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Pezzettino and Wolfgang Schaefer
09/10/2010 10:00 PM
Pezzettino is self-taught on her father's accordion, and classically trained in piano at the local Racine, Wisconsin convent until puberty. Redirected to the visual arts, she studied Art History at Occidental College then traveled to Cambodia to fight the illicit trade of sculptures (think Lara Croft). Deciding that she didn't want to get shot in the head, she returned to Wisconsin to become an acupuncturist and marry her mother's dream son-in-law.
With her rotting lonely soul, she surfed Craigslist late one night looking for nothing in particular (as people do) and stumbled across an ad for an Indie drummer. "I like Indie music." She clicked, thought "he's cute," and sent the email: "Well I'm not a drummer, but I did play piano when I was in 6th grade, can I join your band?" Much to her surprise, the band invited her to "JAM."
The girl went to her first band practice in the delapitated college apartment with one of those scary old elevators from horror flicks, thinking that it made absolutely no sense for her to be there but for some reason she knew it was something she MUST do. Timid and sitting on her hands during JAM TIME, she gingerly pressed 5 notes in 2 hours on the keyboard, volume level barely audible... "Well you didn't do much of anything...." said the band hesitantly, "but we have an accordion sitting in the corner, and none of us knows how to play it, why don't you try?"
Pezz and the accordion became shy friends, safely playing one note for two minutes straight. It was the first time that she really played a note because she felt like it, instead of it being written out on sheet music by a composer. She was beginning to find her voice and soon realized that the sounds she was choosing to make on her accordion were dark and minor... not the sound of a happily engaged fiancee... the floodgate broke, songs flooding out--- she called off the wedding, quit the band, released her first solo album and began touring extensively (six months after first picking up the accordion.
Can't stop, won't stop! Pezzettino finished out her Masters program in Oriental Medicine, and is now based in Brooklyn.
The name "Pezzettino" comes from a children's illustration book by Leo Lionni. Read it, it's short and lovely. Or YouTube it, go on...
Dusting off the old Martin his father passed down to him, and picking up the pens and notebooks he nearly used to live inside, he began writing music. The result is Wolfgang Schaefer's lyrically driven experiment in modern folk. He supplements his firm roots in Americana with atmospheric, musical poetics and thoughtful, textural, well-constructed story-telling, always finding different ways to say I love you, different ways to say I hate you, and different ways to say that life is hard but moments are beautiful. "This Milwaukee resident plays the lonely guitar and sings with the true tired voice of the open plain troubadour...The stunning acoustics perfectly match his vocals and you simply wonder why this guy isn’t a household name already." -Slowcoustic.com
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