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Prendete un po' di vintage, aggiungetegli una spruzzata funkadelica, un pizzico di punk, amalgamate il tutto con le più universali regole del rock americano e avrete la perfetta sintesi degli Stellakovalski. Stupisce un po' scoprire che sono italiani, perchè questo loro disco d'esordio suona internazionale come pochi altri, il che è, a mio avviso, una buona cosa.
Gli anni di sala prove e di concerti di questa band hanno saputo fruttare bene: Admiring Venus è un disco che funziona, a partire da un titolo ispirato in maniera poetica e romantica all'universo femminile. Gli Stellakovalsky hanno scelto di anticiparlo con il singolo Toilets Are Sad Place To Live In, brano tra i migliori del bouquet presentato: solido, roccioso, con un riff che promette bene e mantiene fino alla fine.
Un sound deciso, ben delineato, maturo per questa band, aiutato da una produzione eccelsa e cosmopolita che sa esaltare alla perfezione tutte le molteplici sfaccettature percepibili: dal febbricitante funk di Hotel On The Moon fino a scarne costruzioni rock che si rifanno alla lezione di White Stripes e Clash e ad episodi più introspettivi, quasi tutti presenti alla fine dell'album.
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Discography
20 october first single and video released.
04 November the band’s debut album “Admiring Venus” are on air on all music tv’s and on the most important commercial radio’s in Italy.
On april second single release "Hotel on the moon" and video directed from Mike Sloat.
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Bio
STELLAKOWALSKY’s story begins in 1999, when the four members of the band decide to “steal” Stella’s name, famous in “A Streetcar Named Desire” , and use it as a band logo and name. This is just the last step taken by the band since their beginning in 1991, when Alex Malgioglio came to Italy from Detroit where is he had lived since he was a little kid. In the States Alex had started to make music an essential part of his life, playing in local bands: same thing he obviously wanted to do when back to Italy, moving to Milan. After trying out different Italian bands Alex joins in with Fabrizio Caligiuri, Damiano Raimondi and his brother Francesco and starts up a band called Flame, playing clubs all over Italy. Initially, pressed by local record labels Alex writes songs in Italian but indeed it was not his “real” language. After having signed a record contract with an indipendent label, the four of them changed their name in Stellakowalsky and started touring around Italy, supporting artists like the swedish The Ark. After the tour Alex starts writing songs in English again and soon enough along with his mates a new demo is finished. Against common sense in making english music in Italy, Fabrizio Simoncioni, absolutely one of Italy’s leading engineers and producers, decides to take his chances into producing the band. Stellakowalsky signed up a deal with Alari Park Group, a new indipendent label based around one of Italy’s top recording facilities, Alari Park Recording and gained a distribution agreement with Edel.
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