Scosse Elettriche

Scosse Elettriche (Electric Shocks) is an experimental creation of Riccardo Sinigaglia and drummer percussionist Davide Zolli. The meeting between two generations of free musicians. The duo play an advanced and swirling space-rock that thrives on continuous ascending and descending tension – velvety like a Farsisa organ on a spasmodic poisoned rhythm – and mysterious like the voice of the flute. Another kosmische interpretation of the thin line between rock and avant-garde merging electronic music, impressionist and free-jazz piano, minimalism and krautrock.

Born in Arona, Italy, in 1953, Riccardo Sinigaglia is an architect and a musician. Until his retirement, he taught electronic music at Milan Conservatory, where he studied during the Seventies with Angelo Paccagnini. He has always worked in electronic and concrete music, with instruments such as Moog and Sinthy VCS and traditional tape-manipulation techniques. His work focuses on modes, mean tone, pythagorean scales and complex polyrhythmics – he is deeply involved in ethnomusicology, the elements of which are revisited and employed in his musical language. In the 1970s, he created his first concrete-electronic compositions, including Scorrevole 1, Scorrevole 3 and Fluttuazioni, which integrate nature sounds, animal cries and various noises reworked with the analogue techniques. In the early 1980s, he formed the improvising group Futuro Antico with Walter Maioli, a musician and ethnomusicologist specialising in sounds obtained with instruments from primitive cultures, and Gabin Dabiré, a musician from Burkina Faso specialising in African instruments and rhythms.

Davide Zolli (Venezia 1980) is an Italian underground drummer, percussionist, music and event producer. He is part of Scosse Elettriche with Riccardo Sinigaglia and drummer of the Beirut based experimental band Calamita with Sharif Sehnaoui and Tony Elieh. Former drummer of psych/avant/krautrock collective Squadra Omega.