Member Since: 10/12/2007
Band Website: youtube.com/daegabmusic59
Band Members:
Influences: EARLIEST INFLUENCES: Italian children songs and love songs, Gianni Morandi, Rita Pavone, Mina, Adriano Celentano, Lucio Battisti, The Rokes, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, James Brown, Ike&Tina Turner, Chuck Berry Donovan.
ROCK: Carlos Santana, Cream, Jimy Hendrix, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Jethro Tull, Frank Zappa, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Genesis, Yes, Gentle Giant, King Crimson, Emerson Lake & Palmer, UK, Bruford, Steve Hillage, Camel, Hatfield and the North, National Health, Soft Machine, ("Canterbury Sound"), Third Ear Band, PFM (Premiata Forneria Marconi).
CLASSICAL: Medieval and Renaissance music, Madrigals, John Dowland, Henry Purcell, Vivaldi, J.S. Bach, Handel, Satie, Debussy, Ravel, Bartok, Stravinsky, Shonberg, Charles Ives, Olivier Messiaen.
JAZZ: The Blues!!, Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Joe Henderson, Wayne Shorter, Ahmad Jamal,, Chick Corea, Keith Jarrett, Bill Evans, Sonny Rollins, Ornette Coleman, Hermeto Pascoal, Maria Schneider, Steve Coleman and Five Elements, Greg Osby and Sound Theatre, Art Ensamble of Chicago, Oregon, Yellow Jackets, Wes Montgomery, Jim Hall, Allan Holdsworth, Pat Metheny, Martin Taylor, Defunkt and dozens more. I also love Joni Mitchell, James Taylor, Stefan Grossman, Tommy Emmanuel, Irish Music, Rido Bayonne, Salif Keita, Ali Farka Toure and all West-African Music, Ethio-Jazz (and so much amazing African Music from different traditions I'd like to discover and listen to...); Japanese "Gagaku" Music, Indian Music and Bulgarian Music (Female Voices, Peter Petrov and Ivo Papasov in particular) and other Eastern European Music.
WRITERS: Hermann Hesse, Anton Chekov, Gogol, Albert Camus, Jaques Prévert, Fosco Maraini, Paramahansa Yogananda, Thomas Merton, Bede Griffiths.
BOOKS:"101 Zen Stories" by Nyogen Senzaki and Paul Reps. "Hojoki" by Kamo no Chomei. "Paropamiso" by Fosco Maraini. "Anything Can Be Healed" by Martin Brofman, "The Science of Religion" by Paramahansa Yogananda, "The Autobiography of a Yogi" by Paramahasa Yogananda.
OTHER THINGS: Nature, people I love and a search for profound beauty combined with my need to express my self and give love through what makes me happy: Music!!
Sounds Like:Myself improvising on an A pedal pointAll Blues (attempted)All The Things You Are
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