The Preston Tucker Project

The Preston Tucker Project is the stepchild of its components’ mutual esteem, the starting point for the exploration of each others’ disposition. Flavio, Giacomo, and Roberto already knew each other before undertaking the project and each of them had already been active in the music scene for several years. For a matter of chance – or for a conscious choice? who knows – the trio met once in Giacomo’s studio, and after a long chat (the first of what would have became a tradition) they started jamming. The good result encouraged them to meet again, and again… The first meeting were improvisation-driven, with nothing decided, including the instruments choice.

Before they could even realize it, the project was already born. Without well defined boundaries, the group grew steadily, ending up with the production of a loose set of singles characterized by an open mind to innovation. Giacomo Salzano (Stella Diana bass player and active in the wide Naples area with projects such as Blessed Child Opera and Concetto Etico and with his solo project gal0ina) juggles drums, effects, loop-station and of course the bass guitar; he is also the Project’s production engineer. Roberto Amato, guitar player in several Neapolitan musical projects, floats from bass to synth to drum machine and guitar. Flavio G. Romano, accomplished guitar player performing with La Condizione Danzante, plays from guitar to synth and drum machine, with computer programming and solo voice on top.

The Preston Tucker Project is a young project, just one year old, but is quickly growing and evolving thanks to the experience and the passion of its team. The result is a sequence of demos and the EP “01 .” composed by four unreleased tracks. The band is also busy with a string of concerts in and around Naples, and has already played in several festivals.

The group is named after an American inventor and dreamer active in the ’40s/’50s. The group is not after him as an inventor: they are rather inspired by his dreamer career. The belief is that it always takes a dream to make things move.

bandcamp: http://theprestontuckerproject.bandcamp.com/

OTHER REVIEWS

What the Neapolitan Preston Tucker propose in their first work is pure new wave. A four pieces EP with a geometric, minimal package, recorded and produced in a small studio in Naples. What they play is geometric and minimal too, with unrelenting, mathematical bass loops, and raving voices framing deceptive but cultured lyrics. Guitars weave effective and dreaming patterns, never out of place or over the top. The trio, Flavio, Giacomo e Roberto from Neaples, channelled their musical experiences in this work opened by Spaceball: five minutes of sampling, haunting voice and a cold rhythm. The rhythm is a trait of Fuori too, an opening reminding of Joy Division for a slow and cool prayer. A similar mood is to be found in Se, a track clearly influenced by the English New Wave and the Berlin electronic scene. Technicolo instead moves away from these influences, with fluid arpeggios, a gentle bass and melancholic lyrics. My suggestion is to follow the course tracked by Technicolor without getting framed in a ’80s sound that should be a cornerstone, not a chain.
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