Zuffanti, Fabio
Fabio Zuffanti
Fabio Zuffanti was born in Genova (Italy) and is musically active from 1994. In these years he has worked, mainly as bass player and composer in a great number of groups and projects such as Finisterre, Rohmer, LaZona, Hostsonaten, La Maschera Di Cera, Aries... He has composed music that spaced from postrock to progrock, from folk to pop, electronic and experimentation. He has worked with imporant Italian producers such as Roberto Colombo (Battiato, De Andrè, Matia Bazar...) and Franz Di Cioccio (PFM, De Andrè, Battisti...) and his work has been publishd by a lot of different labels. Apart of these projects Fabio composes, produces and records in at the Zerodieci and Marina studios in Genova, he also works as composer for Warner Chappel Music, while his music has been used for a lot of TV commercials, soundtracks, dance performances, etc... He also wrote the rock opera 'Merlin' featured live in Italy and France in 2000-2001 and released a double CD in 2000. In 2007 Fabio began to build a solo project under his name and in the next 2 years he had a few releases such as a CD-EP ('Pioggia E Luce') and a lot of songs featured in various compilations. Zuffanti's solo music is a mix of electronica, songwriter, post-rock, psychedelia and lots of other influences. He loves artists such as Robert Wyatt, Lucio Battisti, Franco Battiato, Thom Yorke and many others. Zuffanti's music contains moods between dream and reality, infuenced by a lot of non-musical factors such as snow, asphalt, rain, mud, wardrobes, fallen leaves, stones, strange novels and the soul of earthquakes... This first solo album is simply entitled 'Fabio Zuffanti.' Zuffanti's solo album is SOLO in the real sense of the word: Fabio has composed, arranged, played, recorded and produced the whole cd on its own. Only the mixing works have been done at Zerodieci studio.