Andrea Priora - Official Website

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November 2005 news:
Nothing special to tell. Some postproduction work on H3O's album had to be done.
Andrea has started coworking with a guitarist to play guitar parts on some tracks of "No Ordinary Human, the soundtrack" album... meanwhile he has also started working on doing music for the new development of that Deus Ex MOD.
Finally at last the World Wide Kind 2 project seems to be almost in the pressing phase.

July/August 2005 news:
Simply on vacation.... It's time... and need it a lot.
However in the meanwhile the album of the H3O was finished, and some promotional and test copies were (or are being) distributed. For the full launch of the album we'll see in september.

March 2005 news:
A special album is on sale through Synth Music Direct UK shop: "Dazzles Of Destiny" is a special version of "Flares Beyond My Vision" collection by Andrea. The two collection albums are equal in the concept, share an equal cover (just changed colours, blue for the original and green for the new one) but share only half of the music on it because tracks were chosen differently. This album is available only on SMD.
In the meanwhile H3O's first album "Emotional Reaction" is very very close to be completed. Stay tuned!
Andrea has also started making the soundtrack for an independent videogame: DX Aftermath is a MOD for the sci-fi cyberpunk game Deus Ex, published by Eidos.

January 2005 news:
As you can see a lot of modifications and updates have been made on this website.
Soon it will be available also an online download option for albums on sale.
Meanwhile musical work is a bit on delay, but progressing on H3O's first album.

October 2004 news:
After some silence here some news: we are glad to announce that the new album by Andrea is out, with the final title of "Flares Beyond My Vision", a collection of some of the best tracks from all his past and future albums, containing also some unpublished tracks. You can listen to the medley mixes demo as for previous albums.
The album CD initially is on sale on www.cdbaby.com, while other distributors/stores for USA and UK or Europe will follow soon. The album will also be available for download on iTunes, Napster, BuyMusic, Emusic, MSN Music and many other online digital music services. Stay tuned for updates.

July 2004 news:
Andrea has ultimated the work over the production of his "Best Of Andrea" compilation, featuring tracks from all his albums, including the forthcoming "No Ordinary Human", and two new modern mixes of two of his famous trance-dream hits. The cd will be released after summer.
After summer will be also ultimated the work over H3O's project tracks.
Meanwhile time for holidays has come and Andrea wil get a long pause till september, he needs to relax.
Have a nice holidays you all too! :)

May 2004 news:
WEED: Three new songs were added on 21th May on Andrea's weed page on Weedtunes.com. "I'm Coming To You" from album Destiny, "Inverted Polarity (action mix)" from Neuromantic Visions album and the totally new and unpublished release "No Ordinary Love", that will be part of the next album by Andrea: "No Ordinary Human soundtrack". This last track of the three features the wonderful voice of Vivian.
Meanwhile the project of World Wide Kind 2 compilation is getting near its finalization. For people who doesn't know Andrea's track "Inverted Polarity" will be in this compilation tracklist.

April 2004 news:
Some demo clips were put in the song archive inside "the music" section, next will be also some previews of the next album "No Ordinary Human - soundtrack". Still some tracks have to be completed and others already done need some rework on mixing. Expect soon also a medley mix of part of the album, that will be a double cd release.
Andrea is working and finalizing new stuff of music band H3O: so things are slow but moving well now, thanks to the help by Vivian, their actual vocalist and words co-writer. She already worked with Andrea on his solo projects. All tracks are mainly commercial Trance and Dream genres, with some burst into Progressive and we will not exclude even some House and Hip Hop influenced track. We will see.
As you already probably knowI Andrea has joined a new kind of online music distribution form that is called "WEED". We have put 3 songs to start with this new system, and two are Weed exclusive: new 2004 versions of Andrea's classics "I Believe" and "Beyond My Ice". They are a bit different from what you can remember of these two songs, and we assure they deserve to be heard! ;-)
The weed songs are free for download, and free for listening for the first 3 times...after that you will be asked to pay for them. You can download directly these songs from Andrea's weed page.

March 2004 news:
Andrea worked on some remixes of his old classics, transforming them a bit. "Making mainstream without having to go mainstream" like some fan asked once years ago. "I Believe", "Beyond My Ice" and "I Miss You" are full of new energy and life now. The first two are getting exposed on Weed, the new digital form of online distribution born some months ago but still away from people masses awareness.
Andrea joined Weed on www.weedtunes.com because it's a system that respect the rights of the artists, and it could become a revolution for online distribution and sharing of music files. Artists are paied for every song sell and the file-traders too for sharing the songs they regularly bought. Hope it will not be a hole in the water.
Check Weedtunes.com and Weedshare.com for more and deep infos on how it works.
Music section updated with demo clips of some songs by Andrea. Read the instructions to download these clips.

February 2004 news:
We're working about updating and recostrunction of this website, also a webshop for albums is under programming just now, and we are thinking also about a section where to expose some of the graphic works by Andrea.
Andrea is also busy with music on various sides: his own single act "No Ordinary Human soundtrack" tracks and songs of H3O project, together with Nino and Vivian. Shhhh, don't tell anyone, but those three are really developing some big tracks that will really make asses kicked hard on the dancefloors! ;-)
Andrea is also managing how to distribute again his music online. He was very disappointed by some OMD (online music distribution) sites, things didn't go very well for them during last years, and so he's carefully deciding what to do and what to choose. Things seem to morph every week but now it seems that some concrete is about to move now.

