General Info

• Genre: Fusion / Progressive / Rock
  Location Milan, Milano, Italia
  Profile Views: 9200
  Last Login: 2/9/2011
  Member Since 2/25/2008
  Website theredzen.com
  Record Label MA.RA.CASH Records
  Type of Label Indie

• Bio

  The RedZen is a project born in 2009 in Italy under the sign of Roberto Leoni, Ettore Salati, Marco Schembri and Angelo Racz, and devoted to instrumental progressive fusion music. The band members are well-known musician in the prog-fusion world, and they finally met together after having shared different projects which led them to play in world-distributed prog releases and perform live in whole Europe, U.S., South America, Japan. After a couple of jam-sessions as a trio, keyboard virtuoso Angelo joined the line-up and the band was ready. Some months later, Marco decided to leave the project and Nicola Della Pepa brought his bass lines into the sound. The keyword is "JAM LIKE HELL!", and everything is born under the sign of each guy. Almost immediately some surprising tunes came to life, and the production of a release started. Even though The RedZen are a brand-new band, they already performed live. The show displays great musicianship, developed by Leoni's devilish rhythmics, Della Pepa's roaring basses, Salati's grinding riffs and Racz's jazzish virtuosity. Versatility and improvisation drive a "take no prisoners" live schedule. The very first tune released has been "Alexa In The Cage", a special edition featuring vocals by guest singer Joe Sal, which will be included in "Dante's Paradiso" compilation by Colossus/Musea, published in Fall 2010. And on January 2011, the first full-length album "Void" is released for Ma.Ra.Cash Records with worldwide distribution. Some artists The RedZen are influenced by: Return to Forever, Ozric Tentacles, Weather Report, Pink Floyd, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Yellowjackets, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Genesis, Planet X, Tribal Tech, King Crimson, OSI, Colosseum and many others. So the original compositions cross the border from power fusion to prog rock, adding a touch of jazz and psychedelia!

• Members

  Ettore Salati: Guitars, Angelo Racz: Keyboards, Roberto Leoni: Drums, Nicola Della Pepa: Bass

• Influences

  Everything that kicks!! From jazz to rock to fusion to prog