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Mimmo Locasciulli was born in Penne, Abruzzo in 1949.
At the end of the sixties, after experiences with beat groups and rock approaches to folk music and folk-rock thanks to visits with European and American musicians met in Perugia, home to a prestigious university for foreigners, where he studied medicine.
In 1971 he moved to Rome and joined the cast of Folkstudio, the place where they have taken the first steps also Antonello Venditti and Francesco De Gregori.
In 1975 just for the label "Folkstudio" was released his first album ("Do not stay there") which will follow, over the years, another 14 LP (including "Four songs ML" Around thirty "and" Sognadoro ", produced by De Gregori).
From 1981 to 1983 Mimmo Locasciulli works closely with Francesco De Gregori participating as a pianist and guest artist at the famous "Tour of the bus" of 1981, the subsequent tour of Titanic and collaborating to plan and keyboards, to achieving the album "Titanic "and" The fat lady. "
In 1985 he took part in the Festival of the Italian Song, the category "Champions", with the song "Good Luck". In the summer of the same year, during the summer tour, release the album "live '" which it participates, as a guest, the singer Enrico Ruggeri. For the occasion, the two write, sing and affect together the song "Confused in a playback" which will take the title and the album, is the lucky theatrical tour that the two artists will undertake in the end of '85.
In 1987 opened the concert by Tom Waits during the Premio Tenco assigned to the Californian singer-songwriter, playing with Ruggeri the Italian version of "Foreign affair".
Birth of a contribution of friendship and collaboration with Greg Cohen, who Tom Waits is musical director and bass player and this collaboration, which is still active, leading to the construction of four Locasciulli album ("Now I tell you," "Tango around the corner" , "Crimes perfect," and "Men"), made in Italy and in the United States with Italian and American musicians (including Marc Ribot, The Uptown Horns, Lenny Pickett, Michael Blair, Charlie Jordan, Willie Schwarz and others) and eight tours in Italy and in Europe (Austria, Germany. Switzerland, France) between 1989 and 1995.
In 1992 he composed the music for the play "Jack the Slayer" by Vittorio Franceschi, anteprirna presented at the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto.
In 1994 he composed the entire soundtrack of the film by Enzo Monteleone "The Real Life of Anthony H.," starring Alessandro Haber, present and awarded at the Exhibition of the Venice Film Festival the same year.
"Men," disk where Locasciulli finds his first folk-rock atmospheres, containing inter alia "The sound of the bells" - written and sung by De Gregori -, was released in May 1995.
At exactly three years from "Men" see the light "The Future", an album of covers - a tribute to the greatest composers of contemporary rock, from Dylan to Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Randy Newman, Elvis Costello, David Byrne, etc. .. Also in this album Locasciulli and De Gregori (concealed under the pseudonym Cereno Diotallevi) sing a song for the occasion and in duo chose the beautiful "Powderfinger" by Neil Young.
The activity of singer-songwriter Locasciulli alternates to producer: Stephen Delacroix ("Rebels", "The law does not apply"), Goran Kuzminac ("Strawberries and daggers"), Claudio Lolli ("Journey to Italy") and Alessandro Haber (" Haberrante "," Something to Declare ") are his most recent productions, published (with Sony Music Distribution) for his label Hobo.
N el June 2002 is published on the fourteenth album entitled "Air family," double CD containing 20 of the most beautiful compositions of Locasciulli (all revisited in the arrangements) plus four new and more the soundtrack of the film "The Real Life of Anthony H ". The disc contains Guest artists such as Enrico Ruggeri (with whom Eric has written the song "Air family" and with whom he reinterprets "Confused in a Playback"), Paola Turci, with whom he sings "The sound of bells," Andrea Miro with whom he duets on "Two girlfriends", Paolo Fresu, trumpet and flugelhorn on "Dancing" and "A life that escapes", Greg Cohen (bass) and Francesco De Gregori as an acoustic guitarist.
In July 2003 he was posted to the German-speaking market, a single CD was born from the friendship and collaboration with Büne Hüber, leader of a rock band very popular in Switzerland and Germany (Patent Ochsner), in which he sings the Italian version of Locasciulli a beautiful song of Büne ("Hotelsong") together with its author, and he performs in the German version of one of the most poignant songs of Mimmo, "Natalina."
