Member Since: 2/25/2008
Band Website: cetrapublishing.com/artists/rossi/
Band Members:
La Cetra Galante CD and Pasqualini Demarzi / Irish Dance Tunes CD on Cetra both available from Doc or downloads from Magnatune.com/artists/docrossi
Solo: 18th-century cittern, Renaissance cittern, Irish cittern.
Le Cetre Galante with Taro Takeuchi, 18th-century cittern and baroque guitar.
Les Dexters with Robert Amyot, pipes, whistle, clarinet.
Quartet with The Bacheler Consort.
Influences: "I started out trying to play like Glenn Gould - and I'm still trying!"
GG's approach has had an enormous impact on me, as has Clarence White's - a day doesn't go by that I don't think about him and how he played, especially his phrasing and sense of time.
Donal Lunny - especially his interplay with Andy Irvine - within the tradition but with a rock sensibility: an approach similar to GG's, and exactly what I try to do.
Important guitarists are Roger McGuinn and Norman Blake for their overall sound, Martin Carthy for his approach to traditional material, Leo Kottke and FZ for virtuosity and creativity, and slack key guitar greats Ray Kane and Leonard Kwan for their sense of beauty. Jack Casady, Grace Slick, The Beatles, Fripp & Eno and Indian Classical music have affected me a great deal.
An album that had a tremendous influence was Paddy in the Smoke. I eventually got to play with Reg Hall and the Rakes, Lucy Farr, Tommy Healy and Jimmy Power - a dream come true. Recordings of Martin Byrnes, Willie Clancy and Louis Beaudoin were also very important, as were those of Roscoe Holcomb, Woody Guthrie, Earl Scruggs and David Munrow. Several composers have influenced my work for various reasons - JSB, Erik Satie, Francis Poulenc, Francois Couperin, Robert de Visée, John Cage, Henry Cowell, Karl-Heinz Stockhausen.
Sounds Like: You tell me...
Record Label: Cetra
Type of Label: Indie