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Vince Carpentieri was born in Naples in 1976. In 1989 he started studying classical guitar at the San Pietro Conservatory in Majella where he qualified in solfeggio. At the beginning of the 90’s, influenced by the guitar fever of those years, he changed to the electric guitar, entrusting his learning to various teachers and in particular to Umberto Fiorentino. In 1999 he decided to move to Los Angeles in order to attend the Musicians Institute (G.I.T.), where he was awarded a Professional Honours diploma. It was in the United States that Vince started his professional career with the help of such musicians as Scott Henderson, Daniel Gilbert, Ross Bolton and Jean Mark Belkadi, pillars of his musical formation and an important part of his musical influences. From 2000 to 2001 his guitar accompanied the singer/songwriter Jenny Vella on her Italian tour, “Angeli a Meta’”. At the same time he collaborated for ten editions of the guitar magazine, “AXE Magazine”. In 2002 he won a prize for Best Guitarist in a national competition for new groups called “New Generation”, organised by the governmental department for Political Youth of Castelfidardo (AN). Read the rest of this entry »

Insout is a creative music duo formed in 2000 by two great friends: Claudio Allia (composer and producer) and Riccardo Samperi (composer, producer and sound engineer) with the only intent to express their own visions and inner emotions, through the exploration of several sonic directions. “Our artistic influences vary from Magritte and Dalì paintings to Mediterranian etno /folk music, rock and blues, electronic music, funk, jazz and classical; from J.S. Bach to Dreamtheater, from Thelonious Monk to Orbital.”

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Maurizio Metalli is a keyboard player, composer and arranger. He started to study piano at the age of 7 and grew up to the sound of the 70’s symphonic progressive rock bands - Genesis, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Yes, Jethro Tull, Gentle Giant - as well as fusion, jazz-rock bands and artists such as Yellow Jackets, Spyro Gyra, Jeff Lorber, Larry Carlton, Dave Grusin, Gino Vannelli.

He started to work as session man at the age of 20, also appearing in several italian broadcasts on RAI (italian national television) such as Discoring, Domenica In and others. Widely-known as the keyboard player for the italian progressive rock band “Formula 3″ (with Alberto Radius and Tony Cicco), for many years Maurizio has been touring and appearing on national TVs (RAI and Mediaset): La vita in diretta, Taratata’, Sanremo Estate, Sarabanda etc and working in studio recordings: “La Formula 3 a Sarabanda” (1998) and “La folle corsa” (2000).
He has worked as arranger for Vincenzo Incenzo (songwriter, Michele Zarrillo, Renato Zero, PFM), appearing in the famous italian TV broadcast “Help” (TMC2, 1999).
He has toured with Little Tony, Nadia Cassini, Luca Sardella and has made jingles and music for advertising and documentaries for national TVs (RAI and Mediaset).
He recently released instrumental music for “Xis Chillout Compilations” (Portugal, 2005) and recorded for Filippa Giordano (www.filippagiordano.net) in the “Primadonna” album that won the Gold Disc in Japan (2005) and in Mexico (2006).

He’s planning to record a solo album in the next future…

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