Music:
Member Since: 3/31/2007
Band Website: www.maxcarola.com "www.maxsound.it
www.maxcarola.com
Band Members: Max Carola,
Sound Architect, Producer, Mixer, Composer, Arranger, Remixer, Electric and Electronic Guitar player, also Acoustic Guitars, Tenor guitar, E-Bow ,-), Loops, Pro Tools HD3 Accel, Apple Computers, Little magic boxes, Analog and Digital Mixers, Eq, Compressors, Limiters, Crossovers, Pick-ups (All of them) Microphones (I like ribbons), Cables (long and shorts), synths and sequencers. Also ANALOG tape and gear, noise generators and ring modulators, crazy patches and loose drinks, bottles and cans, percussions & stomp boxes. Every little noise box is my instrument. And I still remember how to perfectly calibrate an analog tape recorder like the Studer and Otari multitracks! I even used to have one in my own studio, and I still have the tapes... ;-) And I'm still a proud owner of two revox A77 full track stereo recorders!
Gabriella Rinaldi,
Lead Vocal, loops and noises
Also part of my working group are the friends I'm producing like
LEGA LEGGERA, PASSEPARTOUT, SONIK ENSEMBLE
and the long time friends and collaborators
Massimo Cecchetti (bass),
Claudio Romano (drums),
Annibale Guarino (sax),
Nico Casu (trumpet),
Ernesto Vitolo (Piano, Organ),
Peppe Cozzolino (Keyboards),
Rosario Iermano (Percussions)
and my long time friends:
FRAME
and so many others thet help me in my musical career
My favourite music software is:
Digidesign PRO TOOLS for recording and mixing
MOTU Digital Performer for the midi and film works
Ableton LIVE for my remixing works
Cycling74 MAX/MSP/JITTER for my experimental and live looping works
I just got Locic Studio that finally I start to like...(but still puzzles me sometimes)
I also love the Metric Halo stuff, like the
Channel Strip and Spectrafoo (very espensive stuff :-b but sounds really good)http://www.ondarock.it/recensioni/2008_legaleggera.htm
Influences: I used to be cool before was cool to be cool
McCool aka Max Carola
I love all kind of good music from free jazz to hard rock, including serial music and some romantic era classical stuff, but a great difference in my life has made listening to the music of: Peter Gabriel, Weather Report, John Coltrane, Archie Sheep, Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Frank Zappa, Donald Fagen, James Taylor, Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Pat Metheny, Brian Eno, Quincy Jones, Bruce Sweeden, Franco Battiato, Gabriella Rinaldi, John Williams, Gato Barbieri, Gigi De Rienzo, Alvanoto, George Benson and Wes Mongomery... Oh f%"£, the list is way too long!I've been heavily influenced by the people I've worked with, especially Phil Manzanera, Robert Palmer, Steven Tyler, Zucchero, Enzo Avitabile, Manu Dibango, Corrado Rustici, Aerosmith, Roxette, Inxs, Power Station, Chick Corea, Mike Stern, Avishai Cohen, Enrico Pieranunzi, Billie Ray Martin, Tomoyasu Hotei, Susan Ciani, Hunberto Gatica, Joel Moss, Michael Gore, Franco Battiato, Guido Elmi, Marti Jane Robertson, Pino Daniele, Eugenio ed Edoardo Bennato, Pascal Obispo, Mike Fraser, Mark Opitz, Ron, Greg Walsh, Peter Walsh, Peppe Vessicchio, Michael Beinhorn, Sergio Bardotti, Enrico Pieranunzi, Pasquale Minieri, Gaetano Ria, Angelo Zurzolo and so many others i will add in the future...
Sounds Like: I like to inject my own sound in all the works I produce or engineer. But I try to have a great respect for the work of the artists I work with, helping them to bring the best out and putting it in a form that's accessible to the people. That's my gift and I try to use it wisely.
I have my own fully equipped studio with a great recording room so if someone cannot afford my usual big world class room recording environment I have an alternative that is budget conscious and near enough to the sea to have some fun (from april to october ,-), and a swimming pool also!
And what to say about the food? here you can buy the best mozzarella in the world, Spaghetti aglio&olio e peperoncino and of course the real "original" pizza! Oh, the sound: Big, Powerful and World Class R&B/Urban/Pop/Rock/Soul/AcidJazz sound...
Record Label: MAXSOUND Recods, NPU Records
Type of Label: Indie
