Realgar

Realgar is the name of the musical project devised by Claudia Florio and Roberto Marino in 2006. The experience of the fusion of electronic sounds with ancient ones is just a part of the character of this project, from which a vary stylistically peculiar impression rises up, since it is the yield of different musical drifts, characterised by the continual necessity of research; research of new sounds and, in the meantime, research meant as the “jealous recovery” of what belongs to us, for instinct and tradition. CLAUDIA FLORIO: voice-melodic composition. She studied lyrical singing as soprano and then she attended to the performance of the ancient music, with particular esteem to the interpretation of the ‘500 age musicians. Contemporaneously she attended to a “neo-classical” – experimental musical drift; she comes from the experience of the Lupercalia, a former World Serpent project, with whom she recorded the album “Florilegium” for the Portuguese label Equilibrium. Involved in the group since 2000, she solidified a strong live skill playing in several concerts, both in Italy and overseas, together with artists as QNTAL, KIRLIAN CAMERA and ATARAXIA. She worked together with Riccardo Prencipe (ex Lupercalia) for the release of the album "Volontà d'arte" (Prikosnovenie 2007) of his solo-project "Corde Oblique". Furthermore she worked together with Luigi Rubino (Ashram) in the track "Duca Bianco" included in "Fairy World IV" compilation (Prikosnovenie 2008) and in some tracks for his solo-album "A theme for the moon" (Prikosnovenie 2009). ROBERTO MARINO: electronic composition. Instrumentalist and composer, firstly influenced by the garage and psychedelic rock, besides by the ’70 progressive. Afterward he attended to the classical – minimal composition, and got passion for the ancient music, playing some different kinds of flutes. Between 2000 and 2002 he got a significant live skill as guitarist and flautist of Argine. In 2005, with the Demo “Le Trascendenze”, his solo-project, he received an excellent review from the Italian magazine Ritual. In 2006 Realgar realised a promo cd of five tracks and had lots of reviews and interviews. In the last years Realgar played in significant live shows and dark-wave-electro festivals. At the moment Realgar have just realised a full album, "Auriloquio", out for the Lithuanian label "Autarkeia". Furthermore, the track "Finis", from this albun, has been included in "Lunar Sea" compilation, on the American label "Shinto Records".