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Alex Milella
In July '95 he achieves the technical Certificate of musical composition, arrangement and programming at the Dipartimento Nuove Tecnologie of the Scuola di Alto Perfezionamento Musicale in Saluzzo (Italy).
Currently he is involved in his first published project, "Light Shades", as leader. He is assisted by a group of nationally-renown musicians: Giuseppe Berlen drums, Pierluigi Balducci electric bass, Davide Santorsola piano, Luca Cacucciolo keyboards and piano, and Michele Carrabba sax.
He runs seminars and he is a teacher of guitar, contemporary and jazz harmony, dialectics of contemporary improvisation, history of Rock, and electronic music at the school "Il Pentagramma " in Bari (Italy).
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Alex Milella: Light Shades
by John Kelman
One often has to wonder at an artist's musical choices, where they might have gone had they taken a different path. Fusion guitarist Scott Henderson, following his landmark record, Tribal Tech , turned his back on more complex composition, going instead for a more improvised concept where tunes evolved out of lengthy jams. Likewise, guitarist Allan Holdsworth, while as harmonically unique as always, has in recent years eschewed the more overtly lyrical compositions of albums including Wardencliffe Tower and Secrets ...
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