THE BLUE CANTINA is a powerful ”Pop - Rock ‘n Roll” band born in Ravenna, Italy, in 2K by the union of the multi-instrumental front man Filo and his three old buddies Luigi, Cesare and Andrea, each with different music styles and attitudes. They started to build the band around Filo's compositions and created a very personal and original, but easy listening sound. The sound is based on the 70's and 80's Rock‘n Roll stuff and influenced by different music stiles, from country to ethnic, from blues to latin, from funk to caribbean sound, all mixed by a “passional spirit”. Songs and gigs are conceived to take the listener on a journey through different atmospheres, from fun to introspective moments and back to shaking-ass vibes. The guys, inspired by the wetlands close to the city they're living in, called their sound “The Funkadelicblues from the Laguna”. The Band has a very communicative live attitude and a very strong impact on the stage (also given by the variety of the instruments) consolidated by a constant activity in local clubs.
In 2005 the bass guitar player Cesare was replaced by Sym. THE BLUE CANTINA got good reviews from the indie ‘zines (for example www.circuitosonoro.it) who received their lo-fi self-produced demos. Awards :
They won some Awards and had a lot of nominees in local and national band competitions (Big 2001, Ritmi Globali Europei 2002, I-Tim Tour 2002,etc.). Other participations: in 2004 - 2° Trend&Blues Festival di Ruffano (LE) - the band got the 3rd place in the competition, obtaining a great audience success. In 2004 - exhibition during M.E.I. (most important Italian Independent Labels Meeting) at Demo Award Radio Rai, as one of the 3 best rising bands of the year of Demo Radio Rai (one of biggest national radio-networks). In 2005, SanRemo Rock 2005 award – the band won the award with the song “Lost&Found”, with live show on Radio Rai 2 (national network) and transmission of the event on satellite television network; the song is included in a compilation distributed all over Italy. Participations / Appearances:
The band played for some opening acts with the famous indie-band Tito & Tarantula (soundtrack of the R. Rodriguez' movie “From Dusk till Dawn”) and other Italian bands and artists (Shandon, Beppe Grillo, Rossana Casale, Francesco Baccini etc.) and had some TV appearances (Rock TV, Italia1, Rai 2, Sky TV, Sportitalia). They did some radio participations as well (songs and interviews) on local and national networks (Radio Rai 1, Radio Rai 2, Radio Logica).
In 2004 the song “My Mary Jane” was included in the track list of the DVD “Volume Skateboarding Video ..3” (distributed all over Europe), as the soundtrack of the legendary Rodney Mullen's tricks. In 2005 the song “The Bunny” got inserted in the album “2ROCK”, a Demo Radio Rai 1 rock compilation, edited by Rai Trade and distributed all over Italy. In November 2005 the band signs an EP co-production agreement with Red House Recordings (Senigallia, AN), a big recording studio that worked with very famous artists like Rob Ellis, Charlotte Hatherley (Ash's guitarist), Max Gazzè, Linea 77 and many others.