Giovanni Amighetti

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Giovanni Amighetti (born in Parma, Italy, on 21 February 1971) is a contemporary Italian musician.

He studied classical piano and began playing with avangarde band Fondamenta in late eighties. With the world music boom he started promoting in Italy some of the Real World recording label artists. His first world music cd production is "No, Russia cannot be perceived by wit" by Terem Quartet, realised by Schott Musik/Intuition in 1998. Then he works in many studio and live projects, often collaborating with musicians from Mari Boine Band (Gjermund Silset, Helge Norbakken, Roger Ludvigsen).

To be reminded among others: "Salimie" with Ayub Ogada, "La voce del mondo" with Tiziana Ghiglioni and "Anastasia" with Vladimir Denissenkov.

In contemporary music also worked on some solo and Fondamenta projects, on Guido Ponzini´s cd "Twilight town" and with the Shan Qi ensemble featuring Chinese flute player Guo Yue. Produced Wu Fei[1]'s "A Distant Youth" in 2007, featuring Fred Frith, Carla Kihlstedt and Helge A. Norbakken. He is also engaged in multimedia productions merging music and interactive digital media.

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