Roy Paci

Roy Paci ( born September 16, 1969 in Augusta, Sicily ) (actually Paci Rosario ) is an Italian trumpeter, singer, composer and arranger.

Life and musical work

Roy Paci learned as a child playing the piano and began at the age of 10 years playing the trumpet. Age of 13, he played traditional jazz and performed in Italian jazz clubs.

1990 Paci moved to South America. He traveled to Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil and played cumbia and other popular music. On a side trip to the Canary Islands and Senegal he was influenced more musical. On these trips Paci toured with various musicians and has participated in a number of projects, film and television productions and political actions - such as Amnesty International's campaign against violence against women - with.

Back in Italy Paci played with various bands from the alternative rock scene such as Persian Jones, Qbeta, Mau Mau, Banda Ionica and To. The list of these collaborations reflects the breadth of his musical influences and preferences of punk and ska, to free jazz and Italian funeral marches.

1999 met Roy Paci French musician Manu Chao. For the first time it is with this in chaos much praised album Próxima Estación: Esperanza to hear. Paci took then continue with Chao and toured extensively with the group Radio Bemba Sound System. 2001 began a long-lasting collaboration with the Amsterdam anarcho- punk band The Ex and their - of up to 20 existing improvising musicians - Ex Orkestra. Cooperation with The Ex he sat in 2010 together with Wolter Wierbos, Mats Gustafsson and Ken Vandermark continues at the Brass Unbound project.

In 2002, Paci his own band Aretuska and 2003 the record label Etnagigante, on their second album Tuttaposto appeared. The album contains a mixture of calypso, rocksteady, swing rhythms and arrangements of traditional Sicilian folk music. It was followed by further collaborations with Tony Scott, Mike Patton, Gogol Bordello, Shantel and Zap Mama. Together with Frank London and Boban Marković he published with Trumpet Triumph an album that Klezmer music with Balkan Brass and Pacis joined Sicilian tradition.

In Germany he was 2010 Bela Bs title you missed what has participated.

Roy Paci often presents itself during his performances in Mafiosoanzug with plenty of pomade in his hair.

Theater, television and cinema

Paci worked on the plays Poetry e Andalusia and Scambi Pressoché from Ivano Fossati Telepatici, which was also released as an audio book. From 2005 Aretuska was known by various TV shows to a wide audience in Italy. Paci has composed music for the Italian cinema and several of his pieces were used for film soundtracks. So used Leonardo Pieraccioni Pacis version of Bésame mucho in his film Suddenly Paradise.

Discography (selection)

Roy Paci & Aretuska

  • Baciamo le mani (2002)
  • Tuttapposto (2003)
  • Parola D' Onore (2005)
  • SuoNoGlobal (2007)
  • Bestiary Siciliano (2009)
  • Latin Paulista (2010)

Roy Paci with other bands

With The Ex

  • Een Rondje Holland (2001)
  • Catch My Shoe (2010)

With Manu Chao

  • Próxima Estación: Esperanza (2001)
  • Radio Bemba Sound System (2002, live)
  • Sibérie m'était contéee (2004)
  • La Radio Lina (2007)
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