Andrea Tabacco

Andrea Tabacco is back to the music scene after a ten-years long adventure with the Elton Junk, closed in 2011 after four albums and hundreds of concerts, and after the Linguamatic experiment.

Growing from these experiences, Andrea is set to explore new ways to express himself and his solo project maintains a lot of the vision of the Eltons while being widely different.

First of all the Italian lyrics instead of English ones, on top of that electronic becomes predominant. Even the live performance is different from the rock concert we got accustomed with the Eltons, becoming something halfway between a DJ set and a live exhibition, where Tabacco’s vocal quality have still the focus. The traditional song structure gets dilated, allowing space for live sampling and improvisation.

The project is also closely related to Andrea’s comics production which find its in several aspects of the production: the videos and the CD graphic design he designed himself, the blog and and live performances.

The new Tabacco’s solo album is a brave work and his name and face showing in the video of the first single reveal how much personal the project is. It is the record that sets Tabacco free from his own previously imposed song structure, showing his own versatility not only as musician but in all the creative aspects of the project in an attempt to spare his work from the homogenisation requested by the music industry and pushing for a direct relation between the artist and his audience.

A Storm doesn’t belong to the music industry as the earth dwellers know: that’s what the title, Tempeste Lunari (Lunar Storms) proclaim. The whole opera will be divided in a sequence of EP whose release calendar is decided by Tabacco himself together with the Vipchoyo Sound Factory. Tempeste Lunari is a fantastic journey through dream-like landscapes. The forces of nature as well as the female universe are illuminated by the creative and revolutionary light of the moon, while alien and post-industrial sceneries give the background for a trip of cosmic destination.

Among the record’s tracks, È la Luna Nuova and Una Parte Bagnata are worth specific mentions. The former is an electronic track running at a fast pace that will suck you in. The unsettling lyrics shape metaphors and cross-references that won’t leave the listener easily free. Una Parte Bagnata paves the way to new acoustic adventures and Tabacco will make his followers proud: in order to avoid using plastic material and to push the direct relation with fans to the extreme, every cover is painted by Andrea on canvas, numbered and signed. So, if you own one of Andrea Tabacco’s CDs, it means he made it for you.