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16/12/09 - I'm recording all the keyboard parts for Jarle Holsen's first instrumental solo album, entitled "JHO".
Jarle is
an incredible and very talented guitar player from Bergen (Norway). Four tunes were actually arranged and recorded. Please check his personal website at www.jarleholsen.com or visit his Myspace page at www.myspace.com/jarleholsenproject where you can listen some samples from his upcoming solo album. I'm sure you will be amazed by his solid playing!
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01/09/09 - Hey guys, I wanna spread the world and inform you that a new web-resource for keyboardists was born: Space4Keys.com.
From the word of Daniele Manfredi, head of K4S: "S4K is a community where you can grow and improve your musicianship, where you can share your ideas, your suggests, where to create your personal and band space showing your setup, inserting some audio files and proposing musical projects. In KS you'll find tutorial and demo videos, Artists and Friends pages, reviews, downloadable content and so on.
2010 will be really full of activity; the objective is to be able to create Contests, to cooperate with the greatest Companies and to organize seminaries and tutorial projects while always putting up the practical-technical-musical aspect at the first place."
So, fellow keyboardists from all over the world, please check Space4Keys.com, you won't regret it!
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27/07/09 - Today I've got a new endorsement with Orange Tree, a great company which makes high quality sample libraries for Kontakt that focus on realism and playability.
I was completely amazed by these samples, expecially because you can play them in an extremely easy way through a keyboard controller. Please check the following libraries (links) :
- CoreGuitar Strawberry
- CoreBass Cherry
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CoreBass Cherry Slapped
- CoreBass Cherry Picked
- Iconic Bass: Jaco
A big thanks goes to CEO Greg Schlaepfer, founder of Orange Tree Samples who gave me the opportunity to use their samples. I will use them for the pre-production of my next solo album. I will also post some demos using these samples in the next future. Stay tuned.
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I'm proud to announce the release of the new Jon Reshard's solo album simply entitled " Jon Reshard", where I did a guest appearence. Jon is a really young talented and amazing bassist from Usa ( he recorded the bass line on the first track of my album Ego ). The album features Greg Howe on guitars and the legendary Dave Weckl on drums. Please check the audio samples from his album on his Official Myspace page.
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01/07/09 - Gear section updated. Here you can take a look to the equipment I use for my live/studio projects.
22/06/09 - Multimedia section updated. You can now listen a preview of all tunes from my first instrumental solo album EGO. Enjoy!
I've been recently involved in a lot of interesting projects.
Some of them were released in the previous weeks:
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VIndictiv is a cool prog band from Sweden. I was invited by their guitarist and founder of the band, Stefan Lindholm, to play on their new album entitled " Ground Zero" which features (amongst all): Goran Edman ( main singer ) and Oliver Hartmann ( guest singer ).
I had fun in recording and exchanging solos with Stefan on the tunes. You can listen some samples from the album on their myspace page.
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" Territory 4" is the fourth solo release by guitarist Theodore Ziras, from Greece.
The line-up includes Marco Minnemann on drums and Kyle Honea on bass.
Theodore is a great guy and guitarist, he gave me a lot of freedom
in the recordings.
Was a real pleasure working with him. So, if you want to listen some heavy-prog instrumental music with strong riffs and solos, be sure to get this album! Feel free to watch the promo video of the new album: Territory 4 - Promo Video
www.TheodoreZiras.com
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Adam Nitti's latest solo album " Liminal".
Adam is an powerhouse bassist, solo artist, producer, and music educator from Nashville.
The album features some amazing musicians like my pal Marco Sfogli and Tom Quayle on guitars, Marco Minnemann on drums, Mike Whittaker on keyboards. I was really honoured to take part to this great album. If you hare a fan of instrumental music with masterfully blending elements of Jazz/Fusion, Funk, R&B, Rock, and Blues, you don't have to miss it!
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19/03/09 - Amazing news!! I was contacted by one of my biggest inspiration, Virgil Donati, who asked me if I wanted to take part to a new project "Underworld" and be a part of the line-up, which includes also Kee Marcello ( from the great '90 band Europe ) on guitars, Steve Augeri (ex Journey's singer) on vocals and Svante Henryson ( Malmsteen ) on bass. I'm so honoured to be a part of this new amazing project!
I had also the chance
to meet Virgil here in Palermo and spend two days with him. He is one of the most humble guy I've ever met, it was a real pleasure to know him in person.
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Other projects ( upcoming releases ) in which I've taken part as session musician, are:
- Project Damage Control "Mechanism", produced by Brent Handy and Alan Sandifer
- Jon Reshard ( amazing young bassist, new solo album ) featuring Greg Howe (guitars) and Dave Weckl (drums)
- Chris Nalbandian ( drummer and friend ) with his first solo album
- Sebastian Persini ( drummer and friend from Argentina ), first solo album
- Mane Cabrales ( drummer ) , solo album
- Dino Fiorenza ( great bassist and friend from Sicily ), solo album
I will give you more updated soon about these upcoming releases. Stay tuned! |
OLDEST NEWS:
27/04/08 - I did a guest appearance on the upcoming Sebastian Persini's first solo album entitled "Lost City". Sebastian is a young but really cool drummer from Argentina and I'm sure you will listen great things about him in the next future! Please check his website at www.myspace.com/sebaspersini to listen some demos from his upcoming release.
27/04/08 - New interview and "EGO - Album Of The Month!" on Virtuosa Magazine (UK). Check it out!
01/04/08 - My album EGO is finally distributed in USA by Guitar9 Records and in Australia by FretTunes.com (<- digital download only).
02/03/08 - Recording sessions for the next Theodor Ziras's album completed!
01/02/08 - A new great interview (two pages) on Computer Music, go to buy it! (Italy only).
29/01/08 - Another amazing review of EGO at MusicPlayers.com.
Special thanks goes to Scott Kahn, Editor in Chief (for his constant support and kindness) and to Howie Stern, reviewer of the album and amazing guitarist from Mamoth Lakes, California. Enjoy!
22/01/08 - I started the recording sessions for the next Theodore Ziras's album, great guitarist from Greece. More info about Theodore at www.TheodoreZiras.com
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The first solo record from my pal Marco Sfogli, titled "There's Hope", will be finally out in the stores on Feb. 15th by Lion Music, featuring me on some tunes and also with great musicians like Matt Guillory, John Macaluso, Salvo Maiello and others. Don't miss this fantastic album from one of the best guitar player of the new generation. Please visit Marco's website for more info. |
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I'm featured on the latest Keyboard Magazine issue (November 2007) as "Unsigned Artist of the Month". You can download the review here. A BIG thanks to my friend Jordan Rudess who helped me to get in touch with Michael Gallant (Keyboard Magazine's editor) who made this thing happen!
You can click on the image to download and read the article. |
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My first interview (italian only) is available at Ziomusic.it, a great italian music portal. Enjoy! |
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EGO is now available and distributed in Japan thanks to Marquee/Avalon Inc. For further info please visit Marquee.co.jp website.
First reviews of EGO at: Proggnosis.com (a special thanks to MJ Brady for this review) and ProgArchives.com. Enjoy!! |
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