Stream & buy Cavalo55 – ‘Late Harvest’
Cavalo55 debut EP ‘Late Harvest’ arrives off the back of an extremely productive last couple of years in which he has played extensively with various bands around Portugal (his current home base), recorded and released a handful of live sessions (leading to his first radio plays), serving as an early showcase for the EP, working extensively on his first set of songs under his own moniker.
Cavalo55 is the musical project of very well-travelled Simone Carugati, a multi-instrumentalist, folk singer-songwriter. Since his first encounter with a guitar at 8 years old, he went on study guitar and music theory from age 12 and eventually started playing electric guitar in early 2000, becoming pretty much his sole focus for almost the entirety of his teen years. It was around this time that he also got into bass, slide guitar, banjos, and every string-based instrument. Growing up in Northern Italy, Cavalo55 didn’t have much to do apart from learning how to play the guitar and dreaming that he was somewhere in America.
As soon as he got a chance, he left Italy and traveled to Australia, Indonesia, Scotland, and the United States, where he mingled with anarchists and jammed with New Orleans’ music-loving crust punks. During those days of busking and train-hopping, he dug deep into the great legacy of old-time folk guitar music, absorbing the Delta blues of Robert Johnson, Blind Willie Johnson’s slide guitar, and picking up the Appalachian banjo. One day he found himself in the deep redwood forests of Humboldt County, California, wondering if he had finally jumped out of the screen. Interweaving his travels, his touring musical career took off on the blues circuit in northern Italy and Switzerland. Later joining Filippo Dallinferno (now guitarist in LA band Crazy Town) on his first solo album and eventual tour, whilst on his Australia and Scotland trips he joined bands such as The Spinning Blowfish and then Holy Locust upon his arrival in America.
Since decamping to Portugal, (because “the ticket to Lisbon was the cheapest”, he adds), he has been creating and collaborating in the Lisbon music scene, playing solo and regularly with artists such as Marinho, as her current guitarist, Time for T, and Monday, all of which are label mates, and The Lemon Lovers in bars, clubs, and venues the country over.
He has also played with the Grammy winner Paulo Novaes, joining him on tour recently, and Latin Grammy nominated artist Rubel, contributing guitars to their track ‘Paz Interior’. With Paulo he also played on the track ‘Casca do Ovo’. He has also shared the stage with Tiago Nacarato and Janeiro as well as playing and recording with Marta Miranda, from the band Oquestrada. In addition he has recently played live with Leo Middea, rapidly rising Brazilian artist Ana Vilela, Mbye Ebrima, Carapaus Orkestra, Afrobeatz and Lilocox among others.
With all of these collaborations further bolstering his reputation and songwriting, now the right moment has presented itself for him to create and release his first songs and his first coherent work as he looks to shape his musical identity as a solo artist.
Armed with this incredible batch of songs, Cavalo55 has a continued determination and willingness to make them reach as far and wide as possible and play them as much and to as many people as he can.
Tracklisting:
Hi’s&Lo’s
Espresso Martini
acdc
A White Building