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MANUEL DANIELE

(electric guitar, harmonica)

 

Born in 1973, guitar player with a jazz and modern background, composer, arranger. Graduated inengineering, he parallely carries on musical teaching since 1995, studio and live activity as a session-man, playing in several pop, jazz and experimental line-ups (among the others SoBip band, releasing in 2003 the recording Soggetti Bipolari) and working on sound design for theatral performances.
Co-founder, in 2004, of the Little Atelier of Sonic Arts Ondesferiche and the omonymous independent label (Howard Jones, The Young Punx, Elisa Casile...).
Since more of 15 years is interested in phonic techniques, digital and analogic audio, computer music, collaborating with several recording studios and operating in its own more and more complete and advanced project studios; fonderiefoniche is the ultimate expression of them.

Since 2002 he joined "the Mob" , the italian songwriter Dado Bargioni's band. This is actually one of the most relevant collaborations.
He worked with them on "Contro Copernico" the first Dado's studio album and he is now collaborating to arrange his brand new album (Cioccolata per le Orecchie).

   MANUELLI ANDREA

(piano, rhodes,

hammond, squeezy-box)

Graduated in piano with Maestro Mario Delli Ponti is one of the most popular keyboard players of Alessandria music scene. Organ (hammond) and Squeezy Box with WK, LamaL Trio and Chicken Mambo, Ignorance Party Band leader, keyboardist with Marcello & The Machine and Hattori Hanzo he knows how to impose, with discretion, his technique and his vast musical culture enriching every song with incisive rhythmic and scratching solos. Also of note is his experience on stage with Merel Bregante, Loggins & Messina and the Nitty Gritty Dirty Band historical drummer .The irresistible pairing of Hammond and Leslie in primis, but also Fender Rhodes and Monophonic Synth, are his trademark.

Since the end of 2007, during the recording of "L'Assaggio", he joined "The Mob". While supporting Dado Bargioni's live activities, now, like the rest of the band, he is working to "assemble" the new alessandrian songwriter's album.

 

 

MAURIZIO DONDI

(drums, percussions,

bckgr vocals)

 

Eclectic drummer with the "vice" of multi-instrumentalist (he plays very well bass and guitar too) with a rich curriculum. Several collaborations as a musician in the eighties: with ERA band he recorded the album "The Touch of IRA" (85); with Aiken (band from Monte Carlo) recorded "Dream in America" (86). In '95 he joined the group of Farinei dla Brigna. In '97 he began working as a technician for the Alive Music Service that gives him the opportunity to work side by side with Francesco Guccini (becoming the Drumtech of Ellade Bandini), Irene Grandi, Ivano Fossati, PFM, New Trolls, Ornella Vanoni, Alexia, Buena Vista Social Club, Gianmaria Testa, Nidi D'Arac, Enrico Ruggeri and many others.

Since 1998 he works with Dado Bargioni as a drummer and "humor dispenser". With "The Mob" has helped to arrange and recorded the first Dado studio album. While supporting the live activity of the alessandrian songwriter, currently, as the rest of the band, he is working to assemble the new Dado's CD.

GIGI BELLUARDO

(bass)

Bassist, composer, arranger and producer. He was born in 1976. Since from his early age he has played an intense live activity through kind of music extremely heterogeneous, developing, over years, the preference for black music, funk, soul and jazz. Since 1998 he is a live and studio session musician working tirelessly in various directions and recording, among others, for Studiottanta Fortuna Records, DNA Records, Bit Records. He was the creator of the "Ondesferiche" (The association includes record label, management, music publishing and event management), for which he arranged the album "Gravitazionale" by singer-songwriter Lexandher from Asti. Hip-hop, R'n'B and Pop producer for his label "Pyramide Musique".

At the beginning of the century, he joined "the Mob", the band that shares the stage with Dado Bargioni in live performances. He helped to arrange and recorded with them "Contro Copernico", the first studio album of the singer-songwriter from Alessandria.
Just the partneship with Dado Bargioni brought Gigi to take part in 2008 in the recording sessions for his new EP, "L'Assaggio" and today he is the heart of the new Dado live show: "Duo" (guitars, bass and loop-station).