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.
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 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".
2009 - to present...
At beginning 2009 the new singer Gaetano Notarnicola joined Act Noir. Act Noir are now busy to complete the recording/mixing of the upcoming new album "Shape a New Start".
THE RETURN OF THE BAT
Specimen will bring their special brand of glam mayhem, The Batcave to London again.
After last year’s wildly-successful 25th anniversary Batcave event, The Batcave returns to its original spawning ground of London’s West End on Sunday July 19 for another night of blasphemy, lechery and blood.
Specimen (Fresh from a fantastic show at Leipzig’s Waves Gotik festival), the original Batcave instigators will headline the lurid frolics at the Embassy Club, (29 Old Burlington St, London W1S3AP) Also on the bill are original Batcavers Sexbeat, with DJs Hamish and Cavey Nick, cavorting from decks to decadence with the usual brutal, trouser-dropping surprises & suitably confronting & barbaric entertainment.
The 2009 Batcave will feature installations from exciting new artists of the ‘Dark London Underground’ and visuals from the upcoming ‘Welcome To The Batcave’ book, along with this year’s bitcrushed message from the creature in the Batcave Pram. All set in a spooky Bladerunner environment!
So dress to kill … prepare for a thrill & Expect the unexpected!
The Batcave will be open from 10pm till 3am. Tickets £15 available from www.ticketweb.co.uk and Resurrection Records.
More info at www.specimenbatcave.net
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