Francesco Cusa
Francesco Cusa
Drummer, composer and writer, Francesco Cusa was born in Catania in 1966. Performed with well-known musicians such as: Paolo Fresu, Tino Tracanna, Attilio Zanchi, Marco Micheli, Bruno Tommaso, Larry Smith, Walter Schmocker, Lauro Rossi, Gianni Gebbia, Fabrizio Puglisi, Stefano De Bonis, Guglielmo Pagnozzi, Domenico Caliri, Luigi Mosso, Edoardo Marraffa, Cristina Zavalloni, Lelio Giannetto, Alberto Capelli, Riccardo Pittau, Mirko Sabatini , Jay Rodriguez, Butch Morris, Jon Rose, Michel Godard, Kenny Wheeler, Garbis Dedeian, Steve Lacy, Tim Berne, Stefano D’Anna, Pietro Ciancaglini, Paolino Dalla Porta, Roy Paci, Elliot Sharp, Saadet Türköz, Flying Luttembachers, Andy Sheppard, Michael Riessler, Yves Robert, Giorgio Conte, Fred Giuliani, Zu, Mohammed El Bawi, E. Glerum, Assif Tsahar, Natalia M.King, Lionel Rolland , Dj.Pushy, Christophe Monniot, Tanja Feichtmair, Manu Codjia, Emil Spany, Arrington De Dionyso, Gianluca Petrella, Claudio Lugo, Marco Cappelli, Jean Marc Montera, Ab Baars, Ig Henneman, Danilo Gallo, Beppe Scardino, Francesco Bigoni, Stefano Senni, Piero Bittolo Bon, i Robotobibok, Giovanni Falzone, Tito Magialajo, Enrico Terragnoli, Carlos Zingaro, John Tilbury, Gianni Lenoci, Billy Bang, Antono Borghini, Pasquale Mirra, Francesco Bearzatti, Carlo Atti, Amy Denio, Vincenzo Vasi, Mike Cooper, Giorgio Pacorig, Paolo Sorge, Pasquale Innarella, Tony Cattano, Silvia Bolognesi, Leila Adu, Marta Raviglia, Henry Cook, Giacomo Ancillotto, Roberto Raciti, Federico Squassabia, Gaia Mattiuzzi, Dean Bowman, Don Byron, Peter van Bergen, Jan Willem Van Der Ham, Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky, Michael Occhipinti, Giovanni Mayer, Eyal Mayoz, Jim Pugliese, Nicole Federici, Mauro Pagani, Ron Anderson, Francesco Cafiso, Dan Kinzelman, Emilio Galante, Simone Zanchini, LIisa Mezzacappa, Kyoko Kitamura, Gabriele Mirabassi, Tellef Ogrim, Trevor Brown, Alessandro Vicard, Michael Fisher, Heinrich von Calnein, Oscar Noriega, Peter Zummo, Gregory Burk, Antonello Salis, Carlo Atti, Tom Arthurs, Daniele Del Monaco, Yotam Haber, Raiz (Almamegretta), Gabriele Coen, Luca Aquino, Francesco Ponticelli,Valeria Sturba, the dancers Roberto Zappalà, Cinzia Scordia, Melaku Belay, Jennifer Cabrera and Florence La Porte , the visual artist Fred Gautnier, the writers collectif Wu Ming, the writer Andrea Inglese, and many others.
He was promoting member of Bassesfere Collective and is currently involved in an association for promoting improvised and avant-garde music, the project/label "Improvvisatore Involontario". He performed in several international music festivals in France, Rumania, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia/Herzegovina, Serbia, Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, Norway, Spain, Belgium, Denmark, Poland, Usa, Ethiopia, Japan, China, Turkey.
He leads : FCT TRIO, FRANCESCO CUSA & THE ASSASSINS, the ensembles "THE NAKED MUSICIANS", F. CUSA”SKRUNCH”, and of the live soundtracking project for the movies “SOLOMOVIE” plays Buster Keaton. He is also co-leader of: WET CATS (Gianni Lenoci, Francesco Cusa), MANCUSA (Giovanni Mancuso, Francesco Cusa) FRANK SINAPSI (Cusa/Merlin), THE MACHINE (Cusa/Lenoci/Martino). He performs with the following groups: PAOLO SORGE “Trio" (Sorge, Evangelista, Cusa), HOMAGE A STANLEY KUBRICK (Manzoni, Campobasso, Senni, Cusa), ITALIAN SURF ACADEMY (Marco Cappelli, Luca Lo Bianco, Cusa).
He is also a writer of books of novels (“Novelle Crudeli”, “Ridetti e Ricontraddetti”, “Racconti Molesti” for "Eris Edizioni" and “Carthago") .
He write also about cinema for the rewiews: "Lapis" and "Cultura Commestibile”.
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