Released Albums
NORTH – EAST Blues
Mark Slim – guitar & vocals
Fabrizio Soldà – harp

In April 2009 Mark Slim and the harp player Fabrizio Soldà have released their first self produced CD: “NORTH – EAST Blues”. Plaied in the old Delta Blues style, they present original songs and covers in which they talk about true life troubles like: ended marriages, unemployment, mobbing at work, depressed people… true stories which happen every day in a rich land like the North – East of Italy.
Produced by Mark Slim & Fabrizio Soldà – 2008
Recorded & mixed between April – September 2008 by Alessandro Cerato at San Germano dei Berici (VI), Italy
Equalized & mastered by Mauro Santinello at True Colours Studio – Padova, Italy
Catfish Blues
NORTH – EAST Blues
Divorce Blues
NORTH – EAST Blues
Green river Blues
NORTH – EAST Blues
Hard time killing floor Blues
NORTH – EAST Blues
North – East Blues
NORTH – EAST Blues
Katrina
Mark Slim – guitar & vocals
Martino Repetto – rhythm guitar on tracks 1,2,3,4,5,7,8,10,11,13,14 & solo on tracks 5,7,11
Luca Dell’Aquila – bass
Marco Manassero – drums

This is my new CD, the second one after “NORTH – EAST Blues”, the first with my full band. Mostly West Coast sound with a retro flavour in memory of my heroes like T-Bone Walker & Pee Wee Crayton. Just a trio with a second guitar without a piano and a horn section, but we tried to maintain at the same the old sound. Fourteen songs, eight originals like: the title track Katrina, Mark Slim shuffle, Tell me, what have I done wrong?, Hard times Blues, Blues for Sabrina…
This CD is dedicated to all the people in New Orleans, Louisiana who in August 2005 lost everything with the hurricane Katrina and to the memory of: Aaron “T-Bone” Walker (this year are 100 years from his birth), Connie Curtis “Pee Wee Crayton” and Goree Carter who inspired me to play guitar.
I hope you like it and to see you at the next gig in your town!!! Mark Slim
Produced by Mark Slim – 2010
Recorded live at TRUE COLOURS STUDIO – Padova, Italy by Mauro Santinello: November 23rd 2008, January 14th 2009 & September 18th 2009
Mixed & mastered by Mauro Santinello at TRUE COLOURS STUDIO – Padova, Italy
Blues for Sabrina
Katrina
Hard times Blues
Katrina
Katrina
Katrina
Mark Slim boogie
Katrina
Tell me, what have I done wrong?
Katrina
Mark Slim, il cantante / chitarrista Padovano è in una fase di grande crescita artistica musicale; abbiamo da poco licenziato il suo convincente lavoro acustico in compagnia di Fabrizio Soldà (che potete trovare in questa stessa pagina) ed ecco qui una nuova e inattesa uscita: Katrina in quartetto elettrico; un disco omaggio alle vittime e ai superstiti del tremendo Katrina e un’occasione per dimostrare una inconsueta abilità nel maneggiare diversi stili blues; 14 tracce, pochi remake, molti originali, tutti scelti con intelligenza e gusto tra gli archivi delle diverse aree geografiche; Texas blues, con omaggi a Lightnin’ Hopkins e Jimmie Vaughan, le regioni del delta con Big Road Blues e Pony Blues (un’idea già esplorata dai Canned Heat), il West Coast con Bop Hop di Pee Wee Crayton; Mark Slim ha profondi ascolti e tecnica chitarristica flessibile e ponderata, capacità inconsuete in giovane età, valori che lo rendono umile e appropriato nei diversi contesti esplorati; un maggior lavoro sulla vocalità consentirebbe un ulteriore salto di qualità e un posizionamento ai primi posti della chitarra blues italiana.