Luigi Porto

Luigi Porto
Luigi Porto
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Born	November 22, 1981 (age 43); Cosenza, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Occupation	Composer; Sound Designer; Music Producer;

Luigi Porto (Cosenza, November 22nd, 1981) is an Italian composer, sound designer and music producer.

He has released albums of Art rock.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6] and Electroacoustic music^[7]^[8]^[9], has been a member of the Italian band Maisie and is an author of symphonic music and film soundtracks.

Life

Born in Cosenza, Italy, he started his career playing in local New wave bands and writing music for local theater companies. In the early 2000s his first full-length album "Look At Me"^[10] under the monicker Appleyard College was released by Cold Current Productions, a work poised between a psychedelic indie-folk and a sort of chamber ambient.

Later he joined the Italian art-rock band Maisie, collaborating on the albums Balera Metropolitana and Maledette Rockstar released on Snowdonia Dischi and playing bass, synthesizers and acoustic guitar in the band's national tours.

In 2008 the cult horror director Romano Scavolini hired him to write the soundtrack to L'apocalisse delle scimmie, a very long experimental film that is still unreleased to this day. However the soundtrack, partially merged into the album Scimmie^[11]^[12] published by the Austrian (Cineploit) label and by Snowdonia Dischi itself, was released with the permission of the director and the production. The album, defined "monumental"^[13] "superlative"^[14] gathered attention from critics and being nominated among Best albums of 2014 by the Italian magazines Impatto Sonoro^[15], Distorsioni^[16], Indie-Zone.

In 2012 he moved to New York, where he co-founded with Joao MacDowell^[17] the International Brazilian Opera Company^[18]^[19]^[20]in 2012. His first opera is Anita di Laguna^[21] ^[22]^[23], ^[24] ^[25], a work inspired by the life of the Brazilian revolutionary Anita Garibaldi. The orchestral Suite from the opera was commissioned in 2019 by the Orchestra di Sanremo^[26].

In 2019 Porto scored the Italian film Arberia, the first film to be shot in Arbëreshë language, and the Indian social commentary thriller film The Knot^[27], selected at Santa Barbara and Shanghai.

In 2021 he released Tell Uric^[28]^[29]^[30]^[31] ^[32]^[33] on his newborn label Respirano Records), an album that marks a return to the song form. For the same label, in 2023 Porto has curated the compilation No Need To Fear^[34]^[35]^[36], that brings together artists from New York and his hometown of Cosenza.

Discography

As Appleyard College

2005 - Split Appleyard College/Andrew Think (Lallabbau Produzioni)

2006 - Look At Me (Cold Current/Masterpiece)

2008 - V.V.A.A. La Sonora Commedia (Kipple Edizioni)

As Luigi Porto

2004 (ried. 2015) - My My After World (Respirano Records)

2007 (ried. 2016) - Respirano (EP) (Respirano Records)

2014 - Scimmie ((Cineploit)/https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowdonia_Dischi%7C Snowdonia Dischi/Light in the Attic)

2016 - V.V.A.A. Omaggio al Maestro Ennio Morricone (Cineploit)

2016 V.V.A.A.,Antonello Cresti , Solchi Sperimentali Italia - The Movie

2021 Tell Uric (Respirano Records/La Lumaca Dischi/Audioglobe)

2022 V.V.A.A. Post Punk: Genesis (Side-Line Magazine)

2023 V.V.A.A. No Need To Fear (Respirano Records)

With Maisie

2009 - Balera metropolitana (Snowdonia Dischi/Bluscuro/Spoot Music)

2018 - Maledette Rockstar (Snowdonia Dischi/La Zona)

Other collaborations

2007 .gripweed. - The Unexpected EP (self, CD-R)

2009 Anima Virus - 'End of the Eden' (Decadance)

2013 Ernesto Orrico - 'The Cult of Fluxus'(Edizioni Erranti)

2019 KJÜMMÖ -'Angelina' (Duff Records)

2019 Jasna Popovic, 'Around the Piano World' (Serbian Airlines)

Soundtracks

Uljhan - The Knot (2020)

Master Puppeteers (documentary) (2020)

"Arbëria"(2019)

L'apocalisse delle Scimmie (2013)

Different Shades of Grey (2009)

Symphonic works

2010 Sei Cattedrali, for orchestra and electronics

2018 Anita di Laguna, opera

2019 Anita di Laguna Suite, for orchestra

2020 Naufragio, for piano and string orchestra

2022 Slow Birds of Prey, per orchestra

2023 Nebulosa, for accordion and string orchestra

Chamber works

2015 The Run-O'-The-Mill, song cycle for soprano, violoncello and piano

2016 Orme sul ghiaccio, for piano, violin and clarinet

2017 Aconito, for string quintet

2017 Tarantula, for string quartet

2018 Studio Naufrago, for piano solo

Bibliography

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonello_Cresti%7C Antonello Cresti, Solchi Sperimentali Italia. 50 anni di italiche musiche altre, Crac Edizioni, 2015, ISBN 978-88-97389-24-8

