Nosound
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Nosound is an Italian progressive rock
band that started as a vision by Giancarlo Erra. All of the early recordings were composed, played, produced, engineered, and released by Erra. As time passed, this music became more popular and the demand for live performances increased. Giancarlo then assembled a band of gifted musicians who would eventually become full time members to play the music of Nosound. The band is noted for playing music in several different genres including progressive rock
, post rock, and ambient music
.
Nosound has been influenced by artists such as Pink Floyd, Porcupine Tree
, No-Man
, Arvo Pärt
, Brian Eno
, and Genesis
.
One of the band's latest releases, Lightdark
, has seen a good deal of success in several countries and is growing in popularity.
was released in March 2005. A short tour followed and resulted in a live DVD The World is Outside
in 2006, which contained unreleased material. With all the positive feedback from the live material on the DVD, the very limited edition (100 copies) live CD 'Slow, it goes' was issued in the first half of 2007. The CD was recorded live at Stazione Birra, Rome on 24 Jan 07 and included a Lightdark promo video. In anticipation of the new album, the exclusive EP Clouds, containing three out takes from the new album Lightdark was released. This lineup continued through Clouds, which saw a change of guitarists when Gabriele Savini was replaced with Paolo Vigliarolo.
Lightdark
, Nosound's 2nd official album was released in February 2008. It features collaborations with singer Tim Bowness
(No-Man
) and Marianne DeChastelaine on cello. A remastered edition of Sol29 was released in conjunction with Lightdark.
In July 2008 the band signed to the new post-progressive label Kscope/Snapper, and planned to play a few festivals before returning to the studio later this year to start recording their 3rd release due in 2009.
A new 2 cd digipack edition of studio album Lightdark was released on September 15 on Kscope label. This 2 disc edition of the album included an exclusive five track bonus disc including the video for Lightdark.
In 2009, their latest album called A sense of loss
was issued. It featured a four-string band collaboration which gave it a space rock
atmosphere.
Progressive rock
Progressive rock is a subgenre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility." John Covach, in Contemporary Music Review, says that many thought it would not just "succeed the pop of...
band that started as a vision by Giancarlo Erra. All of the early recordings were composed, played, produced, engineered, and released by Erra. As time passed, this music became more popular and the demand for live performances increased. Giancarlo then assembled a band of gifted musicians who would eventually become full time members to play the music of Nosound. The band is noted for playing music in several different genres including progressive rock
Progressive rock
Progressive rock is a subgenre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility." John Covach, in Contemporary Music Review, says that many thought it would not just "succeed the pop of...
, post rock, and ambient music
Ambient music
Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality.- History :...
.
Nosound has been influenced by artists such as Pink Floyd, Porcupine Tree
Porcupine Tree
Porcupine Tree is a progressive rock band formed by Steven Wilson in 1987 in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England. Their music is difficult to categorise, being associated with both psychedelic rock and progressive rock, yet having been influenced by trance, krautrock and ambient due to Steven...
, No-Man
No-Man
No-Man are a British art-pop duo formed in 1987 as No Man Is An Island by singer Tim Bowness and multi-instrumentalist Steven Wilson . The band has so far produced six studio albums and a number of singles/outtakes collections...
, Arvo Pärt
Arvo Pärt
Arvo Pärt is an Estonian classical composer and one of the most prominent living composers of sacred music. Since the late 1970s, Pärt has worked in a minimalist style that employs his self-made compositional technique, tintinnabuli. His music also finds its inspiration and influence from...
, Brian Eno
Brian Eno
Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno , commonly known as Brian Eno or simply as Eno , is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer and visual artist, known as one of the principal innovators of ambient music.Eno studied at Colchester Institute art school in Essex,...
, and Genesis
Genesis (band)
Genesis are an English rock band that formed in 1967. The band currently comprises the longest-tenured members Tony Banks , Mike Rutherford and Phil Collins . Past members Peter Gabriel , Steve Hackett and Anthony Phillips , also played major roles in the band in its early years...
.
One of the band's latest releases, Lightdark
Lightdark
Lightdark is the second album of the Italian progressive rock band Nosound. This is the first official studio album to include members other than the founder Giancarlo Erra....
, has seen a good deal of success in several countries and is growing in popularity.
Giancarlo Erra era 2002-2006
Nosound started as a project by Giancarlo in 2002. He created several solo works, at least one of which is unreleased. His early demo recordings date back to 1998 with an eight track demo titled Radici and a 19 minute instrumental track on the demo CD Maslova. Bassist Alessandro Luci contributed to some of the early tracks. Giancarlo describes the music as "evocative and intense, with personal songwriting". Waves on Russia was the first officially released Nosound demo in 2002, followed by the first promo which was for Sol29Sol29
sol29 was an album by Nosound, released in 2005. It was the last album written, performed, recorded, engineered, produced and mainly featuring Giancarlo Erra with the musical assistance of Alessandro Luci on bass guitar...
