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F r a n c e s c o C u s a Drummer and composer, Francesco Cusa was born in Catania in 1966. He played with well-known musicians such as Paolo Fresu, Tino Tracanna, Attilio Zanchi, Marco Micheli, Bruno Tommaso, Larry Smith, Walter Schmocker, Lauro Rossi, Gianni Gebbia, Fabrizio Puglisi, Stefano De Bonis, Guglielmo Pagnozzi, Domenico Caliri, Luigi Mosso, Edoardo Marraffa, Cristina Zavalloni, Lelio Giannetto, Alberto Capelli, Riccardo Pittau, Mirko Sabatini , Jay Rodriguez, Butch Morris, Jon Rose, Michel Godard, Kenny Wheeler, Garbis Dedeian, Steve Lacy, Tim Berne, Stefano D’Anna, Pietro Ciancaglini, Paolino Dalla Porta, Roy Paci, Elliot Sharp, Saadet Türköz, Flying Luttembachers, Andy Sheppard, Michael Riessler, Yves Robert, Giorgio Conte, Fred Giuliani, Zu, Mohammed El Bawi, E. Glerum, Assif Tsahar, Natalia M.King, Lionel Rolland , Dj.Pushy, Christophe Monniot, Tanja Feichtmair, Manu Codjia, Emil Spany, Arrington De Dionyso, Gianluca Petrella, Claudio Lugo, Marco Cappelli, Jean Marc Montera, Ab Baars, Ig Henneman, Danilo Gallo, Beppe Scardino, Francesco Bigoni, Stefano Senni, Piero Bittolo Bon, i Robotobibok, Giovanni Falzone, Tito Magialajo, Enrico Terragnoli, Carlos Zingaro, Gianni Lenoci, ecc. the dancers Cinzia Scordia and Florence La Porte , the visual artist Fred Gautnier, and the writers collectif Wu Ming. He was the promoting partner of Bassesfere’s collective and actually is envolved in the cultural association for improvised and avant-garde music “Ex B.” and with the project/label "Improvvisatore Involontario". He performed in several international music festivals in France, Romania, Croazia, Slovenia, Bosnia/Erzegovina, Holland, Germany, Switzerland , Austria, Hungary, Norway, Spain, Belgium. He's leader of the trio “Skrunch” and of the re-sonorization project for the movies “AURORA”, “SOLOMOVIE” plays Buster Keaton, “PER UN PUGNO DI DOLLARI”,and co-leader of “THE BODY HAMMER”, SWITTERS, ALTOMARIA, NEGRI VOLANTI. He collaborates with the following groups: Cristina Zavalloni OPEN QUARTET, TRINKLE TRIO (feat. Michel Godard), PAOLO SORGE "Jazz Waiters", "FEET OF MUD". the drums duo COMPLEXE MACHINE. DISCOGRAPHY: 2) T.A.O. "Amaremandorle", yvp music 3041 (1994), (feat. Paolo Fresu, Guglielmo Pagnozzi, C.Zavalloni) 3) DOMENICO CALIRI Q.ART.AEPTO"Sicilia Jazz Collection, vol. 1", SPLAS(H) records 4) SPECCHIO ENSEMBLE "Suite no. 1 per quintetto doppio", caicai 005 (1995 Pierrot Lunaire) 5) JORGE, C. ZAVALLONI "OPEN QUARTET", TABULA RASA, T.A.O., SPECCHIO ENSEMBLE "Catalogo Basse Sfere", (1996 autoproduzione) 6) CRISTINA ZAVALLONI "OPEN QUARTET" "Danse a rebours", yvp music 3053 (1996) 7) JORGE "L'inferno dei polli" SPLASC(H) Rec. CD H 463.2 (1996) 8) SPECCHIO ENSEMBLE Compil. "Angelica 1995", caicai 007 (1996 Pierrot Lunaire) 9) ALFREDO IMPULLITTI, KAOS ENSEMBLE e KENNY WHEELER "La geometria dell'abisso", SPLASC(H) Rec. CDH 638.2 (1998) 10) JAZZIN'ENSEMBLE "Najo", Ideasuoni IDE009, (1998) 11) CRISTINA ZAVALLONI "OPEN QUARTET" "Come valersi non servilmente di Bertolt Brecht", CMC 9981-2 (1998) (feat. Michel Godard, Kaos Ensemble) 12)CONJURA "Conjura", ETNAGIGANTE/WHYNOT? 001 (1999) 13) SPECCHIO ENSEMBLE "Porcyville", ida 017, I dischi di Angelica (2003) 14) PAOLO SORGE "Trinkle Trio" with Michel Godard and Francesco Cusa - AUAND AU9003 (2003) 15) CRISTINA ZAVALLONI "OPEN QUARTET" "When you go yes is yes!" fy 7024 (2003) 16) PAOLO SORGE & THE JAZZ WAITERS 2007 jazz IMPROVVISATOREINVOLONTARIO I.I. 0005 As a leader: 17) FRANCESCO CUSA Impasse "su Jacques Prévert" SPLASC(H) Rec. CDH609.2, (1997) 18) FRANCESCO CUSA "66six" - Du Démon et d'autres questions - BASSESFEREC 002 - (1999) 19) TRIONACRIA "The mystic revelation", Curva Minore, 001 (1999) 20) FRANCESCO CUSA & CRISTINA ZAVALLONI Impasse"New original soundtrack for Aurora by F.W.Murnau" - BASSESFEREC 003 - (2000) 21) FRANCESCO CUSA "SKRUNCH" "Psicopatologia del serial killer", IMPROVVISATOREINVOLONTARIO I.I .0001 (2005) 22) SWITTERS “The Anabaptist loop”, IMPROVVISATOREINVOLONTARIO I.I .0002 (2005) 23) FRANCESCO CUSA “SOLOMOVIE”, “Isole che parlano”, ICP 001 (2005) 24) SWITTERS "Jazz Magazine vol. 38" JM38 (2006) 25) NURSERY FOUR “Improvised music for imaginary films” IMPROVVISATOREINVOLONTARIO I.I .0003 (2006) 26) NURSERY FOUR "Jazz Magazine vol. 50" JM50 (2007) 27) MIMMO/SERRAPIGLIO/CUSA "A Watched Pot" 2007 AMIRANI REC.006, 28) FRANCESCO CUSA “SKRUNCH” “L’arte della guerra” I.I.006 (2007) francescocusa.it

