Artist: Alex Degrassi
Genre(s):
New Age
Discography:
Southern Exposure
Year:
Tracks: 10
Music has long been a syndicate matter for Alex de Grassi. Though he's principally self-taught as a guitarist, his grandad played fiddle with The San Francisco Symphony and his father was a authoritative piano player. Even more significant ar de Grassi's ties to one of contemporary implemental music's near influential labels: Windham Hill. In addition to his status as one and only of the company's finest and near consistently intriguing artists, de Grassi is literally a member of the Windham Hill kin. After earning a degree in urban geographics from U. C. Berkeley and acting as a street musician in London, he made ends meet by encyclopaedism the woodwork trade from his first cousin Will Ackerman, world Health Organization was but starting a small instrumental record label. De Grassi was bucked up to record his first album, Turning: Turning Back, for the newcomer Windham Hill caller. As it turns out, he had more going for him than good connections. Over the long time, de Grassi has proved to be an advanced guitar player and composer whose mastery of acoustic finger-picking styles has grown to include a variety of other techniques and cultural influences. Though he left field briefly to disk with RCA Novus, de Grassi has since returned to the Windham Hill flock. In the mid '80s, his travels to Bolivia became a major inspiration. He made numerous theater of operations recordings during his visits and get-go incorporated endemic influences from the civilization on his 1987 RCA Novus dismissal Altiplano. His contacts with Bolivia's Contemporary Orchestra of Native Instruments too determine in motion the ensemble's get-go American dismissal Arawl on the New Albion label. De Grassi continued experimenting with different genres and sounds that included guitar lullabies (1996's Beyond the Night Sky), his 1999 album of James Taylor interpretation, and 2000's collaboration with domain music creative person Quique Cruz, Tata Monk. Moving back to solo guitar work, his exploration of American folk music prat be heard on 2003's Now and Then: Folk Songs for the twenty-first Century.
