Giuliano Giulio Giacomo Carmassi (born February 21, 1981, in Lucca, Italy) is an Italian multi-instrumentalist.

Music career

Carmassi has performed many different jobs in music: multi-instrumentalist, singer, film composer, arranger, producer, and engineer. He has recorded on the following instruments: bass guitar, bells, cello, clarinet, cornet, drums, flugelhorn, flute, French horn,

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, guitar (electric), horn, keyboards,

melodica The melodica is a handheld free-reed instrument similar to a pump organ or harmonica. It features a musical keyboard on top, and is played by blowing air through a mouthpiece that fits into a hole in the side of the instrument. The keyboard usu ...

, organ, piano, recorder, saxophone (alto), synthesizer, trombone, trumpet,

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, vocals, whistle, and the

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organ. Carmassi has been a member of the Pat Metheny Unity Group and has appeared on the albums '' Kin (←→)'' ( Nonesuch, 2014) and ''

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'' (Nonesuch, 2016). ''Kin'' won album of the year in the annual readers' poll in ''Down Beat'' magazine. Carmassi has worked with Anne Drummond, Bryan Scary, Francois Moutin,

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, Oli Rockberger, Oz Noy,

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, and Tim Lefebvre. He arranged and played piano on

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's album, '' Sentimental Journey''. He worked with British singer

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on the album ''Hey Hello'', which reached No. 1 on the rock music charts in the UK. He played trumpet on

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's album, ''Silhouette'', and Keiko Matsui's album, ''Soul Quest''. He worked as an arranger and multi-instrumentalist on Will Lee's album, ''Love, Gratitude and Other Distractions''. Carmassi composed the score for the movies ''Somewhere Tonight'' starring

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and '' Adventures of Serial Buddies'' starring

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and

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. Carmassi and Bryan Scary composed and performed the score for the 2022 film Please Baby Please starring Andrea Riseborough and Harry Melling.

Discography

* ''Old and New'' (2006) * ''The Train with the Green Curtain'' (2008) * ''Enter to Exit'' (2014) * ''The Innocent'' (2016) * ''A Dream of the House by the Cliff'' (2020) With

Pat Metheny Patrick Bruce Metheny ( ; born August 12, 1954) is an American jazz guitarist and composer. He was the leader of the Pat Metheny Group (1977–2010) and continues to work in various small-combo, duet, and solo settings, as well as other side pr ...

* '' KIN (←→)'' ( Nonesuch, 2014) * ''

'' (Nonesuch, 2016) With others * ''Marco Morandi'', Marco Morandi (2006) * ''Beneath a Balcony'', Marc M. Cogman (Time-Act, 2009) * ''B is for Baroness'', Molly White (2009) * ''Decide'', Walin (Bitemark, 2009) * ''Anthems'', Marc M. Cogman (Last 3 Punks, 2011) * ''Dreams'', Visible from Space (

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, 2012) * ''Silhouette'',

( Shanachie, 2013) * ''Sentimental Journey'',

(

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, 2013) * ''Soul Quest'', Keiko Matsui (Shanachie, 2013) * ''Hey! Hello!'', Hey! Hello! (2013) * ''I Meant It to Be Sweet'', Tommy Wallach (Rude Fox, 2014) * ''Twisted Blues, Vol. 2'', Oz Noy (Abstract Logix, 2014) * ''Dead Measengers'', Marc M. Cogman (Last 3 Punks, 2020)

References

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