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Drummer and composer, Francesco Cusa was born in Catania in 1966.
He played with well-known musicians such as Paolo Fresu, Tino Tracanna, Attilio Zanchi, Marco Micheli, Bruno Tommaso, Larry Smith, Walter Schmocker, Lauro Rossi, Gianni Gebbia, Fabrizio Puglisi, Stefano De Bonis, Guglielmo Pagnozzi, Domenico Caliri, Luigi Mosso, Edoardo Marraffa, Cristina Zavalloni, Lelio Giannetto, Alberto Capelli, Riccardo Pittau, Mirko Sabatini , Jay Rodriguez, Butch Morris, Jon Rose, Michel Godard, Kenny Wheeler, Garbis Dedeian, Steve Lacy, Tim Berne, Stefano D’Anna, Pietro Ciancaglini, Paolino Dalla Porta, Roy Paci, Elliot Sharp, Saadet Türköz, Flying Luttembachers, Andy Sheppard, Michael Riessler, Yves Robert, Giorgio Conte, Fred Giuliani, Zu, Mohammed El Bawi, E. Glerum, Assif Tsahar, Natalia M.King, Lionel Rolland , Dj.Pushy, Christophe Monniot, Tanja Feichtmair, Manu Codjia, Emil Spany, Arrington De Dionyso, Gianluca Petrella, Claudio Lugo, Marco Cappelli, Jean Marc Montera, Ab Baars, Ig Henneman, Danilo Gallo, Beppe Scardino, Francesco Bigoni, Stefano Senni, Piero Bittolo Bon, i Robotobibok, Giovanni Falzone, Tito Magialajo, Enrico Terragnoli, Carlos Zingaro, Gianni Lenoci, ecc. the dancers Cinzia Scordia and Florence La Porte , the visual artist Fred Gautnier, and the writers collectif Wu Ming.

He was the promoting partner of Bassesfere’s collective and actually is envolved in the cultural association for improvised and avant-garde music “Ex B.” and with the project/label "Improvvisatore Involontario".
He performed in several international music festivals in France, Romania, Croazia, Slovenia, Bosnia/Erzegovina, Holland, Germany, Switzerland , Austria, Hungary, Norway, Spain, Belgium.

