Roberto Pentassuglia Trio
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Pensasonic



Pensasonic è un disco in trio di modern jazz di Roberto Pentassuglia alla sua prima prova discografica come band leader e autore anche se il chitarrista italiano vanta collaborazioni con innumerevoli artisti in svariati contesti e generi.

Il titolo dell’album, Pensasonic, è un gioco di parole tra il cognome del musicista, i suoni che escono dalla sua chitarra e la volontà di fermare il pensiero trasformandolo in musica. Le dissonanze disseminate nei dieci brani perlopiù melodici  immergono l’ascoltatore in un mondo surreale da cui è difficile distaccarsi.

Pensasonic è il frutto della collaborazione di Roberto Pentassuglia alla chitarra ed effetti con Andrea Colella al contrabasso e Giampaolo Scatozza alla batteria ed elettronica. Il trio condivide da tempo l’esigenza di comunicare l’amore per la musica improvvisata.


Info:  www.robertopentassuglia.it

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Triad

Raoul Björkenheim - guitars
Ville Rauhala - double bass
Ilmari Heikinheimo - drums & percussion


Raoul Björkenheim Triad's aptly-titled debut CD “Beyond”(not existing on Soundcloud) was released in 2017, staking a fresh claim on how energy can be transformed into music. Built on Raoul Björkenheim and Ilmari Heikinheimo’s previous duo explorations, Ville Rauhala joined them in 2013, forming Triad. Since then the trio has played all over Finland, most recently engaging in an eight-date tour last December (2017).

Raoul Björkenheim’s innovative guitar playing first appeared in 1985 on Edward Vesala’s “Bad Luck, Good Luck”, featuring Tomasz Stanko and Juhani Aaltonen. The drummer’s seminal album two years later on ECM, “Lumi”, brought him to the attention of the global jazz community and led to recordings on that label for Krakatau, a finnish folk-free-metal-jazz quartet which avidly toured Finland and Europe during the 90’s. Björkenheim subsequently lived for eight years in New York City where he made many new connections, recording and performing with artists like Bill Laswell, Paul Schütze, Toshinori Kondo, Mats Gustafsson, Lukas Ligeti, Hamid Drake and William Parker.

Ville Rauhala began playing the bass in his teens and has performed professionally since 1994, his first groups including blues and jazz influenced Groovy Eyes and Hot Pants as well as the roots rock group Stringbeans. Rauhala’s intense bass playing is deliriously infectuous, and his robust grooves and sensitive lyrical approach make him one of the most versatile bassists in the country. His dedication is matched by the members of Black Motor, the well-established trio from Tampere for which Rauhala is best known.

Ilmari Heikinheimo combines polyrythmical and rubato phrasing in his explosively dynamic and lyrical style, bringing melodic dimensions to his drumming, as well as a keen sense of tonal color . He has worked with many major figures in the finnish progressive jazz/improv scene, with the likes of Juhani Aaltonen and Jimi Tenor. His playing has previously been documented in the re-incarnation of Edward Vesala Sound & Fury’s album “Pulsacion”.

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Musician, guitarist, composer, educator.
I play and compose with Yellow Squeeds (Lento Zanisi Benedetti Morello), Oliphantre (martial, Tamborrino), Wearing 4 (Bigoni Diodati Delbecq Arguelles), Tell Kujira (Guerri Michelangeli Calderano) Floors (Vignato Ponticelli), MAT (Allulli Baron), Majestic Jinks. I also join some great bands, Matteo Bortone Travelers, Julian Pontvianne Abhra, and I collaborate with Italian legends Enrico Rava, Paolo Fresu. 
I recorded my latest albums for Auand Records, Tuk Music and with Enrico Rava for ECM.

Guitarist William Ghezzi has performed extensively with orchestras, chamber ensembles, choruses, dance companies, in theater and opera, and for films, radio and television. He has appeared with the Montpelier Chamber Orchestra, the Harry Partch Ensemble, the Philadelphia Guitar Ensemble, and in many other solo and chamber music settings. Mr. Ghezzi can be heard on Spotify, iTunes, Amazon, and YouTube Music his videos can be seen on YouTube, Vimeo, and Instagram. His latest recording, Telemann: Fantasias for Viola da Gamba, is available on all major streaming services.

​Currently Ghezzi is working on a project to transcribe, record and perform a selection of Fantasias by Georg Philipp Telemann originally composed for viola da gamba.  Only recently rediscovered, these pieces are a new addition to the guitar repertoire

He has commissioned numerous solo and chamber music compositions for himself, the Newman/Ghezzi Guitar Duo, the Baxter/Ghezzi Flute & Guitar Duo and the Philadelphia Guitar Ensemble including works by Robert Maggio, Laurie MacGregor, Kile Smith, Robert Capanna, and Jan Krzywicki. Currently Ghezzi is working with composer Paul A. Epstein to transcribe a selection of his piano compositions for guitar. 

Ghezzi's arrangement of "Morceau de Concours" for flute and guitar by Gabriel Fauré was selected as a finalist in the Newly Published Music Competition of the National Flute Association and is published by Trillenium Music Company. His other publications include "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme" for voice, flute and guitar by J.S. Bach, "Guitarbooks I and II: Early Repertoire for Classical Guitar", "Four Chanson: for High Voice and Guitar" by Gabriel Fauré and "Suite no.6" by J.S. Bach originally for cello.
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​Ghezzi holds a music degree from Temple University, College of Music where he studied with Peter Segal and Anna Kotsaranko. He has studied privately with Phillip de Fremery, Eliot Fisk and Vladimir Mikulka. He has been on the music faculties of Temple University, Chestnut Hill College, and Settlement Music School in Philadelphia. Mr. Ghezzi lives in West Lebanon, New Hampshire. Currently, he is giving private guitar instruction at all levels from his home.

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