Nosound era 2006-present
These demos generated enough interest for Giancarlo to play his music live. Since there was no "band" per se, it was necessary to assemble a number of quality musicians that could play his music. With time Giancarlo found enough musicians to create a full band. The official Nosound debut album Sol29Sol29
sol29 was an album by Nosound, released in 2005. It was the last album written, performed, recorded, engineered, produced and mainly featuring Giancarlo Erra with the musical assistance of Alessandro Luci on bass guitar...
was released in March 2005. A short tour followed and resulted in a live DVD The World is Outside
The World is Outside
The world is outside is an audio extract release of the DVD "The world is outside" by Nosound without any of the video. The music on tracks 1-3 were recorded live on January 5, 2005 at Stazione Birra, Rome, Italy. Tracks 4-6 are songs that were unreleased on any other medium...
in 2006, which contained unreleased material. With all the positive feedback from the live material on the DVD, the very limited edition (100 copies) live CD 'Slow, it goes' was issued in the first half of 2007. The CD was recorded live at Stazione Birra, Rome on 24 Jan 07 and included a Lightdark promo video. In anticipation of the new album, the exclusive EP Clouds, containing three out takes from the new album Lightdark was released. This lineup continued through Clouds, which saw a change of guitarists when Gabriele Savini was replaced with Paolo Vigliarolo.
Lightdark
Lightdark
Lightdark is the second album of the Italian progressive rock band Nosound. This is the first official studio album to include members other than the founder Giancarlo Erra....
, Nosound's 2nd official album was released in February 2008. It features collaborations with singer Tim Bowness
Tim Bowness
Tim Bowness is a singer/songwriter primarily known for his work as part of the band No-Man, a long-term project formed in 1987 with Porcupine Tree's Steven Wilson.-Music career:...
(No-Man
No-Man
No-Man are a British art-pop duo formed in 1987 as No Man Is An Island by singer Tim Bowness and multi-instrumentalist Steven Wilson . The band has so far produced six studio albums and a number of singles/outtakes collections...
) and Marianne DeChastelaine on cello. A remastered edition of Sol29 was released in conjunction with Lightdark.
In July 2008 the band signed to the new post-progressive label Kscope/Snapper, and planned to play a few festivals before returning to the studio later this year to start recording their 3rd release due in 2009.
A new 2 cd digipack edition of studio album Lightdark was released on September 15 on Kscope label. This 2 disc edition of the album included an exclusive five track bonus disc including the video for Lightdark.
In 2009, their latest album called A sense of loss
A Sense of Loss
A Sense of Loss is an album by the progressive rock band Nosound, released on Kscope. The initial release includes both a CD and a DVD 5.1 Surround and 24bit mixes of the album, alternative 'long guitar solo' version of Fading Silently, video and video footage, picture gallery and more...
was issued. It featured a four-string band collaboration which gave it a space rock
Space rock
Space rock is a subgenre of rock music; the term originally referred to a group of early, mostly British, 1970s progressive and psychedelic rock bands such as Hawkwind and Pink Floyd, characterised by slow, lengthy instrumental passages dominated by electric organs, synthesizers, experimental...
atmosphere.
Band members
| 2002–2006 |
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|---|---|
| 2006–2007 |
Lead guitar Lead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure... , Lead vocals Acoustic guitar An acoustic guitar is a guitar that uses only an acoustic sound board. The air in this cavity resonates with the vibrational modes of the string and at low frequencies, which depend on the size of the box, the chamber acts like a Helmholtz resonator, increasing or decreasing the volume of the sound... , Rhythm guitar Rhythm guitar Rhythm guitar is a technique and rôle that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with singers or other instruments; and to provide all or part of the harmony, ie. the chords, where a chord is a group of notes played together... Bass guitar The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick.... Gigi zito Gigi Zito is an Italian born drummer. Gigi's professional music career began in the summer1986,playing in tour with Nada , a famous Italian pop/rock singer. Since then he has become a Music Producer and composer along with being a professional full-time drummer. His latest work is A sense of loss... – Drums Drum kit A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person .... |
| 2007–2008 |
Lead guitar Lead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure... , Lead vocals Acoustic guitar An acoustic guitar is a guitar that uses only an acoustic sound board. The air in this cavity resonates with the vibrational modes of the string and at low frequencies, which depend on the size of the box, the chamber acts like a Helmholtz resonator, increasing or decreasing the volume of the sound... , Rhythm guitar Rhythm guitar Rhythm guitar is a technique and rôle that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with singers or other instruments; and to provide all or part of the harmony, ie. the chords, where a chord is a group of notes played together... Bass guitar The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick.... Gigi zito Gigi Zito is an Italian born drummer. Gigi's professional music career began in the summer1986,playing in tour with Nada , a famous Italian pop/rock singer. Since then he has become a Music Producer and composer along with being a professional full-time drummer. His latest work is A sense of loss... – Drums Drum kit A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person .... |
