Fabrizio Cammarata
| Established. Jan 01, 2011 | INDIE
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Press
"Paolo Nutini is the Scottish Fabrizio Cammarata" Gianni Santoro / XL di Repubblica (IT)
"'Rooms', indeed opens spaces, is almost worldmusic and grows while listening. A recommendation!" Take 5 - MDR Figaro, public radio (D)
“extraordinary songs of a heartwarming beauty”... “This is world music in the true, best sense [...] with arrangements, in which consistently a sympathetic love to the detail can be felt”
Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger (D) on “Rooms” (Jan 12)
"exotic flair... a really nice surprise" Gaesteliste.de (D)
"...international topclass. ... a terrific album" Titel Magazin (D)
“A beautiful and compelling worldmusic record”
Caleidoscoop, muziek der verbeelding. Online reviews, blog. (NL)
"Rooms is like a pure chocolate bar you cannot get enough of"
Koen Nederhof - Festivalinfo.nl (NL)
"beatified the Italians that appear and grow around the world. If there are good guitars, warm sound and Californian songs in that world, even better. beatified Fabrizio Cammarata..." L'internazionale (I)
"a fantastic album, of composition quality, interpretative gift and extraordinary good taste... ten episodes of which you could not call a single one less than (very) beautiful”
Federico Guglielmi, Il Mucchio (I) about “Rooms”
"The young man has a powerful and very expressive voice, his songs are musical diamonds full of melody, meaning and emotion".
Shakenstir.co.uk (UK)
"charming ballads (...) His voice, sometimes pleading (…) sometimes smoothing (…), fits perfectly with the lush arrangements and rhythms that draw their inspiration from the four corners of the world".
La Libre.be (BE)
"At first glance ‘Rooms’ seems a rather plain album, but give it a second chance and it will surprise you in a very pleasant way. And it has to be said: the man has a magnificent voice".
Indiestyle.be (BE)
"Sicilian Fabrizio Cammarata is certainly the most un-Italian singer-songwriter... The singles ‘Alone & Alive’ and ‘All I Know’ need time to convince the listener, but once you reach that point they won’t ever let you go".
Zizo Magazine (BE)
"A lord of the world and always in love with different places. We hope Portugal has touched Fabrizio and we look forward for a justified come back" Palco Principal (PT) about Fabrizio Cammarata-show in Porto.
"Each song is mixed extraordinary well with sounds and rhythms from Africa, India and even Cuba. However the Latin essence is there, in the way he sings, in his lyrics and, of course, in his appearance which will not be indifferent to the Portuguese hearts" Le Cool Lisboa (PT) - Various
"'Rooms', indeed opens spaces, is almost worldmusic and grows while listening. A recommendation!" Take 5 - MDR Figaro, public radio (D)
“extraordinary songs of a heartwarming beauty”... “This is world music in the true, best sense [...] with arrangements, in which consistently a sympathetic love to the detail can be felt” Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger (D) on “Rooms” (Jan 12)
"exotic flair... a really nice surprise" Gaesteliste.de (D)
"...international topclass. ... a terrific album" Titel Magazin (D)
"beatified the Italians that appear and grow around the world. If there are good guitars, warm sound and Californian songs in that world, even better. beatified Fabrizio Cammarata..." L'internazionale (I)
"a fantastic album, of composition quality, interpretative gift and extraordinary good taste... ten very beautiful episodes” Federico Guglielmi, Il Mucchio (I) about “Rooms” - Various / Germany Italy
“a gentle, folky mixture of songs that draws from Caribbean, American, and English songwriting traditions”. - AllMusic.com
“The beauty of Second Grace lies in simplicity and the many musical references”. - Rolling Stone
“English-written songs, refined production, Palermo reveals an Indie-Folk heart with this debut album from The Second Grace, a quartet suspended on a voyage of epic and dreamy melodies.”
“Behind the listening experience is Fabrizio Cammarata, a songwriter mixing Borges and Oscar Wilde, Foscolo and Yeats.”
“Their debut album has just been released and some are already considering them the driving force in the Italian Nu-acoustic movement.”
“Like A Juliet is one of the sweetest and most embracing indie-melancholic melodies of the last 5 years.”
- XL - Repubblica
“English-written, graceful and mellow pop-rock from these Palermo-based musicians, is in full stylistic tune with Badly Drawn Boy and other representatives from Folk Electro-Acoustic school in the songwriting, in the refined, but never sugary arrangements and in the soft and flexible voice of Fabrizio Cammarata, the soul and heart of the ensemble.”
“Thirteen imaginative and pleasurable trips, the influences of which may be found across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and on all sides, not just beyond the English Channel.”
- Mucchio
“Four guys crazy for Nick Drake and stars-and-stripes folk. The Second Grace cover the distance between Sicily and America”.
“Summer 2005. Devendra Banhart and his freaky bunch of pals perform in the gorgeous frame of Piazza Magione in Palermo when, all of the sudden, a shy guy with an acoustic guitar gets up on stage. Today, after two years and with his own band, he remembers: “I met Devendra during the sound check [...], that night he invited me up on stage to play one of my songs in front of few thousand people”.
