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Marco Cappelli

Marco Cappelli was born in Naples and studied classical guitar at the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia in Rome, then in Basel, where he took the Konzert-Diplom with Oscar Ghiglia. Active since the mid-1990s in contemporary music, improvisation and jazz, he co-founded Ensemble Dissonanzen and leads the Marco Cappelli Acoustic Trio (formed 2009), Italian Surf Academy and IDR-Italian Doc Remix. He lives in New York and teaches at Columbia University. He has worked with Marc Ribot, Elliott Sharp, Butch Morris and Enrico Rava. Les Nuages en France (2011) is the Acoustic Trio album inspired by Fred Vargas.

Marco Cappelli was born in Naples and studied classical guitar at the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia in Rome, then in Basel, where he took the Konzert-Diplom with Oscar Ghiglia. Active since the mid-1990s in contemporary music, improvisation and jazz, he co-founded Ensemble Dissonanzen and leads the Marco Cappelli Acoustic Trio (formed 2009), Italian Surf Academy and IDR-Italian Doc Remix. He lives in New York and teaches at Columbia University. He has worked with Marc Ribot, Elliott Sharp, Butch Morris and Enrico Rava. Les Nuages en France (2011) is the Acoustic Trio album inspired by Fred Vargas.

Derek Bailey Tribute Band
*2023 stock* "For Derek Bailey, improvisation was an end unto itself. He considered the artistic practice to be so sacrosanct that he almost viewed recording as a perversion. Why preserve for posterity a musical act that is meant to be experienced in the moment? Fortunately for us, the most unique improviser to ever strike against six strings has left behind plenty of recordings for us to puzzle over, thanks in large part to percussionist Andrea Centazzo’s label Ictus. One particular record, Dro…
In the Shadows of No Towers (Art Spiegelman)
Multimedia adaptation of Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No Towers by guitarist Marco Cappelli, narrated by John Turturro in English and Enzo Salomone in Italian, with music by Sintax Error and video art by Anne Rothschild.
Les Nuages en France
Suite by guitarist Marco Cappelli inspired by the characters of Fred Vargas's detective novels, played by the Marco Cappelli Acoustic Trio with Ken Filiano on double bass and Satoshi Takeishi on percussion.
Italian Surf Academy : The American Dream
Italian guitarist Marco Cappelli's take on Spaghetti Western music and 1960s surf sound as the Italian Surf Academy, with Luca Lo Bianco on bass, Francesco Cusa on drums and guest voice Gaia Mattiuzzi, plus a cover of Secret Agent Man.
Italian Surf Academy : Barbarella Reloaded
Italian Surf Academy, led by guitarist Marco Cappelli, reworks the 1968 film soundtrack of Barbarella by Bob Crewe and Charles Fox, recorded in Paris in 2013, post-produced by JD Foster and mastered by Brian Brandt and Paul Howells.
Extreme Guitar Project
First recordings of ten guitar pieces commissioned by Marco Cappelli from New York Downtown composers including Marc Ribot, Ikue Mori, Elliott Sharp and Otomo Yoshihide, played on an amplified classical guitar with sympathetic strings and MIDI control.
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