Continua la rassegna di parole e musica, in questa occasione dedicata ad uno dei più grandi gruppi prog rock della storia: Genesis. Ad accompagnarci in questo viaggio tra musica e parole Francesco Gazzara, che oltre ad avere scritto due bellissimi libri sulla band inglese è un valente musicista, tra i vari progetti la serie di album Gazzara Plays Genesis (IRMA Records) nonchè tastierista del tributo Genesis LA VOLPE. Francesco ci racconterà di Peter Gabriel e compagni, e non mancheranno suoi interventi musicali, per farci capire ancora meglio la struttura di alcuni celebri brani della band. Ma la serata non finisce qui, dopo il reading, si continua con un fantastico live della band tributo Slippermen – Tribute To Genesis (Gabriel Era). Cinque musicisti che eseguiranno uno splendido omaggio live al combo che ha rivoluzionato la musica prog. A condurre la serata: Marc Magnus & Beppe Baracca. Ingresso libero – apertura porte ore 20.00
LA VOLPE latest gigs:
Nov 01 2025: @Breaklive (Ascoli Piceno IT)
Nov 14 2025: @Chattanooga Saloon (Rome, IT)
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LA VOLPE is a new popular Genesis tribute band, known for the musicians ability and originality in their interpretation of the famous English prog act’s repertoire. On Friday 10th October 2025, at the Crossroads Live Club in Rome, LA VOLPE present “The Lamb & More…“: a show of great passion carefully prepared by professional musicians who share with the audience the desire to listen to both the masterpieces and the more obscure songs of Genesis within a story. The story of the evolution of a unique band in the world of progressive rock.
The show’s first half is dedicated to a large selection from The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, Genesis’ historic concept album, which celebrates its 51st anniversary on 18 November 2025. In the second half LA VOLPE plays more masterpieces performed live between 1970 and 1977 by the legendary English band.
Click on the flyer for venue infos and booking:
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On Friday 26th 2025 a new tribute album is released by GAZZARA plays GENESIS on IRMA Records. Double CD The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway is available as a Limited Edition on the artist Bandcamp page: http://francescogazzara.bandcamp.com/music
Gazzara plays Genesis successful piano-orchestral tributes Play Me My Song (2013), Here It Comes Again (2020), Foxtrot (2022) and Selling England By The Pound (2023) were appreciated by original Genesis members such as Anthony Phillips and Steve Hackett. Now keyboardist and composer Francesco Gazzara is back with an absolute masterpiece of the legendary band: a double CD tribute to The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, released by the IRMA Records label as a Limited Edition CD almost 51 years after the original release of the eponymous Genesis concept album.
The ‘Story of Rael’, as introduced by Peter Gabriel during the Lamb Tour in 1974-75, is both a turning point in Genesis discography and a masterpiece of 20th Century music. Prog, rock opera or a pre-punk record, perhaps all three at once: the impressive music of The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway brings together many lyrical references – The Pilgrim’s Progress, Alejandro Jodorowsky, West Side Story, Carl Jung – creating a wall of sound comparable to a symphonic soundtrack from another era.
The double concept album is arranged in the style of the previous Gazzara plays Genesis records: a focus on the exclusively instrumental part of the masterpiece, looking for ingenious details sometimes hidden in the original, enhancing above all its cinematic component. The Lamb begins as a dream, turns into a nightmare and ends with an attempt at redemption: the ideal path to let oneself be carried away by the piano/orchestral transcription of the magnificent music written by Tony Banks, Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel, Steve Hackett and Mike Rutherford. Perhaps by imagining, remembering or re-reading the brilliant original verses of the songs that make up the work.
