VALENTE (moniker for Claudio Valente) is a song writer and composer whose musical coordinates are new wave and alternative art-rock. During his career he has been the songwriter, composer and lead vocalist of band as Art Decò, Telegram e Holidays Futurisme, realeasing several albums in English and Italian language.
The latest album RADIO SKY presents nine new songs from the Venetian based songwriter and musician, unmistakably influenced by both rock music and new wave eventually evolving in a dance-floor oriented sound, characterized by a sustained beat, where the 80’s matrix is immersed in a careful choice of contemporary sonorities.
The new album favours the musicality of the English language without neglecting a choice of important strong and enigmatic lyrics evoking visions, emotions and epiphanies.
Songs like FLY, BRING BACK THE MAGIC, RADIO SKY, the latter with its minimalist mantra-like lyrics, were born from a decadently clear vision of the unrestrained consumerism of the modern world, also from a cultural point of view.
The magic of individuality, difference and diversity is being inexorably dehydrated and crushed at the alter of homogenized, monetized consumerism in obsessive pursuit of dreams of greater wealth and comfort, economic efficiency gains at the expense, ultimately, of everything.
The songs of RADIO SKY help us to meditate upon this “wasteland” with the aid of its lyrics. In some of the tracks (FLY, DANCE IN THE NIGHT, CHILDREN OFF THE BEAT, WALLS OF LOVE) it calls for an adverse reaction;(SMILE, LOVE OF MY LIFE) claim the need of a comeback to “magic” and “enchantment” in real life: (BRING BACK THE MAGIC) expresses a renewal desire through the cathartic and Dionysiac power of music (RADIO SKY).
On April 30th 2024 "Radio Sky remixes” is released.
VALENTE’s latest work is an Ep strongly influenced by dub, electronic, experimental and club music, in which 4 tracks from his last album “Radio Sky” are remixed from "dub master" Paolo Baldini DubFiles (Africa Unite, Almamegretta , producer for Mellow Mood and many more) EUGENE (composer, singer, keyboards player with electro-pop and new wave artists as Andy “Bluvertigo” and Garbo and producer and remixer for labels as Wall of Sound), Jason Lindner (contemporary jazz american pianist also keyboard player for David Bowie’s masterpiece “Blackstar”) and Templebeat LTD ( one of the projects, together with Templezone, Blackbeat, They Die, of the eclectic industrial, dark wave and experimental music composer and visual artist Giorgio Ricci).
The 4 tracks are accompanied by 4 new visuals realized by Blackbeat Production aka Giorgio Ricci, each one of them with a different color just as the covers of the 4 tracks released by Giulia Baldissera from an illustration of Nicola Stefanato.
DARK PARTY con DATE AT MIDNIGHT + VALENTE +DJ ALEX DEL DUCA