OSSI DURI HISTORY
The OSSI DURI "baby snakes band" are made up of five very young musicians of ages ranging to 18 to 21 . They started off in '92 just for fun, when Martin and Ruben were only 8 and 6, to entertain their friends at school parties and birthdays. In '93 they started performing live in a number of clubs in their area and a year later they decided to include a few Zappa compositions in their repertoire.
Their first maxisingle C.D., called "Niente squole niente maestre!" ("No more schools nor teachers!"), came out in '96 and contained four original songs and one Frank Zappa cover ("Take your clothes off when you dance"), marking an extraordinary event: never before had such young musicians ventured on a field so complex and challenging as the one represented by Frank Zappa's music.
In July ‘97 they were asked to play for the " Zappa Day '97" in Sarteano, Italy (part of the material in the second C.D. was recorded on that occasion) and in October of the same year they performed at the "Salone Internazionale della Musica di Torino" ( International Music Show of Turin) for a Zappa Memorial Afternoon in the Lingotto Auditorium.
In August '98 they performed at the Zappanale #9, an open air festival, in Bad Doberan, Germany. In May '99 they perfomed at the "Zappadays" in Spoleto, Italy.
The #2 CD "Sta chitarra ammazzerà tua madre" is therefore the natural development of their consolidated musical approach, a homage paid to a type of music that marked our contemporary times, a chance to reinforce the notion of "conceptual continuity" that characterized the production of Frank Zappa. With their #3 Cd they confirmed this approach.
In June '99 they released their third Cd "Che Rocktura" which contains original, plus once again a tribute to Frank Zappa, "What's new in Baltimore". You can find an MP3 file of "La Toma di Ruben" here
On March 2000 Ossi Duri perfomed as opening band in Turin for Elio e le Storie Tese.
On April 2000 Ossi Duri perfomed with Ike Willis, Frank Zappa lead vocal for almost 18 years. You can find a diary here.
June 2000 they played (for the second year) for the ZAPPADAYS in Spoleto (PG) Italy.
On September they performed in Benevento for "Molliche".
In October 2000 the had a collaboration with Marco Minnemann, German drummer.
On April 3 2001 they performed again with Ike Willis for the TV show "Roxy Bar". They played "Andy". Here the mp3 file of that perfomance. The same nite they also played with Pavlov's dog leader David Surkamp "Theme from subway sue". Here the mp3 file of that perfomance
On April 2001 they were on tour with Ike Willis and released "Ossi + Duri di tuo marito" which contains Zappa tunes and 3 original. Special guest Mr. Ike Willis.
On July 2002 they perfomed with Ike Willis at the Zappanle #13, the biggest Zappa festival in Europe, with a lot of Zappa alumni.
On Dec 4 2003, after ten years of Zappa passing they released "X" an album tribute to Frank's music, feat: Ike Willis, Napoleon Murphy Brock, Mike Keneally, Elio, Claudio Bisio and Rocco Tanica. Electromantic Music is the label producer.
On May 2004 thery performed at "Unlce Meating" to celebrate Frank Zappa music, promoter: Debra Kadabra, the Italian Frank Zappa appreciation consortium
On July 2004 they perfomed at Vinadio (Italy) with Ike Willis
On Oct 2004 live with Elio, famous Italian pop star
On 2005 they released "Gnam Gnam" album, live
with Elio, which contains Zappa Tunes e "L'ultimo dei
miei cani" with only original tunes
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