Alessandro Longega
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After the success of the “Silent Circus” pop CD “Different worlds”, which won a Grindie Award in 2009, Longega returns to fusion music with his third CD, that marks his maturity not only as a guitarist but as a musician. This CD is a wonderful portrait of fusion music in 2010, and it's a concept album divided in four sessions, which is a guitar travel from Pat Metheny to Joe Satriani passing through Phil Keaggy and Antonio Forcione. 
This is the author comment about his new album: “Growing we gain experiences, abilities, etc, but we lose possibilities, yes possibilities to become someone else, to live another life. And music is just like life, you learn scales, chords, substitutions, etc, until you become like a prisoner in their hands. Therefore, from time to time you need to go back to the roots, to become a child again, exploring new ways and possibilities, forgetting all you've learned, trying to live another life, as I did with this album”.


 




 


The CD songs seemed to be played by Beatles and Eagles togheter, but in a new modern way, with an acoustic rock fresh sound


 


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This CD is the result of the cooperation of two Italian musicians, who formed a new group called “Silent Circus”. Their debut album, “Different worlds” is a perfect mirror of nowadays, where communication media have allowed the mixture of cultures and musical visions. 
In fact, the musical background of the two musicians is quite different: the singer has a pop/rock background, while the guitarist is known to be a jazz composer. 
Today, where every word seems to be already spoken and every song seems to be already sung, cultural differences are the right ingredients that, if correctly mixed, could generate a fresh new breeze, like the music of this CD is in our opinion. 
Of course, if you listen to their music, you will hear the echoes of their influences, but what is an artist without his predecessors? What would have been Pat Metheny without Jim Hall, the U2 without the Beatles? Beethoven without Mozart? Silent Circus without all of them?