Court is a RPI band with strong classical influences. Many accoustic instruments are used, giving the band almost a chamber characteristic. Very interesting arrangements with sophisticated and passionate romanticism.
The project started in 1990, Paolo Lucchina, Mose Nodari, Luigi Bonacina, Andrea Costanza, and Francesco Vedani were the original original line-up. After three years the Court, who were 19 at the time, were contacted by the indie label Music is Intelligence who proposed them to record their first studio album, And you'll follow the winds' rush 'till their breath dwells, in the Roxanne Studio in Stuttgart.
I got in touch with Francesco Vedani for the story.
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When was Court formed and do you have any
background from other bands ?
No, we formed in 1990 when we were 18
years old and without any other band backgound
Whose bands were you influenced by ?
Pink Floyd, Led zeppelin, Jethro tull and
Fabrizio de andrè
To start with; please give me your (long or brief)
thoughts and lowdowns on.........
And You'll Follow The Winds' Rush 'Till Their Breath Dwells from
1993
A
difficult but fresh album at the same time, we were young! Perhaps the best
album even if there are a lot of imperfections.
Distances from 1997
We like it very much but perhaps a little
complicated and too dark and melanconic atmospheres. It contains one of the best
song..in our opinion..."the turn i was gifted" .
That is the worst album as recording and
we are still suffering for this!
Frost of Watermelon from 2007
A
really well produced album with many different styles of music, more rock and
perhaps less progressive than the others. I use a really bad word but it is the
most "commercial" of the three.
There was a ten years long break between Distances and Frost of
Watermelon. What happened ?
The
guitarist Andrea Costanza decided to left the band and that was a great shock
for us because we grew up together..the same school...the same interests...we
lost a friend and a great musician so it was a difficult period for composing
and creating a new identity for Court. We changed 3 different guitarists and we
tryed to understand what we had to do with our music, with our musical life.
Also the bass guitarist decided to left the band after some years. Then the
singer went to live in Mexico and we went on collaborating with him for some
years when he came back for staying in Italy for few months..a lot of time lost
in waiting...!! So, new guitarist, new bass player...new way of making
music.....a sort of disaster for court!
The latest update I have on you is from 2008. What is the latest update
on your band ?
In
2007 I organized a USA tour...24 shows in 27 days ....17 different
states...really an incredible experience . The last show was in Los Angeles and
we gained a nomination for the Los Angeles Music Awards . After few months we
won the awards as Best Alternative Artist 2007 and many producers asked us to
remain in USA to record a new album and to perform for great events but our
singer Paolo Lucchina was really stressed about this situation and he decided to
come back in Mexico. That was the end of a dream!
How is the writing and creative processes in your
band ?
We have now a new singer and we are
writing a lot of new songs. We are also finishing to record a new album with the
most important songs of Court experience in acoustic version and with the new
singer. The results is really great. We tried to re-record the old songs with
the new mood, with more studio experience but with the same freshness...a mature
version of our music. Then we have a lot of new material for a new Cd and ready
for a new tour in the states...I hope!
How would you describe your music and which bands
would you compare your music with ?
Our music is a sort of progressive
rock...more rock then progressive! We love acoustic atmosphere and hard guitars
in the same song...a music for our energy and for felling ourselves alive. We
are not great musician but we try to spread out all our rock
energy.
How easy/difficult do you find it to get gigs these days
?
In
Italy is quite impossible with our music...in Europe really difficult and
outside europe is less difficult but not too simple..many things have changed
from our first album in 1993 ..in those yeasr we could play every week in
different towns. People wanted to listen something particoular and different
from the commercial music of those times.
What is your plans for the rest of this year and next year
?
2 new
albums and some good gigs all over the world...we try to be
positive!
What is your five favourite albums from Italy (of
all time) ?
anime salve (Fabrizio de
andré)
la luna (Angelo branduardi)
La pulce d'acqua (Angelo
Branduardi)
Non al
denaro non all'amore nè al cielo ( Fabrizio de andrè)
Giubbe rosse (franco
battiato)
Anything you want to add to this interview ?
We are arranging a great show in our town
for the 20years of court. We are only 2 of he original line-up, me...the drummer
and Mosè nodari, the guitarist and oboist but we are ready to go on for 20
years more!!!!!
Thank you to Francesco Vedani for this interview
Their PA profile is here and their homepage's here
Edited by toroddfuglesteg - December 13 2010 at 09:51
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