Visage Music is a record label founded by Claudio Carboni and Riccardo Tesi, focused on the production of world music and Italian songwriting. UPGRADE is a new album by Andrea Piccioni e Francesco Loccisano and is a new production by Visage Music. It is a CD composed of original songs in which tradition renews itself in search of new languages and musical frontiers. Tradition is a living process, in transformation, that renews and regenerates itself thanks to the incessant work of its bearers.

This is the meaning of the meeting between Francesco Loccisano and Andrea Piccioni: the exploration of ways and sounds symbolizing  the millenary Italian tradition, beyond the classification of "popular", in which tradition is used as a  starting platform for a dialogue and sound research through which deconstruct and reconstruct not  through a simplistic contamination but on the contrary digging towards the essence and the center of  the sound. An intense, vibrant and never predictable journey. Two great interpreters, creators of a synthesis between tradition and innovation, never simplistic and always aware.

Francesco Loccisano, already a long-time collaborator of Eugenio Bennato, Mimmo Cavallaro, Vinicio Capossela, Gianna Nannini, he was the first Italian musician to bring the chitarra battente to the Sanremo Festival. Loccisano's innate talent and his great passion for the "chitarra battente",  capable of producing sounds of unquestionable charm, over time led him to structure his own personal  style of interpretation and performance that is much appreciated by an increasingly wide audience.

Andrea Piccioni, Considered as one of the world's leading exponents of the frame drum, creator of  a profound technical and stylistic renewal of the Italian drum, he has crossed with his style the  boundaries of jazz, early music and world music, collaborating with artists such as Bobby McFerrin, Paul McCandless, Dónal Lunny, Gianluigi Trovesi, Luciano Biondini, Basel Rajoub, Caitríona O'Leary, Les Haulz Et Les Bas, Riccardo Tesi, Manfred Leuchter, Lucilla Galeazzi, Wu Man, Zarbang ensemble.

Contact Francesco Loccisano  https://francescoloccisano.com

Andrea Piccioni   https://www.andreapiccioni.net

visagemusicproduction@gmail.com