Artist: Alex De Grassi
Genre(s):
New Age
Discography:
Now and Then
Year: 2003
Tracks: 11
Tata Monk
Year: 2000
Tracks: 8
The Music Of James Taylor
Year: 1999
Tracks: 10
Interpretation Of Simon and Garfunkel
Year: 1999
Tracks: 10
Bolivian Blues Bar
Year: 1999
Tracks: 12
The Water Garden
Year: 1998
Tracks: 10
The World's Getting Loud
Year: 1993
Tracks: 10
A Windham Hill Retrospective
Year: 1992
Tracks: 15
Altiplano
Year: 1987
Tracks: 8
Southern Exposure
Year: 1983
Tracks: 10
Deep At Night
Year: 1983
Tracks: 10
Clockwork
Year: 1981
Tracks: 8
Slow Circle
Year: 1979
Tracks: 9
Turning, Turning Back
Year: 1978
Tracks: 10
Music has long been a kin matter for Alex de Grassi. Though he's in the first place self-taught as a guitarist, his grandad played violin with The San Francisco Symphony and his father was a classical piano player. Even more significant ar de Grassi's ties to one of contemporaneous implemental music's virtually influential labels: Windham Hill. In addition to his status as unmatchable of the company's finest and virtually systematically intriguing artists, de Grassi is literally a penis of the Windham Hill kin group. After earning a degree in urban geographics from U. C. Berkeley and performing as a street musician in London, he made ends meet by encyclopaedism the woodwork barter from his cousin Will Ackerman, wHO was just starting a small instrumental record tag. De Grassi was encouraged to record his first album, Turning: Turning Back, for the fledgeling Windham Hill company. As it turns kO'd, he had more going for him than good connections. Over the years, de Grassi has proven to be an advanced guitar player and composer whose mastery of acoustic finger-picking styles has adult to include a change of other techniques and ethnic influences. Though he left briefly to record with RCA Novus, de Grassi has since returned to the Windham Hill fold. In the mid '80s, his travels to Bolivia became a major inspiration. He made numerous subject area recordings during his visits and start incorporated indigenous influences from the culture on his 1987 RCA Novus acquittance Altiplano. His contacts with Bolivia's Contemporary Orchestra of Native Instruments too arrange in motion the ensemble's start American acquittance Arawl on the New Albion mark. 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 cosmos music artist Quique Cruz, Tata Monk. Moving gage to solo guitar work, his exploration of American kinsfolk music tin be heard on 2003's Now and Then: Folk Songs for the twenty-first Century.
