simone massaron

Simone Massaron was born in Milano, Italy, in 1971. During the first 15 years of his life, he alternated piano, guitar and drums playing in different local bands. Only when he was around 16, he started studying jazz guitar and having concerts around Europe. Later ..ing only on jazz, he deepened his studies with Roberto Cecchetto and took seminars with Pat Metheny, Bill Frisell, Mick Goodrick, Marc Ducret and John Scofield. He now follows many projects in which he expresses his eclecticism and his ability to move freely across many genres: radical improvisation, free avant-garde, looping, live electronics, visceral blues, live movie soundtracks,’60s lounge, sound painting, contemporary classic repertoire. His style is personal, ironical and unforeseeable and has an instrumental technique that allows him to venture into unexplored areas of guitar terrritory. He is one of Italy Fretless guitar main representative and will participate to the up coming New York “Fretless Guitar Festival”. Moreover, he has played and worked together with Elliott Sharp, Nels Cline,Carla Bozulich,Marc Ribot, Zeno de Rossi, Steve Piccolo, Gak Sato, Emanuele Parrini, Tiziana Ghiglioni, Piero Bittolo Bon, Tiziano Tononi and Daniele Cavallanti. www.myspaceeditor.it"simone massaron is an inventive improviser and highly skilled guitarist, is a unique voice among a new generation of musicians literate in both the improvising traditions of derek bailey/fred frith and rock/free jazz, working towards a new language of the guitar". Marc Ribot