Pierpaolo Capovilla, born in 1968, is a musician and author of the Italian independent rock scene. Singer and bassist of one of the seminal groups of the 90s, One Dimensional Man, with them he plays an endless series of concerts in Italy and Europe, and publishes 5 albums destined to leave their mark in the history of the most radical and uncompromising Italian rock.
In 2005 he founded the group Il Teatro degli Orrori, with which he tries his hand at his usual sounds, this time however singing in Italian.
He plays bass on the first two albums of the quartet called Buñuel, led by Eugene Sterling Robinson.
His never-hidden love for poetry pushes him to engage in literary readings of his most beloved lyric poets, from Mayakovsky to Esenin, from Pier Paolo Pasolini to Antonio Delfini, up to the recent meta-theatrical projects, “Interiezioni”, based on texts by Antonin Artaud, and “Viaggio al Termine della Notte”, by Louis Ferdinand Céline.
”Eresia”, Auditorium Edizioni, is the filmic account of one of these readings, held in Faenza on the occasion of the Meeting delle Etichetta Indipendenti in 2010, in which he interprets some of Mayakovsky’s most famous poems.
Also for Auditorium, the poetry collection “Finché Galera Non Ci Separi” by Emidio Paolucci, a writer detained in the Pescara prison, of which Pierpaolo has curated the dramatic audio-reading supported by the music of Paki Zennaro.
Pierpaolo Capovilla e i Cattivi Maestri, the artist’s new rock group, is about to be published.
Capovilla’s work certainly shows his devotion to the tradition of the most bloodthirsty rock of American origin, his affection for Russian poetry and drama, but also his civil passion and attachment to democratic values, always reiterated in concerts and public meetings.