Compact Discs
| Year | Album | Artist |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | The Northern Religion of Things | Nosound - Giancarlo Erra |
| 2010 | sol29 (2010 Remaster) Sol29 remaster 2010 SOL29 - Remastered is the latest release from the Italian Art Rock band Nosound. This album features a remastered version of all 10 recordings from the original 2005 sol29 album... |
Nosound |
| 2009 | A Sense of Loss A Sense of Loss A Sense of Loss is an album by the progressive rock band Nosound, released on Kscope. The initial release includes both a CD and a DVD 5.1 Surround and 24bit mixes of the album, alternative 'long guitar solo' version of Fading Silently, video and video footage, picture gallery and more... |
Nosound |
| 2008 | lightdark 2CD Lightdark 2CD digipack lightdark is a Kscope reissue of the independently released album of the same name. Nosound signed with Kscope with an agreement to re-release lightdark with a special second CD titled Clouds which includes an additional track unavailable on the download version... |
Nosound |
| 2008 | lightdark Lightdark Lightdark is the second album of the Italian progressive rock band Nosound. This is the first official studio album to include members other than the founder Giancarlo Erra.... |
Nosound |
| 2008 | sol29 (2008 Remaster) Sol29 remaster sol29 was originally released in 2005. The 2008 remastered edition contains remastered versions of the original 10 songs as well as an additional two bonus songs. Like the 2005 release, all music was written, performed, recorded, engineered, produced and mainly featured Giancarlo Erra with musical... |
Nosound - Giancarlo Erra |
| 2006 | Slow, it goes Slow, it goes Slow, it goes is a live recording of a performance by the Italian progressive rock band Nosound at Stazione Birra, Rome on 24 February 2007. The CD-R contains 4 music tracks and a promotional video for lightdark. Initially only 100 autographed copies of the CD were made available... |
Nosound |
| 2005 | sol29 Sol29 sol29 was an album by Nosound, released in 2005. It was the last album written, performed, recorded, engineered, produced and mainly featuring Giancarlo Erra with the musical assistance of Alessandro Luci on bass guitar... |
Nosound - Giancarlo Erra |
| 2002 | Waves on russia | Nosound - Giancarlo Erra |
| 2001 | Maslova (unreleased) | Nosound - Giancarlo Erra |
| 1998 | Radici Radici Radici is an album of Italian singer-songwriter Francesco Guccini. It was released in 1972 by EMI.- The album:Radici deals mainly with Guccini's rediscover of his youth, symbolized by the cover's picture, portraying his grandparents and family. The family's house in Pavana, on the Tuscan... (unreleased private promo) |
Nosound - Giancarlo Erra |
Downloads
| Year | Album/Song | Artist |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Fading Silently A Sense of Loss A Sense of Loss is an album by the progressive rock band Nosound, released on Kscope. The initial release includes both a CD and a DVD 5.1 Surround and 24bit mixes of the album, alternative 'long guitar solo' version of Fading Silently, video and video footage, picture gallery and more... |
Nosound |
| 2008 | the world is outside | Nosound - Giancarlo Erra |
| 2007 | Clouds Clouds nosound Clouds is a compilation of outtakes of music that was not included on the album lightdark, the latest album of the Italian progressive rock band Nosound.-Track listing:All music and lyrics written by Giancarlo Erra.# "Cold After All" – 06:18... |
Nosound |
| 2006 | Slow, it goes Slow, it goes Slow, it goes is a live recording of a performance by the Italian progressive rock band Nosound at Stazione Birra, Rome on 24 February 2007. The CD-R contains 4 music tracks and a promotional video for lightdark. Initially only 100 autographed copies of the CD were made available... |
Nosound |
| 2006 | Sol29 Sol29 sol29 was an album by Nosound, released in 2005. It was the last album written, performed, recorded, engineered, produced and mainly featuring Giancarlo Erra with the musical assistance of Alessandro Luci on bass guitar... |
Nosound |
Promotional Compact Discs
| Year | Album | Artist |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | lightdark Lightdark Lightdark is the second album of the Italian progressive rock band Nosound. This is the first official studio album to include members other than the founder Giancarlo Erra.... |
Nosound |
| 2004 | Nosound Promo 2004 Nosound promo Nosound Promo 2004 was a promotional release of selections from the album Sol29 that consisted solely of Giancarlo Erra with musical assistance of Alessandro Luci on bass guitar... |
Nosound - Giancarlo Erra |
DVD
| Year | Album | Artist |
|---|---|---|
| 2006(?) | Sol29 promo clip DVD | Nosound - Giancarlo Erra |
| 2006 | the world is outside | Nosound - Giancarlo Erra |
Notable or frequent contributors
- Tim BownessTim BownessTim Bowness is a singer/songwriter primarily known for his work as part of the band No-Man, a long-term project formed in 1987 with Porcupine Tree's Steven Wilson.-Music career:...
– vocals on lightdarkLightdarkLightdark is the second album of the Italian progressive rock band Nosound. This is the first official studio album to include members other than the founder Giancarlo Erra....
- "Someone starts to fade away" - Marianne de Chastelaine – CelloCelloThe cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...
on lightdarkLightdarkLightdark is the second album of the Italian progressive rock band Nosound. This is the first official studio album to include members other than the founder Giancarlo Erra....
- "The misplay", "Kites", "Lightdark"