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Riff Green

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Riff Green

This Hard Land
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CURRICULUM VITAE

He began playing guitar and writing songs in English at the age of fourteen. In 2017 he performed with a tribute band at the ElvisDays festival proposing a generic rock'n'roll repertoire. The line-up remained active with sporadic dates in the years to come. A few months later he released, with the band JETSTREAM in which he sings and plays the guitar, the EP Virtual Sessions with a prog-rock sound recorded at Andrea de Marchi’s Virtual Studio. In October of that year, he returned to the same studio to record the soundtrack of the "CartaCarbone" Literary Festival with other musicians. In November the band won the "Rumori Strani" contest, obtaining the right to perform the following year at the renowned "Suoni di Marca" Festival.

In 2018 he began writing songs on his own. The artists who influenced him the most include Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen, who guided him towards traditional American music. In October he published a collection of poems Mosaico. In the same month he obtained a pre-academic diploma in theory and solfège at the Adria Conservatory. In November 2018 he began a fruitful collaboration with pianist Marco Fiorese, which led them in the following year to perform on an eight-date tour in the Treviso area with the name Seagulls. Between August and September 2019, he was organizer and artistic director of the Trevisioni Festival, where he performed with Seagulls and promoted two other literary publications: Diario bretone in poesia and the novel Ombre d'asfalto.

In October 2019 he began studying Environmental and Territorial Sciences and Technologies at the University of Trieste. In the same month he returned to collaborate with the CartaCarbone Festival musically accompanying some readings.

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