Behind the scenes of Starchild

It has been a while, but we have much news to share with you in the upcoming weeks! So keep an eye on our site!

We made a little trip to Rome, a lovely city with much history, many lovely monuments and fontains, restaurants and small bars, narrow streets and many vespa's, and besides all that: great food and beautiful friendly people! In Rome you can get much inspiration for any type of art and so we discovered more and more about the influences of RanestRane.

Once arrived in Rome, we received an invitation of the band to visit them at the studio, to enjoy a mini rehearsal, being behind the scenes of the making of their new baby Starchild.
Ofcourse we want to share this with you.

Starchild, the third and final part of the trilogy A Space Odyssey. We only heard a small part of this album, the final part, a raw piece of music which is still under construction.

With a cup of coffee we watched the final part of the movie and heard a beautiful piece of music. Most likely Starchild will contain a lot of guitarsound. Massimo is the main person on this part, this because there is a lot of space for guitar if we look at the movie, not many scene switching, which gives him space to make longer guitarsolos's painted with the sounds of the keyboards of Riccardo. Daniele and Maurizio will make the dramatic sounds with the drums and bass which gives a result: A heavy rockpart!

**Please note** Many things can be changed, perhaps several times, it's all in the making (!) 

RanestRane is more than just a band, it's a friendship, a family! The boys are open minded, discuss a lot with each other and above that, they are an inspiration for each other which we felt when we were at their studio, much harmony. RanestRane are proud of their art! Walls are filled with movie posters, tourphoto's and tourpasses, memories of their travels. We are so thankfull for have been at their home, the place where all the beauty have been made and where more beauty will be written.

Grazie mille RanestRane for your time, the laughter, the inspiration, and your kindness! We are looking forward to Starchild! 

A lovely journey before summer arrives

The boys has almost finished their tour before summerbreak will start and we would like to share some photo's of their journey through Sweden, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and Italy. Our photographers did their best to give you the best impression of what is happening on stage.

Our photographers:

Roberto Scorta

Emanuela di Stefano

Valter Boati 

Catia de Cicco

Lilian Boomsema

RanestRane 

and Fans for their reports on Facebook groups <3 

Reviews can be found here:

the Netherlands 

Sweden

Brothers Roel and Henri made video's of the gig in the Netherlands 

Il Tempo É Labile/Il Mattino Ha L'Oro In Bocca/"Fammi Uscire"!

L'Ultimo Incontro/Il Ritrovamento /Via Da Wismar

Materna Luna

la Perfezione Che Si Cerca/Sonno Come morte/Buio Intorno

Ofcourse we would love to receive your photo's, reviews, quicksnaps, ideas and other RanestRane related creations. Feel free to share them with us all.

Thank you all for your support and friendship <3 

RanestRane goes Gothenburg

RanestRane went to Gothenburg for the very first time. Full of excitement and joy we went to Musikens Hus Gothenburg on the 4th of March.

GARF arranged a lovely mini festival where RanestRane was the second act. Together with Skull Parade and main act Änglagård we tried to make a wonderful evening full of music. 

It's always a bit scary and nervous to enter a new venue, a new place, this would be the first time in Sweden. RanestRane delivered the best they could and we from Fanweb Scandinavia had only our hope and believe in the best for the start of something beautiful in Sweden. The concert was wonderful and we were not the only one with these thoughts. We received a lot of great feedback from fans and new fans! We would love to share these words with you, words from the fans in Sweden.

Karl Göran Karlsson: " Thanks for a fantastic gig! The whole concert was good but the peak of your performance was "Monolith - Part II". Absolutely superb! I really like Italian prog and Ranestrane is surely another excellent contribution here. I wish you good luck with your tour and hope to see you soon again in Sweden."

  

Robert Larsson: Robert, Lilian and RanestRane. It was a pleasure to have you here. A splendid perfomance, the audience were really excited after the show. You noticed it in the merch area, right? :) And Riccardo, thank´s for not giving up when technique wasn´t on the friendly side. Perfect!!! Good luck with the rest of the tour!

