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Alberto De Bortoli

About Me

Short bio (english)
Born on February 1st, 1985 in Pordenone (Italy), Alberto had his first introduction to music at the age of eight with the piano. When he was 14 he started playing bass and guitar with some local rock bands, as well as picking up the double bass. He studied with important teachers like Mauro Zavagno, Roberto Pascucci and Alex Stornello at the Lizard Academy in Florence and Padua. He took part in important clinics with the greatest bass players like Stu Hamm, Billy Sheehan, Alain Caron, and Faso. In 2003 Alberto wrote a book "Il Volo del Calabrone ed altri classici per basso" (The Flight of the bumble-bee and others classical transcription for el. bass). In 2005 Alberto composed a personal demo, "Genre?!? What Genre?," encompasing different kinds of music. In the same year he met Marco Anzovino, a great Italian song-writer, with whom he started collaborating with. He had a great experience playing in Anzovino's second album "Canzoni Ad Occhi Chiusi." In 2007 he met Matt Cafissi, acclaimed by critics as "the new melodic Italian genius," and had the honor to play in his second album "All The Little Things." At the end of 2007 he joined the Centrica line-up releasing their first acclaimed album with Musea Records. In april 2009 he joined the famous Italian north-east Absolute5 band.


My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/16/2007
Band Website: www.albertodebortoli.it
Influences: Dream Theater, Vai, Satriani, Queen, Guns 'N Roses, Dire Straits, Muse, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Mozart, Bach, Pastorius, Wooten, Miller, Corea, Hancock, Elio e le storie tese, Ligabue, Alex Britti, Tiziano Ferro, Petra Magoni, e molti altri che ora non mi vengono in mente...
Sounds Like:

http://www.youtube.com/albertodebortoli

http://whereisalby.wordpress.com/

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Type of Label: Indie

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