Andrea Arcidiacono

Born in 2001 in Giarre, in the province of Catania, I've always considered myself a genuine film and music enthusiast. My father Giuseppe and my brother Luca were the driving force behind my personal cultural growth: while the former pushed me towards an early immersion in mid-Seventies Pink Floyd - today I consider myself a proud Barrett devotee - the latter opened up a whole world to me at a tender age, from Burton-esque gothic horror to Peter Jackson-style splatter. In the summer of 2018, during my final years at art school, I immersed myself in the poetics of progressive rock, staying devoted to the genre for a solid two years. In 2020 I enrolled at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Catania, in the now-defunct Technological Arts department: there I began to take an interest in the dazzling refinement of new wave, dark-punk subculture, the allure of free jazz and the no wave underground, before being swept away for good by the brutality of post-hardcore and noise rock. A lover of monographs and an eternal completist, since September 2025 I've been studying at the University of Turin, on the CAM (Theatre & Music) course.

Miscellaneous

Gruppo D'alternativa - Ipotesi, l’azzardo canterburiano della prog band milanese

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Gruppo D'Alternativa - Ipotesi, the Canterbury-style gamble of the Milanese prog band

The story of the sole, "cursed" LP by the Milanese band. A concept album with Canterbury-scene shades, one of the best-kept secrets of Italian prog

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Sensations' Fix - Fragments of Light, the embryonic sunset of the Florentine space-prog outfit

In the underbelly of Italian prog, a band captivated by the era's kraut-rock trends, poised between the meditative calm of Popol Vuh, the dreamlike energy of Neu! and the nocturnal atmospheres of Tangerine Dream

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Dedalus, the flame sparked by Piedmontese jazz-rock

The timeless jazz-rock of Pinerolo's own Dedalus, a manifesto of an era

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Jesus Egg That Wept, the hatched egg of the British goth queen

The British artist, composer and performer delivers one of her most accomplished pop-rock experiments, crossing every boundary

Sleep It Off, the manifesto of the no wave diva Hope In A Darkened Heart, the annihilation of the ego Macintosh Plus - Floral Shoppe, the vapor cloud that intrigued the web Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy), the non-musician's rock kaleidoscope James Chance - Buy, the pure no wave madness of James Chance and co. Nina Hagen - Nunsexmonkrock, the expressionist madness of a punk nun Daniel Johnston - Hi, How Are You, the self-portrait of rock's Van Gogh Adriano Pappalardo - "Oh! Era ora", the hall of mirrors between Battisti, Panella and the Apulian singer Krisma - Hibernation, the ice age of Italian new wave Foetus - Hole, the black hole of J.G. Thirlwell's nihilistic industrial

Reviews on OndaRock

GARY WILSON Mary Had Brown Hair hypnagogic pop, synth funk, synth pop	7
JOJI Ballads 1 alt-pop, alternative r&b, emo-rap, lo-fi hip-hop	6.5
KILL BILL Ramona abstract-hip-hop, jazz-rap, lo-fi hip-hop	7
LIP CRITIC Hex Dealer digital-hardcore, industrial-hip-hop, new rave, synth-punk	7
LIV.E Past Futur.E darkwave, hypnagogic pop, minimal-synth	6.5
NINA WINDER-LIND Wild Love folk rock, indie rock, singer-songwriter	6.5
SIMONE FELICI, MARCO VERDECCHIA Worms chiptune, jazz-rock, rock opera, progressive rock	6.5