Nosound

Nosound is an Italian progressive rock band that started as a vision by Giancarlo Erra. All of the early recordings were composed, played, produced, engineered, and released by Erra. As time passed, this music became more popular and the demand for live performances increased. Giancarlo then assembled a band of gifted musicians who would eventually become full-time members to play the music of Nosound. The band is noted for playing music in several different genres including progressive rock, post rock, and ambient music.

Nosound has been influenced by artists such as Pink Floyd, Porcupine Tree, No-Man, Arvo Pärt, Brian Eno, and Genesis.

Two of the band's albums won the Italian Progressive Music Awards Best Recording honor:
A Sense of Loss - 2009 Best Recording
Lightdark - 2008 Best Recording

Band history

Giancarlo Erra era 2002-2006

Nosound started as a project by Giancarlo in 2002. He created several solo works, at least one of which is unreleased. His early demo recordings date back to 1998 with an eight track demo titled Radici and a 19 minute instrumental track on the demo CD Maslova. Bassist Alessandro Luci contributed to some of the early tracks. Giancarlo describes the music as "evocative and intense, with personal songwriting". Waves on Russia was the first officially released Nosound demo in 2002, followed by the first promo which was for Sol29

Giancarlo Erra

Giancarlo Erra is a contemporary Art Rock artist.

Primarily known as the founder and frontman for the Italian Art Rock band Nosound, he also has produced one album under the band name of Memories of Machines with Tim Bowness (notably of the band No-Man). Giancarlo moved from Italy to the UK in 2010 to work for KScope Records as a producer and engineer. Under Nosound he has produced four studio albums, two live albums, three ep's, and several promotional/demo recordings. The new live album Teide 2390 was released in March 2015. A second Memories of Machines album is planned, but there is currently no forecasted release date.

In 2005, Giancarlo opened his own recording and production studio in Norfalk UK called The Bench Music initially to work on his own music, but has since opened it up as a commercial enterprise.

In 2014, Giancarlo and Nosound were invited to play at the Starmus Festival on the island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands of Spain. He took a remote recording rig and recorded the performance which was later released as Teide 2390.