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Improvisor, guitar·s player, composer, Andrea Bazzicalupo has been active in the field of creative music, improvisation and contemporary music since 2005.
As a kid, he got music virus when he discovered blues and grunge– from that moment on, a yearn for playing, in the purest and most joyful sense, leads him to explore and get involved in a vast range of musical idioms and sonic territories.
AB has played with a large number of groups and projects across Europe, performing in many clubs, venues, festivals and alternative spaces.
With roots in alternative-rock and a wide palette of black-American music– essentially self-taught and always seeking multiple contexts- AB is on an experimental life journey shaping ideas, skills- and crafting motley methods of expression, which feature a distinctive sonic sensibility and a strong physical yet emotional approach.
Nowadays, AB works actively playing and composing- his activities currently span creative new music, research, experimentation, improvisational/compositional settings, sound art and writings- plus collaborations and exchanges within communities.
He draws inspiration from observation of the world, from every type of life and sound, and loves to dedicate himself to a musical investigation as open and multifaceted as possible, using improvisation as a creative technology.
AB uses guitar·s -both acoustic and electric-, in a way which he likes to call “multi-idiomatic”, featuring a merge of peculiar ways of playing with an open-ended palette of extended techniques, gestures, inventions and preparations- thinking the guitar as a generator of sounds. Part of the work is also just focused on rather simple objects which have nevertheless specific sonic characteristics, aiming to create and to express new and interesting sound material- for his ear. On the other hand, he explores the only use of electronics and synthetic/processed sounds.
AB has performed beside Alessia Obino, François Rossé, Michele Anelli, Albert Cirera, Joni Sigil, Jean-Marc Baccarini, Axel Filip, Christian Pruvost, Vera Morais, Alan Wilkinson– among others. He has played at CPH Jazz Festival, Aarhus Jazz Festival, Hamburg Silk-Road, VinterJazz, Théâtre National-TNN, Nocturna Discordia Bcn, Festival de Saint Raphael, Sunset-Sunside, NiceJazzFestival, Bruitkasten, DATA, FlimFlam London, Mayhem Kbh, Spazio Lomellini, Huset-Biograf, Zaal 100, Metro Core.
Besides music, his interests also include literature, poetry, anthropology and, since childhood, nature.
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