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Artist
Born in Palermo (Sicily), his first real involvement in music began in 1976, showing from the very start an interest in archaic wind instruments from all over the world. Founder of the band Agricantus with which he has an intense record and concert activity (10 albums, 4 soundtracks, various compilations, hundred of concerts). He has completed research into ethnomusicology, both with the Sicilian Ethnophonic Archive, the Folkstudio of Palermo, the Institute for Folk Traditions of the University of Palermo, and the Museum of Folk Traditions of Nuoro. In order to deepen his musical research he has visited many regions of the world, Africa, Middle East, Asia Minor and Brasil meeting many musicians, history and atmospheres, making important musical experiences and elaborating musical concepts and compositions. Besides Agricantus productions, he also composes for soundtracks, theatre and dance shows, surrounding sonorizations, developing the multimedia side of his artistic works. As coauthor and interpreter he has participated in various soundtrack and in record productions in the fields of traditional, world and trance music working with artists such as Luis Bacalov, Pivio e Aldo De Scalzi, Trancendental, Andrea Guerra, Enzo Avitabile, Brothers, Giovanni Lo Cascio. His research work continuous during the years with the participation to ON Nomadic Observatory of Rome with which he realizes territorial artistic events and multimedia installations in Sicily and the Mediterran