PACI Roy
Blaccahénze

INC156

8015948501566
Incipit Records
Italia

 

Trumpet player, composer and music arranger, Roy Paci starts playing the piano when he’s just a little child then turns to trumpet at the age of 10. In 1994 Roy Paci, together with Fabio Barovero (Mau Mau), founds his maybe weirdest project: Banda Ionica, a band which collects the most notable southern Italy funeral marches. Their album “Matri Mia” will even rank among the European top 10 world music records. His most famous band up-to-date was born in 1999: Roy Paci & Aretuska, a project where Roy surrounds himself with young Sicilian musicians mixing rock n’steady, ska, soul, funk and Mediterranean melodies.
In 2003 Roy Paci created one of his more experimental projects: Corleone. Seven years after his last Corleone record, Roy Paci is back with “Blaccahénze”.
“Never relieved, never forgotten, never tamed. Corleone is the name given by Roy Paci to the combo he carries in his heart. The experience through which he embodies the sheer glowing passion for the most unlabelling experimental jazz. Impetuous, syncopated, feverish and little comforting rhythms for an hypnotic and sharp sound: joy and convulsive beauty are here” (Pino Saulo)


Trumpet player, composer and music arranger, Roy Paci starts playing the piano when he’s just a little child then turns to trumpet at the age of 10, when he joins his town’s local marching band. After his first experiences with some Sicilian jazz bands Roy Paci’s first project is a 7-piece outfit called As Sikilli. In 1990 he moves to South America and plays with the national Argentina’s Big Band, with cumbia bands, with Musica Popolar Do Brasil together with Selma Reis. In 1994 Roy Paci, together with one of Mau Mau’s member, founds his maybe weirdest project: Banda Ionica, a band which collects the most notable southern Italy funeral marches. Their album “Matri Mia” will even rank among the European top 10 world music records. His most famous band up-to-date was born in 1999: Roy Paci & Aretuska, a project where Roy surrounds himself with young Sicilian musicians mixing rock n’steady, ska, soul, funk and Mediterranean melodies. Roy Paci & Aretuska toured the most important European countries including: UK (Womad Reading Festival), Spain (Sevilla Festival), Hungary (Sziget Festival), Belgium (Fiesta Mundial). In 2003 Roy Paci created one of his more experimental projects: Corleone, a band whose aim is re-discovering the Sicilian tradition renewing its sound through influences from rock and avant-garde jazz. Seven years after his last Corleone record, Roy Paci is back with “Blaccahénze”. "Blaccahénze is a dialect word from Abbruzzo, (exactly from Montorio al Vomano) coming from the itlo-american "Black Hand". This word introduced by people from Montorio, emigrated to the United states, was used to indicate the term “mess”, besides the original meaning of the term. Pino Saulo has described this latest work: “Never relieved, never forgotten, never tamed. Corleone is the name given by Roy Paci to the combo he carries in his heart. The experience through which he embodies the sheer glowing passion for the most unlabelling experimental jazz. Impetuous, syncopated, feverish and little comforting rhythms for an hypnotic and sharp sound: joy and convulsive beauty are here”