Alex Gomez

TOO PUNK FOR BLUES, TOO BLUES FOR PUNK...

Remember that guy in school who listened to Gun Club and knew Scarface chapter, line and verse? Well, Alex Gomez hasn’t changed a bit, still putting us all to shame not giving a flying fuck. Sounding like a man who’s sold his soul on current offering LOVE SEX & DRUGS, Alex Gomez’ electric slide whiskey voice onslaught assaults the senses like prior releases ALWAYS NEVER, METALLIC BLUE ELECTRIC, WARM SENSATIONS and OUTDOOR KITCHEN. Testifying at a crossroads where careless love, casual sex and substance abuse collide, Alex Gomez blasphemously challenges the Blues status quo, infuriating purists, while fascinating initiates. If you like Keb Mo' and Eric Clapton, you will hate Alex Gomez. But, if you dig artists who critics compare Alex Gomez to like Jon Spencer and Bob Log III, then brace yourself for a one‐way plunge deep inside that hell hole called the Punk Blues. 

Dirty Trainload

Hello, I’m Bob Cillo, a blues guitar player from Bari, southern Italy and here’s my latest project, the “Dirty Trainload”.
What’s worth mentioning? Is there something that I’m interested to tell and you are actually interested to hear? Let’s see a possible list of FAQ.

How does it work?

The Dirty Trainload feature a skinny two piece line-up: I basically manage my guitar, a bottleneck, a loop station and some old analog drum machines while my friends Marco Del Noce or Martino Palmisano or Alexander De Large or italo-american singer Livia Monteleone from California do the rest. They play harp or other stuff and sing (mainly through the harmonica’s microphone). There is some live percussion work as well happening.

What do we play?

I'm a blues musician ever since I began more than 20 years ago and I love blues artists like John Lee Hooker, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Hound Dog Taylor, R.L. Burnside, Junior Kimbrough, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Howlin’ Wolf and Hubert Sumlin’, or innovators like Alan Vega-Suicide, Gun Club-Jeffrey Lee Pierce and Stooges and I do believe that each everyone of them in some way influenced the music we are playing now.

What about the CD?

Last year we released "Rising Rust", our debut album. The reviewers spent plenty of kind words on it. The line up features Marco Del Noce from Rome on Vocals and Harp, it contains 9 tracks and it was recorded by Fabio Magistrali in his home. All tracks are live single take recordings with live vocals and a few instrumental overdubs. No editing work. No personal computer has been involved in writing, arranging, performing, recording and mixing. Awesome artwork by Benjamin Guedel from Zuerich, check his website www.guedel.biz or find him on myspace browsing in our top friends.

Anything making us go nuts?

Sure, getting called an "emerging band": we definitely are a submerged band.

Why are we in it?

Only for ourselves? Self-damaging behaviour? Yes, very likely that’s the case but, after all, still we are mad enough to hope that someone out there could love the stuff we play the way we do.

Are we promising you something?

Yes of course, a trainload of dirty blues!