Casa del Vento


Casa del vento is a left wing Italian folk rock band.

History

Casa del Vento is an "extremely controversial, Italo-Celtic, Euro-socialist" folk rock band founded in Italy since 1991. Its current members are Luca Lanzi, Sauro Lanzi, Massimiliano Gregorio, Fabrizio Morganti, Andreas Petermann and Riccardo Dellocchio. The bands popular albums are Pane E Rose, Sessant Anni Di Resistenza and Tbc.
Casa del Vento is influenced from Modena City Ramblers founded by emilian boys on 17 March 1991, on St. Patrick's day to play Celtic songs in patchanka style, which influenced the most the Italian folk rock in the last 15 years. MCR's first demo-tape was Combat Folk: a musical manifesto: a fusion of Combat Rock by The Clash and folk: traditional Irish excerpt, political songs and partisans' songs and reviewed as "a young five piece band with strong voice and interesting arrangements".
In 2002, band's Carne da cannone song were published as 7th track in compilation album Tora! Tora! '02 by Mescal Records.
In March 2009, their song Il fuoco e la neve, is selected to the L’Altraradio's Golden Playlist compilation CD published by Repertoire Records.
Casa del Vento is one of the leading artists of Mescal Records.

Members