interaction between eastern and western musicians who look for a different concert/event for each performance. Tibetan culture is not at all used as a folkloristic or curious event, as too many times happens in the west, but as living part of the creative process. Visuals are also totally improvised and constructed in real time according to what is happening musically on stage to close the circle erasing any difference between past and future. Since 1996 Bernocchi and Mattioli involved well known New York producer/bass legend Bill Laswell and start to work on the first studio recording of the combo together with 7 Tibetan monks. The album, Hooked Light Rays came out for Low Records, a division of Pete Namlook's Fax label, gaining positive reviews. In 1998 the album was reprinted by Felmay/New Tone an Italian label specialized in traditional/modern musics. With the encouragement of Musica 90, one of the most renowned booking/production agencies in Europe, Somma's first public appearance took place on November 26, 1996, at Teatro Regio in Torino Italy in front of 1600 people. Line-up: Eraldo Bernocchi - treated guitars and electronics Bill Laswell - bass Petulia Mattioli - stage design and visuals Oz Fritz - sound engineering and space dislocations 7 Tibetan monks - vocals, horns, bells, drums In 2001, on occasion of the official visit of the Dalai lama, Somma performed in Trento at the Centro Santa Chiara theatre, in front of a gathering 2000 people. Line-up: Eraldo Bernocchi - treated guitars and electronics Bill Laswell - bass Petulia Mattioli - stage design and visuals 7 Tibetan monks - vocals, horns, bells, drums Stefano Cecere - visual assistant Hamid Drake - drums Gigi - vocals Toshinori Kondo - trumpet Raiz - vocals Oz Fritz - sound engineering and space dislocations This show was released as part of a limited edition deluxe package set in 2007 on Verba Corrige. Somma continues to grow and expand, most recently playing on May 28, 2007, at Teatro Dal Verme in Milan adding Lorenzo Esposito Fornasari, Nils Petter Molvaer and the vocal group Faraualla to the mix. This show received release in 2010 through Eraldo's RareNoise label. Obake Obake is one of Bernocchi's newer ongoing projects, meant to be the place where the energies of Doom and Drone Metal fuse with ambient electronica, noise, the exactness of math-rock, the groove of blues undercurrents harking back to the dawn of hard-rock and