After the first years of his youth employed among alternative rock / underground bands as a bassist and blues bands as a harmonica player and slide guitarist, The Fuzz decides to leave collective projects to focus on his solo career.
Thus was born his first project: an album entirely written, played and produced by himself.
Grunge, post-grunge, desert rock, stoner and the Californian Palm Desert scene are the main colors of the artist's language.
A first version of "Nighthorse" comes to life, released at the end of 2021 as a demo version but, despite this, it achieved interesting streaming results, and appreciation from listeners and professionals.
To bring the album with greater flexibility to the surviving post-pandemic stages, The Fuzz decides to arrange the album live in an unplugged acoustic key.
The positive feedback generated by the new arrangement and live performance will lead the singer-songwriter to decide to release the definitive official version in these acoustic shades.
Out in fall 2024, “Nighthorse” transports us, through its sounds, to places and sensations of a rural universe in the westernmost part of the United States. Let's be clear, we are far from the hip glories of L.A. or the variegated fabric of San Francisco, quite the opposite. It’s the province, the small timeless towns drowned in the desert, that reign supreme. Fences made by decade-after-decade sun-dried planks are the ones broken through by "Nighthorse" and endless plains of arid cracked ground are the ones in which this guiding spirit walks. The cover makes everything clear right away.
Warm and low-ended vocal notes are alternated by scratchy explosions of voice, characterizing a very personal interpretation of the artist, the instrumental core of the songs is composed of baritone acoustic guitar strums and drum lines almost entirely played with brushes and hot-rods, to which desert percussion is added, distorted chordophones, wide-ranging reverberations and the piercing howls of the blues harmonica.
The album boasts a live recording set up, in which almost all of the songs are one take, precisely to testify to the brutal sincerity of this work and the techniques used in that slice of space-time, so important for the artist.
Lyrics deal with personal and often autobiographical themes, where emotions are the center of everything, sometimes veiled under light metaphors, often thrown straight to your face.
Personal relationships, the progressive rarefaction of the superstructures in which one has been bound, the explosive demolition of the sense of nostalgia that often grips individuals and fragments of the singer-songwriter's experience are forcibly locked in a wooden box and sent to 'listener.
Get yourself a crowbar, sit on a rocking chair and enjoy the listening all in one session.
Genre: Acoustic folk-blues / Alternative rock / Americana
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