Currently splitting time between their Northern Italian hometown of Padova and the UK’s capital, songwriters Vidal & Curma are a duo making a name for themselves on the London circuit. Playing in some of the most prestigious independent music venues in the city, their reputation has already won them a residency at the revered Proud Camden, where they were invited for repeat showings by popular demand thanks to the innate energy and sense of fun in their songs.
Their music
boasts a loose, anarchic freshness without compromising on quality, giving an acoustic
twist on the indie likes of The Libertines, The Strokes, Mac Demarco, and Velvet
Underground to name a few. But perhaps their closest comparison is less well
known – both Vidal and Curma are huge fans of Django Reinhardt, a gypsy guitarist from Belgium who was active from the 30s to
the 50s. Reinhardt single-handedly invented the gypsy-jazz genre, and both band
members consider him the best guitarist of all time.
His brilliance has clearly rubbed off, and the new three track EP
‘Another Plane’ is a real, offbeat, acoustic treat.
See Vidal & Curma in action with this live Tradiio
session:
Specialising in writing songs about everyday problems faced by many,
song themes
vary from the difficulty of maintaining relationships nowadays, where everyone
travels and moves a lot (‘Another
Plane’), to
everyday situations that can lead to deep contemplation (‘Tonight’). The final track, ‘Never Say Again’, is about the
unpredictability of meeting someone special in a massive city like London.
This is the first release on Tradiio Recordings, a new record
label set up to release the best performing artists on Tradiio, a music
discovery app for iOS, Android and Web.
Vidal
& Curma Links:
http://tradiio.com/vidal-curma-1