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Pineta E Prostituzione

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When we think about Salerno's anti-musical noise megaband, we are without doubt thinking about Pineta & Prostituzione. This band used to stand out for its hard-to-listen and problematic sound, as well for some component's total lack of capability of playing musical instruments. The band was founded on 2011, in Salerno, by laptop noise anti-musician Italo Belladonna (aka Venta Protesix) and raw guitarist Giovanni Montesanto, followed by improvised saxophonist Vincenzo Basso. Right from the first rehearsals the band was dreaded by every owner of venue in Salerno because they would break the speakers and every noise producing object. During said rehearsals the band could record only one track entitled "Dove sono le italiane?". After a while some other components joined the band: the bass player Francesco Spirito, the electronic musician Gaetano La Padula and the keyboardist Valentina De Santis, who had never touched an instrument before in her whole life. But it doesn't end here: Pineta & Prostituzione decided to have random strangers met on the street and totally unable to play join the band. Unforgettable were the rehearsals with Carmine Gallo, who broke an expensive synth he had found in the venue room, and the rehearsal with singer Raffaele Bruno who, for the whole time, sweared against the owner of a rehearsal room who dared compare Pineta & Prostituzione to the music of Luciano Berio. Pineta & Prostituzione played live only two times: the first, with the old line-up, in Salerno for 5 minutes, devastating everything they met and throwing themselves against metal plates. But the second time was even worse. The band, with its final line-up completely different from the original one, and without the bass player Francesco Spirito, played in near Naples pretending to be emissaries of the municipality of Salerno for spreading the unlistenable sound of their city.

Members

	Italo Belladonna IT
	Valentina De Santis key
	Vincenzo Basso dr, sax
	Francesco Spirito eb
	Gaetano La Padula dr, syn
	Giovanni Montesanto eg

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