Back to the '80s Italian. From Genoa, 'with its music junctions', came gli SCORTILLA , una favolosa formazione di chiaro stampo 'New Wave' , che proprio agli albori degli Anni '80 ebbe modo di consumare brevi momenti di gloria e meritato successo , almeno nell'ambito del 'sottosuolo' nazionale .
Nati nel capoluogo Ligure sul finire del '79 , la formazione Genovese era costituita da Roberto Pischiutta detto 'Pivio' (voce , tastiere) , Marco Odino (tastiere , chitarre , drum machine) , Mario Marchesoni (basso) e Edo Livio Bartenor (sax , tastiere) .
gli Scortilla (il termine viene dal Latino e significa 'prostituta' , matrice linguistica del più aggiornato 'escort') , si imposero fin dai primi tumultuosi concerti all'attenzione degli addetti ai lavori e della stampa locale come gruppo guida della New Wave Genovese (contrapposti ai Dirty Actions , più preposti al grezzo sound Punk) .
Il sound del progetto Scortilla nasce probabilmente ispirato inizialmente dal Post Punk/Dark britannico e dalla No Wave newyorchese (i primi Cure , Siouxsie & the Banshees ed i Contortions di James Chance) , sviluppatosi lentamente all'interno del loro quartier generale , il mitico Psyco Club di Genova .
Contemporaneamente divenne inderogabile , da buon gruppo Wave , l'incontro con la Synth Wave (per cui Devo , Human League , Ultravox e Simple Minds tanto per citare qualche gruppo) , crescendo di pari passo all'introduzione dei sintetizzatori che sostituirono le chitarre e con testi indirizzati verso hyper-technological society.
Among the most significant songs of this period (1981 to 1984) to be remembered "not Chanson de amour", "Dresden", "Miltary rendez vous," "Inside" and especially their single greatest hits from 'Bradbury' title "Fahrenheit 451", released by Wea in the summer of 1984.
Live Scortilla's now 'icon' and cult band in Genoa and Liguria, they played in the various temples in the Wave of the time (Florence, Bologna, Turin, Milan and Rimini), participating in the most important musical events of the period including the 'Rock Festival' in Genoa and the 'Rock Festival' in Bologna, making a live-act multimedia over an hour's duration, always and only made their compositions topped with pictures and videos made specifically for each song.
of these concerts the only evidence was an audio recording now nowhere to be found on "Scortilla-Box" (self-produced cassette of 1981), before the publication of CD-DVD anthology "Scortilla 1980-2005" containing some of their material, videos and interviews .
Appreciated by critics and the public suddenly disappeared from the scene at the time of greatest notoriety in 1984 after attending the final of the Festivalbar in Verona. In the
Anno Domini 2010, the reunion made by Mark Odin (former soloist with different production assets) and Pivio (which over the years has continued his career as a successful writer of film scores) and the inclusion of visual artist Sergio Gazzo.
With this new product line-up was the EP "Invisible" for Creuza Editions.
For lovers of Italian Wave and '80s, like myself, is very good news, hope to see / hear other publications. Despite record production
minute, The SCORTILLA were the real standard bearers for the Wave Italian, whose only 'fault' was to have given up too soon, prematurely ending the adventure and depriving us of their enormous potential. Enjoy
!
Audax iuvant New Wave.
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"... children's voices, in chorus repeating numbers ..."
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