Showing posts with label Sugarpie & The Candymen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sugarpie & The Candymen. Show all posts

Sunday, January 12, 2025

Sugarpie & The Candymen - Waiting For The One

Album: Waiting For The One
Size: 119,5 MB
Time: 51:19
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2014
Styles: Swing/Jazz/R&B
Art: Front

1. Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) (3:13)
2. Blue 'Bout Love (2:38)
3. Lil (3:09)
4. Bohemian Rhapsody (5:34)
5. Toxic (4:00)
6. Material Girl (3:53)
7. Madness In The Rain (4:11)
8. Highway Star (4:24)
9. Bad (3:09)
10. Dusty (3:40)
11. Warchild (2:50)
12. No Words (2:43)
13. Good Vibrations (4:04)
14. VMQ (3:43)

Picture Duke Ellington jamming with Prince, the Beatles with Django Reinhardt on guitar, or Louis Armstrong playing with Beyonce: this is a good starting point to define Sugarpie and the Candymen – Lara Ferrari (vocals), Jacopo Delfini (manouche guitar and harmonies), Renato Podestà (electric guitar and harmonies), Roberto Lupo (drums), and Alessandro Cassani (double bass).

Their trademark, since the beginning, has been to rework rock and pop anthems in a retro style that evokes jazz manouche, big band swing, and early rock and roll, with vocal and instrumental arrangements that are both virtuosic and humorous. They haven’t only gained the admiration of their concert audiences: their take on Bohemian Rhapsody has been publicly lauded by none other than Queen’s guitarist himself, Brian May.

Sugarpie and the Candymen have also been writing original material, and with each album the band’s sonic palette has expanded, becoming less and less philological and more and more open to other musical influences. This path has led them to perform at some of the most renowned festivals in Europe and beyond, such as Umbria Jazz, Montreux Jazz Festival, Madrid Jazz Festival, New Orleans Jazz in Tel Aviv, Jazz and Wine in Georgia, and countless others.

In 2014 they met Renzo Arbore, Italian TV and radio legend – and a jazz musician as well – who fell in love with their sound, and a fruitful collaboration was born. With him, the band participated in several national radio and TV broadcasts, such as Che Tempo Che Fa and Celebration, as well as in the album Arbore Plus (2017).

After nearly fifteen years together and six released albums, Sugarpie and the Candymen continue to defy expectations and blend their eclectic influences into an infectious mix, which has brought them on stages from Berlin to Dubai, from Paris to New Orleans, in more than 1,000 concerts.

Waiting For The One mc
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Saturday, January 4, 2025

Sugarpie & The Candymen - Let It Swing

Album: Let It Swing
Size: 91,0 MB
Time: 38:48
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2015
Styles: Swing/Jazz/R&B
Art: Front

1. Come Together (2:22)
2. I Want To Hold Your Hand (2:40)
3. Day Tripper (3:16)
4. A Hard Day's Night/All My Loving (4:07)
5. Martha My Dear (2:38)
6. When I'm Sixty-Four (2:23)
7. All You Need Is Love (2:35)
8. Something/Let It Be (4:47)
9. Lady Madonna (2:26)
10. Help! (2:21)
11. She Loves You/Ticket To Ride (4:29)
12. Paperback Writer (2:25)
13. Drive My Car (2:14)

Picture Duke Ellington jamming with Prince, the Beatles with Django Reinhardt on guitar, or Louis Armstrong playing with Beyonce: this is a good starting point to define Sugarpie and the Candymen – Lara Ferrari (vocals), Jacopo Delfini (manouche guitar and harmonies), Renato Podestà (electric guitar and harmonies), Roberto Lupo (drums), and Alessandro Cassani (double bass).

Their trademark, since the beginning, has been to rework rock and pop anthems in a retro style that evokes jazz manouche, big band swing, and early rock and roll, with vocal and instrumental arrangements that are both virtuosic and humorous. They haven’t only gained the admiration of their concert audiences: their take on Bohemian Rhapsody has been publicly lauded by none other than Queen’s guitarist himself, Brian May.

Sugarpie and the Candymen have also been writing original material, and with each album the band’s sonic palette has expanded, becoming less and less philological and more and more open to other musical influences. This path has led them to perform at some of the most renowned festivals in Europe and beyond, such as Umbria Jazz, Montreux Jazz Festival, Madrid Jazz Festival, New Orleans Jazz in Tel Aviv, Jazz and Wine in Georgia, and countless others.

In 2014 they met Renzo Arbore, Italian TV and radio legend – and a jazz musician as well – who fell in love with their sound, and a fruitful collaboration was born. With him, the band participated in several national radio and TV broadcasts, such as Che Tempo Che Fa and Celebration, as well as in the album Arbore Plus (2017).

After nearly fifteen years together and six released albums, Sugarpie and the Candymen continue to defy expectations and blend their eclectic influences into an infectious mix, which has brought them on stages from Berlin to Dubai, from Paris to New Orleans, in more than 1,000 concerts.

Let It Swing mc
Let It Swing gofile

Saturday, December 21, 2024

Sugarpie & The Candymen - Swing'N'Roll

Album: Swing'N'Roll
Size: 107,3 MB
Time: 46:25
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2011
Styles: Swing/Jazz/R&B
Art: Front

1. Black And White Movie (3:31)
2. Maybe I Hate, Maybe I Love (2:16)
3. Tell Me Boy (2:47)
4. Bonnie And Clyde Blues (4:12)
5. Aveva Una Casetta (2:44)
6. All You Have To Do Is Cry (3:40)
7. Was That Me (3:46)
8. Time Of The Season (2:30)
9. Hot For Teacher (2:24)
10. Lemon Tree (4:07)
11. Paradise City (2:39)
12. Rock 'N' Roll/Heartbreaker (4:36)
13. Whole Lotta Love (2:39)
14. Can't Get You Out Off My Head (4:27)

Sugarpie & the Candymen began in 2008, when five musicians from Piacenza and Cremona – small towns in Northern Italy – decided to share their passion for swing, manouche jazz, blues, soul, pop, and vocal close harmonies. A band was born, with the challenge to marry all these musical styles.

The band is made up of singer Miss Sugarpie, aka Lara Ferrari, and her Candymen: Jacopo Delfini (gipsy guitar and harmonies), Renato Podestà (electric guitar, banjo and harmonies), Roberto Lupo (drums) and Jacopo Sgarzi (double bass). From 2008 to early 2016, the lead vocal chair was held by Georgia Ciavatta. Very soon the band became a full-time commitment, starting an intense tour in hundreds of jazz clubs around Italy and Europe.

This first period allowed Sugarpie and the Candymen to work out both their sound and their repertoire: their musical caleidoscope has the most diverse artists one close to the other, such as Led Zeppelin and Django Reinhardt, The Beatles and Bessie Smith, Van Halen and Benny Goodman, Guns 'n' Roses and Ray Charles, Queen and Peggy Lee and so on. In 2010 the band kept evolving and started writing and performing their original songs, both in Italian and English. They started playing the bigger stages of prestigious festivals all around Europe, and they even did a brief US tour.

Sugarpie and the Candymen have released three albums under the IRMA Records label: the first, eponymous, "Sugarpie And The Candymen" in 2009, the second one "Swing'n'Roll" in 2011 and the third "Waiting For The One" in 2014. To further enhance their sound, the band had the opportunity to collaborate both live and in the studio with some brilliant Italian and American musicians, such as Michael Supnick, Dean Zucchero, Paolo Tomelleri, Rudy Migliardi, Gregory Agid, Davide Ghidoni, Gianni Di Benedetto and Mattia Cigalini.

Swing'N'Roll mc
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