Artist: Antonio Ragosta
Title: Il mare e l’incanto a Roma Est
Cat Number: SLAMCD540
Year released: 2012
Format: CD & all digital platforms
Barcode: 5028386054023
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The debut album from Italian guitarist/composer Antonio Ragosta, who takes you on a unique voyage across nine original songs composed and arranged by himself.
The wide range of influences characterise his compositions; jazz, classical music, John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix and the distorted sounds of the popular music of the Mediterranean.
Antonio Ragosta: electric guitar, Portuguese guitar
Tony Cattano: trombone
Paolo Damiani: cello
Emiliano Pallotti: accordion
Irene Angelino: flute
Stefano Napoli: contrabass
Pasquale Angelini: drums
“Ragosta is a gifted guitarist with an elegant, Pat Metheny-like tone. Ragosta likes to use those volume pedal or pinky swirls on his guitar and often creates lush harmonies for the trombone and cello…The album’s title alludes to an ideal universe from which he draws on for his creations. The sea represents places of his childhood, on the other hand his enchantment is a discovery of the possibility to artistically express himself in a dimension where all his past ways seem to focus in the places where the album has taken its final artistic form, or the crowded and multi-ethnic streets in the Eastern zone of the Italian capital.” – Bruce Lee Gallanter, Downtown Music Gallery
All music by Antonio Ragosta (except “Invisibile” by Paolo Damiani)
Recording in February 2011 at Studio Icarus, Rome, Italy
Mixed by by Sandro Marcotulli and Pasquale Minieri at Studio Elettra in Calvi dell’Umbria (TR), Italy
Mastered by Carmine Simeone and Marcello Spiridioni