Alessandro Magnanini

I used to be a 6 feet tall composer-guitarist-producer, lazy enough to think that music would have been an excellent alternative to getting a job. I couldn’t be wronger: over the years I found music is an excellent alternative to mostly *anything*, but also a pretty challenging and hard discipline, and if you disagree with that, it means you never tried to write a drop 2 B flat aug 5th chord for strings while a singer is screaming mad in your ears. I met some great, ok or bad musicians on my way (but I’ve always had great time making music!) until I stomped on a decent hit in 2007 putting together a song for my mate Mario Biondi’s great soul voice. The song was “This is what you are”, and if you live in the good old Europe maybe you heard it. The subsequent tour brought me inspiration for my first solo album, “Someway still I do” (Schema Rec), a collection of songs written in a “pop” mood but arranged in the style of the great composers of the past (Ennio Morricone, Henry Mancini, Claus Ogerman, well, you know, all those guys). The attitude grown on my love for certain “retrò” sounds applied to contemporary production helped me a lot also in co-working with another famous friend of mine, the talented italian singer-songwriter Cesare Cremonini. Actually I’m working on new songs and performing my music live with a bunch of awesome musicians (Luca Mannutza, Pietro Ciancaglini, Paolo Benedettini, Pasquale Bardaro, Alle Lugli, Alberto Carrà, Stefania Rava, Jenny B, Renata Tosi, God Bless you, my friends). My task in the big picture is to keep writing music i like with musicians i like, knowing that people keeps making sex while my songs are blowing their speakers. And if I will fail, what the heck, I’m still 6 feet tall.