Sparkle in Grey began its musical activity as a solo electronic music project in 1999.
Since 2005 it has developed to a 4-member band devoted to a sort of electronic and eclectic post-rock.

The world eclectic is related to the fact that they like to change from one genre to another, often collaborating with artists of various kinds.

The core of the band is: Matteo Uggeri, Cristiano Lupo, Alberto Carozzi and Franz Krostopovic.
The band has as an additional special member Simone Riva (ex-drummer of Italian pop singer Alex Baroni).
Many other musicians have collaborated with them, including Tex La Homa/Matt Shaw, Controlled Bleeding, OvO, Giuseppe Ielasi, Cristiano Santini (Disciplinatha), Officine Schwartz/Osvaldo Arioldi Schwartz, Maurzio Bianchi/MB, Radiodervish, Bourbonese Qualk/Simon Crab, Zacharia Diatta, Andrea Serrapiglio, Telepherique, Yan Jun, Reem Soliman, De Fabriek and others…

Sparkle in Grey's instrumentation includes violin, bass, laptop, guitar, bagpipes, piano, polyrhythmic drums, melodica, field recordings, harsh noises and a bicycle. They cross many styles, from Industrial to electronic to Ukrainian traditional folk music to prog-post-combat rock.
Two of their songs were featured on The Wire Tapper. Their music has been often played on the Italian national radio RAI and by the British BCC.

From 1999 to 2006 Sparkle in Grey was a solo project of Matteo Uggeri/Hue (aka Der Einzige, Normality/Edge) which mixed electronic rhythms and melodies with field recordings.

In 2006 Hue was joined by poli-instrumentalist Cristiano Lupo (member of Norm), Alberto Carozzi (former member of Yakudoshi) – guitar and bass - and violin player Franz Krostopovic (of Pulp-ito): they're the roundmen boy band you see here.

Sparkle in Grey do not sing, do not dance in public, do not have lyrics to hang up on teenage bedroom walls.

This could be due to their passion for Kaurismaki's cigarettes, for Robert Smith's hair-style, for certain sounds in so-called experimental records that may well result from mixing mess-ups, for Piano Magic's totemic stage presence; but as much as they might not appeal to 15 – year olds they are, after all, the over-grown, boy-band version of Tuxedomoon.


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