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The Joe Black Group was born in May 2005, based on an idea of its songwriter and keyboard player Giovanni Orlando, aka "Joe", who, together with the eclectic Andrea Gemmato ("Ritratto di un mattino gruppo rock progressive", that is to say: "Portrait of a morning"), begins to develop ‘60s- and ‘70s-like sounds with his guitar. Two months later, this new sounds found in Claudio Merico, violinist and founder of the "Anonima Folk" folk rock group, a valid fellow musician.
With these elements, they give birth to the first Joe Black Group's cd, focused on the search of sound coming from three different musical periods: the ‘70s, the ‘80s and the ‘90s. The title of this first work is "Artic Mind", but it wasn't distributed because of founds shortage at that time. "Artic Mind" had three important collaborations in it: the one of Simone Costantino, who contributed positively with his voice and his rap style; the one of Flavia Falanga, aka "Meei" (voice in "Time has come"); and the one of Alessandra Fineo (voice in "Rain").
At the end of the summer of 2006, the group finds, within a few weeks, the three missing components, namely: Stefano Spataro (founder of "Ritratto di un mattino") and his electric bass, Marcello De Felice (drummer of "Anonima Folk") and that astonishing soul voice of Ilaria Fuggetti's, who soon became one of the columns and fundamental member of the group. From the October of 2006 up to the July of 2007, the Joe Black Group consolidate its position with the three principal members (Giovanni Orlando, Ilaria Fuggetti and Andrea Gemmato) and with important collaboration, first of which is the one with Claudio Merico (violin), then with Stefano Spataro and Marcello De Felice.
This was the starting line of the new cd. In July 2007, Andrea Gemmato (electric guitar) leaves the band, but this was no earthquake: on the other hand, the band (Ilaria, Joe and Stefano with the unique collaboration of Claudio Merico) could continue to carry on the second cd, working hard on it.
December 2007 witnessed an important change: Stefano (bass) leaves the band, in accord to the rest of the members, to follow his personal project (Ada Nuky) and his place is taken by an extraordinary and bright bass player: Anna Annicchiarico, aka "Nina, the sweet iron bass", who started immediately to mark her personal style, both musically and personally speaking, in two songs: "Deep inside" and "The beginning", in both of which she also helps in writing the lyrics.
In January 2008, the Joe Black Group was contacted by an important international company for discography distribution and marketing, so that it is actually finishing a mini cd which should later on been produced and distributed.
Other projects, still in an early stage, are the opening of a Recording Studio, of a Proof Studio and an audio/video production society, to give the possibility to other local groups to play with high level instrumentation. The idea is to give to the Studio a tipical american sound as the most important characteristic. It is not easy to label the Joe Black Group under a determined musical genre, since its members are from very different musical backgrounds: because of this, the group pass from Fusion to Funky Jazz, through Soul, some ‘70s rock nuance and New Age.
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