CV Antonello Solinas - Bass

bass player, born in Vicenza on March the 16th 1957, he lives in Lucca since 1961.
With no doubts one of the milestones of Lucca's music scene, he has been involved in several Italian tours and productions. He is a musician by a very personal print with refine tasty lines by the smooth sound of his fretless bass.
Self taught musician, by the age of 10 already performing as amateur on classical guitar and by 17 part of some Latin American and folk bands of the area. At the age of 20 he starts playing the electric bass and forms a jazz fusion band inspired by the great Jaco Pastorious.
By the time he cooperated as "session man" in jazz, rock, blues productions and joined a group called "MEDITERRANEO", with this concept he participated to a great number of festivals abroad and in Italy here we could mention "FOLKEST" in Friuli where he performed on 5 consecutive years, one of those beside singer Joan Baez.
With "Mediterraneo" has been part of the compilation "Canti Randagi" by Ricordi publishing: an anthology of Fabrizio de André's compositions with a track by poet Cecco Angiolieri from Tuscany "Se Fossi Foco",
Lately he recorded two albums with groups "Canto Lunare" and "Dune" two production by ethnic - new age flavor.
Antonello, among, Link XII, is working on a project of Mediterranean sounds by jazz harmonies, Latin rhythms and south Italian melodies

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