Giacomo Rivoira

My email: lepurivoira@gmail.com

If you appreciate the ideas I express in my reviews, I invite you to follow me on my YouTube channel: you'll find programming where I talk about Italian and foreign records, including from countries that don't get much coverage from official critics (for example Japan, France, Germany, Brazil, Argentina, Eastern Europe, etc.), both classics and new releases. You'll find the link to the YouTube channel in the dedicated 'Links and Favorites' section, also on this page.

A musician before I was ever a reviewer, I enjoy listening to and spreading music with no limits of genre or geographic origin, and I haven't given up my own musical activity either. Specifically, I sing and play a range of instruments: electric guitar, synthesizer, bass. In the links and favourites section you'll find links to two projects of my own. One of them, CALIGVLA 2082, delivers underground synthwave electronic music with dystopian, cyberpunk themes. The other, James Lepo, is a project poised between Italian singer-songwriter tradition, classic and modern, and international art pop.

My favourite genres: 
britpop, new wave and post-punk, progressive rock, shoegaze, electro and synthpop, house (acid, progressive, etc.), indie rock (mostly of the British persuasion), hard rock, soul, r&b (classic, alternative, contemporary), techno, 90's dance music (euro, trance, hardcore, old school, etc.), NWBOHM, Rock Nacional, visual kei, city pop, synth funk, folk, the best instances of EDM trap and digital latin, trip hop, chamber pop, Italian, South American, French and British singer-songwriter music.