world music & dance.
An italian born multi-instrumentalist, ethno-musicologist, composer, arranger and producer in several musical fields including medieval, mediterranean, oriental, world, ethno-electro and improvised music.
After playing with Rock and Jazz bands since the age of 13, he has studied extra-european traditional and classical music for several years at the Conservatory of Music in Marrakech (Morocco) and at the Benares Hindu University in Varanasi (India), and has performed extensively in Europe, in the USA, in Canada, in the middle East, in Africa and Asia. He has composed for the theatre, the ballet, for films and fashion show and recorded over 25 CD's.
He lives in Ubud, Bali since 2006, performing and working in his home-studio on personal World Music projects that combine the « sampling » computer based, electronic music production of today with the acoustic sound of traditional ethnic instruments of the oriental world.