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Artist
Francesco Banchini
12+ albums
folkmedievalworld fusionitalianmystical
about
Francesco Banchini (born 24 September 1974 in Pozzuoli, Campania, Italy) is an Italian folk musician. He had his first contact with music when he was six years old, studying and playing the clarinet with the Band of Pozzuoli. At the age of fourteen he started attending at the Conservatory of S. Pietro a Majella in Naples, where he graduated six years after with the highest grade. Between 1989 and 1995 he had an intense live activity, and participates to various classic music contests, as a soloist, and with a clarinet trio he founded in that period. The musical research of Francesco stimulates the musical contamination and experimentation, trying to blend different musical styles starting from classical music, passing through the medieval one, arriving to ethnic music, and precisely the traditional music of the south of Italy, East Europe, and the Middle East. In 1997 the trio of clarinets under the pseudonym of Dicearchia produced a demo-tape and started playing live. The year after the group breaks up. In the same year Francesco starts playing in various musical therapy gatherings. This experience will be a source of inspiration to research new sounds and musical forms. In 1999 he started collaborating with the group called Ataraxia, playing various instruments in their live concerts. In the same year Francesco and other friends create a musical group that tours and plays in the streets called “Mescla”. Between 1999 and 2000 Francesco is also the artist director of the Me
