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Band
Living Stilts is a musical project with the intent of creating evocative sounds and allowing the listener to make an imaginary journey.
Living Stilts’ compositions are inspired by the fantastical, more imaginative art, fiction and poetry all combined.
Their influences are from progressive rock, hard rock, romantic classical, baroque and Renaissance music.
The creations of Living Stilts should be considered genuine suites that do not end in a single song. For this reason, the composition of a concept album is preferred. Voices and instruments are chosen in relation to the desired color to give the music, and so pieces acted, instrumental or with more male and female voices abound.
The band consists of Luca Mavilia on keyboards, Sabrina Sampugnaro lead vocals, Carlo Cassisi on guitars, and Francesco Girone on bass.
Ben McGuire also collaborates with Living Stilts for translations and acting and Frank Capra for graphics and design.
Luca Mavilia
Living Stilts’ founder.
From an early age, fascinated by the world of music, he learned the first rudiments of piano and guitar from a maternal uncle.
He studied classical piano for a few years and learned guitar, bass and some drums skills as an autodidact.
He loves baroque music, especially Bach and Vivaldi, and rock and progressive rock music and in general all the great bands of classic rock such as Pink Floyd and The Doors.
Francesco Girone
Self-taught on the four strings in the early 90s, he joined the indie rock Hyperspaces Group with whom he had his first live experiences.
After a break he entered the ten-year project Urrlo Primordiale, a rock group with unreleased originals and covers with which he produced two EPs, and in the same period collaborated with the Fighters Five One, a Foo Fighters tribute band. Since 2015, Living Stilts has been his only musical project.
Sabrina Sampugnaro
She started singing at the age of 16. She has been studying music for several years. After singing in various rock bands in her teens, she founded the rock group the Revenge in 2002, playing live throughout the Catania hinterland for 13 years. She also was lead singer for Evanescence tribute band for 4 years. She also loves to play drum.
She joins Living Stilts in 2025 as lead vocalist.
Carlo Cassisi
He started learning music theory and guitar at the age of 15 by his local church organ player. A couple years later he took guitar lessons from a Pink Floyd tribute band guitarist and approached the world of prog rock. After playing in various rock bands in his teens, he stopped his musical journey during university period and started again a few years ago joining an alternative/grunge band. He joins Living Stilts in 2025 as guitarist.
Ben McGuire
Based in Rome from 2007 to 2016, where he met Luca Mavilia, he now lives back in his native Ireland. As a voice actor he has also worked with Barry Flynn of Big Green Bin Productions.
Frank Capra
Art Director and Graphic Designer
He loves Storytelling in all its forms: spoken, written, drawn, filmed, sung and playful.