Giuliano Modarelli (born 1977) is a

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, composer and producer from Italy.

Biography

Born in

Milan Milan ( , , ; ) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, the largest city in Italy by urban area and the List of cities in Italy, second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of nea ...

in 1977, he moved to England in 2000 where he attended

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. After receiving his Bachelor in jazz music in 2003 he became a full-time musician and started playing with bands like Sawa Teen, Raga Nova and Nshwa with which he played in important festivals such as

Bestival Bestival was a four-day music festival held in the south of England. The name Bestival is a portmanteau of the words best and festival. It had been held annually in the late summer since 2004 at Robin Hill on the Isle of Wight. In 2017 the festi ...

and Moor Music Festival and on BBC Radio. In these years he became interested in Indian music and he started studying it with the Indian sitar master Dharambir Singh, sarod maestros Buddhadev Dasgupta and Prattyush Bannerjee. He is the founder of the fusion collective Samay and the award-winning ensemble

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with which he has been invited to participate in international festivals like the

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, Music Port Festival and radio and television shows on BBC 1/2/3/6 and Asian Network and Doordarshan TV UK. In 2008, with famous tabla player

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, he composed music for

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films ''

Little Zizou ''Little Zizou'' is a 2008 Indian drama film written and directed by Sooni Taraporevala. ''Little Zizou'' is a comedy about how two battling Mumbai families finally come to terms. ''Little Zizou'' won the "Rajat Kamal" of 'National Film Award ...

'' and ''The Diamond Murders''. In the same year he toured India with Ghosh and percussionist

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supporting a musical performance called "East meets West" that made him appear in many Indian national TV programs.

Discography

;Albums

Solo

* ''Englobed'' - 2012 Manush Records

Sawa Teen

* ''Sawa Teen'' – 2004

Samay

* ''Songs for a Global Journey'' – 2008

Bickram Ghosh Bickram Ghosh is an Indian classical tabla player. Early life Ghosh started learning tabla from his father, Pandit Shankar Ghosh. Career Ghosh has performed with Ali Akbar Khan and Pandit Ravi Shankar. Ghosh's band, Rhythmscape, which perf ...
&
Pete Lockett Pete Lockett is an English percussionist and recording artist. He retired from performance and commercial recording in 2022. Lockett is known as a versatile and prolific percussionist, collaborating with many artists. He is well-versed in percuss ...

*''Kingdom of Rhythm'' - 2008

Kefaya Kefaya ( ''kefāya'', , "enough") is the unofficial moniker of the Egyptian Movement for Change ( ''el-Haraka el-Masreyya men agl el-Taghyeer''), a grassroots coalition which prior to the 2011 revolution drew its support from across Egypt's po ...

*''Radio International'' - 2016 *''Songs of our Mothers'' - 2019

Sarathy Korwar

* ''Day to Day'' - 2016 Ninja Tune

Olcay Bayir

* ''Ruya'' - 2019 ARC Music

Soundtracks

* ''

'' – 2008 * ''The Diamond murders'' – 2008 * ''Naga The Ethernal Yogi'' - 2016 (composer)Giuliano Modarelli on IMDb
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References

External links

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Kefaya on Discogs
{{DEFAULTSORT:Modarelli, Giuliano 1977 births Living people Italian musicians Lead guitarists Italian jazz guitarists Italian male guitarists Jazz fusion guitarists Musicians from Milan 21st-century Italian guitarists 21st-century Italian male musicians Italian male jazz musicians