Celebrating 10 years of Hybris and Alaska
Fast Animals and Slow Kids, one of the most important names in the Italian Underground Rock, are coming to Brussels and Paris in 2024 as part of their Euopean tour.
Aimone Romizi (singer, guitarist, percussionist), Alessio Mingoli (drummer), Jacopo Gigliotti (bassist) and Alessandro Guercini (guitarist) began playing together and writing songs in 2008 when they took their first steps in the clubs of their region. Thanks to the energy of their first concerts, the group was hired as an opening act by national and international groups passing through their city, Perugia. In 2010 they released their first EP “Questo è un cioccolatino", which was well received by music magazines.
Thanks to the win of the Italy Wave Love Sound Contest and the first concerts outside the regional borders, their name began to shoot in the Italian underground and in 2011 they published the first album "Cavalli" which consists of 11 post-punk songs with despicable lyrics and incisive rhythms. The album was the excuse of the group to intensify its live activity, which is still today the soul of the group.
Two years later, the band released the second album "Hybris". The last date of the tour that followed, recorded a sold out show of over three thousand people at the Alcatraz in Milan, and the group even became one of the first Italian indie bands to record a sold out in that place. In 2017, the band released their fourth album "Forse non è la felicità", which received excellent reviews and made FASK one of the most important names in Italian underground rock.
2019 was the year of sound breakthrough and recognition by the general public: Matteo Cantaluppi recorded and produced their fifth album, "Animali Notturni”. The tour that followed, inaugurated by a performance at Primo Maggio concert in Rome, recorded a total of fifty thousand appearances and gave the band a new and unexpected popularity.
In 2021 they released the single "Come un animale" (which you can listen here) followed by "Cosa ci direbbe", the first featuring of the FASK, with Willie Peyote. In September 2021 FASK and Matteo Cantaluppi produced “È già domani”, which was at number 5 in the official Italian ranking and at number 2 in the vinyl ranking. In 2022 they released “Vita sperduta", sang live during the spring tranche of the "È GIÀ DOMANI TOUR" with sold out concerts in several cities such as Bologna, Padua, Florence, Turin, Rome and Milan. That same year they also released “Il tempo è una bugia" with the extraordinary participation of LUCIANO LIGABUE.
In March 2023, FASK played in the most important Italian theaters with “Una notte con FAST ANIMALS AND SLOW KIDS - Concerto in quattro atti per piccola orchestra da camera" that saw at their side a small chamber orchestra of six musicians. After this success, FASK performed at the Ravenna Festival and at the Mittelfest of Cividale del Friuli for two unique concerts with thirty musicians of the Orchestra Corelli conducted by Maestro Carmelo Emanuele Patti. These concerts were recorded and released as “FASK Dal vivo - con orchestra”.