Andrea Van Cleef

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Born at the foot of the Italian mountains of Vallecamonica, Andrea Van Cleef moved, after his university studies in languages, to Brescia, where he still lives and produces his music. Although he has performed in several European and national stages in recent years, Van Cleef says that it is in the Brescia territories that he makes his "home." Guitarist and enthusiast of stringed instruments in general, voice with an intense and recognizable timbre, Andrea Van Cleef composes, sings and plays his own songs, for some time producing for other artists as well.
In 2012 the first solo album, "Sundog" is the ultimate revelation of his expressive and compositional skills with an international scope. He sings and writes exclusively in English, but with the creative and visionary Italian approach, as well as the pragmatism, also from a sonic point of view, of his Valleys. And it is this unique and personal style of the self-produced "Sundog" that has garnered interest among insiders and fans of the genre, so much so that it has become a mini-cult album and earned several reissues, following collaboration with the Rivertale Productions label.
The most relevant and inescapable part of Van Cleef's musical activity is undoubtedly his live performance. Not only "Sundog" was presented in tour through Italy, Switzerland and Germany, but the live shows intensified at a very fast pace, about 90-100 concerts annually, with the subsequent albums “Tropic Of Nowhere” (2018, Rivertale Productions) by and ”Safari Station” (co-written with blues-folk Diego Deadman Potron, 2021, Rivertale productions/ Timezone) and the EP “135” (2020, Rivertale Productions). Van Cleef took part in several international stoner-doom rock festivals -
among the albums with Humulus “RHINO” (2017, Kozmik Artifactz) and “The Deep” (2020, Kozmik Artifactz) - and several openings at blues-rock concerts, including Ben Harper and opening solo at The White Buffalo's sold-out Italian show at Alcatraz in Milan. From solo, acoustic duo, to more structured and complex ensembles, Van Cleef's shows know how to engage and capture attention of the audience.