Italian mod collective unveils floorfilling third album. The Piaggio Soul Combination is a musical collective hailing from Pisa, Tuscany, where long-standing mod Marco ‘Piaggio’ Piaggesi combined the best singers and musicians of the local Latin-soul scene. Mixing Italian, American and Caribbean musicians, the band builds solid polyrhythms, adding upon this foundation tasty basslines and groove-laden guitars. A tight-as-hell horn-section and a fat organ sound complete the picture, offering a boiling pot of soul grooves, up-tempos, latin-Jazz movers and what you could call Northern Soul. Their first vinyl LP, Italian Boogaloo, released by SanAntonio42, came out in March 2017, and was well received by critics and audience. A second full-length, This Is The Piaggio Soul Combination, followed in January 2019 through IRMA records. This led them to appear on various national TV shows and to be selected for the Sanremo Rock Festival, held in Italy’s most important theatre, The Ariston. In 2020, they began their collaboration with Arkansas-bred Lakeetra Knowles, who slid gracefully into the lead vocal role.
01. HANG ON 02. DO IT 03. THE FACTS OF LIFE 04. NEWLY BORN LOVE 05. THERE IS A BLIND MAN 06. NO LONGER 07. BORDERLINE BREAKAWAY DISC #2 01. HITMAN 02. SE LLAMA BOOGALOO 03. DOME SLOW 04. SCOOTER RUNNIN’ 05. I CAN’T BELIEVE 06. HARD TIMES STATE OF MIND 07. BY THEN I’LL BE GONE
