Musician, Drummer, Francesca Gaza, Kugelförmigkeit, Jazz Whales Records Musician, Drummer, Francesca Gaza, Kugelförmigkeit, Jazz Whales Records

mattia galeotti

I’m Mattia Galeotti and I’m a drummer from Firenzuola, in the mountains between Florence and Bologna. I started to play drums at the music school of my hometown then I went to study jazz drums at the bachelor program of Siena Jazz University, where I graduated last year.

I’m lucky to be the drummer of Francesca Gaza “Kugelförmigkeit”.

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Artist, Composer, Mondial Toboggan, Disco, Electronic, Tashmane Whales Records Artist, Composer, Mondial Toboggan, Disco, Electronic, Tashmane Whales Records

tashmane

If you want to compose like I do (I consider myself as a composer more than an instrumentalist), don’t lie to yourself, don’t try to be someone else, use your memory and musical influences from the beginning of your life until now, put them in a blender and serve us a good (non-alcoholic) cocktail.

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Artist, Francesca Gaza, Jazz, Baroque, Renaissance, Expérimental Whales Records Artist, Francesca Gaza, Jazz, Baroque, Renaissance, Expérimental Whales Records

francesca gaza

What I generally like to have is a direction, or a sort of fil rouge of any kind. It can be a musical motive, or an instrumentation that I particularly like or a text (which might also then not be used, but be there as a sub-text for me). What I generally do is that I start writing and often I feel stuck because my music indicates a pulse and a time very clearly, which I don’t really like often. So what I do, and most of the times helps me out, is to write a choral without using the piano. Just from the skeleton idea of a harmonic or melodic 3/4 voice piano part, I start imagining that it will be sung by 4 voices from Bach’s time. That often gets me out of the "stuck mode”.

What I like to have, is a little notebook with music paper where I write down small ideas, that seem insignificant, and then after a while I open it and often one of the many ideas pops out and feels right to be used.

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