Marcella Riccardi, aka BeMyDelay, started as guitar player for Italian Cult band Massimo Volume. In 2003 She co-founded the americana landscapes inspired band Franklin Delano along with musician Paolo Iocca, with whom She has recorded three albums and toured the States during 2005/2008. She is the co-founder of post-punk space concoction project Blake/e/e/e. She has created her erratic and wavering solo project, BeMyDelay whose first album “ToTheOtherSide” has been praised by Julian Cope in his Address Druidion web column.
She reads Tarot, delights in astrology and uses other forms of divination in order to enhance creativity. She is a singer and songwriter. Plays electric and acoustic guitar, piano, mistreats electronics. She has been a curator of many events in her city, Bologna. Marcella has been touring Italy and Europe many times, playing together with the likes of Marisa Anderson, Tom Carter, Chuck Johnson, Father Murphy. She has been the first woman in Europe playing in Rhys Chatham’s G3. Over the years She has collaborated with Califone, Starfuckers, Stefano Pilia, Pois n Arrows, Tom Carter, Opificio Ciclope, Maurizio Abate, Father Murphy, Rella.
BeMyDelay started in 2011, initially as a one-woman band with an array of loopers end effects to accompany
her own songs. During time she got closer to a lysergic kind of folk music, always in between British
Folk and West Coast style and in recent times she further opened the structures of her songs, which
became more and more stretched out and free-form, like a river with thousands of psychedelic rivulets.
