Malcolm El Gool - acoustic & classic guitars, Maltese lead vocals, Italian & Hebrew backing vocals, kantele, Moroccan frame-drum, bamboo & berimbau sticks, synths
Fabio Guerilla Man - darbouka, wood plank, percussions & Italian lead & backing vocals (urgently seeking full-time replacement as Fabio leaves London Dec 2009)
Derek Chai - bass & Turkish saz
David Caneva - Spanish, Portuguese & English lead vocals, Italian backing vocals
We need full-time percussionist & 2nd nylon string guitarist ASAP!
Stating the obvious, being important band posts, interested parties to be available for regular rehearsing!
Mick Di Lullo - guitars, zither, flute, turkish saz, chinese bowl, Peruvian hand-drum
Alamin - live bamboo flutes
Lean Rodrigues - live percussions & berimbau
Terminator (from Nebukadnezza) - live percussions
Thanking them for their effort, pls chk their links from our Friends list.
The Close of an Era :
Dec 3 2009 - Last gig with outgoing percussionist!
(and showcase for interested replacements)
Including Alina Laureola belly-dancer, surprise theatrics, Guerilla Man farewell party & more!
Come join the vibe of EthnaMorte's World music with a dark twist : latin jazz, flamenco & arab music meets tribal drone & noir soundscapes!
Influences
There is a palette full of colours, and a blank canvas across the room.
The art school student paints the canvas walking through the room on the steps his teacher suggests.
Dali leaves the palette in the room, takes the colours with him out into the school corridor, and paints the canvas through the window as a teacher 200 years later would teach.
There is a world full of sounds.
We capture what of them voices we hear in our head, thus being true to ourselves, the best way, we feel, to create art.
Neither knowing, nor wanting to know the key to success, maybe the key to failure is trying to please everybody. So, not doing so, we are successful in our bliss, and if our tunes manage to trigger an emotion within others' souls, so be it.
A sound deriving from the call different tunes of this world inspire within and upon us, a sound of daily emotions, of darkness and light, death and life!
World music with a dark twist, unity & peace among all, the only wars being against the mundanity set musical rules (which we gladly break) create on us as artists! Whatever the course of our lives, ashes to ashes and dust to dust, death transcends all ethnicities.
Hence ETHNA (for ethnicity) MORTE (for death)!
The Inception
It was late 2007 when London based El Gool & Mick Di Lullo met & started putting tunes together. The duo hit the stage soon after, enhancing their line-up along the way by recruiting percussionist Guerilla Man & vocalist Vincenzo Cuorenero.
The Recordings
Nov 2008
- "Jogo Cego" live on the radio
- "A Different Shade of Beauty, the Perfect Shade of Madness"
- “Belt is-Seher”
both at Ealing Film Studios, London College of Music & Media, with Robalino from The Beauty of Death (in our friends list).
May 2009
Di Lullo since replaced by Udi Glaser on guitars & Nicki Heinen on flutes, the band entered Ealing Studios again to record a rehearsal demo of newer songs
- “Carissima”,
- “Kiss the Bliss”,
- “Vidro”
- “Silenzio”.
All tracking was captured as a band together live, apart from Udi's 2nd guitars, & some backing vocals & effects on “Silenzio”.
So please listen with a less critical ear, although we have tried our utmost to deliver good quality both performance and sound wise.
Henceforth we are looking for a record label to take the band to the next level. If you think we have the right sound for you to promote, drop us a line.
Live Shows
The band's prerogative is transcending musical boundaries, so much so that so far we supported/shared stages with a variety of different musical form exponents, namely Afro-Gypsy fusion Awale.., funk fusion Shaz Raja Collective, glitchtronic trio RafAndO, the medievally folky Millie Sand & plain acoustic folky Hackney Cactus, bossa-nova sensation Ilaria Mare, bluesy pop James Byers & bluesy rock Komla, down to alt-metal/electronica Mordachi.
If you are in a band/are a club owner that think we could pull a good gig together/for you, approach us.
We are also looking for a booking agent.
Collaborations
Nov 2008
"Jego Cego" live clip taken from our 1st live show as a quartet. Filmed by www.juxtaposefilms.com after being selected as Upcoming Talent Band of the Month.
Sept 2009
"A Different Shades of Beauty, the Perfect Shades of Madness" released as the 1st EthnaMorte music clip.
Filmed in Hamburg, Germany through the lens of Niko Samalekos! Thanks to all his production team of actors, make-up artists, cameramen, etc.
"Belt is-Seher" remix
We are currently remixing this track in a style that might come as surprising to some. For more news join our mailing list!
More welcome!
We being but the soundscape of a vision that still awaits exploration, and with new compositions always in the works, we do always welcome colloborations with artists from different media e.g. film makers, actors, dancers (flamenco/belly/acting), et al.
So if interested to work with us, please contact us here!
The Way Forward
EthnaMorte being a continuous works-in-progress that like the primordial beast it is, shapes and re-shapes itself to deliver a different aural painting at each live show, we are always on the lookout of musicians playing
- percussions
- vocals (male or female) in a 2nd language besides English
- guitars (as much of you as possible for a future gig)
- double bass/ cello/ fretless electric bass
- synth
- flute/ney
- zither/dulcimer
- oud
- turkish saz
- instruments not here listed but which you think can contribute to our sound!
--sorry, tried to mail you this message but something went wrong :S--
hey Ethnamorte, just wanted to tell you that i really really admire your work. it stirs something in me i dont know how to describe it. its also what i constantly look for and what i read from your "work ethic" i have to say i do agree...you cannot strive to please everyone because that in itself is self destructive.
anyway. i was wondering if you would be interested to set up a performance with us. our music is mainly in the psychedelic/progressive vein and verges on metal at times.
we have some songs which are online that give a better picture of what im trying to explain
Hopefully, we'll see you at our London launch tomorrow night! We'll be playing the finest in rock, metal and alternative music at the awesome 02 Shepherds Bush Empire.
ENTRY PRICES £8 / £6 before 12 £5 before 12 for NUS & RockSoc card holders £6 Advance tickets See: http://...com/redeemerlondontickets
DRINKS PRICES (All night) Carlsberg: £2.50 All other draught: £2.90 Romanoff Vodka + Dash of Red Alert: £2.70 - double £5.10 Smirnoff Ice (while stocks last): £1.50 VK (All): £2. 90
Hi Guys...sorry that i did not been in touch i been at home and im back in London...i would like join to ur music..so if something happend let me know ASAP and lets do it great music..keep in touch.. and keep playing.. Borek
