Pete Molinari and a mixture of fine session musicians.
Influences
Billie Holiday, Son House, Muddy Waters, Jimmie Rodgers, Paco De Lucia, Hank Williams, Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Billy Childish, Leadbelly, Cisco Houston, Ramblin Jack Elliot, Mississippi John Hurt, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, Edith Piaf, Maria Callas, Lucio Battisti, Fabritzio Di Andre, Holly Golightly, Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, Chopin, Shakespeare, Dante, Rimbaud, L.F Celine, Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Walt Whitman, Robert Browning, Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Blake, Steinbeck, Tennessee Williams, Ernest Hemingway, Jack Kerouac, Allan Ginsberg, Pablo Neruda, Marlon Brando, Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Fellini, Rossellini, Helena Blavatsky, Oscar Wilde, Caravaggio, Tamara De Lempicka, Alphonse Mucha, Vincent Van Gogh and life altogether.
Sounds Like
A mixture of the greats from the past. Really sings like no one you've ever heard before.
Press:
Pete was nominated for a Mojo Honours List 2008 award as Breakthrough Act and, to help launch Mojo Honours List, Pete played live at the HMV flagship store in Oxford Street, alongside the legendary Fall.
Pete’s critically acclaimed second album ‘A Virtual Landslide’ was ranked number 18 in Mojo magazine’s '50 Best Albums Of 2008'.
"Molinari's voice and haunting melodies left me feeling that the musical void in the British music scene will most definitely be filled. He can follow in the footsteps of Dylan and Guthrie" NME
"A singular talent....his distinctive voice and guitar establish him as a Medway Hank Williams. Worth investigating." - UNCUT
"The soul of American music distilled into the voice of a Cuban-heeled greaser from the Medway Delta" THE GUARDIAN
"An extraordinary new British talent...4.5/5" - THE SUN
"A spellbinding, wondrous voice....an amazing album - STOOL PIGEON
"Young, finger-picking, country-blues marvel Molinari has a thrillingly ambiguous voice...Virtual Landslide is an actual triumph" - TIME OUT
"A superbly realised piece of folk blues heartache" - MOJO
"Sweet-voiced blues-folk...a cherishable artefact even before you fall under the spell of the actual music" - NME
Recorded in Nashville, Tennessee at Playground Sound Studios, it features four of his live favourites - covers of 'Today, Tomorrow and Forever’, ‘Satisfied Mind’, ‘Guilty’ and ‘Tennessee Waltz’ - all backed up by the extraordinary vocal talents Of The Georgettes and the legendary Jordanaires
The results can be found on a limited edition 4 track 10" single and a special issue seven track mini-album (CD only) that also features for the first time on CD the B-sides from his last three 7" singles.
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Thanks so much for the Add. It has been a pleasure to listen to your music. Your music is so Contemporary. However, there are echo's from my childhood coming through your music. I feel right at home.
The new E.P. is stunning; I have the 10" vinyl version and I love the way it's reminiscent of a 1950's 78r.p.m. disc (I'm old enough to remember when they were still commonly found in friends' and family record collections).
Any chance of more dates over here other than at The Cluny?
By the way, being from Kent myself (although a resident of Bristol for donkeys' years) I hate it when people mistake my accent for a cockney one!
All the Best, P.d.M. xxx
P.S. How about recording a version of "Goodnight Irene"?
Hey! Have you moved to Tennessee?! That's crazy and awesome. Can they even understand your thick cockney accent out there? I still love your songs loads and loads mister. Hope you are well. xx
It was a thrill having you show up so surprisingly down in Florida, and a pleasure having you on stage... hopefully a hint of what's to come. Look forward to seeing you again soon, and watching some tennis over cream tea.
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