News from year 2003 (updated to December 2003):
Well it was a strange year, and for who thought Andrea Priora "musically dead" I reply that he's still alive, and now "alive and kicking" again! ;-)
Technical problems kept off from updating the official website… but anyway a new daily job (that was left a few months ago) prevented to have much time for music and especially to follow the various music websites exposing songs.
Many of these music service sites has fallen toward a slow but ineluctable death, like Mp3.com, while some are still alive (vitaminic or peoplesound.com) but just useless and I considered them as dead since a lot of time.
Meanwhile it was kept working the selling window on cdstreet.com for the last months, I'm about to removing albums from there just because they are not paying what earned…
I looked for another music site where to host songs (full versions or demos) in place of mp3.com… and found one in soundclick.com ('cause it seemed the easiest), but I'm considering also besonic.com and pointing to itunes.com too.
For albums distribution I will use a channel on electronicshadows.com, thru their webshop using Paypal.com secure paying system, but the same system will be put directly also on the andreapriora.com official website.

The music news:
Many things happened this year, just try to think which to start from…
Andrea is an artist in a wide way, not only bond to music… as you may know from his biography he has always been fond about writing also… fantasy or sci-fi stories and novels of course.
Well Andrea has teamed up with another writer, Vivian Stoppa, for the creation and script writing of a sci-fi tv serial, a kind of space cyberpunk genre, and probably it will be translated also as a novel.
Now, you are wondering about where is the music news in this…
well, of course Andrea is also composing a lot of music and themes for this tv serial script, and all this music will translate in a double cd release during the first part of next year, 2004.
"No Ordinary Human - the soundtrack" will contain completely new songs and some old ones readapted just for the serial.
The type of music in this new album will be of various genres, from Electronica and Trance to Movie Soundtracks genre especially. You will be probably amazed by the new direction taken by Andrea.

Meanwhile the musical band project went on, slowly… but went on: a new member has joined and a name was chosen… "H3O" (EicThreeO) will be the name of the act which is for now formed by Andrea, dj Nino and Vivian. Vivian is collaborating as vocalist and as lyrics cowriter, and is doing this also for Andrea's solo projects. As an example two tracks on "Neuromantic Visions" album will be re-released with Vivian's voice.
Another female vocalist is expected to join, but till now all it was limited at just talking… no performances yet were done.
With the adding of help by Vivian the songs already on construction since some months by Nino and Andrea can get now to the final step, post production is going on.
Can't wait to put hands on the final products! :-)

Andrea has already ultimated a new album "Fairy Dazzles". It was a very inspirational month, new tracks were completed in just a very few days while others songs hanging around since months fitted perfectly into the new project, like they were written in a sort of "clairvoyance status". This new album exposes a very recent story of his private life: deep emotions and vibrations that pushed him out of a dark period, to a new dawn of his life and his character. It's an album with romantic, deep, sweet or melancholic songs. The album will be available from the 1st of September 2002.

Andrea has teamed up with DJ Nino to form the basis of a new dance act. First tracks are under development. Anyway they are still looking for the right female vocalist to complete a trio.

The new full length album by Andrea is out now! "Neuromantic Visions": released in February 2002, it represents a new and different work compared to his previous albums: no real trance songs this time, but this doesn't mean there aren't fast tracks on it. There are indeed, fast electronica songs share space with nu-ambient ones, presenting new touches and styles by this artist. A voyage through dreams, emotions, passions and feelings: a deep electro-romantic soundscape experience.

All the 3 previous albums by Andrea were totally rerecorded and remastered, resulting into an absolute better quality than ever been before. Most of the songs were also rearranged and slightly changed (sounds and structure). So now "Destiny", "Beyond My Ice" and "Trance Flares" are totally new exciting experiences to listen to, and we are extremely proud of that. Unfortunately instead, due to technical problems, the release of the new album "Neuromantic Visions" is delayed to beginning of 2002. We are sorry for this.

A couple of new trance-dream songs are under development, however during last periods Andrea is working a lot on rerecording some tracks and ultimating the new album, that will not be entitled "Moonvelvet" anymore. The new title should be "Neuromantic Visions".

New dancefloor remix track: "Beyond My Ice (club mix)".

Andrea is working on vocal versions of some of his old songs: just completed is "I Believe (Take My Hand remix)", featuring the voice of Nina, the goddess of dance, one of the most successfull female artists born on mp3.com. The other two songs almost finished (recorded and in post production phase) are "I Miss You" and "Speed", both from the album "Beyond My Ice". They will feature vocals and lyrics by Claudia Severino: other tracks with her are under development.

Watch out for the new musical project founded by Andrea... it will be called "Moonvelvet". It's not sure yet if this one will be a real musical band or more like Andrea's collaborators gathered together under a common name. Recently Andrea has started colaborations with two other italians artists: the jazz singer Claudia Severino and the keyboard player Danilo Radice.

The finishing work onto next Andrea's album "Moonvelvet" was delayed due to other projects and business. Now it's about to begin again to complete the new masterpiece: as annonced in past, the new album is different from other works, being more ambient electronic and less dancy than previous albums. It will feature also lyrics on many tracks, most made with vocoder. Some tracks from the forthcoming cd are already available online

Andrea is also collaborating for the music soundtrack of a videogame, a cyberpunk version of the very famous Tomb Raider title by Eidos: Tomb Raider Tokyo is being programmed in Japan by Intelligentsia. His track "Inverted Polarity" was already chosen as final title and central action music of the game.

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