|  |  |  |  |  |  | | | | | | Bio of the Artist | | The Samizdat am native in the January of the 1994 to Pozzallo ( RG ), five boys, hours and hours of tests in the most classical of the garages. He is consumed by love for sets to music and the desire to shouting to the thoughts world of solidarity, love, peace, have given life to the Samizdat. The name of the group was born casually, skim through the dictionary found this strange word, never heartfelt first, of Russian origin that means literally "self production", but in practice is "samizdat" all that productions, writings, audio-visual, and all those products of the mind that goes a little against tide, that without half terms they expresses freely they really opinion. The group in the years has known conjugate the music with the denunciation and the social appointment, component still more marked seen the musical and spiritual union with the Nomadi, of the what the Samizdat they have chosen to be from it cover band. in the years the formation has at once the inevitable transformations, today they compose the Alex Maiolino group, singer, composer and founder of the group, Vincenzo Partexano, virtuous and modern guitarist, Lucio of angel to the lower part, the "old man" of the band , years of experience and technical formidable, Claudia of angel, the only female presence, stupendous voice, great stage and inevitable presence happened on the stage, Stefano Ruscica, prepared and powerful drummer, great Sicilian talent, William Gambuzza, sax and guitarist, co-founder of the group. Every year a new experience, every new year hands where land and empty the hold of their sailing ship, it loads of sounds, words, colors, laughters, reflections and much other still. , because every concert am an event, particular and only; the Samizdat public is vary, from the children to the inclusive families, grandfathers, all involved by the alchemy of the stage, that unites and it makes all an artist and I publish. in the '94 April, to little monthes from birth of the group, arrives the first experience of comparison with other sapper; the Samizdat take part in the " festival shouts newses ", spring board of throwing by "Castrocaro", arriving at the endings to the Metropolitan theatre of Catania with the song "Canzone per Augusto ", dedicated to the singer of the Nomadi, Augusto Daolio, great man and great artist. Following is the exit of a compilation record of the festival, containing "Canzone per Augusto". In the winter that follows begin the preparations for the first the Samizdat album, gone out in the spring of the 1995, that gate the name of the group and it contains over "Canzone per Augusto", nine passages of the Nomadi.It follows the first tour that from May to October, it has seen them hocked in numerous shows already in all Sicily. In 1995 it arrives the first share to the national contest "Una voce per Sanremo ", overcomed with great success selects him/her/it regional, they land to the Ariston with the passage " Aggràppati all'amore", song that speak of the world of the drug, of the thick dark from which is however possible go out. It same year the marketing of the first album sees the attainment of the thousand sold copies. In the winter the Samizdat takes part in "Telethon" for the Ragusa province, in placing freedom. In 1996 the band participates for the second time turned to "Una voce per Sanremo " withthe passage "Ed ecco la guerra" , that told the raw reality of a war seen conflict from the eyes of a child in the background of the war in the former Yugoslavia. From this experience it is born the album "Aggràppati all'amore", containing nine unpublished passages written by Alessandro Maiolino and arranged by the group and a stupendous " Who stop the rain " of the " Credence Clearwater Revival " readapted in Italian. Even for this production are overcomed richly the thousand sold copies. The years pass, the concerts are multiplied and between tall and low the group arrives to the recording of a live album in study, the true the Samizdat dimension after all has always be the concert. The work comes take back to the " Guinnes country club " of Rosolini (SR), under the vigilant eye of the technical Marcello Prati, that he had already followed the group in the first record work. After 1998 , begins the collaboration with the "Discoring Sicilia" of Enzo Sirna, with him the Samizdat land in the new milennium with it orchestrate and about tens of initiatives of good level in transmissions removes television among the more followed of the Sicilian broadcasting stations, as "Insieme" on Antenna Sicilia, " Mister Max Showr " on Mediterranean Sat, the situated official internet web site , the mail list. In short the group changes look and they draw near to the future, the sound personalizes till become recognizable and only. In pot there are new passages, ideas that paw and they look for to himself do wide. So it begins the preparation of the album of the maturity of the group, in the summer of the 2004 goes out " Nel bene e nel male", eight sealed unpublished works from two between the more beautiful songs of the nomads, " Gli arioni neri " and " Dio è morto" recorded to the " Sonoria study Rec " of Vincenzo Cavallis and arranged by Salvo Adorno. The promotion of the gate disk the Samizdat fine in Emilia Romagna, where they record a clip video to the " Blue Velvet Studio " of Alberto Solieri to Modena and inevitably, they play to Lugo (RA) to the mythical place " La Miseria", accompanied by the applauses of a warm public and full of cut. In spite of the crisis of show business, that in 2005 seen go down dizzy the number of the evenings, the Samizdat make their summer tour with a discreet success of dates, placing side by side to the numerous concerts shares to broadcast transmissions even live, as the splendid experience of " Radio Play " to Catania, invited by the Paula. The 2006 sees in yard a new individual for the summer, but the appointments move the project for the winter. The passage is called " you hand with me ", a busy text, as always, but the novelty consists instead in the sound, more definite, more rock that from this moment it will characterize the music of the group. in the June of the 2006 the group takes part in the festival " Behind the door " in breast to the initiatives of the Orte Rock Festival, classifying to the third place on over 50 deriving sappers from all Italy. In 2007 it goes out finally " Ti porto con me " for which the Samizdat turn their first clip video. The continuous trip. | | |
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