Martin Hansen: I think this was the best concert I've heard for a long time. Your music and videoprojection was very nice, I like this kind of music. It was a very good first gig here in Sweden and I hope this was not the last time we see you here. You are always welcome back in Sweden. We love you. Your show was fantastic, and you are such good musicians together. Keep on playing and make new music. Forza Italia!!/Martin Hansen

Jan Erik wrote us an email:

" We started a trip on a cold saturday morning from our home 400 km away from Gothenborg, it has snowed that night, not that much, but still I was wondering how will it be to drive in this weather. But lucky we were, my wife and I, it was no problem at all. We came to the biggest city on the west coast of Sweden and were eating some dinner before we went to Musikens Hus. 

The first band was Skull Parade. At 20.00 THE band I have want to see live for so long time, entered the stage, and I must say it was amazing! Right from the beginning I got the shivers and goosebumps and felt so happy, they played and they got the audience to realise what they are experiencing, This band is good. And as longer the show went on the audience started to dance, scream and and make big applause, Ranestrane THEY came, THEY played and THEY succeed, I spoke with some other people after the show and one man said, this was just amazing, it was true magic, Those Italians, they can play, this was the best concert I've seen after so many years, and I just said; I agree. I'm sure that they made a footprint in Gothenborg and I hope that it will spread over Sweden so we can go and see Ranestrane again, This was magic as the man said, true magic and I can drive 1000 km just to see them again, but I think I will take a plane instead, because I will see RanestRane again, that's for sure"

New merchandise available at the concerts!

Hi dear all!


RanestRane will bring new goodies for you fans with them at the upcoming tour!

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Please check the tour dates under *ontour* on this page.

See you soon?

RanestRane on tour 2017!

♪ ♫ ♬ ↳ THE CINEMATIC SHOWS 2017 ↵ ♫ ♪ ♬
Save The Date: March 2017 (tour dates following)

We are happy to finally announce our third European tour: we will be touring in Sweden, Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Denmark and Italy. A couple of surprises for people attending the gigs:
➥ A preview of our forthcoming album "Starchild", the third part of A Space Odyssey's trilogy. (Yes, that's why we have been silent for a while... we have been working for you)
➥ New merch items available! What do you think about a limited edition of a Vinyl Box Set of the Odyssey's trilogy with exclusive bonus content? :D

Here the tour dates confirmed:
● March 4th @ Musikens Hus Goes Progressive 2017, Gothenburg, Sweden. Tickets
● March 10th @ Parkvilla - Cursussen Filmhuis Educatie Theater, Alphen a/d Rijn, Netherlands. Tickets
● March 11th @ De Verlichte Geest, Roeselare, Belgium.
● March 16th @ Das Rind, Rüsselsheim, Germany.
● March 18th @ Ishøj Kultur Café, Ishøj, Denmark. Tickets
● April 22nd @ Club il Giardino Lugagnano, Verona, Italy.

People, save the date(s) ;)

After the earthquake...

A few words from RanestRane at their official Facebook page:

After the earthquake

RANESTRANE·DEN 28 AUGUSTI 2016

The earthquake of last Wednesday gave us all a terrible shock. Here in Rome we felt a long swaying followed by aftershocks: we were alive and well but we suddenly understood that something terrible was going on just nearby us. When we discovered where was the epicenter of this devastating earthquake, we jumped up in fright: entire towns have been levelled, with Amatrice, Accumoli and Pescara del Tronto suffering the most damage. Some of us have relatives and friends in the area affected. Fortunately no one was hurt.

We all started receiving text and Facebook messages and phone calls from people concerned about our safety. We really want to thank all people who genuinely cared about us and our families.

We have no words to express our heartfelt sorrow for the victims. During these days we have been wondering how to help. We are not rescuers, but performers. And there is only a way to help, there is only a thing we can do: perform our music.

As many of you know, we will perform a gig on Sunday 4th September in Bologna. Admission to the gig is free, but, as always we will have our merch items. So we decided that merchandise sales will be donated to the relief funds created by the municipalities affected (Amatrice, Accumoli and Arquata del Tronto).

That’s our way to help people affected by this terrible disaster. Will you join us?

