Silvio Canargiu, musician, composer, author (1974 - Italy).
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's15
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 realised 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 Ihlam Al Madfai)
and all those trips modified his artistic language turning it in what
we see now: a musical melting pot.
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.
In may 2007 A Que
saw the light in Carloforte and Just Summer Lounge in Villasimius.
June, july and august he played quite every day with his jazz quartet
featuring some of the best players in Sardinia.
In september he started back composing for a roman "Charlie's Angels"
musical version and for some local singers.
In spring 2008 played in Abu Dhabi, a smiling and reactive city leading
the Arab Emirates.
In summertime he wrote and produced a series of house songs for Montefeltro
and some backlines for Machiavelli.
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.
Spent first 6 months of 2010 in Fujairah (UAE) and then he flew back to
Milan.
In september 2010 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).