Website: http://www.alexcarpani.com

• Alex Carpani - keyboards, vocals & visuals
• Ettore Salati - guitars
• Marco Fabbri - drums
• Fabiano Spiga - bass, acoustic guitar & vocals

Alex Carpani is a versatile composer and his repertory ranges from progressive rock to classical music, from electronic music to new age, from music for films/video to electro-jazz, from music & poetry to jazz-rock.

The meeting with Keith Emerson at the age of 7 has been fundamental in his musical formation: Emerson's son Aaron was a classmate of Alex in his parents'' college in Switzerland. From this moment, the progressive rock and the love for keyboards became part of his life, influencing his style and his following music experiences.

In 1990, at the age of 20, he formed the instrumental duo Gemini with another keyboardist and composer, starting to compose intensely and in a continuous way. Gemini recorded two concept albums: "Polychromie" and "States of Mind from a Surrealist Existence" with a mix of new age, Renaissance melodies and ballads and progressive rock. The duo made also several concerts in italy in which music, videos, dance and scenographies were mixed together.

Later, the meeting with Mogol (the best Italian lyrics writer, author of Lucio Battisti''s greatest hits) in 1994, when Alex has been selected to enter in Mogol''s top level music career school, has been basic for him as well. There he studied with some great film composers and started writing symphonic and orchestral music.

From 2000 his attention has been mainly focused on the following genres:

• electronic music: he composed several electronic albums and has been performing multimedia concerts with fractal animations and slides; he also has been reviewed on the Italian electronic music webzine "21st Century Music" in 2004;
• music & poetry: he composed a 3cds-trilogy inspired by the poems of Edoardo Sanguineti, one of the greates Italian living poets, and 2 albums inspired by the poems of Filippo Finardi, another Italian poet and writer; in both cases, the music has been composed starting from the recorded voice of the poet reading his poems;
• music for theatre and multimedia: he composed the music for a multimedia theatre show called "Il Ritorno" (The Return) written by Filippo Finardi and represented in an historical theatre of Bologna; another multimedia theatre show has been "Cerco un paese innocente" (Looking for an innocent country), directed by Sandra Cavallini and represented in Bologna as well; he also wrote the music of a short film called "Passaggi" (Passages) directed by Dario Marzola as well as the original soundtrack of a promotional DVD of CMAS (an international diving association), that has been distributed all over the world.
• - progressive rock: this genre has always influenced and inspired him, maybe because of the "magic" encounter he had with Keith Emerson when he was a child... In 2005 he signed a contract with Cypher Arts, an American indipendent label that will publish and distribute his prog albums.

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