Simone Basile

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Simone Basile is an Italian guitarist born in Taranto on 09/08/1990, Puglia, Italy, and now living in Florence.

In 2017 he was identified among the Italian jazz talents at the national competition "Chicco Bettinardi" in Piacenza.

In 2018 he released "Time," a trio album with the collaboration of Marco Valeri on drums and Francesco Angiuli on double bass.

The album was presented in festivals such as: “Fara Music Festival”(opening for Enrico Rava's quartet), "Jazz In'It" in Vignola, "JazzMi" (Milan) 2018, "Strings city" in Florence, "Il jazz italiano per le terre del sisma" (Italian jazz for the earthquake lands) in Amatrice, “JazzMi” (Milan) 2019, Empoli Jazz, Mantova Jazz Young, etc... . .

"Time" got several reviews and interviews in Italian magazines and blogs.

In 2021 he released "Wes or No, a tribute to Wes Montgomery" with the collaboration of Manrico Seghi on hammond and Giovanni Paolo Liguori on drums.

In September 2022 he released "Morning Raga," a concept album published by EMME RECORD LABEL featuring Manuel Caliumi on sax, Enzo Carniel on piano, Ferdinando Romano on double bass and Giovanni Paolo Liguori on drums.

After presenting the record at various festivals such as: Fara Music Festival, Ancona Jazz Festival, Firenze Jazz Festival, Valdarno Jazz Festival; the record has been chosen for the project "Nuova Generazione Jazz 2023”, promoted by ItaliaJazz with the help of NuovoIMAIE and the Italian Ministry of Culture, which will see the Simone Basile 5et busy for 2023 in several festivals around Europe and Italy.

In 2017 he graduated under the guidance of Umberto Fiorentino with the highest honors from the Luigi Cherubini Conservatory of Florence in jazz guitar.

He has attended numerous seminars and private lessons with international artists such as:

Gilad Hekselman, Peter Bernstein, Joe Martin, Bill O'Connell, Dave Kilminster, Scott Henderson, Greg Hutchinson, Roberto Gatto, Rotem Sivan, Jesper Bodilsen and others.

DISCOGRAPHY:

1. “Moments of life” (2016), Joe black Production

2. “Time” (2018), EMME PRODUZIONI MUSICALI

3. “Wes or No” (2021), EMME PRODUZIONI MUSICALI

4. “Morning Raga” (2022), EMME PRODUZIONI MUSICALI

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“Morning Raga” is a flow of energy, the urge to begin making music again with others and share it with the new generations. With his music Simone Basile wishes to reawaken young people’s interest in contemporary music, art, and progressive change, in opposition to the static period marked by the pandemic. The energetic force and the spirituality of Indian ragas form the basis of this nine-track album.

“Hamsadhwani” is a raga with a brilliant, auspicious character, and “Morning Raga”, the track after which the album is named, is just that–a warm salutation to the start of the day. Naturally, each track is filtered through the artistic lens of the Apulian guitarist, who has used these elements of Eastern music as an inspirational springboard off of which he continues to expand his personal musical language.