Granato are poised between synthetic music and classic rock instruments. Their sound is engaging and energetic as much as introspective and dark.
In 2017 they released the album "Corrente" (Kappabit Music): "Corrente can’t be included in a specific genre; it origins where rock and electronics come together. It is a way to look at the world from inside it, a struggle for the creation of "possible alternative balances". It is a path of discovery and growth, a reflection on the current condition of making music and how to ensure that public can understand and the artist can express himself. The record reflects on the social context that surrounds us: the violent dominance of Western ideologies over the rest of the world, the man-machine relationship, the relationship between interiority and exteriority, some of the consequences of the capitalist and consumerist social model ».
Granato consist of musicians and composers Francesco Bianco (vocals, guitar, electronics) and Alessandro Cicala (guitar and sound elaborations).
During the Corrente Tour, the duo is joined by Dario Giuffrida, drummer and producer. The tour took them around Italy and they played as protagonists on the stages of various festivals and clubs such as Wishlist, Evol, Metro core, Teatri di Vetro, Transponder happening, Troppo tempo perso and Meeting del Mare.
Granato took part in the MEI Music Day in Matera and received an honorable mention at Buscaglione Sotto il cielo di Fred; semifinalists at the Crotone Social Music Contest and participated in the selections of Sanremo Rock and Rock Targato Italia.
After the intense activity of Corrente Tour, the band returns in 2020 with two singles / videos: "Europe" (launched in exclusive preview on OndaRock and mentioned among the July 2020 singles recommended by the Sherwood Festival) and "Ultra", both bounced by dozens of Italian and foreign trade magazines, such as ExitWell, MEI - Meeting degli Indipendenti, Italia Rock, Relics - Controsuoni, Radiocoop, the newspaper Il Mattino and Home Cooking Share, a French magazine.
Their second studio album "Canzoni per giovani adulti " (made together with Dario Giuffrida) will turn to an electrowave inspired both by Kraftwerk, Matia Bazar, Franco Battiato, Bluvertigo, the electronic songwriting of the Baustelle, in a mixture of electronics and Mediterranean pop: “Our pieces express the world all around us, real but generalized situations, sometimes symbolic; it refers to the idea of freedom, but also of intimate and existential experiences".