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Roberto Carlotto Free Music

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Roberto Carlotto Free Music

Roberto Carlotto

Real name: Roberto Carlotto

Effective period / Period of releases: 1995 - 2023

Keyboardist Roberto Carlotto from Varese, whose nickname was Hunka Munka, began playing since his childhood, though his musical career was seriously compromised by an aircraft accident that caused him some heavy injuries.

His beginnings as a professional musician took him to play in England, Germany and Switzerland, where he even had the chance of supporting such artists like Rod Stewart and Colosseum. In Italy he had previously played with Big 66, I Cuccioli and later with Ivan Graziani in Anonima Sound, in 1970, before entering a solo career starting with a single in 1971.
As a solo artist, Carlotto was easily recognised by his very good technical quality and the high level of his equipment, that included an incredible number of different keyboards and even the early examples of tape drum machines.

His only solo album, Dedicato a Giovanna G., with his outrageous cover, is a soft-prog album, obviously dominated by Hunka's keyboards (especially his self-customized Hammond organ) and odd tremolo voice resembling Demis Roussos or Bee Gees. Among the backing musicians were drummer Nunzio "Cucciolo" Favia from Osage Tribe and guitarist Ivan Graziani, that had also played in Anonima Sound before leaving for a successful solo career.
The album contains 11 short tracks, two of which also released on single, mostly in a pop style and sometimes marred by orchestral and backing singers arrangements, like in Io canterĂ² per te. Anyway it contains some nice moments for prog fans,like Cattedrali di Bambu' or Ruote e sogni, the album's longest track with very good organ playing.
In the 1973 Carlotto Join in the band I Dik Dik to replace former keyboards player Mario Totaro, with drummer Cucciolo . He recorded many singles and the album ''Volando' wrote the song ''Piccola Mia'' and sing the song ''Io te vurria' vasa''''

He has also released an electronic album in 1984, Promise of love (Atlantide AMX 12003), under the name Karl Otto. and different Electronic Music Singles (as Karl Otto)
After the Ivan Graziani Death in the 90s Roberto's refound the hunka munka band with the keyboards player Joey Mauro. After 30 years, a released the new album ''foreste interstellari' (Start to recorded in the 90s and releseaed in 2021)

In 2011 Roberto Carlotto joined the reformed Analogy and is still playing with them.

External Pages

joeymauro.com/carlotto.html