BOOGIE BOMBERS
A Bonanza Of Powerful Blues From Turin By Edoardo Fassio “Our ideas were clear right from the start,” concedes Boris Tabasco, co-founder, harmonica player and frontman of Turin’s BOOGIE BOMBERS. “The blues, once you have it in your fingers or lungs, allows you total freedom to be able to express your soul”. Boris and guitarist Joe Tabasco were still teenagers when they “enrolled” in the blues school, taking lessons from the then best teachers in town. Once the founders were joined by Simone Tabasco on drums and Marco Tabasco on bass, the band took on its final form. The official discography opens with the album “Docks Dora Session”, released under the collective identity of Fratelli Tabasco. In the mode of the Ramones, the “brotherhood” defines the connection in music and highlights the predilection for a corrosive, hi-cholesterol and spicy powered blues-and-boogie. With the current, unequivocal name of BOOGIE BOMBERS, after years of concerts and unrested ascent, in 2019 the quartet triumphed in the selections to represent Italy in Memphis at the 2020 International Blues Challenge, the world’s most prestigious contest of the genre. The big overseas opportunity allows them, in early 2020, to organize a parallel one-month tour, crossing Georgia,
order all over the world, represents the (almost) faithful account of a journey through life and music, both sides of the Atlantic. And the experience of souls that were made free by the encounter with the blues. http://boogiebombers.com/
Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama. “Playing the same stages that Ray Charles, Johnny Cash and Bobby Rush did was a dream come true”, recollects Boris. The road and its inevitable detours, often shared with other leading artists known around Beale Street, led to the making of their new album. Recorded in Italy in the last three days before the lockdown, it is enriched by the collaboration of Seattle artist Miranda Kitchpanich, a name to keep an eye on in her own right. “Boogie Bonanza”, to be released on November 20 by Volcano Records & Promotion and already available in preOctober 2020 • Rock and Blues International
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