Music

I began playing the electric guitar when I was 16, and I have continued so far as self-taught. Now (age 29) I mostly play acoustic guitar.

During my life I experimented in composing music in various genres, having a preference for:

• Post-rock (mostly inspired by Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Efterklang, This Will Destroy You, Thee Silver Mt. Zion, Explosions in The Sky);
• Psychedelic rock (mostly inspired by Beatles, Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd, Tame Impala);
• Folk and Folk-Rock music (mostly inspired by Inti-Illimani and Mike Oldfield);
• Jazz music (absolutely inspired by Django Reinhardt and other Gypsy/Manouche artists);

You can hear some of my music on Soundcloud or Bandcamp.

Bands and groups

During my “career” as a guitarist I had some bands. I’ll list them here, as a “tribute” to those good memories:

• Amphibika [me, Nicolas Scapin] - Random rock music. I had the fortune of having a friend at my secondary school who was playing the drums. We started recording some covers, after some months of experience with our instrument. A very good way to learn, which I would suggest to any beginner musician.
• Stillbreach [me, Michele Rosa, Daniele Salomoni, Ivan Cominato, Nicola Melchionni, Vlad Corlade] - Random rock-metal music. The first band with which I played “live”, in a friends party. Beautiful memories made of cellars, pizzas and learning songs at the last moment.
• Copperframe [me, Ambra Rosetti, Mattia Piasentin, Luca Milanesi] - Heavy metal, Glam (Guns & Roses, R. J. Dio, Motley Crue…). My first “serious” experience in a band. Other good memories. Sadly we only had 3 live events.
• Frantic [me, Andrea Mugavero, Paolo Balzarini, Emanuele Dirotti] - Metallica tribute band. We only had one live experience. One and an half: we had to play in a new live music venue, but the place was not in accordance with the law and the police stopped the event.
• Golden Lions [me, Beatrice Ferrara, Matteo Barbieri, Riccardo Orfano, Emanuele Romano] - Random rock (mostly Queen and Ligabue, but also Rainbow). Other good memories. We played in a good place in Voghera (PV), and at the 18 years party of a friend.
• Lunatic Moon [me, Valerio Borioli, Elena Beltrami, Marco De Santis, Elisa Cacciatore, Edoardo Fava, Martina Corrada, Marcello Magnani] - Pink Floyd tribute band. My biggest and longest band experience, which lasted for more than 4 years. I had a lot of live events with them (I’m not sure about how many, but at least 20-25 appearances).
• Souls 4 Sale [me, Paolo Bollinella, Daniele Chiesa, Alessandro Marone, Edoardo Fava] - Foo Fighters tribute band. A group of misfits put up to attend a live event, which then decided it was cool to play together.