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PREMESSA: LA SUPERIORITA’ DELLA MUSICA SU VINILE E’ ANCOR OGGI SANCITA, NOTORIA ED EVIDENTE. NON TANTO DA UN PUNTO DI VISTA DI RESA, QUALITA’ E PULIZIA DEL SUONO, TANTOMENO DA QUELLO DEL RIMPIANTO RETROSPETTIVO E NOSTALGICO , MA SOPRATTUTTO DA QUELLO PIU’ PALPABILE ED INOPPUGNABILE DELL’ ESSENZA, DELL’ ANIMA E DELLA SUBLIMAZIONE CREATIVA. IL DISCO IN VINILE HA PULSAZIONE ARTISTICA, PASSIONE ARMONICA E SPLENDORE GRAFICO , E’ PIACEVOLE DA OSSERVARE E DA TENERE IN MANO, RISPLENDE, PROFUMA E VIBRA DI VITA, DI EMOZIONE E DI SENSIBILITA’. E’ TUTTO QUELLO CHE NON E’ E NON POTRA’ MAI ESSERE IL CD, CHE AL CONTRARIO E’ SOLO UN OGGETTO MERAMENTE COMMERCIALE, POVERO, ARIDO, CINICO, STERILE ED ORWELLIANO, UNA DEGENERAZIONE INDUSTRIALE SCHIZOFRENICA E NECROFILA, LA DESOLANTE SOLUZIONE FINALE DELL’ AVIDITA’ DEL MERCATO E DELL’ ARROGANZA DEI DISCOGRAFICI .
ALEX de GRASSI
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Disco LP 33 giri , 1981, Windham Hill, WH – 1018 , usa
OTTIME CONDIZIONI, vinyl ex++/NM , cover ex++, piccolo taglio orizzontale (1 cm.) nell’ angolo superiore sinistro / short cut in the high left tip .
Alex de Grassi is an American Grammy Award-nominated fingerstyle guitarist.
- Interprete: Alex De Grassi
- Etichetta: Windham Hill Records and tapes
- Catalogo: WH-1018
- Data di pubblicazione: 1981
- Supporto:vinile 33 giri
- Tipo audio: stereo
- Dimensioni: 30 cm.
- Facciate: 2
- Original Windham poly inner sleeve, mailing list brochure included / comprende il depliant di iscrizione alla mailing list allegato
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Personnel
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Early life and influences
Though born in Yokosuka, Japan, de Grassi grew up in San Francisco, California, where his grandfather played violin for the San Francisco Symphony and his father was a classical pianist. At age thirteen he learned to play the trumpet but soon taught himself the guitar, the instrument for which he is now famous. De Grassi has since learned jazz piano with Mark Levine and also studied music under W. A. Mathieu and Bill Thrasher.
Recording career
After earning a degree in Economic Geography from the University of California, Berkeley, de Grassi performed as a street musician in London before learning the carpentry trade from his cousin Will Ackerman who later founded the innovative instrumental record label Windham Hill. De Grassi’s first album, Turning: Turning Back,
was released by Windham Hill Records in 1978. De Grassi also recorded
under RCA/Novus, EarthBeat!, and 33rd Street recordings. In addition,
De Grassi started his own label, Tropo Records, which he now records
under. He performs solo concerts worldwide, holds various guitar
workshops and master classes throughout the year, and performs with the
DeMania Trio, alongside bassist Michael Manring and percussionist Christopher Garcia.
Fellow guitar players consider de Grassi to be among the most virtuosic
living guitarists. Tom Wheeler wrote in Guitar Player Magazine that his
technique is “the kind that shoves fellow pickers to the cliff of
decision: should I practice like a madman or chuck it altogether?”
Guitars
Alex uses various guitars. Currently his primary touring/recording guitars are a custom Lowden
F35c maple with a European spruce top and a custom Traugott R model
Brazilian Rosewood with German Spruce top. Other favorites are a custom
Carlson sympitar (twelve sympathetic strings) maple with spruce top and
a custom McCollum baritone (28″ scale) paduk with Italian spruce top.
