Biografia Le Ombre di Rosso

Le Ombre di Rosso is a Venitian songwriting project inspired by the literary critic, songwriter, and scholar Fabio Fantuzzi and the composer Andrea Alzetta. In his over 15 years’ experience as a multi-instrumentalist and songwriter, Fantuzzi joined diverse music projects, recording folk-blues inspired albums and playing with Italian and American folk-blues-jazz musicians, such as Eric Frandsen, Chris Lowe, Bert Lee, Davide Baldo, and many others. After having collaborated with Italian leading poets (suffice it to mention that he put to music the collection “Da sponda a sponda” by Luciano Cecchinel, whom Cesare Segre defined as “at the highest levels of contemporary Italian poetry tout cour”), he felt the need to publish an album of his own lyrics. Devised by him and Alzetta, “Momenti di Lucidità” was realized and published by the band Le Ombre di Rosso.
The critical acclaim of the LP led the band to carry out a two-year tour in Italy, southern Europe, and the U.S.A.

The band has also been working on theatrical productions, devising and performing "This Train is Bound for Glory", in tribute to Dario Fo, staged at the festival "Aspettando il premio Civilitas 2014, and "When the Ship Comes In: un approccio musicale alla storia dell'emigrazione", Toniolo Theatre, 17 October 2015. The group was a finalist of the music contests "Corde libere" (2014), "Festival mondiale della canzone funebre" (2014), and "SottoToni" (2018).

Bio
Fabio Fantuzzi is a songwriter, a music critic, a pl¬¬¬aywright, and a scholar. A multi-instrumentalist (vocal, guitar, banjo, and harmonica) and a songwriter, he played in Italian and American music projects, collabroated with exponents of the Village folk scene (Erik Frandsen, Bert Lee, Chris Lowe, among others), and recorded folk-blues inspired albums. He wrote five musical plays, founded the band Ombre di Rosso, and composed the albums “Momenti di lucidità” and “Da sponda a sponda”.
He studied and/or played guitar with several influential mentors, including Davide Baldo, Happy Traum, Erik Frandsen, Preston Reed, Adam Miller, Tony MacManus, Bert Lee, Chris Lowe, and many others, and studied vocality with virtuoso Olga Szwajgier and functional singing (Lichtemberg method) with Elena Modena.
As a scholar, he earned a Ph.D. carrying out the first Italian do¬ctoral thesis on Bob Dylan. He has published several essays on the relationship between music, poetry, and visual arts in various journals, and co-edited the book Bob Dylan and the Arts (ESL, 2020). He is now a Marie-Curie Fellow at Columbia University and Ca’ Foscari University, based in New York City.

Our first album has them saying:

"Something that is missing in the Italian music scene are good songwriters, although there is no lack of musicians approaching this genre, very few are able to produce really convincing and fruitful results, so if the rule is widespread mediocrity, as often happens every rule has an exception, it has a very valid exception in this case ".
Alba Chiara Re, "I Think Magazine".

"Elegantly retro and genuinely folkloristic "Momenti di lucidità "turns out to be a valid visiting card for Le Ombre di Rosso, a convincing first album that shows notable technical and creative potentials. Not only storytelling ambitions but appreciable inclination towards the rediscovery and the recovery of harmonies tinged with past suggestions ".
Alessandro Freschi, «Distorsioni».

"They are all songs ["Hey vecchio pazzo", "Ma che ne sai" and" L' equilibrista"] that, in different measure, stick in those gypsy or Balkan flavors that nowadays have become more and more simple, tired, cliché, that here instead relive, authentic cultural heritage cultivated and wisely revived".
Elisa Giovanatti, «Indiana Music Magazine».

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