In the month of January 2004 Locasciulli released his 15th album, "Slowly", totally acoustic, which still stands in the presence of the great bassist Greg Cohen. The album also included "Hotelsong" (with Büne Huber), a tribute to Piero Ciampi ("Not you") and "oil on water", written in six hands with Enrico Ruggeri and Francesco De Gregori.
In May 2006 he was released the 16th album, "sglobal", produced by Greg Cohen and the same Locasciulli made between Rome and New York with the participation of some very important guest artists:
Frankie Hi-Nrg, with whom Eric has written and sung the title track, Alex Britt on electric guitar in "Help!", Stefano Di Battista sax in "Lost and Found" and "sglobal" and the extraordinary American guitarist Marc Ribot present in most songs.
In the early months of 2007 Locasciulli participates in an initiative of the City of Turin, elected together with Rome World Book Capital, composing the music of some poems by Leonard Cohen, as he himself translated. The concert presented in Turin is replicated in Cairo as part of the International Book Fair in which Italy is guest of honor.
Emotions collected on this trip, multiplied by the influence exerted by the poetry of Cohen constitute the point of start of the new compositions by Mimmo.
The circle closes in June 2008 when he participates, together with Lucio Dalla and Luca Carboni at a concert on the island of Lampedusa, on the occasion of a ceremony dedicated to migrant populations.
Two months later, the songs are written in May 2009 and was released the 17 albums of Mimmo, "Hydra" (published some months in advance in Switzerland), which the author considers his most important, deep and painful work.
"Hydra", was produced by Cohen, Locasciulli and his son Matthew, this time in studies Dubway in New York and concluded in the Recording Studio Hobo, at the gates of Rome. The album is enhanced by the participation of two exceptional American musicians, with whom he regularly collaborates Greg: Marc Ribot, considered the most brilliant and innovative guitarist of the last twenty years, and Joey Baron, undoubtedly a number one among the living drummers. In the album there are also two wonderful Italian jazz musicians, however, very popular all over the world: Stefano di Battista on sax and clarinet Gabriel Mirabassi.
At the end of the sixties, after experiences with beat groups and rock approaches to folk music and folk-rock thanks to visits with European and American musicians met in Perugia, home to a prestigious university for foreigners, where he studied medicine.
In 1971 he moved to Rome and joined the cast of Folkstudio, the place where they have taken the first steps also Antonello Venditti and Francesco De Gregori.
In 1975 just for the label "Folkstudio" was released his first album ("Do not stay there") which will follow, over the years, another 14 LP (including "Four songs ML" Around thirty "and" Sognadoro ", produced by De Gregori).
From 1981 to 1983 Mimmo Locasciulli works closely with Francesco De Gregori participating as a pianist and guest artist at the famous "Tour of the bus" of 1981, the subsequent tour of Titanic and collaborating to plan and keyboards, to achieving the album "Titanic "and" The fat lady. "
In 1985 he took part in the Festival of the Italian Song, the category "Champions", with the song "Good Luck". In the summer of the same year, during the summer tour, release the album "live '" which it participates, as a guest, the singer Enrico Ruggeri. For the occasion, the two write, sing and affect together the song "Confused in a playback" which will take the title and the album, is the lucky theatrical tour that the two artists will undertake in the end of '85.
In 1987 opened the concert by Tom Waits during the Premio Tenco assigned to the Californian singer-songwriter, playing with Ruggeri the Italian version of "Foreign affair".
Birth of a contribution of friendship and collaboration with Greg Cohen, who Tom Waits is musical director and bass player and this collaboration, which is still active, leading to the construction of four Locasciulli album ("Now I tell you," "Tango around the corner" , "Crimes perfect," and "Men"), made in Italy and in the United States with Italian and American musicians (including Marc Ribot, The Uptown Horns, Lenny Pickett, Michael Blair, Charlie Jordan, Willie Schwarz and others) and eight tours in Italy and in Europe (Austria, Germany. Switzerland, France) between 1989 and 1995.
In 1992 he composed the music for the play "Jack the Slayer" by Vittorio Franceschi, anteprirna presented at the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto.
