Music video from Tito Rinesi CD "Meetings" and from the soundtrack of the silent movie "The indian tomb" directed by John May, screenplay by Fritz Lang (1921).
Composed by Tito Rinesi, played at piano by Michele FedrigottiMIRRA di Tito Rinesi
..TITO RINESI plays plectrum instruments like bouzouki, saz, baglamas, acoustic guitar and also piano, keyboards and all the electronic devices, and sings too. Starting in the 1974, he published more than 35 CD of soundtracks, ambient and world music. Tito Rinesi began his musical activity in 1968 by playing the american west coast and folk music with his harmonica and acoustic guitar. In 1972 he performed with the Living Music, a multi-media band inspired by the Beat Generation poets (Ginsberg, Kerouac, Fernanda Pivano) and by the Indian philosophy. Singing his composition “Go on†with this band, he won first prize in the Avantgarde and New Trends Music Festival in Rome. In 1973 his encounter with the Project Artaud artists in San Francisco put him in contact with the hippy and psychedelic movement, and the meeting in Rome with the indian singer Pandit Pran Nath (teacher of Terry Riley, LaMonte Young, Jon Hassell, Don Cherry, Lee Konitz) left a lasting mark on his opening and creativity. In the same period, performs with the acoustic group Dulcimer In 1974 he joined the progressive rock band Saintjust and recorded an LP “ La casa del lago “ published by EMI Corporation (the female singer was Jenny Sorrenti) In 1976, as the band stopped playing, he continued researching and studying traditional musical systems all over the world, with a special interest for India, Middle East and the Mediterranean basin. His teachers were : Indian singing (Khyal style) Sangeeta Chatterjee and Mangala Tiwari; Indian singing (Dhrupad style) Amelia Cuni; Indian music Vijay Kichlu; Turkish music Cinucen Tanrikorur; Overtones singing David Hykes; Electronic music Luca Spagnoletti. Partecipated in the Experimental Choir conducted by Alvin Curran, in the Baroque Choir of the Italian Center of Ancient Music and in the “ Overtone memories “ choir conducted by Roberto Laneri. Worked for the Music Therapy Italian Association in the “ Santa Maria della Pietà “ mental hospital in Rome.
Since twenty years works composing soundtracks for RAI TV Corporation.
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