COLAPESCE

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IN THE MORNING LIGHTS

PLEASURE BARGE

SHAPE OF WATER

RISMO

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After winning the prestigious Premio Tenco for Best Début with his first album, Un

meraviglioso declino, Lorenzo Urciullo - best known as Colapesce - has kept things fresh and surprising, balancing refined songwriting, pop music and experimentation.

Restless by nature, he doesn't like to repeat himself: after Egomostro, released in 2015, he co-authored the graphic novel La distanza, with artist and illustrator Alessandro Baronciani. The book was a success, and was followed by a 50-date tour - with several sold-out venues - in which Colapesce played acoustic versions of his songs with live illustrations by Alessandro Baronciani.

In 2016, Colapesce debuted Isola di Fuoco during the annual edition of Roma europa Festival. The show is a live performance of a specially-composed soundtrack for the works of Vittorio De Seta, the father of Italian documentary film.

He also wrote the music for Vita straordinaria ri Don Giuanni Grasso - Lu grandi

atturi ca pattennu ri Catania furriau lu munnu, a play written by Marcello Cappelli

and Lucia Sardo.

As producer, Lorenzo has worked - among other things - with Sicilian percussionist

Alfio Antico, a legend of Italian world music, for his eponymous album Antico. In

2013, Colapesce was listed by The Guardian as an example of Italian music fit to

be exported abroad. Previously, he had been mentioned in NME as one of the best

pop products in a language other than English.

Infedele, his latest album, was released in October 2017 to critical and popular

acclaim. More than an album, it is a declaration of love towards music, free of the

rules and constraints of genre.

Co-produced by Colapesce, IOSONOUNCANE and Mario Conte, Infedele is alive

with an infinity of different nuances, pop and experimental at the same time,

influenced by Brazilian tropicali and Portuguese fado, drawing from the world of

soundtracks and flirting shamelessly with jazz and electronica.

Le Monde gave him a full page, defining him the most credible heir to Lucio Dalla

and Franco Battiato, and listed Egomostro among the best albums of 2015.

Colapesce collaborates regularly as a songwriter with some of the biggest names in

Italian pop. Writer Francesco Pacifico, on IL of Il Sole 24 Ore, defined him "...sort of

a Sicilian David Byrne".

Lorenzo laughed it off.

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