piccola bottega baltazar
Padova, Veneto, Italy | INDIE
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LADRO DI ROSE
azzurra music 2010
Piccola Bottega Baltazar narrate stories linked to everyday life and events, located in factories, allotments and environmental absurdities. Approaching folk music with a distinctly modern attitude and fusing Italian with Venetian dialect, the band sketches a tormented and deep fondness towards its native land.
Art director: Carlo Carcano
IL DISCO DEI MIRACOLI
azzurra music 2007
The miracles record was inspired by some ex-voto paintings we found last summer in a small chapel dedicated to St. Rita at the foothill of Col Visentin, near Belluno. Although characters and scenes can be judged as quite real, we have assessed that the miracles depicted have been created by particularly fantastic minds none of which are real.
CANZONI IN FORMA DI FIORE
azzurra music 2004
L’ALLEGORIE DE LA STATUE
creative commons 2005
Music composed for a workshop of integrated theather that took place in Padua in Sept/Oct 2005 under the direction of Patrice Guillaumet (Petit Theatre d’Ernest in Metz).
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POCO TEMPO, TROPPA FAME
azzurra music 2002
A tribute to Fabrizio de André
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Piccola Bottega Baltazar is a band from the Veneto region, North-eastern Italy, founded in 2000.
The band has been awarded with several prizes (Valmarana Prize 2000, Risonanze Prize 2002, Rockit Prize 2004, Monferr’ autore Prize 2005, runner-up at Venice Music Festival in 2007, Musicboom.it’ s best decade cd, Bielle.org’ s cd of the year 2010, shortlisted for “ A song for OMSA workers” at 2010 Independent Labels Meeting).
Their cd’ s and performances have been favourably reviewed by a number of newspapers and magazines.
Up till now Piccola Bottega Baltazar has released four cd’ s published and distributed by the independent label Azzurra music located in Verona: “ Poco tempo, troppa fame – omaggio a Fabrizio de Andrè” (Not enough time and very hungry – tribute to Fabrizio de Andrè) in 2002, “ Canzoni in forma di fiore” (Flower shaped songs) in 2004, “ Il disco dei miracoli” (The miracles record) in 2007, nominated among the best 20 italian indie records by P.I.M.I., and “ Ladro di rose” (The rose thief) in 2010.
The band has also worked for theatre, composing music for several plays and documentaries broadcasted by Rai TV and soundtracks for the documovies “ La Mal’ ombra” (awarded with the Avanti! Prize at the Torino Film Festival in 2007) produced by Jolefilm, “ Come un uomo sulla terra” (nominated for the David di Donatello Prize and awarded with the Gran Prix Telefrance for the best Mediterranean documentary), “ Magari le cose cambiano” (awarded with the Ucca Prize and Avanti! Prize at the Torino Film Festival in 2009 and with the Docucity Prize by the University of Milan in 2010) and “ Il sangue verde” (awarded with the DOC Prize at the Venice Film Festival in 2010). Piccola Bottega Baltazar has played all over Italy, as well as in Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Greece and Mexico.
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