What change did the band go through as Claudia joined?
RICCARDO: The band was born in 1999 as an instrumental duo made of me and
Pierangelo Fevola. Our first instrumental album, "Soehrimnir", was produced
shortly after that, and then Claudia Florio joined the band and we started
to create tracks also with soprano. Pierangelo Fevola left the band for
musical divergences - we are still friends - and we started to collaborate
with Gianluca Uccio. He is a great violinist and we recorded "Florilegium"
with his violin contributions. For our concerts, we alternate between
Giovanni Borrelli, another one of our collaborators, and, most recently,
Edo, who should be performing with us often in the future. Gianluca has been
a studio-member only, and hopefuly this collaboration will go on.
Are you upholding a tradition or adding something new or both?
LUPERCALIA: We just bring into music what we feel, there are no logical intentions
when we start to compose. First comes instinct, then logic. About tradition, yes, we are very
close to the traditions of our country (in a way) but we don't want
to play filological music, traditions must be taken inside and then brought
out again together with the substance of the artist. As the artist A.Gaudi once said, "he who explores his own roots will be in the right path!";.
What will your next record sound like?
RICCARDO: We have lot of songs ready, it will be less complex than "Florilegium", but our sound will be the same. Moreover I wrote several lyrics in Italian and English, so we hope people will understand better our texts. The Latin lyrics sounded fine on “Florilegium”, but Claudia also has a very good pronuncement in English, therefore we are hoping to use English more often in the future! The melodies and harmonies will be mostly focused on voice, guitar and violin, with less synthetizer, and moreover we’ll add natural percussions.
What music do you listen to?
RICCARDO: I love composers of the XXth century like Ravel, Liszt, Shostakovich. Other than that, a lot of filological music of the XIII-XIVth centuries. I love ensambles like MICROLOGUS or CHOMINCHAMENTO DE GIOIA.
CLAUDIA: I love ancient music from England like: Henry Purcell, J. Dowland and Gregorian chants. And I feel that my style of voice comes very close to this period.
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