The first 150 copies of Gazzara plays Genesis: The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway in Limited Edition are available only on the artist’s Bandcamp page: http://francescogazzara.bandcamp.com/music
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“Dopo un bel po’ di anni accolgo con piacere la sfida della musica pubblicitaria, tornando a collaborare con i colleghi di M-O-D Music On Demand e DGP Entertainment. Del passato comune ricordo soprattutto i lavori originali per Jeep e Fernet Branca. Oggi è la volta di Poste Italiane (Agenzia “Superhumans”) con l’arrangiamento musicale dell’offerta Poste Energia: un rifacimento strumentale della hit “Come Mai” scritta nel 1993 da Max Pezzali e Mauro Repetto (883), originalmente pensata come brano sanremese per Massimo Ranieri. La mia versione è guidata dal pianoforte acustico, avvolto dai drawbars dell’Hammond B3. Sezione ritmica di stampo blues e orchestrazione di archi nel ritornello. In onda dal 14 settembre in tv e dal 5 ottobre in radio” (FG)
(15-09-2025) – Poste Italiane (Spot TV 60″) – Arrangiamento musicale: Francesco Gazzara – Agenzia: Superhumans – Consulenza musicale: M-O-D Music On Demand e DGP Entertainment – Mix and mastering: Studio 2084 – Brano scritto da Pezzali-Repetto, Ediz. Mus. Warner Chappell Italiana
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December 6th 2024 latest GAZZARA‘s album I Won’t Let You Down has been released by IRMA Records. I Won’t Let You Down is an album entirely dedicated to GAZZARA‘s collaboration with Dutch soul/pop singer Youssef Dinar. Five original tracks (plus three alternative mixes) produced and partly released recently as digital singles, including a brand new one that gives the album its title: I Won’t Let You Down. Introduced only by GAZZARA‘s unmistakable Rhodes electric piano and Dinar’s intimate, passionate vocals, the song unfolds in a soft yacht rock arrangement full of Hammond, Vocoder, warm 70s synthesizers, vibraphone, drum machine and elaborate backing vocals, featuring GAZZARA’s founding members Massimo Sanna on bass and Mauro Mirti on drums/percussion. The album continues with the Memphis-style torch song No Tears Left, the Motown soul of Reach Out – guest saxophonist Dario Cecchini of Funk Off -, the acoustic, radio-friendly pop of This Is Your Life, and the more recent The Struggle, a nocturnal, urban shuffle ballad, performed with intense soulful depth by Youssef Dinar.
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Italian monthly magazine LEGGERE:TUTTI interviewed Francesco Gazzara about his latest book GENESIS: Dal Prog al Pop (Le storie dietro le canzoni) on May’s issue. Here you can read the complete interview by Gaetano Menna:
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A new interview for GENESIS: Dal Prog al Pop (Le storie dietro le canzoni) on Jam TV: click on the image to read all about it.
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On Saturday 13th April 2024 Italian web station Radio Elettrica interviewed Francesco Gazzara about his latest book GENESIS: Dal Prog al Pop (Le storie dietro le canzoni). Here’s the complete podcast recording:
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Francesco Gazzara‘s new book GENESIS: Dal Prog al Pop (Le storie dietro le canzoni) by Italian main publisher Giunti Editore is going to get published very soon. The 400 pages book is the second written by Gazzara about the legendary English band, after GENESIS dalla A alla Z (Odoya Edizioni, 2022). This time the author describes in detail every song written by Genesis from 1967 (when still at Charterhouse School) to 1997 (when their last studio album Calling All Station was released). This new book is an accurate work of investigation on songs sources and inspiration, on their musical structures, lyrics and on their on stage development. Here’s the book cover for now , you can click on it for further infos.
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To celebrate Gazzara plays Genesis: Play Me My Song’ 10 years release anniversary, here’s a brand new review of this double LP on Italian magazine RaroPiù (issue 118, January 2024). Latest vinyl copies still available here: www.gazzaraplaysgenesis.com.
