Italian quartet Belladonna have a new album ready for you to digest - Shooting Dice with God is out now.
The band formed back in 2005, and has since toured withDuff McKagan's Loaded and collaborated with English composer Michael Nyman.
As you might expect then, singer Luana Caraffa has an eclectic musical taste, which she shared with us...
The song that first awakened your musical senses
> It was one of Chopin's Nocturnes and I was little more than a toddler.
Physical or digital - how do you take your music?
> Metaphysical! Music is the food of the soul, no matter what medium happens to carry it.
The first time you thought - 'Music - this is the job for me'
> In a certain sense, I have always thought it, even though I've never actually felt music to be my 'job.' It is actually my vocation, something that chose me - not the other wat around.
Your best on stage memory.
> Playing at the Olympia Grand Hall in London, alongside Dita Von teese, with many fabulous dancers doing incredible choreographies during our songs...a very unique experience!
And the worst gig you've ever done
> Hard to say. We actually do not have bad memories of any live show we've done so far, and we've done hundreds. But for sure the best ones are when we get a great sound on stage, which makes all the many improvised sections of our live show a sheer joy to create and perform.
What made you take up the guitar?
> The desire to master a tool which I instinctively realised could have helped me create whatever I saw in my head.
Which one song by another artist do you wish you'd have written?
None, actually. We could never recognise ourselves in a song written by others, no matter how wonderful it is.
And one - by yourself - which holds special significance
> Cliched as this will sound, every song of ours holds a special meaning for us, and each for different reasons.
If you could step into the shoes of another musician, living or dead, who would it be and what would you do?
> I would be Elvis Presley or Jim Morrison, and I would survive and keep on making amazing music.
Are there any current musical influences that you might look to?
> We feel that a lot of fabulous, innovative music is coming out of the most avant-garde and experimental electronic scene.
As far as current rock n roll goes, a lot of what we hear seems to be a mere re-hash of the great rock n roll era of the '70s: Same hairstyles and beards, same clothes, same record covers, same guitars and amps, same 'I've seen Almost Famous and I want to do it too' stance, yet sorely lacking (in our opinion) in songs, lyrics and truth.
But for sure there's a lot of great rock n roll bands out there that we have not heard of yet!
Any any genre of music that you simply can't stand?
We are not prejudiced against any musical genre per se...but we definitely do not like to be in close proximity to anything that smells of deceit and this most unagreeable smell can be found even in the genres that one loves most.
> Shooting Dice with God is out now, distributed by Cargo.
