KILLING FLOOR
Celebrating the late 60’s Psychedelic Blues Rock Era
The trio merges the various influences that come from its elements: blues, rock and psychedelia. Main inspirations of the trio are Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, early Pink Floyd of Syd Barrett’s era among others. This incredible Music is approached by the band with much respect and performed faithfully and at the same time lived with originality and freshness in the moment, making every live Performance a worthy celebrative event. The band’s rich repertoire includes not only classic songs but also beautiful gems, often not so heard by the public.
Killing Floor live it’s fresh. The trio will blow you away with a smoking repertoire.
Jacopo Bertacco : Guitar & Vocal
Steve Palmieri : Bass
Boris Israel : Drums
Jacopo Bertacco – guitar, vocals
Born in Milan and currently living in Berlin. A musician, Yoga teacher and artist open to experimentation and contamination between different languages, since 2000 he has devoted himself to various music projects, such as multimedia performances, movies sound-tracks, work with theatre and live performance with different bands.
A member of the legendary The League of Crafty Guitarists guitar ensemble, since 2007 he has played and performed with Robert Fripp & The League of Crafty Guitarists, touring Europe and North America.
He plays and collaborate with known artists, musicians, actors, performers, in many ways and different fields, making decisive contributions to the realization of various LPs.
Past and ongoing collaborations include among others: Bob Rutman – Endruh Unruh -Einstürzende neubauten – Malika Ayane – eRRe2, Tongs, International Guitar Ensemble, 1605munro, Riddle, The RobRyan Road Show, The Thrust, Giovanni Giorgi group, “Improvvisi” duo with C.M.Nartoni.
“Bisfer” Boris Israel – drums, backing vocals
After ten years living and working in Germany, the Chilean-German musician Bisfer has joined lots of different bands not only as a Drummer, but also as a session percussionist. Since the beginning of his career, at a very early age and as pianist (for a short period of time), he’s been studying and experimenting with diverse types of music such as Rock, Rock n’ Roll, Flamenco, Funk, Jazz and of course Afrocuban, Latin and African music.
Bisfer, drummer and percussionist of The Rob Ryan Roadshow, RIO the Voice of Elvis, Messer Chups, Bang! Mustang, Ray & the Rockets, Freunde der Italienische Oper, Arnaldo Prete (Brasilian music), has also worked as a studio musician.
Now he is working additionally as a session Drummer for Paul-Lincke-Studios Berlin. Bisfer is playing more than a hundred performances each year during his tours around the globe.
Steve Palmieri – bass
Active on the Italian scene since 1998 , with a wide background of Rock, Blues and Jazz Music Steve Palmieri played with many bands recording many albums and keeping an intense live activity.
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