Scrapper - Blues Slide player, Dobro, Vocals, Foot Stomping, Harmonica.
Influences
Blues and Jazz from the 78n rpm Era , Johhny Shines , Son House, Billie Holiday, Bukka White, Sonny Boy Williamson, R. L. Burnside, Karen Dalton, Elmore James, Charley Patton, Leroy Carr, Mississippi Fred Mcdowell, Skip James, Robert Johnson and my past life during the 30s...
Emanuele "Scrapper" Pisu , blues Harmonica and slide guitar player, son of Mario Pisu, known bassist of the 60s/70s in bands such as "Arcangeli" and "The Spirituals" with the famous guitarist Giuliano Salis.
At the age of 14 is Rockabilly and at 16 years found his musical identity watching the movie "From here to Eternity" with Merle Trevis and his Reenlistment Blues.
His first diatonic harmonica is not a Meisterklasse but the Blues did not need luxuries. Started to play with friends and musicians then formed his own band "The Devil's Dogs" and later "The Mojo Hand" with Alfonso Navarro, an incredible slide guitarist and blues armonicista with strong working class roots like him and the still young Antonello Pusceddu who later become famous in Sardinia with the name of "Reverendo Jones", the bands used to play Delta Blues songs and 30s Blues from Texas.
He plays in Cagliari in pubs, and only ever acoustic Blues but never finds in Sardinia a place to express himself as a musician.
A rebel, like his grandfather Giovanni, an important sardinian anarchist, Emanuel leaves Sardinia in 1995 and moves to Piemonte (Italy) where played in pubs and as busker.
Always plays harmonica with a vast repertoire also of Sonny Boy Williamson and Sonny Terry, in 1997, Emanuele moved far way to South America in Montevideo, Uruguay.
He played in several clubs in crazy jam sessions open to blues musicians for months. Emanuele becomes friends with Daniel Frappola, an electric Texas Blues guitarist who is well known in Uruguay. He joins Daniel's band, "Blues Alive Band" with Gaston Vitale on drums and Alejandro Nari on bass, one of the last musicians of the famous Uruguayan rock band "La Chancha Francisca."
It is the beginning of a long period of concerts for "Boliches" of Montevideo and Uruguayan Provinces , band official gatherings of Harley-Davidson in Uruguay and Argentina, playing in theaters such as the “Agadu” or “Zitarrosa Hall”.
Emanuele use of electric diatonic with a style very similar to Little Walter while in acoustic feels strongly like Sonny Boy 2 and Sonny Terry.
He is nicknamed "Tano Loco" or 'Scrapper' (madman Italian) for its sullen mood and sometimes violent.
Known musicians such as Pablo Traverso, Blues guitarist of international renown with pride that he played in the House of Blues of Miami and in the Montevideo Blues Festival 1 and 2.
For years he taught harmonica in important schools of music, as "Todo Musica" of Montevideo Shopping Center and "Talleres musicales" as the TUMP (Taller Uruguayo de Música Popular ) where he attended and knows musicians from other genres such as the famous guitarist of Tangos y Milongas Fredy Pérez, now a part of the historic "Cuarteto Zitarrosa."
He also began a fruitful collaboration with the famous spanish/uruguayan Blues singer Virginia Martinez with which plays acoustic Blues and early Jazz.
Newspapers speak of Emanuele as talent wasted in Italy but Uruguay has been able to accommodate one of its "artistic arms. "
By Virginia Martinez, occur in Agadu Theater and the Alianza Francesa in Florida by the full attendance.
Also is also invited for a broadcast interview about "the Origins of Blues" in differents Radios as “Radio Nacional Sodre de Uruguay”.
Harmonica player in the cycle of concerts Blues "Bluserias" and in the "70 Aniversario de Agadu."
For years he lives the life of a bluesman, where the only constant are his harmonicas and his performances each night.
After severals years, he leaves Uruguay and moves first to Spain in 2000 where he prefers to devote himself exclusively to the study of slide guitar and the fingerpicking style, the early and original Blues. Scrapper is now a singer and guitarist specializing in interpretations of early 20th-century blues with a strange gothic sound.
Since 2006 is living and playing in Ireland as professional blues busker with his guitars DELIA and CHARLEY especially in front of the J.Grogan pub on South Willian Street in Dublin, , preparing Blues and Folk Festivals for 2010, doing gigs in Spain (Barcelona) and working in few collaborations.
Its now avalaible his new demo of Classic Delta Blues with 4 songs,
2 covers and 2 new versions of Catfish Blues and Good Morning Blues (all rights reserved) recorded and mixed in Dublin in the Academy of Sound of Aidan McGovern.
Ciao Emanuele! Should I write in Italian or should I buy that you are Irish? ;-) Thank you so much for finding us and inviting us into your friends, I would have loved to listen some of your tunes from your player. Greetings from Italy in the name of the alt blues,
Emanuele querido! ¿cómo estas? Por acá esta asomando la primavera, hoy llueve pero las temperaturas van aumentando. La movida montevideana viene muy bien, por suerte todos los meses tenemos algo, (una o dos fechitas) Estamos grabando y metiendo en el estudio a ver como queda lo que hacemos. Podes escuchar un adelanto en mi myspace.
Pisu....Gracias por invitarme a tu espacio y por tus palabras. Espero que pronto subas algún temita y poder escucharte. Estas en una de mis tierras preferidas, jaja estuve actuando allí y la pasé de vicio. Te deseo todo lo mejor, felíz año. Un abrazo El Flaco
TANO, MUY BIENVENIDO!!!!!!POR SUPUESTO QUE VAS DERECHO A MIS FAVORITOS!!!! TANO, EL AÑO QUE VIENE VOY A ANDAR POR ESPAÑA, ASÍ QUE ANDÁ ARMANDO ALGO POR AHÍ TAMBIÉN...TE PARECE?
