I am a drummer who has fun to compose music

Musician from Seattle, living in Sweden. 

(All music and ideas copyrighted)

Eclectic artist and poly-instrumentalist, Val Bishop explores different genres of music spacing from metal to prog to electronic dark atmospheres and psychedelia....but not only...

Mattia Collalti (born 1983) is an Italian music addict versatile musician(multi instrumentalist). He studied Jazz Drums at the Muziek Academie of Gent, Belgium.

His first contacts with music can be found in his childhood in Rome, when his mother brought him to a percussion class for kids. There he learnt how to have fun with music and got educated in the perception of it, not only on a sound level, but as an emotional and physical experience. He started learning guitar when he was 14, under the influence of his father, and started playing in a Roman local cover band as rhythmic guitar.

He received then a proposal from a friend, challenging him to play drums in a grunge band, where he first got in contact on a deeper level with this instrument. Always studying on his own because of the elitaire status of music in his country (no schools for teenagers, only expensive and not affordable private lessons), when he moved to Belgium at his 23, he found the Muziek Academie in Gent, a great chance to finally begin to study music and become a more skilled musician.

His experience varies in instruments and with drums his styles go from Big Band swing to funk and latin. His passion and curiosity push him always to search a perfect wave when rehearsing. He loves also to dip himself in the world of music production and electronic music, composing, recording and sampling in his home studio. He is now playing in the Big Band of the Muziek Academie of Gent. He also teaches to beginners children the basics of drumming, rudiments and grooves. He started now this project, scotch in da cloud, in which he mainly posts his experience with electronic music and similar.

He lives now in Brussel, where the city scene gives him inspiration for his music, keeping focus on his research.

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