The Surrealist movement, our Minimized Cosmos, Andrej Tarkovskij's cathartic art, the human shallowness, Mother nature's Purity, the great Divine, his holiness the Dalai Lama, David Lynch, the pathos experienced in the everyday life...
Sounds Like
David Sylvian, Nine Inch Nails, Porcupine Tree, Recoil, Bark Psychosis, Depeche Mode, Pink Floyd, Massive Attack, The Gathering...
1998 - 2000 Sergio Calzoni (electronics) formed ACT NOIR together with Stefano Nieri (guitars). Soon afterwards the newborn band found in Michele Gozzi (bass) and Claudio Pilati (drums) the right rhythmic complement. The music trajectories of Act Noir focus on dark-rock, electro, with psychedelic and ambient elements...
2001 - 2002 Sergio moved to Copenhagen/Denmark. Thanks to his home-studio and to the broadband connection, he managed to continue collaborating with his Italian friends/musicians. Through an ad on a local newspaper Sergio met Nicholas Hill (vocals), the singer of the space-rock band The Universals.
During the "danish exile" Sergio started a side-project called arTra, by means of which he composed a sonorization for the performance/installation "Nika Is Dead" based in Copenhagen. The proposed music was an almost two hours assemblage of brand new experimental-ambient pieces, and several unfinished tracks taken from the Act Noir archive.
2003 - 2004 Act Noir released the CD-demo "Cosmo Minimized E.P." in April, 2003. In autumn of the same year, Act Noir remixed "Distance" a track composed by the Italian cult band MonumentuM. The remix is featured in "Metastasi" album containing rarities and remixes by MonumentuM.
2005 - 2006 In December 2005 Act Noir signed a record deal with My Kingdom Music, for releasing the debut CD Automatisme Psychique. On March, the 3rd the album was issued world-wide.
At beginning 2006 the new singer Mark Benoit joined Act Noir, showing the right attitude both as frontman during live shows and as creative mind to lyric the new unreleased material.
In the same year Sergio started working with Colloquio’s mastermind Gianni Pedretti, for the production of the new album "Si Muove e Ride"
2007 - to present... In April the band was honoured to play as open-act for the Italian tour of John Foxx, while in June they were invited to play in London at club Slimelight with Clan Of Xymox and Violet Stigmata.
In July "Si Muove e Ride", Colloquio’s new opus, was released by Eibon Records.
In the same year contemporary artist Francesco Arena commissioned to Act Noir a fifteen minutes soundtrack, for a video-installation included in his project "Respiri/Breath". At the present Act Noir are working on new material, for the still-untitled forthcoming album.
Excerpt of Francesco Arena’s video installation RESPIRI/BREATH featuring "Drag Me Away (extendmix)", a fifteen minutes soundtrack composed by Act Noir.
Grinding Halt & Ander the Moon presentano: Cinema Strange live Mercoledì 23 luglio 2008 ore 22.00 @Big Bang (Ex Zoobar) Via di Monte Testaccio, 22 – Roma (metro Piramide)
Ciao ragazzi... Grazie a voi e complimenti per la vostra musica! :) Venite a trovarci sul nostro portale, saremmo felici di ospitare i vostri contributi! Su www.mocambo.tv, oltre a creare il profilo della vostra band, caricare audio e video, entrare in contatto con altri artisti, potrete accedere anche ad alcune rassegne musicali come Primo Maggio tutto l'anno e contest come Il tuo video al concerto del Primo Maggio. Vi aspettiamo! In bocca al lupo per tutto!
.. grazie per l'add .. complimenti davvero per la vostra musica .. belle le vostre atmosfere darkeggianti (e non solo) legate all'elettronica .. drag me away per ora è il brano che ho apprezzato di più .. un saluto ..
°the Duende loves ledges and wounds, that he enters only those areas where form dissolves in a passion transcending any of its visible expressions°
°il duende ama il margine della ferita e si avvicina ai luoghi dove le forme si fondono in un anelito superiore alle loro espressioni visibili°
everythings going really good here.. I started again to draw so thats alot fun hehe... I uploadad a few drawings... would be great to get some comments there ;))
Heir to Madness greatly appreciates you! Check out our page now to see our new Merch Store! And be sure to sign up for the mailing list (link under Bio)
Go to our page now to hear new tracks off the upcoming release "The Citadel"
Sto benone, a parte i dolori muscolari dovuti ai miei allenamenti - ultimamente sto disperatamente cercando di ringiovanire tramite un insolito workout.... sono ancora a DD Dresden ma torno presto in terra natìa.... ci vediamo !!! :-)
l'11 luglio a Bologna in vicolo Bolognetti dopo l'intervista a Claudio Simonetti e il concerto dei Daemonicola c'è un film dove ho recitato pure io. Si chiama Henshawe. Inizierà il tutto alle 21. Le proiezioni alle 24.
Ciao Act Noir!!! Sabato 14 We are Reflex presenta > REFLEX SUMMER > Guest star from Kruder & Dorfmeister RICHARD DORFMEISTER > residents Vincenzo Favale, Frankie Watch, Federico Locchi. Info @ +39347.7828791 Wanna talk about music, clubs culture, labels and new realases? Just contact www.strenna.net! Yoyoyooo
Ciao ragazzi, grazie mille per i complimenti... ricambiamo! :) ...fra l'altro nella sezione musicale generale dovrebbe esistere un topic musicale a voi dedicato... a presto!
ciao ragazzi, anche quest'anno ci siamo iscritti al concorso in omaggio a demetrio stratos! questo è il link: http://www.modomusica.com/omaggiods/selezione/edizione2008/eva_wrengaw.html
è una libera rimusicazione di un corto di svankmajer. Se non avete un cazzo da fare, give an eye to it! pagno