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Like every year, the editorial staff of Il Popolo del Blues, the electronic magazine founded by the unforgettable Ernesto De Pascale, directed for years by the equally unforgettable Michele Manzotti and guided today by the wise minds of Giulia Nuti and Fabrizio Berti, publishes the best records of the previous year chosen by his collaborators. Here is the link to browse through all the Best Of selections of 2023:
And here’s Francesco Gazzara‘s Top 10 for 2023:
1) Miguel Atwood-Ferguson – Les Jardins Mystiques Vol 1
2) Naïssam Jalal – Healing Rituals
3) Seven Impale – Summi
4) i/o – Peter Gabriel
5) Killers Of The Flower Moon (Original Soundtrack) – Robbie Robertson
6) False Lankum – Lankum
7) Yaeji – With A Hammer
8) Monster (Original Soundtrack) – Ryuichi Sakamoto
9) The Ballad Of Darren – Blur
10) Uriel Herman – Different Eyes
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“More Fool Me’s ebbing Rhodes piano, The Battle Of Epping Forest’s ivory keys’ orchestra and the piano’s fil rouge of The Cinema Show will definitely push you getting this album”. So it says another great review of Gazzara plays Genesis: Selling England By The Pound written by Donato Zoppo on Italian Audio Review magazine (issue 459, december 2023).
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A new book by Francesco Gazzara will be published March 2024 in Italy: GENESIS – TUTTE LE CANZONI. It’s the second book Gazzara dedicated to legendary rock group Genesis after GENESIS Dalla A Alla Z (2021, Odoya Edizioni) and it will be published by Giunti Editore. 400 pages with nearly 200 songs by Genesis analyzed one by one. The book will be available in all Italian bookstores and online, with a few copies signed by the author on sale directly on this page (details to follow soon). This how Italian Dusk Genesis Magazine announced the release in its december 2023 issue:
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Grand Central Versions is the latest GAZZARA‘s Spotify playlist out on January 2024: 27 renditions in 27 years, a compilation of GAZZARA’s covers released between 1996 and 2013. To listen click on the image below:
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Here’s the sleeve of Gazzara plays Genesis: Selling England By The Pound, Francesco Gazzara‘s latest (piano/orchestral) tribute album released as a Limited Edition CD on October 13, 2023, exactly 50 years after the original Genesis masterpiece. First 100 copies will be available from September 22 exclusively on the artist Bandcamp page, where they can be ordered (signed on request) directly here https://francescogazzara.bandcamp.com. Thanks to Diego Damiani for his modern art rework of the original sleeve and to Ugo Micheli for his drawings inspired to some of the album’s characters.
Following the success of earlier tribute works Play Me My Song (2103), Here It Comes Again (2020) and Foxtrot (2022) – with appreciation by some former members of Genesis as Steve Hackett and Anthony Phillips – keyboardist and composer Francesco Gazzara returns to the prog rock repertoire of the legendary english band with a new full album reinterpretation. Selling England By The Pound (released by IRMA Records on October 13, 2023) features some tracks already included in both Gazzara Plays Genesis tribute albums – as Dancing With The Moonlit Knight, I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe), Firth Of Fifth – but also adds brand new acoustic versions of The Battle Of Epping Forest, More Fool Me and Aisle Of Plenty arranged for piano, rhodes, hammond organ, mellotron and ARP Pro-Soloist synthesizer.
October 13, 1973, legendary rock band Genesis released their masterpiece Selling England By The Pound. Fifty years later the heritage of this album on modern music is still enormous and this instrumental piano/orchestral version is only a humble tribute to such beautiful music written by Tony Banks, Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel, Steve Hackett and Mike Rutherford. Thank you Genesis!
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“Here It Comes Again” (Gazzara Plays Genesis follow-up to “Play Me My Song”) is released worldwide today, 9th January 2020, on IRMA Records, in all digital stores.
The album is also available as a physical digipack CD (signed copy) directly here: www.gazzaraplaysgenesis.com/shop
More 1970’s and 1980’s Genesis classics (and less famous gems) tracklisted, including a full version of “Supper’s Ready” for piano, hammond, moog, melodica, mellotron, flute and cello.
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“Processo Per Corruzione” di Marco Tullio Cicerone (dalle “Orazioni Contro Verre”). Traduzione e drammaturgia di Paolo Gazzara, con Massimo Venturiello e Maria Letizia Gorga. Colonna sonora di Francesco Gazzara. L’evidente modernità delle invettive di Marco Tullio Cicerone, in una messinscena che, tra drammaturgia, costumi e musica, ricorda anche le gesta di Raymond Burr (Perry Mason”) e Charles Laughton (“Testimone D’Accusa”). Lunedì 9 dicembre, alle ore 21.00, Roma, Officina Pier Paolo Pasolini (Teatro Eduardo De Filippo). La seduta è aggiornata.
