marta collica
Marta Collica is an Italian songwriter, singer and multi-instrumentalist. Marta's voice is unmistakeable - beautifully emotive, dark and dreamy with a smouldering intensity. Now based in Berlin, she is a key member of the John Parish Band (composer and producer for PJ Harvey, Eels, Tracy Chapman etc) and is also well know for her long term collaboration with Australian songwriter Hugo Race with their duo, Sepiatone and as one of the founding members of the international collective Songs with Other Strangers together with Cesare Basile, Hugo Race, John Parish, Manuel Agnelli, Stef Kamil Carlens Giorgia Poli Rodrigo D'Erasmo and Steve Wynn. Marta plays guitar, keyboards and percussion with an original style that combines minimal arrangements - seemingly delicate but also distorted, with an undercurrent of psychedelia.
Marta currently is presenting her third solo album Inverno (2017) which she co-produced with guitarist and composer Cam Butler. It was recorded over a period of two years in Berlin, Melbourne, Paris and Italy and adds to her long, rich history of recordings and collaborations: her two solo albums - About Everything (2009), Pretty and Unsafe (2007) released in Italy and Germany; three albums as duo Sepiatone, most recently Echoes On (2015); four albums with John Parish Band - Screenplay (2013), Plum (2007), Once Upon A Little Time (2005), Bird Dog Dante (2018); four albums with Hugo Race & The True Spirit; the Playing Carver album - a project inspired by the writings of Raymond Carver, written and recorded in Paris with Atlas Crocodile, Marc Chonier (Gaspard La Nuit) and John Parish, and last year's album Silent Town (2016), exploring borders between mediterranean world music and anglo songwriting, recorded with the italo-palestinian band Dounia.
- “Pop as a warm chill” - Intro-
“About Anything" is timeless and blurs the border between musical dreaming and obscurity -MOTOR-DE
Her lyrics are a search for the voice of the streets at night. - SPEX
Die klingt ein wenig wie eine Mischung aus Lisa Germano und Beth Gibbons, weist aber auch zu ihren Hauptarbeitgebern John Parish und Hugo Race. Eine Kleine Perle, man merkt es nur nicht gleich - Der Neue Tag
Live Dates
live - 2019
24 March Berlin - Kantine Berghain
22 January Berlin - Renaissance Theater Best of Resonanzen - die Größe Unplugged Revue
27 January Turin- Seeyousound FestivalSongs with Other Strangers mini live and premiere of the rockumentary" "Songs with Other Strangers"
09 February Berlin - Space Medusa
Nina Hynes - Marta Collica trio with Deko and Rachel Maio
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live - 2018
Nov-Dec - Europe and Uk tour with John Parish Band
9 August Mens (FR) - Festival Mens Alors!
with Playing Carver and John Parish
19 Juli Ostrava (CZ) - Colours of Ostrava Festival
with John Parish Band
24 Juni Berlin (DE)- Zimmer 16
12 May Firenze (IT) - House concert
11 May Verona (IT) - Cohen
8 May Ravenna (IT) Lido di Adriano - Cisim
6 May - Firenze (IT) Fabbrica Europa
with John Parish Band
4 May - Lisboa (PT) Indie Lisboa Festival
with John Parish Band
3 May - Porto (PT) Hard Cafe
with John Parish Band
11 März - Offenbach (DE) Hafen2
10 März - Erfurt (DE) private party
28 February Berlin (DE) - Resonanzen 18
with Yoyo Rohm
23 February - Berlin (DE) Deriva
27 January - Halle (DE) RBB Kultur Radio
Live concert and interview
24 January - Berlin (DE) Toast Away
4 January - Berlin (DE) Barbiche
live - 2017
7 April - Firenze Circolo Arci Progresso
8 April - Pergola Villa Tereze
9 April - Terni Caffe Bugatti
12 April - Genova Teatro Bloser
25 Juni - Berlin Rote Salonwith Deko, Rachel Maio, Martina Bertoni, Dodo NKishi
3 Juli - Ancona "La Punta Della Lingua" "Poeti da antologia"Letture di Antonella Anedda e Giampiero Neri
Interventi musicali di Marta Collica (voce e chitarra) e Rachel Maio (violoncello)
6 Juli - Firenze "Estate a San Salvi" Sound and Vision"City Blues" reading, di Vittorio Bongiorno con Marta Collica
8 Juli - Firenze concerto al Gainsbarre di San Salvi
10 Juli - Mantova Arcipelago di Ocno Marta Collica e Rachel Maio special guest Giorgia Poli
20 October - Berlin Schokoladenwith full band
27 November - Berlin Badehaus - a night with Hugo Race, Michelangelo Russo, Mark Steiner, Deko
30 November - Berlin Marie Anoniette
with the Fan Club - a tribute to the Music of Phil Spector
"INVERNO" GERMAN RELEASE 9/1/17
Inverno is distributed and promoted in Germany by Solaris Empire / Broken Silence
“
Die klingt ein wenig wie eine Mischung aus Lisa Germano und Beth Gibbons, weist aber auch zu ihren Hauptarbeitgebern John Parish und Hugo Race.
Eine Kleine Perle, man merkt es nur nicht gleich
(Der Neue Tag)
Erwähnen muss man´s schon: Marta Collica, Italienerin und Wahlberlinerin, ist Mitglied in der John Parish Band. Ja, PJ-Harvey Produzent Parish. Doch imGrunde ist das mäßig wichtig, denn den vor Leben vibrierenden Sound, den man mit diesem Namen verbindet, bekommt Collica auch selbst hin. Sacht und unprätentiös, mit einer Noir Note, die nie nach Pose, sondern nach aufrichtiger Liebe zum Alleinsein bei Nacht klingt.
(Zitty Magazine)
“
Die klingt ein wenig wie eine Mischung aus Lisa Germano und Beth Gibbons, weist aber auch zu ihren Hauptarbeitgebern John Parish und Hugo Race.
Eine Kleine Perle, man merkt es nur nicht gleich
(Der Neue Tag)
Erwähnen muss man´s schon: Marta Collica, Italienerin und Wahlberlinerin, ist Mitglied in der John Parish Band. Ja, PJ-Harvey Produzent Parish. Doch imGrunde ist das mäßig wichtig, denn den vor Leben vibrierenden Sound, den man mit diesem Namen verbindet, bekommt Collica auch selbst hin. Sacht und unprätentiös, mit einer Noir Note, die nie nach Pose, sondern nach aufrichtiger Liebe zum Alleinsein bei Nacht klingt.
(Zitty Magazine)