Biography and Contacts
Open the Paintbox is an independent progressive rock band. Discover our history, our music and the main pages of the project.
Our History
In the summer of 2005 in Messina (Italy), Fabrizio Tuzza (Keyboards) and Giovanni Costantino (Guitars, Bass and Programming) began playing for enjoyment, tied by the same passion for music.
Through improvisations, loops and original tracks, the first "notes" were born for future developments. Having chosen a name for the instrumental duo, we proceeded with the creation of songs inspired by historical and modern Progressive Rock, before meeting the singer Angelica Esposito in 2015, with whom a new path has opened up.
Since 2007, we began working on an entirely instrumental concept, "The Sirius Mystery", which we completed in 2013 and later revisited in 2015. It was an important experience for our musical growth, but the lack of opportunity to express ourselves through songs was evident. The voice allowed us to expand territories and the lyrics now have something to tell.
Work, personal commitments and physical distance did not prevent us from moving forward, and after a few singles, the album "Lapse of Time" was released in the summer of 2024, entirely self-produced, and whose themes cross mysticism, dystopian future and deep search of ourselves and the Divine.


Why “Open the Paintbox”?
The musical genre we are inspired by is mainly progressive rock, a colorful and multifaceted genre, whose contaminations over time have been numerous.
Making music is like painting a picture with many colored brushes, or always looking for new ones to create backgrounds or details.
Our goal is to color and give life to our dreams, our ideas, all those thoughts that we can thus express and spread to everyone.
Our music is therefore a continuous evolution, a constant internal search for improvement.
Just as a painter begins from a draft, which he expands and corrects, our music takes shape from a motif to give shape to a thought, or from a thought to give shape to.
Music and Philosophy
The ideas behind Lapse of Time, The Sirius Mystery and the next album.
Open pageLinks and Reviews
YouTube, Bandcamp, Spotify, Apple Music and the ProgArchives review page.
Open pageLinks and Contacts
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Contact Form
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