Established in 2014 on the initiative of multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer Christian Marras, Ergot Project it’s a ‘collective’ open to various artistic expressions, meant to have as its sole purpose the total creative anarchy in the creation of new musical productions.
Ergot Project is therefore a kind of ‘factory’ where the working group, directed and supervised by Christian Marras, varies continuously as needed, allowing to expand the boundaries of art and sound experimentation.
its debut two years later on AMS Records with an intriguing heavy/electro/prog revisitation of famous Beatles songs (“Beat-Less”, EXT1602CD).
Almost ten years later, with the remarkable participation of legendary drummer Pat Mastelotto, Ergot Project return with something completely different: an excellent step forward in the form of “A Family Secret”, a concept album freely based on the story of Billy Milligan, known for a famous case of multiple personality disorder that caused a sensation in the United States in the 70s. Through the narrative expedient of biographical storytelling, the album presents an allegory of the multiple inner voices that inhabit each individual