Carlo Castagna was born in Atri on September 15, 1981, he began studying piano at the age of 8 and then the guitar. In the early 90s he formed his first group influenced by Grunge, later in other groups Punk, Postpunk, New wave, Alternative rock, playing exclusively his own songs.
In the early 2000s he started mixing genres, searching for his own style, his own musical identity, and experimenting, merging... sounds and genres recording them in his own studio. Today his 2 projects are "Jude" and the "Monark Project" of which he is the author, and in the recordings...performer of every single instrument except drums and percussions that are sampled, and producer of his songs.
Jude is a project that was born and of which the first Ep was published in 2010, all songs are exclusively instrumental unlike the other bands with whom he has always played and in which he also wrote the lyrics and sang them,
this project has a completely experimental character, the sounds range from ambient, dark ambient, electro wave, alternative rock, dark wave, dream pop music.
After some Ep, mostly published on Soundcloud and Rockit, starts a collaboration with Lemonade, an artist of Korean origin and American adoption, author and voice of the lyrics of the songs, publishing an Ep titled "Shout" present on all digital web stores, and then other singles.

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