Massimo Volume
Club Privé
Mescal (1999)
Steve plays feedback cello on a track from the last album by what was an interesting group, on this CD produced by Manuel Agnelli. The group no longer exists (at least for the moment), or maybe now it exists again (recent developments). Leader and voice Emidio Clementi also did a CD with a different group, El Muniria, including a piece with words and vocals by Steve Piccolo (see below).
Gak Sato
Tangram
Temposphere (2001)
Steve adds vocals on Style (words by Charles Bukowski). Gak’s original arrangement of Steve’s song Green City (from the Bitter Pill album) turns out to have legs, winding up on five compilations around the world (for a total of something like 400,000 copies). See the Tangram Toursection of the Concerts-Booking pages for more info on the live progress of Gak’s music with Steve on guitar, bass and vocals.
Gak Sato, Teorema
Tangram
Temposphere (2001)
Nice sheep on the cover.
Sounds of Sunset Beach
Neverstop Music, Standard Sounds (USA, 2001)
Green City is also included in this cool US compilation, with photo of BB in a bikini inside. Right after Serge Gainsbourg and before Bebel Gilberto. Weird!
Gak Sato
Exercises
Vitiminic – Temposphere (2001)
Selection of Gak’s music available on line from Vitiminic. Featuring Steve’s Green City.
SoiréeNeverstop Music, Banana Republic (USA, 2001)
Green City gets more exposure.
Altera Canto di Spine
Fermenti Vivi, Sony (2001)
Interesting project by some musicians from Genoa, rock versions of great Italian poets with many special guests including Steve, Emidio Clementi, Manuel Agnelli and others.
Paolo Bragaglia – KinomuzioFridge Zone – Sony Publishing (2002)
The Mongo Hotline
The Platinum CompilationGreen City in Gak version with Steve on vocals is also on the American Express Platinum CD (2002)
PainèSpontaneous
Temposphere, 2003
Sugar 2004
El~Muniria – Stanza 218Homesleep Records 2004
Che ci crediate o no, Emidio Clementi ed i suoi compagni d’avventura hanno finalmente terminato il loro primo lavoro. Titolo dell’album “Stanza 218”. Oltre ai fondatori della band, Emidio Clementi, Massimo Carozzi, numerosi i musicisti che hanno collaborato: Dario Parisini, Giacomo Fiorenza (homesleep/mirabilia), Paolo Cucco (mau mau), Vittoria Burattini (massimo volume), Steve Piccolo, Luca Gemma, Francesco Donadello (gdm), Paul Shilton (quickspace), Mauro Rigoni (personaggio dei romanzi di Clementi…). 10 Brani fantastici caratterizzati dal recitato di Emidio Clementi e dalle atmosfere elettroniche, oniriche e malate di Massimo Carozzi. Un album che, ne siamo certi, lascerà il segno nella storia della musica italiana…
BTW – sounds good live too!
Luca Gemma – Saluti da Venus
Ponderosa Music 2004
A veritable pillar of the Expedition produces his first solo album, featuring new versions of a couple of tunes familiar to Expedition audiences. Steve adds backing vocals on the second track.
Gak Sato, Informed Consent, Temposphere, 2005
The most popular track, Clapsoy, features Steve on guitar with co-writer credit.
Steve Piccolo vocals and lyrics on the song for Mr. Jarmusch
Opera with orchestra, soprano and baritone (Steve) for Venice Music Biennale, recorded live at Teatro Fondamenta Nova in Venice. Steve invented a libretto method based on news items from the day of each performance, or spam messages received on the day prior to the performance (in this time period people’s e-mail was always full of nonsense messages possibly lifted from random website texts by some kind of web-crawler spiders).
Elliott writes: Em/Pyre is an opera commissioned by soprano Donella Dell’ Monaco for the 2006 Venice Biennale to be performed by her and her regular ensemble. She also requested that I perform with the group and conduct the piece. I called upon longtime friend and collaborator Steve Piccolo to create the libretto and to sing the baritone parts.
SYZYGY by Elliott Sharp is a verbal score piece. The double CD contains a studio version and a live version, recorded on two consecutive days (first studio, then live).
Elliott Sharp: guitar, computer devices; Steve Piccolo: voice, electric bass, objects; Giancarlo Schiaffini: trombone; Walter Prati: cello; Francesca Gemmo: piano; Gak Sato: theremin; Sergio Armaroli: vibraphone.
Album Information
Title: SYZYGY | Year Released: 2019 | Record Label: Dodicilune
Lyrics for Japanese TV series “Voice”. Year released: 2022.
MISC for the sake of completeness. Steve plays upright bass on “Concentric Spheres” by Elliott Sharp, on the album ARC2: The Seventies, Atavistic, recorded early 1970s, published in 1997.
Steve is somehow involved in this amazing anthology of sound works organised by Maurizio Nannucci. SOUND ANTHOLOGY label Recorthings and Zona Archives.
