Fonderia was born in Italy, Rome, December 1994 as a band devoted to improvise and mix sounds and styles.
Members are Emanuele Bultrini (guitars), Stefano Vicarelli (piano, organ, synths), Federico Nespola (drums), Luca Pietropaoli (trumpet), Claudio Mosconi (bass). Through the years the band gradually extended its sound, exploring musical landscapes that span from jazz-rock to ambient, from world music to funk, by means of improvisation.
In December 2002 the first album by Fonderia, Fonderia was released, after more than one year work, obtaining very good response from Italian radios ad magazines, and awarded with the Darwin Award in April 2004, as the best Italian record of 2003. Since September 2004 the album was distributed worldwide by BTF (www.btf.it). The second album RE>>ENTER was released in July 2006 by VynilMagic/BTF. In November 2006 it got the Toast/MEI award as best instrumental record of the year. The group often collaborates with Rodolfo Maltese (guitar player from Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso) and performed live with artists such as Mauro Pagani (PFM), Gabriele Salvatores, Angela Baraldi. The band also experimented interaction with other arts: poetry in the project I racconti della Fonderia (Tales from Fonderia), with lyrics by Nicola Bultrini, videos by Virginia Eleuteri Serpieri. They worked on soundtracks for short movies (Tra cinque secondi fa, 2000, by Alessandro Mistichelli), and composed music for silent movies, gaining international awards at the festivals Rimusicazioni 2001 (for the original music on Charcuterie mecanique, by the Lumiere brothers), and Strade Del Cinema 2003 - International Festival of live music for Silent Movies (First Prize for the music on My wifes relations by Buster Keaton); the soundtrack was published in the cd compilation Notes on Frame (Strade Del Cinema, 2003). Further, Fonderia composed music for theatre, and for documentaries by Italian National Television (RAI), collaborating also with Baffo Banfi (from the 70s Italian band Biglietto per lInferno). Concerts were held around Italy, often with the performances of painting improvisation by painters Francesco Nespola and Francesco Parruzza. In 2004 the band partecipated to Arezzo Wave, the main Italian rock festival. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.