He's leader of the trio “Skrunch” and of the re-sonorization project for the movies “AURORA”, “SOLOMOVIE” plays Buster Keaton, “PER UN PUGNO DI DOLLARI”,and co-leader of “THE BODY HAMMER”, SWITTERS, ALTOMARIA, NEGRI VOLANTI.

He collaborates with the following groups:
Cristina Zavalloni OPEN QUARTET, TRINKLE TRIO (feat. Michel Godard), PAOLO SORGE "Jazz Waiters", "FEET OF MUD". the drums duo COMPLEXE MACHINE.

DISCOGRAPHY: 2) T.A.O. "Amaremandorle", yvp music 3041 (1994), (feat. Paolo Fresu, Guglielmo Pagnozzi, C.Zavalloni) 3) DOMENICO CALIRI Q.ART.AEPTO"Sicilia Jazz Collection, vol. 1", SPLAS(H) records 4) SPECCHIO ENSEMBLE "Suite no. 1 per quintetto doppio", caicai 005 (1995 Pierrot Lunaire) 5) JORGE, C. ZAVALLONI "OPEN QUARTET", TABULA RASA, T.A.O., SPECCHIO ENSEMBLE "Catalogo Basse Sfere", (1996 autoproduzione) 6) CRISTINA ZAVALLONI "OPEN QUARTET" "Danse a rebours", yvp music 3053 (1996) 7) JORGE "L'inferno dei polli" SPLASC(H) Rec. CD H 463.2 (1996) 8) SPECCHIO ENSEMBLE Compil. "Angelica 1995", caicai 007 (1996 Pierrot Lunaire) 9) ALFREDO IMPULLITTI, KAOS ENSEMBLE e KENNY WHEELER "La geometria dell'abisso", SPLASC(H) Rec. CDH 638.2 (1998) 10) JAZZIN'ENSEMBLE "Najo", Ideasuoni IDE009, (1998) 11) CRISTINA ZAVALLONI "OPEN QUARTET" "Come valersi non servilmente di Bertolt Brecht", CMC 9981-2 (1998) (feat. Michel Godard, Kaos Ensemble) 12)CONJURA "Conjura", ETNAGIGANTE/WHYNOT? 001 (1999) 13) SPECCHIO ENSEMBLE "Porcyville", ida 017, I dischi di Angelica (2003) 14) PAOLO SORGE "Trinkle Trio" with Michel Godard and Francesco Cusa - AUAND AU9003 (2003) 15) CRISTINA ZAVALLONI "OPEN QUARTET" "When you go yes is yes!" fy 7024 (2003) 16) PAOLO SORGE & THE JAZZ WAITERS 2007 jazz IMPROVVISATOREINVOLONTARIO I.I. 0005 As a leader: 17) FRANCESCO CUSA Impasse "su Jacques Prévert" SPLASC(H) Rec. CDH609.2, (1997) 18) FRANCESCO CUSA "66six" - Du Démon et d'autres questions - BASSESFEREC 002 - (1999) 19) TRIONACRIA "The mystic revelation", Curva Minore, 001 (1999) 20) FRANCESCO CUSA & CRISTINA ZAVALLONI Impasse"New original soundtrack for Aurora by F.W.Murnau" - BASSESFEREC 003 - (2000) 21) FRANCESCO CUSA "SKRUNCH" "Psicopatologia del serial killer", IMPROVVISATOREINVOLONTARIO I.I .0001 (2005) 22) SWITTERS “The Anabaptist loop”, IMPROVVISATOREINVOLONTARIO I.I .0002 (2005) 23) FRANCESCO CUSA “SOLOMOVIE”, “Isole che parlano”, ICP 001 (2005) 24) SWITTERS "Jazz Magazine vol. 38" JM38 (2006) 25) NURSERY FOUR “Improvised music for imaginary films” IMPROVVISATOREINVOLONTARIO I.I .0003 (2006) 26) NURSERY FOUR "Jazz Magazine vol. 50" JM50 (2007) 27) MIMMO/SERRAPIGLIO/CUSA "A Watched Pot" 2007 AMIRANI REC.006, 28) FRANCESCO CUSA “SKRUNCH” “L’arte della guerra” I.I.006 (2007)

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