Franc Cinelli
London, England, United Kingdom | Established. Jan 01, 2010 | SELF
Music
Press
"A Breathe of fresh air" Music Week
"10 marvellous tales of stripped back country/folk laced with wit and wisdom. Could well be a 'best of the year' album contender." Tunatheday
"London based Franc Cinelli excels in the sincerest and most heartfelt song-craft whilst tipping his hat to melancholic heroes and six-string comradery". Mojophenia
"Excellent" Music News
"An imaginative set from a troubadour whose songwriting career promises even greater things to come.” R2 Magazine
“Un cognome che tradisce le sue origini italiane e un bagaglio musicale che lo porta in giro per il nuovo e vecchio continente…il cantautore dall'anima folk-blues è Franc Cinelli. "Faccio blues-folk ma a modo mio - dice Cinelli - tra Londra e il resto del mondo".
Carlo Mandelli ANSA
"Un talento di cui sentiremo parlare" Leggo
"Ottima scrittura, suoni limpidi e ben calibrati ed un immaginario vivido, fanno di Franc Cinelli un cantautore da tenere d'occhio. Consigliato." Buscadero
“…quella voce da croissant che sa di amico, di quelli che ti inchiodano ai loro racconti.”
Pier Andrea Canei Internazionale
“una musica che profuma di ottimo cantautorato vintage... spensierata ma nello stesso tempo pregna di ottimismo e solarità ” Melodicamente
“un cantautore che sa spaziare dal country al folk al rhythm' n' blues” La Repubblica Milano
“Cinelli riesce infatti a far convivere la passione per la melodia senza perdere di vista le influenze rock e blues della terra che lo ha accolto e dei "padri" americani.” La Repubblica Roma
“moderna figura del cantautore rock impegnato d’impostazione springsteeniana.”
Fausto Turi Freakout Magazine
“..come tutte le scoperte inaspettate, ha il fascino infinito di ciò che ti potrà sempre stupire in futuro.” Valentina Paracchi. Indie Zone
“un artista decisamente autentico che riserverà delle sorprese.” Jay Mag
“decisamente accattivante, capace di attirare gli sguardi degli amanti del songwriting all'americana.” Troublezine
“Musiche da superstrada.” Toylet Magazine - Various National & Online Publications.
Discography
Still working on that hot first release.
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Bio
Franc Cinelli will be releasing a brand new LP in Spring 2015.
Having recently completed an extensive European and North American tour including a sold out show at the Living Room in New York City, a televised performance at the Blue Note in Milan & two shows at the Royal Albert Hall. He's gathered recent support from BBC Radio 2 (Dermot O'Leary) and WFUV in New York amongst others. Music Week magazine calls him "a breathe of fresh air".
He is currently touring throughout 2014 presenting the two recent SongCircle Records releases; the five track Alcatraz EP and the long player I Have Not Yet Begun to Fight.The EP takes on five songs inspired by Alcatraz and some of its infamous guests. Defiant, prison outlaw ballads influenced by songwriters Ry Cooder and Mississippi John Hurt wave the flag in this collection about faith, repentance and the indelible human spirit.
’I Have Not Yet Begun to Fight’ signals the arrival of a very singular musical talent in singer, guitarist, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter FRANC CINELLI. On this warm, strong album, Franc’s insightful, reflective songs are delivered in a deep, gravelly, ‘well-travelled’ vocal style and his guitar gently finger picked in sympathetic support. He plays all the instruments on the new album apart from those used in the horn sections (Phil Baer sax, Rob Bell trumpet), the double bass on ’Passera’’, ’Fat Charlie Sings The Blues’ and ’Abracadabra’ (Jim Dytham) and vocals on ’Shot Of Life’ and ’Julius Plays His Winning Ace’ (Claire Inglis).
Starting with the alt/country Shot of Life and closing with the anthemic Julius Plays His Winning Ace, it flows from the waltz/blues of Fat Charlie, to the romantic runaway ballad of Bonnie & Clyde in Fall into Heaven. A first for Franc’s music, Passera’, is a travel song sung in his native Italian. The record ventures into new arrangement territories with horn sections & spaghetti western style choruses blending together with traditional finger style picking and Franc’s trademark Rhythm and Blues sound.
"A Breathe of fresh air" Music Week
"10 marvellous tales of stripped back country/folk laced with wit and wisdom. Could well be a 'best of the year' album contender." Tunatheday
"London based Franc Cinelli excels in the sincerest and most heartfelt song-craft whilst tipping his hat to melancholic heroes and six-string comradery". Mojophenia
"Excellent" Music News
"An imaginative set from a troubadour whose songwriting career promises even greater things to come." Colin Bailey, R2 Magazine
Franc Cinelli was born in Italy and raised in London. His introduction to music came from his mother’s record collection : ”Springsteen, The Police, Dire Straits, Pink Floyd & Bob Marley were the big hitters” he comments.
He started playing the violin when he was about 10 and quit that in favor of the guitar a few years later. Writing his own songs came easier than learning to play “properly” so that’s what he did and pretty much stuck to that mantra up until the making of this new record (see his ’track by track’ comments further below).
The bands he has played in have always been his own. Prior to playing under his own name, he used the moniker Goodtimes Goodtimes under which he released his first record ’Glue’ and following that the eponymous ’goodtimes goodtimes’ record produced by Danton Supple (Coldplay, Morrissey).
Like all good troubadours, he spent a lot of time touring by himself, not just the length and breadth of the UK (quite literally from Hastings to Stornoway) but throughout the East Coast of the USA, Texas & Tennessee, and in his native Italy. He regards the road as the school of songwriting, and, he adds ”its rather good fun”
Influences
Robert Johnson Muddy Waters Ry Cooder Townes Van Zandt Waylon Jennings JJ Cale
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