive anew the domestic/private space.
Stillivingrooms plays with different elements: the Intimacy (of the apartment where the project takes place, of Home Movies images taken from private family archives), the repetition of sound elements, the free association of forms, emotions and sounds inspired by the interaction between audio and video.

on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ubNK-m-Wcs

ROSOLINA MAR

enrico zambon chitarra
andrea belfi batteria
bruno vanessi chitarra

The Rosolina Mar project began in 2000, with the meeting of MARCO DE TOGNI(guitar), BRUNO VANESSI(guitar), ENRICO ZAMBON(guitar), and ANDREA BELFI(drums). All of these musicians had previously played in punk/hc/noise bands. During the first months their music was characterized by long improvised sections, based on post-rock, classic rock, and avant rock, inspired by Loren Mazzacane Connors, S.Augustin and them other avant-rock music passions. A few months later the band was forced to continue as a trio without De Togni, searching for a personal identity that create a connection between the sixties and modern rock'n'roll.
"Rosolina Mar" is a sea side place in the north-east of Italy, where from autumn to spring everything appears as an element of a Federico Fellini's movie.
In the last 3 years RM played as a support to DAVID GRUBBS TRIO, LORD BISHOP & HIS ROCKADELIC KINGS, BELLINI, DEAD BROTHERS, RED HOUSE BLUES, G.I. JOE, RED WORMS FARM,FRANCOIS CAMBUZAT & LES ENFANT ROUGE, 90DAYMEN,ONE DIMENSIONAL MAN, ENON, LIARS.


see also: http://www.myspace.com/rosolinamar
on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCjQUel49ac

Other collaborations

Rosolina Mar & Larkin Grimm
Larkin Grimm:guitar & voice
AB:drums
Bruno Vanessi:muffled bass
Enrico Zambon:guitar

http://www.myspace.com/larkingrimm
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Andrea Belfi & Benjamin Franklin
AB:drums & electronics
Benjamin Franklin: casio keyboards & electronics
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Zimmerfrei "Casa di Fantasmi"

Concept: ZimmerFrei
Sound & direction: Massimo Carozzi
Video: Anna de Manincor
Light: Luca Piga
with:Anna Rispoli,Stefano Questorio,Andrea Belfi (drums),Vittoria Burattini(drums)
Voices: Manuele Giannini, Francesca Amati

http://www.zimmerfrei.co.it/

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Medves

Andrea Belfi batteria, drums
Giuseppe Ielasi, guitar
Stefano Pilia chitarra, double bass & guitar
Riccardo Wanke, guitar
Renato Rinaldi, tape loops & objects


Il progetto Medves si presenta con un organico da band rock nel senso più classico del termine, meno tradizionali sono invece l'approccio alla materia sonora e il suono che ne risulta. Con un'attitudine vicina al minimalismo e alla ricerca sperimentale, l'improvvisazione del gruppo, pur prendendo vita e sviluppo dallo scambio e dall'interazione armonica e ritmica tra le parti, trova i suoi punti di forza nelle diverse modalità di generazione del suono e nella sua attenta diffusione nello spazio.

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Den&Breadfast

Andrea Faccoli (acoustic & electric guitar)
Andrea Belfi (drums & percussions)

Den & Bread Fast duo loves:
fast & relax, substance, acoustic sounds & sometimes electric sounds, blues feelings, Storm & Stress, improvvisation, J.Coltrane's Spazio Interstellare & A.Coltrane's Coscienza Universale, fluctuating arpeggios, the thin (red) line between rhythm & arrhythmy , the voice & the onomatopea as score