Alex Carpani is a versatile composer with a repertory ranging from progressive rock to classical music, from electronic music to music for films/video to electro-jazz, from music & poetry to jazz-rock.
Part of his catalogue has been self-produced, while part has been produced by American indipendent label CypherArts.
Italian-French composer Alex Carpani was born in Montreux (Switzerland) in 1970 of an Italian father and a French mother. At the age of 6 he gave clear signs of a particular inclination for music, starting playing electronic organ and taking his first lessons of solfeggio and music theory. Later he passed to piano and composition.
He was gifted of an ear for music that his first music teachers defined "out of the ordinary", but his musical education has been mostly a self-taught one. He constantly refused to enter in a conservatorium and to follow an "academic" musical education.
He took a graduation in Musicology at the University of Bologna, he specialized in "music for film" at the C.E.T. (a famous Italian school of music) in Central Italy, as well as in "sound engineering" with top Italian sound technicians at the Arte Scenica Foundation in Bologna. He's also been awarded in several Italian and international composition prizes.
From all these training and forming experiences, he acquired the tools and knowledge to become an indipendent artist and to be able to produce his own music, taking care of all the artistic and technical aspects of a project: composition, arrangment, recording, mastering, web promotion, etc.
Alex Carpani is a versatile composer with a repertory ranging from progressive rock to classical music, from electronic music to new age, from music for films/videos to electro-jazz, from music & poetry to jazz-rock.
The meeting with Keith Emerson at the age of 7 has been fundamental in his musical formation: Emerson's son Aaron was a classmate of Alex in his parents' college in Switzerland. From this moment, the progressive rock and the love for keyboards became part of his life, influencing his style and his following music experiences.
In 1990, at the age of 20, he formed the instrumental duo Gemini with another keyboardist and composer, starting to compose intensely and in a continuous way. Gemini recorded two concept albums: "Polychromie" and "States of Mind from a Surrealist Existence" with a mix of new age, Renaissance melodies and ballads and progressive rock. The duo made also several concerts in italy in which music, videos, dance and scenographies were mixed together.
One of their pieces, "Gentle Ballad", has been included in a compilation LP distributed in Italy. Despite of the interest of the listeners and the producers, the duo disbanded in 1992 because of soloist projects that started to overlap, just before the recording of the third album, that remained unaccomplished. However, some tracks have been re-arranged by Alex Carpani and have been included in his first solo album "Hypothesis" in 1993.
Later, the meeting with Mogol (the best Italian lyrics writer, author of Lucio Battisti's greatest hits) in 1994, when Alex has been selected to enter in Mogol's top level music career school, has been basic for him as well. There he studied with some great film composers and started writing symphonic and orchestral music.
From 2000 his attention has been mainly focused on the following genres:
1) Progressive rock: this genre has always influenced and inspired him, maybe because of the "magic" encounter he had with Keith Emerson when he was a child... In 2005 he signed a contract with Cypher Arts, an American indipendent label that will publish and distribute his prog albums.;
2) Electronic music: he composed several electronic albums and has been performing multimedia concerts with fractal animations and slides; he has also been reviewed on the Italian electronic music webzine "21st Century Music" in 2004;
3) Music for theatre and multimedia: he composed the music for a multimedia theatre show called "Il Ritorno" (The Return) written by Filippo Finardi and represented in an historical theatre of Bologna, the music for the multimedia theatre show "Cerco un paese innocente" (Looking for an innocent country), directed by Sandra Cavallini and represented in Bologna, the original soundtrack of a short film called "Passaggi" (Passages) directed by Dario Marzola, the original soundtrack of a promotional DVD of CMAS (an international diving association), that has been distributed all over the world and the original soundtrack of a short film dedicated to the "Caritas" House of Piacenza, Italy, directed by Giorgia Scalia.
Alex Carpani lives in Bologna, a nice historical city of about 400.000 inhabitants in northern Italy. He speaks three languages (Italian, French and English) and has got a true passion for cinema, computer music, vintage synthesizers and modern & contemporary art.
Besides being a composer he's the manager of the culture department in a municipality near Bologna.
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Once again the spiders spark a fire of despair, depression, anguish and hate. 15 tracks provide a disturbing insight into moral depths of human being – lost souls trapped in a spiderweb.
Ciao ragazzi, gran bel sound progressivo. Benvenuti fra gli amici più progressivi dello Stivale! Date un'occhiata al nostro forum ufficiale http://progressivecorner.forumfree.net/ e presentate la vostra band nella sezione "Band che faranno storia"... Noi offriamo un supporto per scambiare date con le migliori prog-band della vostra zona, col progetto ultimo di organizzare Prog-festival in giro per l'Italia. Ogni proposta sarà ben accetta!! Che il progresso sia con voi!!
