TTeo is the pseudonym of Matteo Capreoli – a half German, half Italian singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer with a deep musical heritage. Fernando Antonio Capreoli, his father, left Salento in southern Italy for Germany in 1970, before forming disco-funk-rock outfit Lovexpress, made up of mainly Italian and Scandinavian musicians, playing drums in the band and touring Norway, Sweden and Denmark from 1974 to 1979.

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TTeo himself signed to Sonar Kollektiv in 2020, releasing the Salento EP, named after the place of his father’s birth. More recently, though, he was serendipitously handed a batch of cassettes by his dad of some of Lovexpress’ live shows from the late 1970s. TTeo was deeply impressed by the quality of the music and got his father to digitise them immediately! These recordings form the basis of, and the inspiration for, his latest LP – Lovexpress77, and are the only known recordings of the band who never quite made it into the studio to lay down an album.

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The latest single to be taken from Lovexpress 77 is the lo-fi yet life affirming Samba (Release Date: October 26th, 2023). The title partly comes from a term that Matteo uses for anything that is “nice” or “sweet”, which is quite fitting for this sugary Brazilian beauty. It’s also based on, of course, music from the Lovexpress band, and specifically their cover of the Santana song of the same name, reinterpreted in their own unique style.
Matteo sampled the band’s three part harmonies on the chorus, joining them to make up the fourth, with the other main sample taken from their version being the electric lead guitar.

Album ‘Lovexpress 77’ is due for release on November 24th.