Gianluca Testani (a cura di), Enciclopedia del rock italiano, Arcana Editrice, 2006, ISBN 88-7966-422-0

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[2] ttps://www.ondarock.it/interviste/luigiporto.htm

[3] ttp://www.exitwell.com/luigi-porto-il-nuovo-disco-tell-uric-ipnotizza-e-racconta-la-vita-vera-recensione/?fbclid=IwAR3xIfADBeJzHEM_DJtys9XWcRz5Nezj2odczfcrd2xsLtoQe2DQglDdLBE

[4] ttps://www.indygesto.com/indysounds/12482-tell-uric-luigi-porto-racconta-i-conflitti-sociali-in-note

[5] ttps://www.calabriadirettanews.com/2021/05/07/unartista-internazionale-luigi-porto-si-racconta-a-cdn-e-presenta-tell-uric/

[6] ttps://www.ondarock.it/recensioni/2021-luigiporto-telluric.htm

[7] ttps://www.rockambula.com/luigi-porto-esce-scimmie/

[8] ttps://www.ondarock.it/recensioni/2014_luigiporto_scimmie.htm

[9] ttp://www.cineploit.com/?p=1335

[10] ttps://www.rockit.it/recensione/6211/appleyardcollege-look-at-me

[11] ttps://www.sentireascoltare.com/recensioni/luigi-porto-scimmie/

[12] ttps://lideamagazine.com/scimmie-first-soundtrack-italian-artist-luigi-porto-released-september/

[13] ttp://www.distorsioni.net/canali/dischi/dischi-it/scimmie

[14] ttps://www.rockambula.com/luigi-porto-scimmie/

[15] ttp://www.impattosonoro.it/2014/12/15/speciali/classifica-album-2014-i-migliori-dischi-italiani/ Impatto Sonoro

[16] ttp://www.distorsioni.net/canali/dischi/dischi-it/scimmie

[17] ttps://www.wqxr.org/story/sayao-saudade-brazils-contributions-opera/

[18] ttps://operamylove.com/2013/12/20/international-brazilian-opera-company-will-present-scenes-from-four-new-operas-in-new-york/

[19] ttps://lideamagazine.com/usa-international-brazilian-opera-company-will-present-scenes-four-new-operas-composers-joao-macdowell-thiago-tiberio-luigi-porto/

[20] ttps://insideart.eu/2014/03/07/il-debutto-di-anita/

[21] ttps://www.mauxa.com/intervista/intervista-a-luigi-porto-e-andrea-amoroso-autori-dell-opera-musicale-anita

[22] ttps://www.giornaledellamusica.it/news/anita-new-york5

[23] ttps://brazilianopera.com/repertoire/anita-di-laguna/

[24] ttp://data.carnegiehall.org/events/64295/about

[25] ttps://lavocedinewyork.com/arts/musica/2020/03/11/una-migrazione-di-suoni-internazionali-approda-a-carnegie-hall/

[26] ttps://www.rivieratime.news/domani-il-concerto-dellorchestra-sinfonica-di-sanremo-il-grande-sinfonismo-francese-al-teatro-del-casino/

[27] ttps://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_knot_2021

[28] ttps://www.indygesto.com/indysounds/11445-morningside-un-genio-italiano-made-in-usa

[29] ttps://www.loudd.it/recensione/tellurico-di-terra-di-polvere-di-uomo/luigi-porto_6146?fbclid=IwAR2Yb3qImUAwMUGT2eAEl4e3MOtg2wPvQvcJJKvDnQnKBFFKRh9zdoUC1lU

[30] ttps://www.calabriadirettanews.com/2021/05/07/unartista-internazionale-luigi-porto-si-racconta-a-cdn-e-presenta-tell-uric/

[31] ttps://calabria.gazzettadelsud.it/articoli/cultura/2021/04/30/musica-luigi-porto-cantautore-calabrese-racconta-lamerica-invisibile-381c86b2-080b-4a04-9d71-e825c787a26e/

[32] ttps://www.paranoidpark.it/2021/05/18/tell-uric-luigi-porto/

[33] ttp://www.musicmap.it/recdischi/ordinaperr.asp?id=8456&fbclid=IwAR2idgKNTyBFJw0dfW099E1mN0H5e8lXEG9_V7PlHhD3Qdf2SMRN2tCudPs

[34] ttps://www.lacnews24.it/cultura-e-spettacolo/nasce-nella-grande-mela-la-factory-musicale-che-unisce-cosenza-e-new-york--video_172559/

[35] ttps://progrockjournal.com/news-respirano-records-released-the-compilation-no-need-to-fear/#google_vignette

[36] ttp://xtm.it/DettaglioNews.aspx?ID=23029#sthash.8t0t91UC.dpbs

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