Stead

Location:
US
Type:
Artist / Band / Musician
Genre:
Folk / Rock / Acoustic
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Home
Type:
Indie
Stead : ENG, ITA and DEU portraits
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Stefano Antoci D'Agostino aka Stead
STEAD, acronyms of his real name Stefano Antoci D'Agostino was born in Ragusa, southern Sicily, on September 13th 1978. He moved to Milan (northern Italy) with the family when he was only 4 years old. After several experiences with local bands, in 1998 he founds as vocalist, guitarist and main author the alternative rock project Mud Hair Jongleur. The band releases two independent albums ("The way that tree bends" 2000 and "The Sunlover's Tale" 2004), playing more than 300 live acts all over the country and opening for international artists like Deep Purple, Johnny Lang and many popular local rock bands. In 2005 he moves to New York City (U.S) where he starts to approach folk music and solo acoustic sets with exhibitions in the most popular clubs of the Greenwich Village. During the american experience his style immediately turns into something very far from the rock aggressiveness of the early years. His new approach, infuenced by New York songwriting music scene now bases on "radical acoustic folk atmospheres and deep whispered narrative interlacements sometimes crashed by reminiscences of his innate rock attitude" (NYP). For the most important Italian newspaper Il Corriere della Sera "He's now the delicate heritage of artists like Jeff Buckley and Damien Rice". This second artistic life brings him to travel Europe mixing different infuences and playing more than 250 shows as opening act for established indie realities like Bob Wiseman, Munck Johnsonn, Alina Simone, Kat Frankie, Poems for Laila, Cesare Basile, PeterPiek, Lisa Papineau, Barbez, Dave Muldoon, The Alma Church Choir, Sarah Noni Metzer and many others. During the 2008 more than 70 shows promoted all across the continent the EP "Following Steps". The same thing happened the year after with the "?!"Ep Tour. Now the fnal cut of the album "ROUGH" collects 11 delicate songs recorded between Italy, Sweden and UK in a fne digipak edition. The album has been recorded and produced with collaboration of Cesare Basile (John Parish), Giuliano Dottori, Roberta Cartisano, the american-irish Dave Muldoon and many other incredible musicians. More than 100 shows promoted, from Lampedusa to London, the album ROUGH all across Europe during the last winter. A big experience in a small attitude, always remembering that "smallest things are often the most precious" like "City" lovingly defned his music. Stead recently moved to London to start the umpteenth new artistic seasont. "Always moving and respectfully standing on the border line of the front row. Is it really the kindness of an intimate, indipendent and delicate folk soul ? … well … probably it is just nothing but that kind of care, curiousness and love for art that could never get stuck and will always be moving"
"The kindness of an intimate, indipendent and delicate folk soul"
"It will warm your heart with a deep voice and a soft fngerpicking guitar"
"This is the proof of how the smallest things are often the most precious"
"The delicate heritage of Jeff Buckley and Damien Rice"
"Echoes of meanings which are destined to last long"
"Sad sometimes, but often optimistic. And i really think that another me already won"
"Acoustic folk atmospheres and deep whispered narrative interlacements crashed by reminiscences of his innate rock attitude"
London based singer/songwriter Stefano Antoci D'Agostino, aka Stead, will be back on touring europe in November 2010. The tour brand new duo line-up will involve the amazing talent of the sicilian multi-instrumentalist Davide Iacono, also known as Veivecura.