“Four young Palermitan guys come to their debut album on the wake of the single Antananarive that has conquered the hearts of many, including the advertisers (Tortellini FINI TV ad)”.
“a bunch of songs with crystal grace every bit as good as the most illustrious productions coming from across the Atlantic”.
- RockStar
“The more you listen to this debut album, the more you are surprised by its sunny, smooth and peaceful beauty” - Musica & Dischi
Discography
"Rooms" 2011/2012, Released in EU by Panmondial/Grooveattack, in Italy by ViaAudio Records/Venus
"Alone and Alive" 10/2011 iTunes exclusive Single feat. VideoClip (Panmondial)
"Fabrizio Cammarata & The Second Grace" 06/2011 EP iTunes (Panmondial)
“Live at Chocolate Church, Bath, US” 06/2008 EP iTunes (Edel)
“The Second Grace” 05/2007, LP - Released in Italy by Edel
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Bio
Fabrizio Cammarata is a singer-songwriter, hailing from Palermo, Sicily.
Fabrizio's main inspiration is his hometown, but there is Cuba and North Africa in his songs, along with Bob Dylan, Fabrizio De André and Nick Drake. You can hear the echo of Miriam Makeba's South African lullabies, and songs in which a Cuban trés is unexpectedly in harmony with Indian tabla and rhythmic percussions, electric bass and guitar.
The second album "Rooms" and its first single "Alone and Alive" is released in EU through the German Panmondial/GrooveAttack, in Poland through MyMusic and in Italy through ViaAudio/Venus . The Album was recorded and mixed between Sicily, NYC, Portland OR and Tucson. It was produced by JD Foster (Calexico, Marc Ribot, Richmond Fontaine, Capossela) and features, among a bunch of fantastic Italian musicians, collaborations by Joey Burns from Calexico and Jairo Zavala (Calexico, Depedro, Amparanoia), mastered in Cologne, Germany by H.Jaeckl.
The new album is very well received around Europe including his home country Italy, where Fabrizio Cammarata is a prominent part of the independent musical panorama. Top reviews and interviews, major airplay and features, as well as great shows build on what was funded by the first award-winning album "The Second Grace", whose single "Antananarive" had MTV- and National Public Radio heavy rotation.
The videos of "Alone and Alive" and "Antananarive" are both directed by the Sergi Capellas (RCR Films, Barcelona). Over the last few years, Fabrizio played numerous shows, over 40 in the first half of 2012 only, in Europe, US, Canada, Mexico (like SXSW, LiverpoolSoundCity, MaMA, c/o pop, CMW, Glimps, Eurosonic) and of course Italy, affecting in solo shows and band line-ups. He also opened for the likes of Devendra Banhart, Iron & Wine, Gang of Four, My Brightest Diamond, The Devastations, Depedro, Carmen Consoli, Ely Guerra as well as before and with Daniel Johnston – experiences that prove a succeeded conversion of the album's intensity and interesting tone colour on stage.
"'Rooms', indeed opens spaces, is almost worldmusic and grows while listening. A recommendation!" Take 5 - MDR Figaro, public radio (D)
“extraordinary songs of a heartwarming beauty”... “This is world music in the true, best sense [...] with arrangements, in which consistently a sympathetic love to the detail can be felt” Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger (D) on “Rooms” (Jan 12)
"exotic flair... a really nice surprise" Gaesteliste.de (D)
“first class popsongs” Reeperbahnfestival.com/blog (D)
"...international topclass. ... a terrific album" Titel Magazin (D)
"beatified the Italians that appear and grow around the world. If there are good guitars, warm sound and Californian songs in that world, even better. beatified Fabrizio Cammarata..." L'internazionale (I)
"a fantastic album, of composition quality, interpretative gift and extraordinary good taste... ten very beautiful episodes” Federico Guglielmi, Il Mucchio (I) about “Rooms”
"The young man has a powerful and very expressive voice, his songs are musical diamonds full of melody, meaning and emotion".
Shakenstir.co.uk (UK)
"charming ballads (...) His voice, sometimes pleading (...) sometimes soothing (...), fits perfectly with the lush arrangements and rhythms that draw their inspiration from the four corners of the world". La Libre.be (BE)
" certainly the most un-Italian singer-songwriter... ‘Alone & Alive’ en ‘All I Know’ need time to convince the listener, but once you reach that point they won’t ever let you go". Zizo Magazine (BE)
“A beautiful and compelling worldmusic record”
Caleidoscoop, muziek der verbeelding (NL)
"Rooms is like a pure chocolate bar you cannot get enough of"
Koen Nederhof - Festivalinfo.nl (NL)
“Wonderful stories... beautiful production...after a while you discover that the Italian is quite different than his non-Mediterranean genre– colleagues”. De krenten uit de Pop-Blog / Velvet Music (NL)
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