Pietro Taucher
A lifetime behind the keys. Still moving forward.
Born in Padua. Not built around a passport.
My musical language comes from Jamaican studios, American records, European clubs, long drives, late nights, and bands where nobody had to explain where the time lived.
irreducible
irriducibile is my new solo album.
Twelve tracks written from the place where listening, memory and movement become one thing.
Not a tribute record.
Not a revival.
Not a polite exercise in style.
It carries decades of records, stages, wrong turns, right bands, hard lessons, mistakes worth keeping and sounds that refused to leave.
The long way into sound
Padua is where I started.
Not where the music stayed.
My sound moved through Jamaican rhythm, American records, European clubs, radio rooms, theatres, cheap hotels, long drives and stages where the only real question was whether the band could breathe together.
The Hammond organ became my main voice.
But never the whole story.
Hammond organ. Piano. Rhodes. Clavinet. Analog synths.
Writing. Arrangement. Production. Sound direction.
To me, it all belongs to the same work:
finding the point where a song stops acting like a genre and starts saying something real.
The road
The road was never about collecting names.
It was about learning what survives on stage when language, country and habit disappear.
Over the years, Pietro has played blues, jazz, soul, reggae and roots music across Europe, North America, Jamaica, Russia and Africa.
Selected stages:
Chicago Blues Festival — USA
North Sea Jazz Festival — Netherlands
Sziget Festival — Hungary
Mont-Tremblant Blues Festival — Canada
Mississippi Valley Blues Festival — USA
North Atlantic Blues Festival — USA
Cognac Blues Passion — France
Great British Rhythm & Blues Festival — UK
Jamaica Roots & Blues Festival — Jamaica
Blues’n’Jazz Rallye — Luxembourg
Jazz in the Wild — Kenya