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"La gentilezza di un animo intimo e delicato"
di Diego Ferreri
Suona con gentilezza Stefano Antoci D'Agostino in arte Stead, calmo, paziente e puntuale. Pronto a scaldarti il cuore con i suoi arpeggi e la voce profonda. L'esperienza solista fatta suonando sui palchi newyorkesi e di mezza europa lo ha allontanato dai trascorsi più rock con i Mud Hair Jongleur, per avvicinarsi a suoni più acustici e folk. Sicuramente influenzato dalla viva scena di songwriters della grande mela, racchiude le sue idee nel disco d'esordio, "Stead 2007". Un album a metà strada tra Jeff Buckley e Damien Rice ma con una piacevole sfumatura tutta mediterranea. Pezzi come "Another me", accompagnata splendidamente alla chitarra, e "Repetitive" ne sottolineano l'animo intimo e delicato (.) Se la vostra voglia di musica diversa e lontana dai soliti ritornelli non è ancora sazia, Stead è sicuramente un ottimo spuntino >> Diego Ferreri, ROCKIT
Folk che può nascere acustico e sembrare persino elettronico senza perdere le sue direttrici più etniche. Il progetto Stead nasce nel 2005 a New York dove si sviluppa e cresce, poco prima di un prematuro ritorno a casa. Stefano Antoci D'Agostino ha poi girato il vecchio continente, dalla Francia alla Svezia, dall'Irlanda a quella Germania che sembra ormai la nuova casa di un'idea che non poteva avere confini. Oggi, smessi i panni del cantastorie solitario e di ritorno da un tour tedesco di 12 date, presenta la nuova veste ad otto maniche che sancisce la svolta verso un sound piu' articolato ed armonico. Dopo il concerto di Dusseldorf dello scorso dicembre Andreas Laudwein scrisse : "Lo osservavo. Un uomo d'albero con grandi mani, sempre in piedi, irrequieto e carico di un'energia tanto irrefrenebile quanto semplicemente sincera . E non ti aspetti proprio che, iniziando a cantare, possa inchiodarti e sorprenderti. Lo fa attraverso storie che approcciano l'ascoltatore con ansia e nervosismo, che si trasformano sotto gli occhi di chi siede loro di fronte per divenire speciali ed insinuarsi nella memoria; eco di significati destinati a risuonare a lungo. Una decisa vena di tristezza la sua, questo è vero, ma non quella di chi è affranto ne sconfitto, non quella di chi piagnucola. In realtà, Stead, è persino ottimista. Ed io credo davvero che 'quell'altro me', in fondo, abbia già vinto da tempo".
"Un'atmosfera intensa e malinconica espressa da un vibrante cantato e da sontuose trame sonore"
RockIt, Federico Linossi
"Canzoni tra Buckley e Rice, la delicatezza di uno stile che ne eredita la lezione"
Il Corriere della Sera
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"Ich glaube das andere Ich hat längst schon gewonnen"
by Andreas Laudwein
"Hello, my name is Stefano and I have these songs about feelings." Das ist sein erster Satz auf der Bühne und ich habe gemessen an seiner Erscheinung mit etwas ganz anderem gerechnet. Stefano ist Italiener. Ein Baum von Mann mit riesigen Händen, ständig umherlaufend, rastlos und voller Energie. Solche Menschen machen mich eigentlich nervös. Als er anfängt zu singen, weiss ich, dass dort vorne jemand von den Besonderen sitzt denen es gelingt, ihre Unruhe für einen Moment in etwas zu transformieren das kurz da ist, aber lange nachhallt. Stead, das ist ein aus seinem Namen gebildetes Akronym, singt von der Suche nach Stille, der Sehnsucht nach dem Glück das man nicht halten kann. Er spielt ein Lied von dem Mädchen aus Glasgow. Gemeinsam mit ihrem Klavier wohnt sie im fünften Stock und malt. Tagsüber arbeitet sie und trägt ein dazu ein Kleid das zeigt was sie nicht ist. Stead hat sie nie kennen gelernt, aber irgendwie ist das Mädchen aus Glasgow ja auch er selbst. Da ist der Froschprinz, der zuhört und mit ihm lacht und weint und der weiß, das die Froschprinzessin eines Tages zurückkehren wird. Der Mann der sich die fragt ob es Betrug sei, nach einem schwierigen Leben mit einem Lächeln auf den Lippen zu sterben.Da ist das andere Ich von dem er hofft es möge eines Tages gewinnen. Er klagt, aber beklagt sich nicht. Er ist traurig, nicht wehleidig. Im Grunde ist Stead Optimist. Ich glaube das andere Ich hat längst schon gewonnen. Andreas Laudwein
September 13, 1978 in Ragusa auf Sizilien, lebt seit seinem vierten Lebensjahr in Mailand. 1998 ist er Sänger von Mud Hair Jongleur, die Band veröffentlicht in Italien zwei Alben und tourt mit Johnny Lang und Deep Purple. 2005 zieht Stefano nach New York und trifft hier im Greenwich Village auf eine für ihn neue Musik, die ihn wegführt von der Aggressivität der Bandjahre hin zu eher introvertiertem und reflektierendem Songwriting. Seit seiner Rückkehr nach Mailand reist Stefano durch Europa und spielt Shows von Nizza, über Berlin, Malmö nach Dublin, mit Künstlern wie Dave Muldoon, Kat Frankie, Lisa Papineau und Poems for Laila. 2007 erscheint eine erste Sammlung seiner Lieder auf CD, eine weiteres Album entsteht zur Zeit in Mailand mit Cesar Basile, unter Mitwirkung von Roberta Cartisano, Marcello Sorge, Luca Recchia und Dave Muldoon.
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