Alessio Calivi /Kim Ree Heena

Alessio Calivi, born in the province of Reggio Calabria (Italy), discovers as a child to have a natural gift for singing. His original alternative rock, sung in Italian, has grew up thanks to a long experience in different bands, since he was fourteen. He moved to Milan, where he graduated at the Academy of Sound and further enhances their skills in the field of sound engineering, he enters first in the Violet View as guitarist-singer, then in the Miavagadilania as bassist. With the latter, in 2008, realizes the record ‘Il mare ci salirà negli occhi’. In 2010 he released his first solo album, the self-produced ‘Forme e stati’, in which he plays all the instruments, except the drums. The disc received rave reviews. In recent years he has worked with the band Other Voices, collaborating in the making of the album ‘A Way Back’ (recorded in part at the legendary Parr Street Studios in Liverpool) and performing with them in Italy and abroad. In April 2015 his second album ‘Sirene vetri urla e paperelle’ was released by the label ManitaLab, whose presentation tour attended many festivals, opening live performances of Verdena, Soft Moon and of Stuart Braithwaite of the Mogwai. With his new project, titled ‘Kim Ree Heena’, Alessio Calivi entirely changes his style, while his focus shifts to experimentation and electronic sounds. Singing alternates with exclusively instrumental themes, while electronic sounds go hand in hand with industrial sounds. The new course of the musician kicked off with a series of live events, during which the music was accompanied by the screening of visual projections made specifically by the artist Noil Klune. Abstract and dystopian images that follow the rhythms and experimental music within a project devoted to sound research.

Milan, LOMBA