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“Here It Comes Again” (Gazzara Plays Genesis follow-up to “Play Me My Song”) ready for official release next January 9th, 2020, on IRMA Records. The album is already available to order – a digipack CD signed copy – directly here: www.gazzaraplaysgenesis.com/shop
More 1970’s and 1980’s Genesis classics (and less famous gems) tracklisted, including a full version of “Supper’s Ready” for piano, hammond, moog, melodica, mellotron, flute and cello.
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Vatican Radio‘s brand new audio campaign including radio idents, jingles and news titles written and arranged by Francesco Gazzara online and on air for autumn broadcasting from september 29th.
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“Here It Comes Again” (Gazzara Plays Genesis follow-up to “Play Me My Song”) mix sessions underway for an end of year scheduled release. More 1970’s and 1980’s Genesis classics (and less famous gems) tracklisted, including a full version of “Supper’s Ready” for piano, hammond, moog, melodica, mellotron, flute and cello.
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Irma Dancefloor releases “The Man (EP)” , a new collaboration between Gazzara and DJ Alex Di Ciò including original tunes “It’s Because” and “Magic”. Available in all major digital stores: https://lnk.to/GazzaraVSDiCioTheMan
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- Vatican Radio‘s Idents, jingles and News Titles finalized for autumn broadcasting.
- “Basileus“, a film documentary by Alessandro Marinelli about schooling and teaching in difficult urban areas in Rome, featuring Francesco Gazzara’s soundtrack, is broadcasted on the 22nd of august on Rai Tre TV national channel, h 00.05 (DOC3 series).
- Instrumental overdubs for ““Here It Comes Again” (Gazzara Plays Genesis follow-up to “Play Me My Song”) including violin, viola, cello, flute, sax, bass, percussion and guitars are nearly completed. Album mix will start in early september.
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- Irma Dancefloor releases “It’s Spring” digital EP, a collaboration between Gazzara and DJ Alex Di Ciò including original tunes remixes such as “It’s Not Over” and “Spring Tango”.
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- Instruments overdubs for “Here It Comes Again” including violin, viola, cello, flute, bass, percussion and guitars.
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- Piano recordings for “Here It Comes Again” – Gazzara Plays Genesis follow up to “Play Me My Song” album – in place at “Lo Sciamano Music School Auditorium” on a finely tuned Bechstein grand piano originally build in 1878.
- On 29 march “Play Me My Song” album (gatefold LP print) officially presented in Rome at Welcome To The Jungle vinyl store.
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- February 8th – 2084 digitally released worldwide on IRMA Records.
- February 4th – First italian screening for Francesca Muci‘s new film/documentary “La Casa Dei Bambini” at Cinema Barberini in Rome. Soundtrack by Francesco Gazzara.
- February 1st – live showcase for The Piano Room‘s 2084 concept album @Lo Sciamano Music School, Rome, Italy.
- CD released on same day (www.thepianoroom.it).
- November – December 2018:
- Working on new easy listening and jazz lounge music library temporarily titled “Agent Bossa” for Flipper Music label.
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- “Time Goes By: L’Uomo Che Disegnava I Sogni” (dir. Simone Aleandri, soundtrack F. Gazzara) officially screened at “Festa del Cinema di Roma 2018” on wednesday 24th october, h. 21.30, MAXXI Museum, Rome.
- Post producing The Piano Room‘s new concept album 2084 (IRMA Records), due early 2019.
- Working on a major sound restyling for Vatican Radio broadcasting (FM and online), writing various jingles for podcasts and news titles.
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- Writing a new score for biopic documentary As Time Goes By (RAI Cinema / Clipper Media)
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- Writing a new score for documentary La Vita É Un Dono (RAI Cinema / Clipper Media)
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