About Me
The new CD is very different from the others in playing, ideas and approach to music in general.
It is divided into two sections, one heavy and one acoustic just to show better all
my ideas, feelings and the way I consider music; I believe this album to be the best material I've ever released
and the one that best represents me.
'INTO THE DARK LINE' is the heavy part of the album and is more into shred and progressive metal
but with a lot of themes, melodies and unison passages, while the second part of the album
'OUT OF THE DARK LINE' is the acoustic one and it is only guitar and piano/keyboards and with more
delicate melodies and some really introspective moments.
This isn't a guitar album, as I wanted all the instruments to have the same importance in every song.
I really care recording all music in general with particular attention.
This album is really introspective and very important for me, it was inspired from the experience of the
impossible things happened in the last years and from everyday stuff.
The CD contains also extra material like photos, transcriptions, videos, a diary
of the making of and much more.
Francesco Fareri - Guitars & Keyboards
Kyle Honea - Bass
Lucrezio de Seta - Drums
Guest players
Vitalij Kuprij - Keyboards solos & Piano on Secrets Within
Bob Katsionis - Keyboards solos on Liquid World
The album was released on March 23th 2007 by Lion Music
all videos available on:
www.francescofareri.com or www.youtube.com/francescofarerigt
I was born on April 15, 1978 in Rome and I’ve started to play guitar at the beginning of 1995
immediately with an electric one. I took guitar lessons for 6 months from a friend of mine and
then I continued by myself with methods and instructional videos. My early influences were Steve
Vai, Joe Satriani but few months later I discovered the neoclassical era with Yngwie Malmsteen,
Joey Tafolla, Vinnie Moore, Patrick Rondat and many more until I heard for the first time Jason
Becker the one that most influenced my playing and my style. In that period, around 1997/1998 I
started to record my first demos on audio cassettes and I started to play some concerts in my city.
In the middle of 1999 I understood that my way of playing had changed, that it was matured through
those years thanks to these musicians: George Bellas, Shawn Lane and Greg Howe but most of all thanks
to Vitalij Kuprij. Under the new influences I recorded new music and in 1999 I started also to send
my last record to web-magazines as Guitar 9, where I was reviewed as undiscovered artist for December
1999 and January 2000, and also on Whiplash , a Brazilian magazine.
Meanwhile my musical ideas had changed so I started to write and play music in a different way
searching for my style and my own playing. In late 2000 I started to record my first real solo
album "Suspension" that I released by self in summer 2001.
I had a lot of world distributors, including also M.A.C.E. music the personal label of guitarist Michael Angelo Batio.
Suspension helped me to be less unknown between the instrumental
shred/prog guitarists, infact I had a lot of reviews and interviews and I started to write guitar lessons for a lot of web-magazines. On May 2002 Chops From Hell released my first instructional
CD-Rom based on Arpeggios, on January 2003 the second one called 'High Shred Techs' and on March
2004 the third one called 'Intese Guitar Playing'.
In the meantime Vitalij Kuprij asked me to partecipate with a guitar solo for his fourth solo
album and for me it was an honour that such a great musician as Vitalij asked me that! For me
it was a dream come true because Vitalij is my absolute GREATEST influence! He is an incredible
player, a nice man and a cool friend! 'Forward and Beyond' was released in 2004 by Yamaha Music/Lion Music.
The album features apart from Vitalij also guitarists as Michael Romeo (Symphony X), George Bellas, Jeff Kollman,
Roger Staffelbach (Artension), Borislav Mitic and Michael Harris.
At the beginning of 2005 I finished to record and produce my second solo album called "Forbidden Dimension" .
It includes great players as Kyle Honea on bass, Jon Doman on drums (tracked and engineered by Greg Howe at his
personal studio), Vitalij Kuprij all piano and keyboards on one song and Bob Katsionis
keyboards solos on 5 songs. The album is a shred/progessive influenced music and it was released
by Lion Music on July 2005.
In middle 2005 I started to record my third solo album 'SECRETS WITHIN' it is divided into two sections, one heavy and one
acoustic just to show better all my ideas, feelings and the way to consider music; I believe this album to be the best material
I've ever released and the one that best represents me.'INTO THE DARK LINE' is the heavy part of the album and is more into shred and progressive metal but with a lot of themes,
melodies and unison passages, while the second part of the album 'OUT OF THE DARK LINE' is the acoustic one and it is only
guitar and piano/keyboards and with more delicate melodies and some really introspective moments.This isn't a guitar album, as I wanted all the instruments to have the same importance in every song. I really care recording
all music in general with particular attention.This album is really introspective and very important for me, it was inspired from the experience of the impossible things happened
in the last years and from all day's stuff.
The album includes my great friend and amazing bassist Kyle Honea, my friend Lucrezio de Seta on drums and maybe the best keyboards
player out there Vitalij Kuprij and Bob Katsionis. Vitalij is also my greatest influence and his playing really influenced my music
and I can't thank him enought for all he had done for me in the years, a great friend and awesome musician.
I consider this album my best one also because I played with the best musician out there and I'm so lucky for that!
The album is out thanks to Lasse and Lion Music on March 2007 and the CD
contains extra material as photos, mp3, tabs, a diary of the making of and much more.
In the same time I recorded also some guest solos for other artists’ albums released by various
labels as Brennus Records, Lion Music, Yamaha Music and Shrapnel Records.
I love my music and my way of playing, I think to be honest with my self playing what I like
more and not playing other things to make money; music is my life but not my job, to have money
I have a normal job in an office, so my music is EXACTLY the mirror of myself.
For more info, mp3, video, lessons please check out my site www.francescofareri.com
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