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Fredo Viola - The Turn
Release date: April 6th 2009 (Because Music)
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Our Lips Are Sealed (Fun Boy Three cover)
Fredo Viola’s sublime music grew from an inspired marriage between 21st century technology and the oldest of musical instruments, the human voice. His songs have an innocent, romantic, almost mystical quality that seeks out the magical in the everyday. They feel like dream soundscapes, alien but strangely beautiful.
Most of Fredo’s songs begin as improvisations, weaving multiple vocal lines into a sparkling tapestry of melody, harmony and counterpoint. Electronic or acoustic instruments are added afterwards, but the voice remains central. Sometimes he uses pure sounds instead of words, but always with a strong emotional impact.
“When I started out making music,” Fredo says, “it truly was just a means of getting in touch with a more honest part of myself.”
Born in London, Fredo spent his early childhood in England and Rome before his family relocated to America – first New York, then Los Angeles. In his teens, he sang professionally as a boy soprano with LA’s celebrated Bob Mitchell Boys Choir, then left to study in New York with ambitions to become a film-maker. He is now firmly based in New York, where he perfected his unique fusion of music, performance and multi-media visuals.
Fredo’s debut album ‘The Turn’ combines traces of singer-songwriter pop, ambient electronica, classical, religious hymns and even mediaeval folk ballads. He cites a broad range of inspirations including Harry Nilsson, Bartok, Kate Bush, Bach, Belle and Sebastian, Shostakovich, Boards of Canada, Stravinsky, Odetta and Alfred Schnittke. But his mesmerising music clearly has a strong and singular voice that is entirely his own.
“When people ask I usually say Beach Boys meets Sigur Ros, but I haven’t really soaked up either of their music,” Fredo says. “I think I have most been influenced by a great many years of listening to orchestral music, which is very free in colour and structure.”
