Nosound

Nosound
Giancarlo Erra - Founder and Frontman of Nosound
Background information
Origin	Rome, Italy
Genres	Art rock, progressive rock, psychedelic rock, space rock
Years active	2002–present
Labels	Kscope UK
Website	www.nosound.net
Members	Giancarlo Erra - Guitar, vocals Paolo Vigliarolo - Guitar Alessandro Luci - Bass guitar Giulio Caneponi - Percussion Marco Berni - vocals, Keyboard
Past members	Paolo Martellacci - vocals, Keyboard Gigi Zito - Percussion Chris Maitland - Percussion Gabrele Savini - Guitar Mario Damico - Drums

Nosound is an Italian progressive rock band that started as a vision by Giancarlo Erra. All of the early recordings were composed, played, produced, engineered, and released by Erra. As time passed, this music became more popular and the demand for live performances increased. Giancarlo then assembled a band of gifted musicians who would eventually become full-time members to play the music of Nosound. The band is noted for playing music in several different genres including progressive rock, post rock, and ambient music.

Nosound has been influenced by artists such as Pink Floyd, Porcupine Tree, No-Man, Arvo Pärt, Brian Eno, and Genesis.

Two of the band's albums won the Italian Progressive Music Awards Best Recording honor:
A Sense of Loss - 2009 Best Recording [1]
Lightdark - 2008 Best Recording [2]

Nosound started as a project by Giancarlo in 2002. He created several solo works, at least one of which is unreleased. His early demo recordings date back to 1998 with an eight track demo titled Radici and a 19-minute instrumental track on the demo CD Maslova. Bassist Alessandro Luci contributed to some of the early tracks. Giancarlo describes the music as "evocative and intense, with personal songwriting". Waves on Russia was the first officially released Nosound demo in 2002, followed by the first promo which was for Sol29

These demos generated enough interest for Giancarlo to play his music live. Since there was no "band" per se, it was necessary to assemble a number of quality musicians that could play his music. With time, Giancarlo found enough musicians to create a full band. The official Nosound debut album Sol29 was released in March 2005. A short tour followed and resulted in a live DVD The World is Outside in 2006, which contained unreleased material. With all the positive feedback from the live material on the DVD, the very limited edition (100 copies) live CD 'Slow, it goes' was issued in the first half of 2007. The CD was recorded live at Stazione Birra, Rome on 24 Jan 07 and included a Lightdark promo video. In anticipation of the new album, the exclusive EP Clouds, containing three out takes from the new album Lightdark was released. This lineup continued through Clouds, which saw a change of guitarists when Gabriele Savini was replaced with Paolo Vigliarolo.