Subsonica were formed in Turin in 1996 by underground producer and Africa Unite guitarist Max Casacci and singer Samuel Romano, who soon after also enrolled keyboardist and long time friend Boosta, together with Ninja and Pierfunk to complete (on drums and bass respectively) a straightforward and top-notch rhythm section.
The eponymous debut album came in ’97, shortly followed by a stunning performance, opening for U2, on the MTV Day main stage.
The album included the collaboration with iconic pop singer Antonella Ruggiero: the cover version of her “Per Un’Ora D’Amore” became a radio hit, and paved the way for the album, which soldover 200.000 copies. The follow-up album came in 1999: for “Microchip Emozionale” (winner of the Italian Music Award), Vicio became the band’s new bass player.
The buzz around Subsonica was huge, but still most “official media” seemed not to cwere about the band, until they decided, surprisingly, to compete at the following year’s Sanremo Festival with an explicit and uncompromising track, “Tutti i miei sbagli”, in which they mixed house-beats with furious electric guitars. Subsonica were now definitely on the map both for the critics and the more mainstream audience.
Thus they could go back to touring, just in time to gain the award for “Best Italian Act” at the MTV EMA’s. With their third CD, called “Amorematico” (January 2002), the band explored new sounds, sometimes anticipating future international trends. It sold over 100.000 copies, and they played in front of over 350.000 people during the following tour dates.
They then decided to release a live album (“Controllo del livello di rombo”, 2003), and again they secured the best Italian band award from MTV.
With more explorations and new horizons in mind, the 2005 studio album “Terrestre” was more rock and electric. It immediately topped the Italian album charts, and sold over 110.000 copies in the first month after being released.
The attention it ignited was huge, and it was followed shortly by a live dvd and double cdwhich included some unreleased acoustic tracks. “L’Eclissi”, fifth studio album, hits the shelves on Nov 23rd 2007. The following tour sold out at all main Italian cities, as well as in Bruxelles and London.
The video for “Quattrodieci” opened the 4th season of “Lost” on Fox Italy. Subsonica then decided to remaster and retouch the highlights and gems from their catalogue: the collection “Nel vuoto per mano” was released on October 2008, to document the band’s first 12 years, it also contained a new, unreleased track, “Il vento” On April 22nd 2009, Subsonica represented Italian music at the World Earth Day concert in Rome. Since January 2010 the band has been behind all music breaks and jingles of national FM radio RadioRai2. In Summer 2010 Subsonica were one of only a handful of Italian bands to be guests on Sziget Festival Main Stage.
On March 8th 2011 the band released a new album, Eden, which became a huge success shortly after opening at #2 in the italian chart. The first single off the album, Istrice, was one of the most played songs on italian radio and the spring tour brought about a total of over 90.000 tickets sold over 11 gigs.
In summer Subsonica started a new tour, 25 dates all over Italy for more than 200.000 tickets sold. In November the band published the repackaging of Eden with two new songs, and they started an acoustic tour, 10 gigs in theatres to end on December 10th 2011.
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27 MARCH 2012KOKO club – London, 1a Camden High Street
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doors open: 7,00pm – show time: 9,00pm (headliner)
ticket price: £ 20,00 in advance, £ 24,00 on the door
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Giovanni Allevi is an exceptional artist of unique intellectual and musical commitment. He feels his music not only with passion but with rigour, graduating with honours in Philosophy at the University of Macerata, Italy, graduating with full marks in Pianoforte at the Conservatory ‘F.Morlacchi’, Perugia, Italy, and graduating with full marks in Composition at the Conservatory ‘Giuseppe Verdi’, Milan, Italy. With his music he achieves a synthesis between the classical tradition and contemporary pop and jazz idioms, he is at home in the concert hall as he is in the stadium. "We are going back to a time during the Renaissance Era when the artist was a bit philosopher, a bit inventor and a bit crazy: he had to come out of his golden cage and deal with everything". He prizes the piano as a means of expression for its "closeness to the soul, to emotions and adrenaline". 
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