Verdena

Alberto (voice, guitar), Roberta (bass) and Luca (drums) are Verdena.

They’ve been playing together since 1992.

Verdena rehearse every day (if not on tour) down in their garage, where they built a 24 track recording studio. No digital stuff is allowed to get in!

Their songs arise from a round of guitar, bass guitar or drums. The hen-house (renamed “Henhouse Studio”, a complete studio) is a sound laboratory full of guitars, amplifiers, rhodes, mellotrons, Korg synths.

They consider the form of the song like a picture to work on in a more and more stratified way much more than a simple song.

Alberto’s lyrics have always been a characteristic that stands out from the usual and reiterated formula of the Italian rock music.

Verdena’s songs, which are granitic in themselves, have now a new value since the lyrics have been written not in function of a narrative logic, but following an unconscious stream closer more to the Anglo-American rock language than to the syncopes of the Italian language, which are so far from the aesthetics of pure rock.

Debut album: Verdena
The debut album came out in 1999.
Release date: September, 30th, 1999.
The first single went in heavy rotation on MTV.
The album sold 40.000 copies

First EPs:
Two EPs has been published after the album release: Valvonauta and Viba ep.

In the first one there were two new tracks. In the second one two new tracks and a cover of Sunshine of Your Love by Cream.

On tour:
The band played in the most important festivals (Imola Heineken Music Festival with Hole and Marylin Manson, Independent Day Festival with Deftones, Limp Bizkit, Arezzo Wave Love Festival with Henry Rollins). Between September 1999 and the summer of 2000 Verdena played more than 100 gigs.

Second album:
July 2001; Verdena play in Turin before U2 exclusive show in Italy.
September 2001: Solo un grande sasso, the second album, came out. The first single, Spaceman, went immediately in the top ten. Same as for the album (sixth in the top ten for three weeks and on the top forty for other four weeks). The record sold 35.000 copies.

Other EPs:
After the release of the second album Verdena published two more EPs in which they made cover of Thirteen Floor Elevator’s Reverberation and Melvins Creepy Smell.

Third album:
Il suicidio dei samurai came out on January 31, 2004 Two weeks before they played in Groningen, at Eurosonic. At the same time Verdena released the EP Luna. Suddenly it got number two for two weeks on the top ten. Then the album came out and it got to the seventh in the top ten. Made a club tour (30 gigs) most of the times got sold out. On summer 2004 they’ve made 40 gigs all over Italy. Then, once again, a club tour of 20 gigs. Once again sold out everywhere.