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Luca Sapio

Luca Sapio Radio

General Info

  • Genre: Blues / R&B / Soul

    Location Roma, It

    Profile Views: 137972

    Last Login: 9/24/2012

    Member Since 5/3/2007

    Website here you are

    Record Label ali bu mayè records/audioglobe

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    Luca Sapio is a true and real lover of soul music, especially the one that is felt from the heart. He knows that "You can't sing the blues unless you have lived the blues" cause he is no stranger to hard times. He spent the better part of his life singing, working and traveling cross the U.S. Countries, carrying the load of discomfort of being a stranger in a strange land with him. Tons of classic soul records heard from his father's turntable helped him to overcome hardships such as having no visa and a safe job. Thanks to his talent he has collaborated with many important artists of different genres, from jazz to rhythm and blues. (Tony Scott, Elton Dean, Eumir Deodato, David Bianco, Juliette Lewis) Once back in Italy, in 2011 he started to collaborate with the italian soul jazz duo Capiozzo & Mecco. Veteran and legendary producer Tommy "TNT" Brenneck invited Luca and the guys to record in his Dunham studios based in Williamsburgh, Brooklyn, New York. The whole work was done in a week. Members of the soul Brooklyn family from Menhan Street Band, The Budos, The Extraordinaries, added their recognizable sound to Luca' s debut. The record's nine original tracks evoke the classic soul blues sound from the 60's with horns, tight grooves and shaggy organ meshed with a psychedelic sound: the impact is tremendous. Two obscure covers complete the album: Marion Black's "Who Knows" and Jim Sullivan's "Rosey". On these tracks, Luca gives his own stylized, powerhouse interpretation of what soul means to him. he record is not nostalgic, Luca brings fresh style to a timeless sound that as someone said "makes America".

  • Members

    my throat, my soul, my words Mecco Guidi : b3 organ, piano, keys Christian Capiozzo : drums

  • Influences

    Willie Mitchell, James Brown, Leon Thomas, David Ruffin, The 'O Neal Twins, Reverend Al Green, Bobby Blue Bland, Solomon Burke, The Impressions, Smokey Robinson, Bill Withers, Otis Clay, Muhammad Alì, Ann Peebles, HI RECORDS, Betty Wright, Wilson Pickett, Donna Brown, O. V. Wright, Syl Johnson, Diana Ross, Undisputed Truth, Mandrill, Black Nasty, Black Merda, Otis Redding, STAX/VOLT, James Carr, Dan Penn, The Marvelettes, Joe Tex, Blind Willie Mc tell, Blind Willie Johnson, Tommy Johnson, Robert Johnson, Thelonius Monk, Charles Mingus, Old spirituals.

  • Sounds Like

    bill whiters, jim sullivan, al green.

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  2. Luca Sapio

    Check "WHO KNOWS" the 26th October 2012 out by Rough Trade

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