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Name: Ivan Verrastro
Age: 26
Genre: Fusion/Instrumental-Rock
Contact:
ivanverrastro@gmail.com (e-mail)
(+44)7780242079 (Mob.)
Some Influences: Marty Friedman, Shawn Lane, Gary Moore, Claude Debussy, Nobuo Uematsu

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Born into an artistic and musical environment, I have begun my journey into music at about 8 years old. I had been taking classical guitar lessons and formal music education until the age of 14.
Later on, the enthusiasm for rock and jazz music brought me to the electric guitar that I eventually found to be my natural instrument.
At 18 I started practising heavily and playing with many different local rock bands, performing live gigs and jam sessions. However, I've preferred to focus much more on composition so that over the past few years I have been developing my own musical ideas and concepts.
I take great inspiration from traditional Eastern and Latin music as well as classical music, jazz, film scores and video game music. I have been trying to merge these influences with my guitar playing and composing.
In 2011 I built a home studio and I’ve been putting my efforts into recording my instrumental solo album.

"Sentience" is intended to be a concept album about a fantastic tale, involving emotional and timeless dreamy scenes depicted by the music.

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I've played every instrument you hear from these demo recordings and also engineered and mixed every track.

These tracks previews have been uploaded in .mp3 format so they do not represent the final audio quality of the songs.