Twenty Four Hours is an Italian progressive rock band with various influences, including the psychedelic one that is the predominant element. After their first album, strongly encouraged by Nick Saloman (The Bevis Frond) and entitled "The Smell of The Rainy Air", a self -produced vinyl in January 1991 (published on the day after the outbreak of the Gulf War), the group has acquired a certain notoriety thanks to the welcome of specialized music critics signaled the debut of the band among the best releases of 1991.
In 1992, following this small and unexpected success, the band was hired by Mellow Records of Sanremo, a label specializing in progressive rock, and later by the French label Musea. In 1994, Mellow published the second album, "Intolerance," and reprinted The Smell of the Rainy Air on CD. In 1999, Musea published the third album, Oval Dreams, which became their best seller and is also available on iTunes, the popular Apple platform for online sales of liquid music. The band has also participated in some compilations of Progressive Rock and has published, under Creative Commons, a collection of previously unreleased tracks titled Before and After The Boundary. The band's latest album, The Sleepseller, was published in 2004 in collaboration with Musea who oversaw the distribution. The first track of this album, "Bari Brazil," was recently selected as the soundtrack of the video communications agency Mirror. All works of the band are available for legal download on Jamendo, and can be purchased in CD format by Musea, Mellow and Velut Luna.
Band history
The first nucleus of the band consisted of Roberto Aufiero and Fabrizio Bobba on guitars, Michele Deflorio on bass, Marco Lippe on drums, and Paolo Lippe on vocals and synthesizers. This line-up came together in Bari (in Apulia, southern Italy) at Christmas 1985, out of the ashes of the Trio, the Onyx Marker and The Pause, three underground experiences of pre-school era. With this line-up, Twenty Four Hours played in many clubs in Bari, recording all its concerts.
Extasy, The Dawn and Deuce become the most appreciated and demanded songs by the public during the live sessions. Even all the studio takes of the group are recorded live with an eight channel mixer and a tape recorder. Despite the commitment of the musicians, the concerts and the approval of the public, the local critics do not appreciate the sound of the group considering it outdated and anachronistic. We are still in full blast punk-wave-dark and the youth culture of Puglia is very sensitive especially to the dark-wave. During those years the live performances of The Sound, New Order, Bauhaus, Virgin Prunes, Simple Minds were very popular among young Italians. At that time that the band dedicated a song to the Joy Division singer Ian Curtis
In 1987 the original band separated due to conflicts especially related to university commitments that make it increasingly difficult to meet for rehearsals. Drummer Marco Lippe, certainly the most active member for his numerous musical projects (Hide and Seek, Nirnaeth) and collaboration (Nirnaeth Space Lab, Locus, Christoper Lenox-Smith/Seaweed of Ozric Tentacles), meets Nico Colucci, a whimsical artist, fond of painting, graphics and music at the Academy of Fine Arts. He introduced him to a different and younger environment where he met Antonio Paparelli, a guitarist with a dark-wave setting. The strict and rigorous scientific university commitments contrast with the more flexible time and space of their artistic studies. In this scenario Edain Danse took shape, a dark-wave project with Antonio Paparelli on guitar, Nico Colucci on bass and Marco Lippe on drums. This new band clearly resembles Joy Division, Cure and Danse Society (hence the name) and started composing a number of songs that will be presented to the public of Bari in two concerts only. With the help of the "dark philia" of that period, Edain Danse was extraordinarily successful.