Three musicians with different backgrounds met in a home studio and realized it was the moment that they had been waiting for all their lives: Liliya Akhmetzyanova on piano; Silvio Canargiu on bass; Pierpaolo Frailis on drums.
Liliya is a classically trained pianist. She graduated from Russian conservatory. Always hated jazz and thought that all jazz players are pretentious nerds. Ironically, she met Silvio Canargiu, who is a jazz musician, fell in love with him and, automatically, with jazz.
Silvio Canargiu started his professional career in 1992 with sardinian pop bands as guitarist and later singer/guitarist. Went to Sanremo for a pop festival with Nicola Marogna then he played for a long time with Stefano Puddu in France recording a couple of albums such as Zamballarana with Jerome Casalonga's 15 elements ensemble. Mr. Elvis Costello judged this album as "ONE OF THE 500 BEST ALBUMS OF ALL TIMES"
During that period Canargiu played different styles such as blues at the Rocce Rosse and Blues Festival (as opening act for B.B.King and John Mayall) with his acoustic trio Walking blues or jazz with Federico Vassallo, Vittorio Sicbaldi, Sandro Fontoni and many others, funk and rock with Silvano Lobina, Davide Sanna, Michela Calabrese and most of the best sardinian musicians available at that time.
In 1996 started playing Bass with a MPB band in Cagliari.
In 1998 he released his first album with his name on called D'improvviso.
On that time he moved to London Town and then to New Jersey & New York playing, composing, studying harmony, contrappunto and guitar technique.
Back to Italy in 2000 he started playin' with Sergio Bevilacqua and many other musicians around the "north-east" scene. In 2001 flew back to U.S.A. for easter then back to Veneto and, on summer, he got to Isola D'elba and Montecampione. 2002 started with a long flight to Genova-Milano-Paris-Miami-Fort Lauderdale....destination Costa Cruises on caribbean sea untill summer.
After a 2 weeks break in Cagliari he left for Egypt until october, then he joined Costa Cruises from Savona to Canarie islands and then he spent new year's eve in Zanzibar.
Performances in hotels, resorts and clubs went on through all these years with some breaks dedicated to composition of rhapsodies, orchestral suites and rock songs.
He visited many new countries in 2003/2004 such as Tunisia, Turkey, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Cyprus, Jordan (where he met, played and recorded with giants Andrea Chiesa and Ilham Al Madfai) and all those trips modified his artistic language turning it in what we see now: a musical melting pot.
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On summer 2005 Canargiu played jazz at the Forte Village with many old and new collaborators like Sebastiano Dessanay, Vassallo, Andrea Ruggeri and many others.
In september he won a local world music contest playing Aggiuteme, first song composed and sung by the duet "Silvio Canargiu - Battista Dagnino" for the album A Que.
In that period he met Samuele Dessi, a phenomenal guitarist/producer known for his studio work on most of the italian pop productions available on market.
He taught him the use of computers and music software which he used from then on to ease his music production job. They also recorded some nice tunes not available for sell (a kind of private relics).
January-February 2006 was dedicated to composition of "Jolanda, la figlia del corsaro nero", backlines for Arturo Villone direction.
Summer 2006 spent playing with Michele Del Baldo and Anna Nicolamarino , on cute valleys of Villasimius recording some new age tracks available on album Mystical Path.
In november he flew to Milan where he started working with his dear english friend John Peter Sloan to his very first comedy project: Culture Shock, first english/italian comedy show ever performed live on theatres.
Main theme of this show was "Your Culture" (find it on freeMusic), composed 4 hands with Sloan. Debut in Milan's Zelig theatre on march 20, 2007.
At the beginning of 2009 produced/composed the all soundtrack for John Sloan and his "Inglese essenziale".
On summer 2009 he moved to Amman (Jordan) joining Ilham Al Madfai's big band playing on islam's month of Ramadan then he started teaching at the Freddy For Music school of music and recording songs for Haitham Yousif, Ali Rehany, Faris Hussien Abdallah and his dear iraqi friend Khalid Abu Haroon.
In september he started a new production with his mate John Peter Sloan called Speak Now for Repubblica and recorded a new jazz album with a brand new italian quartet: Destroy The New World Order.
In january 2011 more time was dedicated to Speak Now Evolution and Italiens (a small format inside Rai tv program Report).
in summer Destroy The New World Order was launched on market while, thanks to cooperation with Del Baldo and Allison McAreavey, recording sessions for a new chill out box were running high.
The last three months of the year he performed in Dubai at the Habtoor Grand.
2012 starts with a trip to Finland, then a 3 months contract as solo artist at Perde Pera in Sardinia and some more trips to Tuscany and Milan.
Meanwhile, his mate Michele Del Baldo produced a new compilation containing most of the best lounge songs by Canargiu.