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Mercoledì scorso la terra ha tremato anche per noi qui a Roma. Con angoscia abbiamo appreso qual era l’epicentro della scossa e quali danni aveva causato il terremoto ad Amatrice, Accumoli e Pescara del Tronto. Alcuni di noi hanno amici e parenti in quelle zone. Per fortuna sono tutti salvi.

Subito dopo il terremoto abbiamo ricevuto sms, messaggi su Facebook e telefonate da moltissimi di voi. Vogliamo davvero ringraziare tutti per la sincera preoccupazione che avete espresso per le sorti delle nostre famiglie e l’affetto che ci avete dimostrato.

I nostri pensieri vanno a tutte le persone che hanno perso i propri cari e i propri amici. Non abbiamo davvero parole per esprimere il nostro più sincero dolore. Ma forse le parole non servono.

Come molti di voi, ci siamo chiesti: che possiamo fare di concreto? Noi non siamo soccorritori, né ingegneri, né psicologi. Siamo musicisti. E c'è solo un modo per aiutare, fare quello che sappiamo fare meglio: suonare la nostra musica.

Come saprete, domenica 4 settembre suoneremo al Prog Italian Festival a Bologna. Il concerto è gratuito, ma come sempre avremo uno spazio dedicato alla vendita del merchandising. Abbiamo deciso di devolvere gli incassi di domenica 4 settembre direttamente ai Comuni coinvolti (Amatrice, Accumoli e Arquata del Tronto) che hanno avviato una propria raccolta fondi per la ricostruzione.

Donare è l’unico aiuto concreto che possiamo dare. Vi unite a noi?

In the studio with RanestRane

Robert was invited by RanestRane to come visiting the boys in the studio.

It was a great experience and we want to share a moment with you about what is going on in the studio when RanestRane is rehearsing with a few words from Robert.

As I have a more than "common" interest in how bands work, production, songwriting etc.I was very happy to be invited by the band to join them during rehearsals in their studio.

To start, I got picked up by Mr. Perfect Timing Maurizio, at some subway station at 21.00, from where we drove on to the studio where Daniele already was waiting and listened to some pre-recorded tracks.

Next to arrive was the Magnificent Max, loaded with a Gibson Les Paul and his Magic pedalboard who installed himself in front of his amp.

After that it took a little while before the last member, the Wonderful Mr.Romano, arrived with his Nord and his laptop. After everyone made theirselves ready to play, except Maurizio, we just chatted a little bit about how the band works with the writing, what system they use for recording etc etc. It was time to start with the fun and now even the super relaxed Maurizio plugged in ;-)).

I got a nice spot to in the studio in a decent chair, thanx for that Massimo! This was needed hahaha. And the rehearsal began.

After synchronizing sound and vision the band started playing on the part of the movie they had chosen.

Surely they had a blue-print from pre-rehearsals, so everybody knew what to play, but now it was time to work it out on a deeper level! After playing, there was time for discussion. How can we make it better? What if we? Should we?.......Where it came very clear that this is going to be another band-album due to the fact that everyone is very involved in the songwriting.

This procedure went on the whole time, playing the part, discuss, playing, discussing, and every time it turned in to a better piece, over and over again. What really amazing was, was the fact how easy these guys seem to understand each other, and what is needed to make it so much better! .......a band of connected souls .....

Between discussion and playing Massimo searched for sound in his magic box, Danny was working on even better and more exciting drum fills. Thank you again Max for giving me a real chair, otherwise I would have fallen off the bar stool I had earlier and would have broken a leg or something :-)....just amazing musicianship in all four guys!

The most wonderful moment of the evening was when Riccardo asked Massimo for a certain sound and Max delivered it big time! Making Riccardo go up to Max and kiss him on his fore-head saying: "Massimo!!!"

At that moment the Italian passion was talking :-)

After that, there was a short break where we talked a bit more about music in general and learned som tips and tricks from Daniele about drums and stuff.

After the break it was time to record this version of the rehearsal to be sure to have all the blue-prints in order for the definite recordings when its time for it.

It was a wonderful evening with four wonderful and very talented guys who all share their passion in making music for RanestRane. And this passion is deep, they are more than just friends it just feels like they are brothers...all four of them.

I can never thank these guys enough for letting me share these precious moments with them .....memories for life .....it only lets me respect them even more ....Love you guys, you are the best!!