Born in Genoa on 5th March, 1982. Started taking classical piano lessons @ the age of 5, but not taking it too seriously.
Always listened 2 music, old U2 albums were my fav 1s when I was a kid. My father happened 2 come across a completely messed up bass when I was about 13 or 14, which brought 2 me.
After experimenting, I soon thought about digging in the low notes better, so I bought a more decent bass @ 14, an amp, and started taking electric bass lessons. Got into my first band - kinda punk, rock and new-wave sounding - @ the same time.
I kept on taking lessons, first privately with Francesco Olivieri and then at the Music Line school of Genoa, with Massimo Palermo and Gianni Martini. I attended different one-day-workshops and seminars, hold by Alain Caron, Gianni Serino, Marcus Miller, Andrea Braido...
Got the 6th year degree from Music Line in 2005, attended the workshops Gezmataz twice in Genoa (with Matt Garrison in 2004 and Masa Kamaguchi in 2006) and Paolo Fresu's Nuoro Jazz three times with Attilio Zanchi in 2005, 2006 (earning a grant for the forthcoming year) and 2007 and kept on taking regular lessons with Marco Tindiglia during the year 2005/6.
I enroled (and still study) at the Niccolò Paganini Conservatory of Genoa for classical double-bass training, under the guide of Franco Pianigiani.
In 2005 and 2006 I attended and graduated from the 2-year-institute IatGong in Genoa - Institute of Traditional Arts, based upon seminars to get in touch with traditional music, dance and theatre forms and their native artists. Among our music teachers there were: Joji Hirota (JAPAN, Taiko drums), Tran Quang Hai (VIETNAM, overtone singing), Dariush Madani (IRAN, Zarb drum), Achille Acakpo (BENIN, African drums), Andrea Ferroni (ITALY, didjeridoo), Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay (INDIA, raga singing), Friedrich Glorian (GERMANY, rhythm and singing techniques), Alfio Antico (ITALY, "tamorra" and "tamburello" drums).
I've been playing for bands proposing an original repertoire, as well as for bands which rearranged existing repertoires in a jazzy mood, such as Heady Hands. Since 2004 I've been lucky enough to collaborate with Altera, merging music with poetry. Meanwhile, I enjoy playing classical music with my conservatory ensamble.
I'm actually playing 4 bands such as The KL.Audio, Altera, the songwriter Valentina Amandolese and string orchestras with my double-bass, still discovering different paths and sonorities in music, loving the fretless and the double... thanks to Iat Gong and to his proximity, I established a friendship with the great didjeridoo player Andrea Ferroni (video below) from Turin, Italy, and started 2 familiarize with the didgeridoo and its fairly unknown wonderful potentials in modern music...
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Confession
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Medley
I - Still waters underneath
II - Sudden storm. Coming up for air
III - By the shore. Rain ticking on the water
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All music listed above by Emanuele Carbone - © All rights reserved
All music on MySpace player by The KL.Audio - © All rights reserved
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Altera @ "Coraggio Laico" ("Lay Pride") in Rome, 12th May 2007
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Things I pleasantly embed here:
My friend and didjeridoo player Andrea Ferroni
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Estbjörn Svensson Trio ... beyond fronteers...
( CLICK HERE TO WATCH THEIR VIDEO - embedding disabled from YouTube by request)
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Takagi Masakatsu - Exit/Delete
lyrics and voice by David Sylvian. Lovely video as well by Eric Cruz
David Sylvian - Maria (Live in Tokyo, 2004)
A great guide... always giving a new, fresh and up to date print to his wonderful creations
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SPOTS - Photos I took (USA - Europe)
