n a period when a lot of American bands are trying to find a label in Europe, in 1999 Satellite Inn signed a contract with MoodFood Records to fill the vacancy left by Ryan Adam's Whiskeytown- Their first record, Cold Morning Songs , received positive comments and good press all over the world, from Europe to the Australian airwaves, a sort of legitimacy of their unique interpretation of traditional American music.
After the participation at the 1999 CMJ Music Festival in NY and a tour on the upper East Coast - NY, New Jersey, Delaware, Philly, sharing stages with artists like The Bigger Lovers, Valve and The Knobs - and after the band embraced the touring road in Italy and Europe in between the end of '99 and early '01, Satellite Inn becomes a name in their own country, even their very un-italian music and their refusal to perform songs in anything other than English made them near outcasts at home. At the beginning of March '01 Satellite Inn's started a new U.S. tour in Texas, around SXSW 2001, and upper West Coast, touching Portland and Seattle, as opening act for bands like Willard Grant Conspiracy, Richmond Fontaine, Ian Moore, Jerry Joseph & Jackmormons.
After some line-up changes, an Italian tour in late November with Robert Fisher (who also helped record some unreleased material) and The Silos, at end of '02 the band dramatically changed shape, becoming a duo. Stiv Cantarelli (vocals, guitars) and Dario Neri (drums, piano, lap steel), in search of their truest sound, hit the road again playing their live set all over their native homeland. Mixing traditional soundtrack-flavoured acoustic songs with in-your-face guitar/drums driven punches, they were definitely heading to a new direction to hear, feel and play the American tradition.
In a short period of 20 months time, they played over 60 shows up and down Italy, sharing stages with the best alternative acts (Califone, The Dirty Three, Howe Gelb, Piano Magic) becoming one of the most unique, intriguing - unconventional but still close to the roots - new act in town.
In 2003, Satellite Inn recorded a radio show for the Adventist World Radio in their studio. The idea, highly sponsored by the Italian programming director, Marco Conte. In a complete two days session, Satellite Inn's recorded about 15 songs, which has been put on air worldwide on January, 15, 2003.
A week later, listening to the session's record master, Satellite Inn discovered that some of the material recorded was really the best they played in a long time, which have been probably due to the friendly, slow-pace mood of the recordings.
These recordings, published as an unofficial cd available only at Satellite Inn's shows, remains the only true live record that could be a reference of the band's sound.
Then, at the beginning of 2006, Satellite Inn came back with a new chapter of their musical history.
Recorded in 52 days at the band's studio facility, with the help of some analog techniques, In the land of the Sun is a sort of concept album, where words (the booklet includes short stories written by the band) and music walk along the same musical line, that dreamy folk rock which became the band's trademark.
After the participation at the 1999 CMJ Music Festival in NY and a tour on the upper East Coast - NY, New Jersey, Delaware, Philly, sharing stages with artists like The Bigger Lovers, Valve and The Knobs - and after the band embraced the touring road in Italy and Europe in between the end of '99 and early '01, Satellite Inn becomes a name in their own country, even their very un-italian music and their refusal to perform songs in anything other than English made them near outcasts at home. At the beginning of March '01 Satellite Inn's started a new U.S. tour in Texas, around SXSW 2001, and upper West Coast, touching Portland and Seattle, as opening act for bands like Willard Grant Conspiracy, Richmond Fontaine, Ian Moore, Jerry Joseph & Jackmormons.
After some line-up changes, an Italian tour in late November with Robert Fisher (who also helped record some unreleased material) and The Silos, at end of '02 the band dramatically changed shape, becoming a duo. Stiv Cantarelli (vocals, guitars) and Dario Neri (drums, piano, lap steel), in search of their truest sound, hit the road again playing their live set all over their native homeland. Mixing traditional soundtrack-flavoured acoustic songs with in-your-face guitar/drums driven punches, they were definitely heading to a new direction to hear, feel and play the American tradition.
In a short period of 20 months time, they played over 60 shows up and down Italy, sharing stages with the best alternative acts (Califone, The Dirty Three, Howe Gelb, Piano Magic) becoming one of the most unique, intriguing - unconventional but still close to the roots - new act in town.
In 2003, Satellite Inn recorded a radio show for the Adventist World Radio in their studio. The idea, highly sponsored by the Italian programming director, Marco Conte. In a complete two days session, Satellite Inn's recorded about 15 songs, which has been put on air worldwide on January, 15, 2003.
A week later, listening to the session's record master, Satellite Inn discovered that some of the material recorded was really the best they played in a long time, which have been probably due to the friendly, slow-pace mood of the recordings.
These recordings, published as an unofficial cd available only at Satellite Inn's shows, remains the only true live record that could be a reference of the band's sound.
Then, at the beginning of 2006, Satellite Inn came back with a new chapter of their musical history.
Recorded in 52 days at the band's studio facility, with the help of some analog techniques, In the land of the Sun is a sort of concept album, where words (the booklet includes short stories written by the band) and music walk along the same musical line, that dreamy folk rock which became the band's trademark.