Ciao Alex, piacere di conoscerti finalmente, Davide mi ha sempre parlato molto bene di te e devo dire che non aveva affatto torto! Complimenti per la tournèe, veramente bella! A presto!
helloooooooo just stopping by to say whats up and to see how you're doing :) and btw, I wrote a new blog today, if you have time to read it, check it out and let me know whatcha think!
Hej ALEX CARPANI, På fredag kör ZODIAC MINDWARP och BADMOUTH över Harry B. James. Det vore hur kul som helst om du kunde komma! Håll er gärna uppdaterade om BADMOUTH på vår sida. Riktigt stora saker är på gång. Var med från starten! =)
Complimenti. Una musica di ricerca con raffinatezza. Vi invito a visitare il mio "art oriented" unico nel suo genere, studio di registrazione analogico vicino a Vicenza. Buona musica e prospero 2009. Mike 3rd owner of Prosdocimi Recording.
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Italian-French composer Alex Carpani was born in Montreux (Switzerland) in 1970 of an Italian father and a French mother. At the age of 6 he gave clear signs of a particular inclination for music, starting playing electronic organ and taking his first lessons of solfeggio and music theory. Later he passed to piano and composition.
He was gifted of an ear for music that his first music teachers defined "out of the ordinary", but his musical education has been mostly a self-taught one. He constantly refused to enter in a conservatorium and to follow an "academic" musical education.
He took a graduation in Musicology at the University of Bologna, he specialized in "music for film" at the C.E.T. (a famous Italian school of music) in Central Italy, as well as in "sound engineering" with top Italian sound technicians at the Arte Scenica Foundation in Bologna. He's also been awarded in several Italian and international composition prizes.
From all these training and forming experiences, he acquired the tools and knowledge to become an indipendent artist and to be able to produce his own music, taking care of all the artistic and technical aspects of a project: composition, arrangment, recording, mastering, web promotion, etc.
Alex Carpani is a versatile composer with a repertory ranging from progressive rock to classical music, from electronic music to new age, from music for films/videos to electro-jazz, from music & poetry to jazz-rock.
The meeting with Keith Emerson at the age of 7 has been fundamental in his musical formation: Emerson's son Aaron was a classmate of Alex in his parents' college in Switzerland. From this moment, the progressive rock and the love for keyboards became part of his life, influencing his style and his following music experiences.
In 1990, at the age of 20, he formed the instrumental duo Gemini with another keyboardist and composer, starting to compose intensely and in a continuous way. Gemini recorded two concept albums: "Polychromie" and "States of Mind from a Surrealist Existence" with a mix of new age, Renaissance melodies and ballads and progressive rock. The duo made also several concerts in italy in which music, videos, dance and scenographies were mixed together.
One of their pieces, "Gentle Ballad", has been included in a compilation LP distributed in Italy. Despite of the interest of the listeners and the producers, the duo disbanded in 1992 because of soloist projects that started to overlap, just before the recording of the third album, that remained unaccomplished. However, some tracks have been re-arranged by Alex Carpani and have been included in his first solo album "Hypothesis" in 1993.
Later, the meeting with Mogol (the best Italian lyrics writer, author of Lucio Battisti's greatest hits) in 1994, when Alex has been selected to enter in Mogol's top level music career school, has been basic for him as well. There he studied with some great film composers and started writing symphonic and orchestral music.
From 2000 his attention has been mainly focused on the following genres:
1) Progressive rock: this genre has always influenced and inspired him, maybe because of the "magic" encounter he had with Keith Emerson when he was a child... In 2005 he signed a contract with Cypher Arts, an American indipendent label that will publish and distribute his prog albums.;
2) Electronic music: he composed several electronic albums and has been performing multimedia concerts with fractal animations and slides; he has also been reviewed on the Italian electronic music webzine "21st Century Music" in 2004;
3) Music for theatre and multimedia: he composed the music for a multimedia theatre show called "Il Ritorno" (The Return) written by Filippo Finardi and represented in an historical theatre of Bologna, the music for the multimedia theatre show "Cerco un paese innocente" (Looking for an innocent country), directed by Sandra Cavallini and represented in Bologna, the original soundtrack of a short film called "Passaggi" (Passages) directed by Dario Marzola, the original soundtrack of a promotional DVD of CMAS (an international diving association), that has been distributed all over the world and the original soundtrack of a short film dedicated to the "Caritas" House of Piacenza, Italy, directed by Giorgia Scalia.
Alex Carpani lives in Bologna, a nice historical city of about 400.000 inhabitants in northern Italy. He speaks three languages (Italian, French and English) and has got a true passion for cinema, computer music, vintage synthesizers and modern & contemporary art.
Besides being a composer he's the manager of the culture department in a municipality near Bologna.
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