About this artist
Giovanni Amighetti is an Italian contemporary musician.
He studied classical piano and began playing with avantgarde band Fondamenta and AREA drummer Giulio Capiozzo in late eighties. With the world music boom he started promoting in Italy some of the Real World recording label artists.
His first world music CD production is "No, Russia cannot be perceived by wit" by Terem Quartet, realised by Schott Musik/Intuition in 1999.
Then he worked on many studio and live projects, often collaborating with musicians from Mari Boine Band.
Among others: "Salimie" with Ayub Ogada, "La voce del mondo" with
Tiziana Ghiglioni and "Anastasia" with Vladimir Denissenkov.
He has composed music with Guo Yue for DVD Shan Qi by Ozella Music, 2009.
In 1996 he played with Ayub Ogada in front of an audience of 500.000 by the Colosseum in Rome for FAO
He is an honorary citizen of Santa Cruz, California.
In contemporary music also worked on some solo and Fondamenta projects, with Union Nowhere, on Guido Ponzini's cd "Twilight town" and with the Shan Qi ensemble featuring Chinese flute player Guo Yue. Produced Wu Fei's "A Distant Youth" in 2007, featuring Fred Frith, Carla Kihlstedt and Helge A. Norbakken.
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