The Erik Truffaz Quartet is first and foremost a collective entity with its own sound and group

dynamic. In 1997, the band, then featuring Marcello Giuliani on bass, Marc Erbetta, drums, and

Patrick Muller, keyboards, released its debut “Out of a dream” on Blue Note. On the follow-ups,

The sixth incarnation of Wax Poetic is here! The new album titled "On a Ride" is finely focused on lyrics and mood and the more traditional song structures firmly entrenched in the Americana vein. The music still has echoes of the Nublu sound, but is in fact a very distinctly American record steeped in the traditions of all that encompasses.........

Is it possible for a band to sound so Italian and not-so-Italian at the same time? It might be surprising that an instrumental band like Calibro 35 has become one of the biggest Italian alternative acts in just few short years. The band, whose previous work was highlighted in Wax Poetics mag as “Italian soundtrack funk that sounds like Goblin recording at Stax,” have played major venues and festivals across Italy and other parts of Europe, with several trips playing the States as well.