Pete Dragotta - Morrison MDT - Midi Digital Trumpet, Steiner Midi EVI - Electronic Valved Instrument, Yamaha EZ-AG Midi Guitar, Keyboard. Soft and Hard Synths.
Influences
60's-70's Miles Davis, Lester Bowie, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry, Nils Petter Molvær, Ben Neill, Pat Metheny, Graham Hayes, Aphex Twin, Herb Alpert <-yea, I admit it, Bjork, Chukimai, Y.M.O., Bill Nelson, Art of Noise, Stewart Copland, Frank Zappa, ch00kii, Schoenberg, Henze, Stravinsky, Ligeti, Reich, Glass, John Coltrane, Woody Shaw, Chris Botti, The Blue Nile, Prince, Marc Moulin, Crazy P, Motown, Ray Charles, Lou Rawls, Charles Mingus, Michael Rosenstark, Ken Lampl, Leon Gruenbaum, Alan Watts, H.H. The Dalai Lama,
Sounds Like
Well I would call it Electronica, Trip-Hop, and Jazz with a Rock, Funk, Avant-Garde edge centered around Modal Music with facets of Ethnic Fusion, Ambient, Electro-Acoustic and Techno. Truly, my style is what ever you (the listener) come away with.
The band Pharmacopia sole member Pete Dragotta's main instrument is a trumpet type midi wind controller. For over 10 years he has melded his jazz origins with anything and everything acountic and electric that inspires him. He is a successful and versatile composer/producer. When he is not making what he calls his "personal" music he is scoring music for video and multimedia.
