Biography
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Years Active
2004 – present (20 years)
The Barock Project idea born from desire to spread the finest and perfect structure of classic music (mainest baroque music) with rock-style and a little bit of jazz harmony, all supported by a pop song structure.
Our intention is to make relive the '70s progressive-rock love .
This project born from the keyboardist Luca Zabbini , pianist and composer at the "O.Vecchi" musical institute in Modena.
His passion for famous keyboardist Keith Emerson (Emerson,Lake & Palmer) , has increased in him the desire to play a full range of style , from classical to rock and jazz. Luca is the composer of many songs of the band and since 1990 he played in several bands (rock,blues,funky, as classical pianist , several jam-sessions).
During the summer of 2004 the bass player GB Giorgi and the drummer Giacomo Calabria joined to the band.
Giambattista Giorgi , young bassist influenced by rock sounds with big passion for jazz.
Giambattista and Luca already played together in 1996 with a progressive tribute band (ELP,PFM,ecc…)
Giacomo Calabria , ex drummer of the band , took a part in the recording of album "Rebus" (2009) , and then came out .
Luca Pancaldi sings in several bands since 1996 and in 2001 enter in an Iron Maiden's tribute band called "Children of the Damned". With this band in 2002 he started a long tournee all around Europe with historical Maiden's singer Paul Di'Anno.
The Barock Project music is perfect for places like theatres and festivals.
In January 2007 the band performed live with a string quartet , with arrangements wrote by Luca Zabbini , at Bologna Theater and filmed a dvd called “Rock in Theater”.
In December 2007, with the label Musea Records , “Misteriose Voci” is the first album on the sales with very good reviews and interviews from all the world (“Passion Progressive” France ; “Progressive World.net” USA ; “ProgNosis” USA ; “MovimentiProg” Italy ; “Raw and Wild Magazine” Italy ; “Manticornio” Mexico ; “Prog Nose” Belgium ; “PRPM” Brazil ; “ProgWereld” Netherlands ; ecc…)
In summer 2009 the band release the second album “Rebus” with the Italian label Mellow Records , with very good reviews from all the world. (you can read it here in "Press Reviews" section )
In March 2012 , with the french label Musea Records , the band release the new album "Coffee In Neukölln" , the first one completely in enligsh language.
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