The Blue Flames - Blues Trouble (2019)

Personnel:
Martina “Valkyrja” Fontana - Vocals
Alex “Jena” Fasoli - Guitar
Giorgio “Page” Pagella - Bass
Giorgio “Galluz” Galluzzi – Guitar
Umberto "Machine Gun" Tomaselli - Drums

The band was officially born in 2017 by the will of the guitarists Alessandro "Jena" Fasoli, Giorgio "Galluz" Galluzzi, the bassist Giorgio "Page" Pagella and the drummer Michele Vittori who, after years of live activity with important individual projects and veterans of the experience common with the Stone Bridge Band, one of the most impressive and long-lived musical realities of the Pavia rock scene, they decide to lay the foundations for a rock-blues formation with a powerful, aggressive and original sound.

The voice is recruited by Martina "Valkyrja" Fontana, a blues singer with many years of live experience with other level blues rock formations and with various folk and acoustic musical projects. An old acquaintance of Jena, with whom she had already had the opportunity to collaborate for some short "hosted" live, Martina is immediately enthusiastic about completing the quintet that, in short, begins to tread on the stages of many small and large clubs in Pavia and beyond only, each time leaving the sign with a particularly energetic, dynamic and full of original nuances.

In September 2018, Umberto Tomaselli, virtuoso and versatile Pavese drummer, takes the place of Michele Vittori who leaves the band for personal problems.

The Blue Flames present a "transverse" repertoire over time and full of new electric vibrations ranging from old blues revisited with style and personality, to the classics of rock history signed by Jimi Hendrix, Cream, Creedence, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Doors, Jefferson Airplane , Black Sabbath, etc. which are always re-proposed with great originality and versatility. In short, a blues with stars and stripes expertly mixed with hard atmospheres and rock "swamp".

The five components all come from already consolidated musical experiences that have helped keep the visceral passion for music alive over the years, of which they themselves say: "It crosses us like America's mother road, from Chicago to Santa Monica!" . And in fact, what makes the Blue Flames a "big" band, is not only the individual skills and the choice of the songs, but it is above all the feeling, the passion, the friendship and the mutual esteem that binds the members of the band and that allows you to give life, on stage, to a unique show, which every time involves the public, transporting it on a real journey into the heart of music.