After Simone Sandrucci and Dario Canal, enter our bass players (and singer of a few whispered songs). Some people call him The Wolf (not of Wall Street), some call him Tattistampa. A few others call him Wolfi (but we are not authorized). In any case, it’s him, with his one-string bass, hand-built in 1972 and hand-played in countless street music events in Germany, prior to his relocation in the heart of the Metalliferous Hills.
In the header you see him dress up as Steve Jobs. At some point Wolf in fact decided to launch a line of products with an apple, clearly a biodynamic one.
If all this story had taken place in a big city, with all “them” innovation hubs and all “them” disruptive talks and “them” places where lots of people have hipster beards “because it’s disruptive” and motivational writings in meeting rooms, Wolfgang would be defined as a “maker”. But we just prefer not to define him, while remembering that back in the Sixties he was a Twist champion, and he still likes to jump and jive with that dance.
After presenting yesterday our “axe man” Simone Sandrucci, it is now time to introduce “the voice”…or, rather, the lead vocalist, since all the other members of the collective sing at least one song during a geomusical event. [Note If you lost our teaser trailer, and the indications to how to support the production of our story, please see this article]
Dario Canal (Castelnuovo Val di Cecina, Pisa, 1991), resident in Massa Marittima, in the heart of the Metalliferous Hills, Southern Tuscany. Co-founder and lead vocal with Etruschi from Lakota. In addition to being a rocker, he has various collaborations in the education sector (also being a certified instructor with the Associazione Italiana Gordon per l’Apprendimento Musicale, AIGAM), in cultural mediation, and in theatre productions. With the JBCM he mainly sings and plays guitar, but on 20% of our repertoire you might see him on drums. In 2020 he decided to attend a Master course in education science at the University of Siena, and he has just started now his second year, with excellent results (and without neglecting his musical activity).
Let us start by presenting the characters who will be part of the fellowship going from Tatti (Southern Tuscany) to Roccatederighi (Southern Tuscany, 7 kilometers from Tatti), travelling via Milan in early December [Note: If you missed it, please see the heads up about the mission in the Nov. 8 post]
Simone Sandrucci (Firenze, 1991). Lives in Pomarance, in the heart of the Cecina Valley. In the Jug Band Colline Metallifere he is the lead guitarist, also dealing with banjos, mandolins, and other strings. He was one of the founders of Etruschi from Lakota. With them he produced three albums, and toured most of Italy between 2011 and 2020. He also works as a sound engineer for the Tana del Bianconiglio recording studio, Montecchio di Peccioli (Pisa), in the heart of Valdera. In collaboration with other colleagues, you might see him as sound service (boasting a Lombardi sound system from the Seventies). When he grows up he plans to become a toga party planner. In the meantime, he is an active supporter of various social causes. As a live musician, he also collaborates with various parallel projects. The most recent of these is the Scacciacagne Crew.
In this short video from 2017 (April 11), see Simone putting the Giacomelli family Eko X-27 to the test.
After a better-than-expected Summer with eight live shows in Tuscany, ranging from North to South (between Massa Carrara and San Quirico d’Orcia), and the awesome series of gigs with Klaus der Geiger in our closer surroundings (Follonica, Monterotondo, Tatti, Meleta…read it all in our News section), on November 3, at 10.16AM we received an offer that we could not refuse: going to Milano on Dec. 10, to have a brief set at a workshop in the Politecnico (which hosts the faculties of Engineering and Architecture).
We already visited this important location with all of the band in May 2019. Then when we gave a lecture about “sound engineering vs. engineering with sound”, while heading to Germany for a series of geoconcerts (here is a report of that story). Furthermore, since 2011 Jack O’Malley, with his environmental engineering MS and PhD has been often giving talks at the Politecnico.
In Follonica with Klaus der Geiger, Oct. 23, 2021
To build on the email we received last Wednesday, we set out to figure how to arrange other complementary activities in the town to which we have also dedicated a song, twinning it with a village very close to us, called Roccatederighi. The final schedule for December is not yet confirmed, but at this stage we already have an outline which we like to share.
In pratice, there will be a series of situations which will start around Dec. 4 in Tatti, and will end on Dec. 12 in Roccatederighi. In between there will be two and a half days in Milano (Friday 10, Saturday 11 and a breakfast on Sunday 12). So in our geotour we will have a starting and ending point which are 7 kilometers apart, with 840 kilometers to ride, and various intermediate spots. Mauro Tirannosauro will be our tour manager.
Please note: when we speak of events we do not necessarily mean concerts: our “geomusical” format includes music, talks, demonstrations of handicraft activies, tastings, etc. …these all compose our “concerpt” line of work.
One of the concerpts in Germany, in 2019.
This mission will be documented on our web site (http://www.jugbandcm.it), in Italian and English. Just check out the “News” section when you feel like it. If you really can’t get off that social network, updates will be also posted on the band’s Facebook and Instagram pages, while on Twitter and Linkedin we will post them on the pibinko.org channels. This is actually always us (plus other colleagues) when we are not doing geomusic. Once a week there will also be an email newsletter (in any case, this hosts also news from other partners of the network).
Should you accept to follow this mission, you may help to make it work better in four ways:
Hiring the Jug Band Colline Metallifere for future events…in the physical world or online (info and booking at micalosapevo@pibinko.org or whatsapp +393317539228).
Providing other forms of sponsorship (again, please contact micalosapevo@pibinko.org or whatsapp +393317539228)
This message will not self-destruct, because you need to listen to this song we wrote, speaking of Milano vs. rural areas: “Rock a Milano, blues alla Rocca”: in its 2020 lockdown version:
PS our next communications will be shorter, but we needed an introduction…
