PETE MOLINARI
“Pete has a golden voice”
- Yoko Ono
"To capture a whole room like that with your voice and guitar it takes a great deal of something that not a lot of people have”
- Dan Auerbach
“I’ve been listening to Pete Molinari’s records and if you haven’t heard him you really should because he’s a great one”
- Bruce Springsteen
“Pete Molinari with that voice could sing the yellow pages and make it sound cool”
- Richard Hawley
"Whether you dress them up or stripped down to the basics his songs always take you somewhere and at the same time force you to be very present”
– Andrew Weatherhall
They say some secrets are too loud to stay hidden. We’ve just wrapped a session at Unison Music Studios (L.A.) that captures exactly that kind of defiance.
Blind Faith Records is thrilled to bring you the new single from Pete Molinari, produced by L.A. rock veteran Bruce Witkin (Hollywood Vampires, Joe Perry).
"The love that dare not speak its name."
Inspired by the defiant words of Lord Alfred Douglas, Pete Molinari returns with a track that is as dangerous as it is soulful. Recorded at the legendary Unison Music Studios in Los Angeles and produced by the veteran hand of Bruce Witkin, this is not just a song—it’s a statement of intent.
THE SOUND: This is Old-School Rock ’n’ Roll stripped to its bones. It’s the crackle of a tube amp pushed to the limit, drenched in the grit of 60s Garage. Imagine the elegance of a classic crooner trapped in a basement with a fuzzy guitar and a heartbeat made of pure distortion.
Rome has a secret heartbeat, an underground and urgent pulsation whose memory is preserved within the walls of old recording studios, in the tales of veterans, and most of all in the grooves of the soundtracks of Cinecittà. Music that has always flirted with poetry. Pete Molinari is a poet, and that's why his words perfectly blend with this pulsation. That's why producer Luca Sapio chose to record "Wondrous Afternoon" among his Blind Faith Recordings and Maestro Piero Umiliani's Sound Workshop. The result is an album with a strong cinematic impact. The lesson of Motown applied to the sound of Rome. Backed by Luca’s crack band better known as the Italian Royal Family, Pete Molinari sings with great expressiveness and soul, embedding his words like precious stones, exposing them in all their fragility and strength to the listener
There’s a crazy story behind this beautiful record.
We asked Pete to tell you.
"Just like Achilles turned to be my Achille’s heel. In a snapshot I went from being in Capitol Studio A with a stellar backing band in my service to being alone with my guitar in the middle of a pandemic. Also, in this mess where nobody seemed to care for a while, including myself the tapes were lost. No one knew where those reels ended up and most of all where to begin look for them. Especially through this tough time it was even strange to ask the questions. It all looked like water under the bridge and the only way for me was to turn the page and get on to making something new until I received Luca Sapio’s call. So, we began to chip away at the stone and eventually make the best out of a weird situation because you know songs have their own life and journey and there is never really an end even if we think there is.
We started to investigate, starting from Linda Perry’s archive till the Don Was one, finally found the lost tapes somewhere at Capitol Studios vaults. It was a little agonizing but with a collective belief we prevailed and finally we can give this record the format he deserves"
