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Gianni Maroccolo
12+ albums
avant rockfolkitalianexperimentalsoul
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Gianni Maroccolo (born 9 May 1960 in Manciano, Tuscany, Italy) is an Italian musician. Musically active in the 1980s darkwave scene of Firenze, after attending at double-bass, phonology and electronic musics courses in the Academy of music, he founded Litfiba in the historic seat of De Bardi street. In the same period he begins to cultivate a passion for the marriage between music and acting, composing numerous soundtracks for theatre (based on the writings of Gabriele D'Annunzio, Samuel Beckett, Pierpaolo Pasolini and Curzio Malaparte), cinema (where he develops soundtracks for "Tutti giù per terra", "Escoriandoli", "Jack Frusciante è uscito dal gruppo", "Paz"), radio and TV with musics for documentaries, short movies and radio comedies. With Piero Pelù (vocals), Federico "Ghigo" Renzulli (guitar), Antonio Aiazzi (keyboards) and Francesco Calamai (drums) substituted earlier by Renzo Franchi and later by Luca de Benedictis, stage name Ringo de Palma - LITFIBA live the post punk italian season until 1989, year of Pirata. Here Maroccolo and Ringo de Palma (successively dead in a tragic accident) leave the band. That adventure leaves beyond 400 concerts in all Europe and especially the beautiful album 17 Re, the bands masterpiece of which Maroccolo entirely supervised the arrangements. Parallel to LITFIBA, he founds the ensemble BEAU GESTE with Francesco Magnelli and Antonio Aiazzi; an electronic minimalistic music project that will produce 3 albums and three more cinemas and
