Bio


The BandazZ project stems from the will of singer Max Lantieri, "clandestine musician" as he likes to define himself, who makes his debut with an album dedicated to Brazil and one of his most popular and beloved musical genres, the Bossa Nova. With the precious collaboration of the guitarist Theo Salvitti, he brings together a group of talented jazz musicians in Rome, such as the singer Marta Capponi, to record live the album 'Bossa in a jazzy dress', which is published on the 26th. June 2018 by the Brazilian label Savalla Records (finalist of the 2019 Music Professionals Award). On this occasion and thanks to the meeting with producer and sound engineer Carlos Savalla, the collaboration with the Brazilian record company brings BandazZ to participate at the Projeto Registros with Encantadoramente, an unreleased track, recorded in San Paolo in acoustic version with the guitarist Paulo Ribeiro and later also to pay tribute to the great Italian music of all time, with a Bossa Nova version of one of Nico Fidenco's greatest hits, Legata a un granello di sabbia.
After the debut in the Italian music market, now follows the publication of a new single, SAMBARAVA '(Manifesto) written by Theo Salvitti and Max Lantieri, author of the text and recorded between Rome and Rio de Janeiro, is accompanied by a video of the director. Andrès Arce Maldonado. In this new musical work joins the duo Lantieri-Salvitti, the young singer Beatrice De Dominicis, who had already appeared in different Italian TV shows, and with a first song of her own, Storia d'Inverno, published by Savalla Records in last september.
Suspended between two seas, two languages, two musical cultures that are trying to meet each other to complete themselves, this is the characteristic that marks the path of BandazZ which is completing after more than two years of work, the first authorial project entitled Sonhos, il viaggio, il sogno e la poesia , whose release was anticipated by the video premiere of a still unpublished song 'Acalanto e Cafunè', dedicated to the great Brazilian writer Jorge Amado. The music video was shown at Flipelô - International Literature Party - in Salvador.



"To tell the inexplicable fascination with a language, which is sound, singing, dance, which is the reverberation of a world, a gateway and a key, that seduces and leads to pronounce it, until to incorporates it; that is the intention. expressed by BandazZ in the song SAMBARAVÁ. A mysterious and irrepressible need, an inevitable act of love, in which, ironically assuming the condition of "gringo", the author frees himself from it, together with a band of refined professionals, free at last to be included as a citizen of a musical country and a universal language of the heart. "
Patrizia Giancotti (anthropologist, brasilianist)

"When I heard BandazZ's early work, I was moved. How a small troupe of Italians could play and sing our Bossa Nova so well? The least I could do was encourage them and spread their work in Brazil, which I did some sometimes in the media I work in. The recent work of BandazZ (“Sambaravá” and “Tu Sei Così”) is sweet, delicate, extremely tasteful and professional. May Italians and Brazilians listen and appreciate the beautiful work from BandazZ!

Long live the group!
Pasquale Cipro Neto (teacher, writer, broadcaster and journalist)


Cover Artwork by Giacomo Savoia & Valentina Silardi