ABOUT
Sparkle in Grey are not just a musical band. And we're not only four persons.
At this time, we're working on several different directions, playing music, doing videos, drawing, promoting our music and sometimes even publishing it. It's an endless and often useless effort.
The main musicians now in 2010 are:
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| Matteo Uggeri | Cristiano Lupo | Alberto Carozzi | Franz Krostopovic |
| laptop, trumpet, mixing, toys... and all the drawings and graphics | guitar, drums, bass, glockenspiel... keyboards from time to time and more. | bass, electric guitar, bagpipes, acoustic guitars, ukelele, melodica... | violin, piano... and potentially everything. |
...plus these guests:
Simone Riva: 7/8 drums.
Lucia Krostopovic: piano.
Deborah Arnold: speeches, vocals.
But the people that collaborates are more:
Giuspeppe Ielasi: mixing, mastering, recordings.
Cristiano Santini (Disciplinatha): recordings.
Milena Montalbano: translation consultant.
Michela Uggeri: almighty management assistance.
Andrea Scurati: video animations.
Stefano De Ponti: guitar, videos.
Letizia Sechi: clarinet.
Paolo Cantù (Uncode Duello, A Short Apnea): clarinet.
Francesco Giordani (Pulp-Ito): accordeon.
Vanessa Plume: handwriting.
Roberta Casini: drowing, colouring, cartoon consultant.
Roberto Uggeri: SIAE consultant, scanning.
Aunt Thelma: handwriting.
Gaia Margutti: wiseness, video and graphic consulting.
In the past years, other friends worked with us:
Daniele Albricci (also in Der Einzige): videos.
Alessio Carlini (Pulp-Ito): live bass session man.
Giuseppe Cordaro (con_cetta): live laptop session man.
Paolo Monari: live guitar solos session man.
A sort of biography:
Sparkle in Grey began its musical activity as a solo electronic music project in 1999.
Since 2005 it has developed to a 4-member band devoted to a sort of electronic and eclectic post-rock.
The world eclectic is related to the fact that they like to change from one genre to another, often collaborating with artists of various kinds.
The core of the band is: Matteo Uggeri (laptop, rhythms, trumpet and field recordings), Cristiano Lupo (drums, guitar, bass and glockenspiel), Alberto Carozzi (guitar, bass, bagpipes, harmonica), Franz Krostopovic (violin and piano player).
Many other musicians have collaborated with them, including the Italian maestro of industrial music Maurzio Bianchi/MB or - for instance and on the opposite ends - Simone Riva (ex-drummer of Italian pop singer Alex Baroni).
They have also remixed tracks of, or had tracks remixed by experimental artists such as OvO, Nicola Ratti and Telepherique, or by pop blockbusters such as Kiddycar and Micecars.
Their first full album as a band, "A Quiet Place", released in 2008 with the small cult label Disasters by Choice, was recorded and mixed by Giuseppe Ielasi.
An LP called "Whale Heart" was done in collaboration with the British artist Tex La Homa.
Their latest CD is "Mexico" and was recorded by Cristiano Santini (Disciplinatha), mixed again by Ielasi and mastered by Andrea Serrapiglio (Carla Buzolich's Evangelista).
In their album reviews they've been compared to a long and strange list of various musicians, including Sol Invictus, Rachel's, Björk, Piano Magic, Autechre, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Epic 45, King Crimson, Durutti Column, Massive Attack, Neu!, Pan American/Labradford, Tuxedomoon and even Pink Floyd (?)...
One of their songs was chosen as soundtrack to a fashion ad for Alviero Martini. (www.alvieromartini.it)