This album is called The best 50 lounge songs ever and inevitably it was a success In december production called X started in Chieti with Nicola Pisano and Walter Caratelli.
The recordings for this project were made at Protosound and ended the dec. 23, just in time for Christmas and New Year's eve with John Peter Sloan in Milan. 2013 was a transition year. Project X was published and some live acts were made but nothing remarkable for the hystory books. In 2014 Silvio Canargiu recorded new songs for a movie that actually didn't see the light but most of all re-recorded with Paolo Demontis a series of songs composed between 1992 and 1996 when all the dreams were actually possible. That songlist is available for purchase online as Un futuro alle spalle. In 2015 Silvio played live at Forte Village Resort and on Diamond Princess Cruise Ship which was good fun for him (who heavily improvised thanks to a loop pedal and a bit of creativity) and for many of the customers who faced him. After a month in Oman, in february 2016, he moved to Los Angeles and joined the Star Princess playing as solo guitarist between Canada, Hawaii, California and Alaska. Summertime spent again as solo guitarist at prestigious Forte Village Resort. From october till december he recorded two albums: 20's and People, with Pierpaolo Frailis, Liliya Akhmetzianova and Emanuele La Barbera. First record was dedicated to some of the wonderful songs written in the second decade of 20th century and the second one to some influential figures that touched Silvio's heart. People starts with Arina, which was basically a bet between Silvio and this newborn baby's parents: will you be faster composing it or her mom delivering her? Last but not least song of the album is dedicated to the glorious figure of footballer and sardinian hero Gigi Riva. Composition took a long, long time and was only possible because of Liliya's arrangement.
Pierpaolo Frailis Qualifications and Education: 1998 Studies privately with: Salvatore Corazza. 2000-today Participates in various Drums Masterclasses by: Francesco Sotgiu, Roberto Gatto, Alfredo Golino, Gregg Bisonnette, Walter Martino, Agostino Marangolo, Enzo Zirilli.
2000 Becomes qualified as a teacher in Yamaha course Teaching
2004-today Starts teaching privately drums, in all styles of music
2006-2009 Hired by several private schools as a drum teacher in Sardinia (Scuola Civica Villacidro, Diapason, Pesolo, N.A.M., Studio 98Lab, Astralia, etc.)
2012 - Joins the London's ICMP as a member of the "Visiting Faculty"
2012 - Writes a series of articles for the prestigious Italian magazine "Ritmi" Recording
2003 Records Play-Along backing tracks for Steve Trovato’s Chameleon Music (with Dario Cortese)
2005 Records the album “Kimbade” by Gigi Acquas
2007 Records the album “....Things Gotta Happen” by Blu:ztep
2009 Records “Frattale” by the Sunflower Quartet 2009 Records “I racconti del mare” by Akroasis 2009 Records “Indefinito” by Gianni Abraini 2010 Records "Conitinuitè" by Mario Brai
2011 Records “Song Book vol.2” by the Sebastiano Dessanay Trio 2012 Records “SongShine” by Francesca Corrias
2015 Records "Davide Pirodda" by Davide Pirodda
2016 Records “20's” by Silvio Canargiu 2017 Records “People” by Silvio Canargiu 2018 Records “Lisipi” by Lisipi Live Performance
1997-2000 Joins various bands and tours Sardinia as sideman for many international artists like: Papa Winnie, Grazie di Michele, Scialpi, Corona, Dan Harrow and many others
2007-today he has played in the following “Hotels and Resorts": Forte Village, Timi Ama, T-Hotel, Cala Caterina, Sant’Elmo, Is Morus, Baia di Nora, Costa dei Fiori, Chia Laguna, Is Molas e many others. 2009 Performs internationally with the band Akroasis, including the prestigious Tokyo’s Club City and Parigi’s Peniche Anako venues.
2006 Tours with Blu:ztep in the biggest festivals in Sardinia, including Dromos, Girotonno, Narcao Blues and many others.
2009-2010 Tours the biggest festival in Europe with the Sunflower Quartet all over europe, including Umbria Jazz, Jazz Voyer, Festival Palma de Mallorca, Nasjonal Jazzscene Oslo, Ostrava Jazz Open, Jazz Dock and Palac Akropolis Praga, Starà Aréna Ostrava- Starà Pekarnà Brno, La casa del Jazz, Jazz Expo.
2010 Performs with the Alessandro Di Liberto Trio including the Teatro Club and the Prague’s Jazz Dock, Starà Aréna Ostrava- Starà Pekarnà Brno- Jazz Club Havirov- Kafè Mandala Koprivnice
2011 Performs with the Sebastiano Dessanay Trio in the UK, including The Forge and The Foyles in London, ABH Auditorium in Birmingham
2016 Perform with Sonos Quartet in Repubblic of China for two mounts in the JZ-Club Hangzou. Show less
