Biography
June74 is the acronym used by Fabrizio Poce for his solo activities and since 2001 his exclusive artistic project flag.
Fabrizio is not a classically trained musician. He likes to see himself as a creative developer rather than a musical performer, his references being in science and technology rather than rock or pop culture. This makes him an independent player, influenced by many musical and artistic, past and contemporary, scenes, but actually attached to none and purely interested in the enjoinment of creation of his own material.
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His background in communication and computer engineering plays a key role in his activities: not only for practical reasons (it is his engineering profession which pays the bills) but also as a method of work: analyze, interpret, experiment, produce are all phases of his approach to creation.
The love for technology is matched by the tool set Fabrizio utilizes: computer and electronic devices, surrounded by acoustic instruments. Although not a virtuoso by any mean, he loves to paint dynamic musical landscapes merging layers of synthesisers and synthetic drums with additional traditional elements, such as pianoforte, strings, guitar, bass, acoustic drums or vocals.
Fabrizio was born in 1974 in Rome, and since the age of 16 he started experimenting with music together with friends from school and neighbourhood. Using limited instrumentation and no other knowledge rather than the reference of contemporary bands such Depeche Mode, Ultravox and Kraftwerk, Fabrizio took a substantial creative role in his first band, “Electro Alba”. The band, composed by Fabrizio (main composer, programmer and keyboardist), Fabio Carnevale (lyrics and vocals), Alessandro Polinori (keyboard and alternative composer) and Federico Rosi (also keyboard and alternative composer) focused on dark oriented synthpop. The band enjoyed limited but warm appreciations from local indie scene in Rome and produced a CD/Demo in 1994 named “Dal Nulla”.
Left the band in 1996, willing to seek different territories (i.e. the wish of including guitars in the instrument tool set and approach a more dynamic composition) Fabrizio settled a limited home studio in his parents house and started experimenting with sampling and synthesis as well as learning bass guitar, finally producing an EP/Demo (“Interfering”) under the acronym of June74. Having no live activities and promotion the work remained confined to Fabrizio’s room except for a few (positive though) reviews from small web reviewers.
In 1998 Fabrizio issued an advertisement on a local paper seeking for a lyric composer and vocal front man for an alternative band. It was in this way that Fabrizio and Alessandro Caruso (aka “Ale”) met. Joined by a talented guitarist, Alessandro Daidone (aka “Sandro”), who was Fabrizio’s friend from the years of Electro Alba, the trio formed the “Chrome Koran” (name taken from an imaginary band as created by William Gibson in his futuristic novels).
The first priority for Chrome Koran was setting down material for a demo. Fabrizio had already a set of compositions roughly completed and the band improvised and processed this material and added new six-hand-written original parts (including lyrics from Ale), completing the auto-produced CD/Demo “Flowers” in the summer of 1999.
The CK work “Flowers” was an exciting creative experience which resulted in mature example of crossover between electronics, rock and experimentation. The work was well received within the local and regional audience and the band was able to perform a series of concerts on a number of well known halls in Rome (such as Villaggio Globale, Alpheus, Black Out). In addition the band work got selected for the local round robin of indie music context “Arezzo Wave” and CK was able, even without an established supporting fan base, to win two of these context rounds. Appreciation from the local media included several regional radio’s supporting airplay of “Flowers” songs and a full 1-hour interview with the cult radio “Citta’ Futura” by the summer of 2000.
Chrome Koran actually did split up in august 2000 due to the (hard and simple) reason of Fabrizio relocating to the Netherlands for his engineering profession. Anyway the CK members remain still good musical and spiritual mates as in fact Fabrizio, Ale (Caruso) and Sandro (Daidone) keep contributing to each other separate works.
From 2001 to 2007 Fabrizio remained musically quiet. Anyway this was a period of extremely importance for his private and professional life and substantially contributed to Fabrizio stability and personal development.
From 2007 onwards Fabrizio got musically busy again. At first by curiosity he started digging into the engineering of sound, including synthesis, sampling and looping techniques, as well in learning more on harmony and classic music culture. A lot of experimentations (homework actually) from this period emerged as embryonic compositions.
In 2009 Fabrizio decided this material deserved proper production. This time anyway it was going to be a solo work, with only sporadic instrumental contributions from friends. This is how the acronym June74 became a Fabrizio’s main project flag.
The studio work of 2009 and 2010 (entirely and autonomously performed within the means of his personal home “Studio-F”) was concluded in September 2010 and the solo work “Earthlife” saw the light. A work Fabrizio is definitively proud of, “Earthlife”, is currently distributed, though cooperation with the independent label Believe Digital, on all major Internet digital shops.
Fabrizio is currently still actively working on the June74 project. Within his own terms, budget and methods, June74 will shortly include audio visuals for the “Earthlife” album and, if all dots fit together, will be properly performed live.
Read more: http://www.fabriziopoce.com
Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.