In 1994 he composed the entire soundtrack of the film by Enzo Monteleone "The Real Life of Anthony H.," starring Alessandro Haber, present and awarded at the Exhibition of the Venice Film Festival the same year.
"Men," disk where Locasciulli finds his first folk-rock atmospheres, containing inter alia "The sound of the bells" - written and sung by De Gregori -, was released in May 1995.
At exactly three years from "Men" see the light "The Future", an album of covers - a tribute to the greatest composers of contemporary rock, from Dylan to Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Randy Newman, Elvis Costello, David Byrne, etc. .. Also in this album Locasciulli and De Gregori (concealed under the pseudonym Cereno Diotallevi) sing a song for the occasion and in duo chose the beautiful "Powderfinger" by Neil Young.
The activity of singer-songwriter Locasciulli alternates to producer: Stephen Delacroix ("Rebels", "The law does not apply"), Goran Kuzminac ("Strawberries and daggers"), Claudio Lolli ("Journey to Italy") and Alessandro Haber (" Haberrante "," Something to Declare ") are his most recent productions, published (with Sony Music Distribution) for his label Hobo.
N el June 2002 is published on the fourteenth album entitled "Air family," double CD containing 20 of the most beautiful compositions of Locasciulli (all revisited in the arrangements) plus four new and more the soundtrack of the film "The Real Life of Anthony H ". The disc contains Guest artists such as Enrico Ruggeri (with whom Eric has written the song "Air family" and with whom he reinterprets "Confused in a Playback"), Paola Turci, with whom he sings "The sound of bells," Andrea Miro with whom he duets on "Two girlfriends", Paolo Fresu, trumpet and flugelhorn on "Dancing" and "A life that escapes", Greg Cohen (bass) and Francesco De Gregori as an acoustic guitarist.
In July 2003 he was posted to the German-speaking market, a single CD was born from the friendship and collaboration with Büne Hüber, leader of a rock band very popular in Switzerland and Germany (Patent Ochsner), in which he sings the Italian version of Locasciulli a beautiful song of Büne ("Hotelsong") together with its author, and he performs in the German version of one of the most poignant songs of Mimmo, "Natalina."
In the month of January 2004 Locasciulli released his 15th album, "Slowly", totally acoustic, which still stands in the presence of the great bassist Greg Cohen. The album also included "Hotelsong" (with Büne Huber), a tribute to Piero Ciampi ("Not you") and "oil on water", written in six hands with Enrico Ruggeri and Francesco De Gregori.
In May 2006 he was released the 16th album, "sglobal", produced by Greg Cohen and the same Locasciulli made between Rome and New York with the participation of some very important guest artists:
Frankie Hi-Nrg, with whom Eric has written and sung the title track, Alex Britt on electric guitar in "Help!", Stefano Di Battista sax in "Lost and Found" and "sglobal" and the extraordinary American guitarist Marc Ribot present in most songs.
In the early months of 2007 Locasciulli participates in an initiative of the City of Turin, elected together with Rome World Book Capital, composing the music of some poems by Leonard Cohen, as he himself translated. The concert presented in Turin is replicated in Cairo as part of the International Book Fair in which Italy is guest of honor.
Emotions collected on this trip, multiplied by the influence exerted by the poetry of Cohen constitute the point of start of the new compositions by Mimmo.
The circle closes in June 2008 when he participates, together with Lucio Dalla and Luca Carboni at a concert on the island of Lampedusa, on the occasion of a ceremony dedicated to migrant populations.
Two months later, the songs are written in May 2009 and was released the 17 albums of Mimmo, "Hydra" (published some months in advance in Switzerland), which the author considers his most important, deep and painful work.
"Hydra", was produced by Cohen, Locasciulli and his son Matthew, this time in studies Dubway in New York and concluded in the Recording Studio Hobo, at the gates of Rome. The album is enhanced by the participation of two exceptional American musicians, with whom he regularly collaborates Greg: Marc Ribot, considered the most brilliant and innovative guitarist of the last twenty years, and Joey Baron, undoubtedly a number one among the living drummers. In the album there are also two wonderful Italian jazz musicians, however, very popular all over the world: Stefano di Battista on sax and clarinet Gabriel Mirabassi.
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