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"ELECTRIC ROOTS" AVAILABLE NOW!

Location: Rome,
Country: Italy Italy
Last Login: Feb 25, 2008 (642 days back)
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About Me

ELECTRIC ROOTS - THE NEW ALBUM IS NOW OUT!

AVAILABLE ON:

CD Baby

Guitar9

GuitarEuroShop

For more information: www.nicolacosta.com

Nicola Costa is a musician and composer, living in Rome, Italy. He started playing guitar at the age of 8. In his early teens Nicola became interested in Rock, Blues and Electric Jazz music. He grew up with the music of Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Weather Report and Jeff Beck.

In the early 80’s Nicola played with several bands covering a variety of musical styles and experiences. At the age of 19 he decided to pursue his musical education at the Academy of Music. Nicola is also a qualified double-bass graduate.

At the age of 23 he began session works. He has performed, on over 40 different television shows, including the Sanremo Music Festival from 2002 to 2006. He has recorded, toured and played on TV with a variety of international and italian artists like Lionel Richie, Natalie Cole, Michael Bublè, Blues Brothers, Gavin DeGraw, Jose Feliciano, Vasco Rossi, Andrea Bocelli, Laura Pausini, Eros Ramazzotti, Riccardo Cocciante, Claudio Baglioni, Lucio Dalla, Renato Zero, Loredana Bertè, Fabio Concato, Luca Barbarossa, Manuel Carrasco, Amii Stewart, Alexia, Ivana Spagna, Marco Masini and many more.

Nicola also worked with several directors and arrangers like Ennio Morricone, Geoff Westley, Celso Valli, Pippo Caruso, Fio Zanotti, Renato Serio.

He currently performs with his own Group. His most recent project is "Electric Roots", a new studio album, now available on CD Baby, Guitar Nine Records, Guitar Euro Shop and Organic Tones Records, in download format on iTunes.

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Member Since: 8/25/2006
Band Website: nicolacosta.com
Band Members: On "ELECTRIC ROOTS": Cristiano Micalizzi, Maurizio Dei Lazzaretti: Drums -
Roberto Gallinelli, Massimo Pizzale, Mario Guarini: Bass -
Ettore Gentile, Clemente Ferrari, Lorenzo Capelli: Keyboards.
Influences: Jimi Hendrix, Beatles, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Jeff Beck, Albert King, SRV, Joe Pass, Weather Report, Jaco Pastorius, Miles Davis, Mike Landau, Derek Trucks, Kirk Fletcher, Nirvana and more..
Record Label: Organic Tones Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Background and Lifestyle

Occupation: Music Artist (Rock / Blues / Psychedelic)

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Review of Electric Roots on Bluesrockers.ws

Review of Electric Roots by Tom Branson of BluesrockersI have been reviewing CDs for many years now and have the bald head and white beard to prove it. During this time, I have listened to literally ...
Posted by Nicola Costa on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:22:00 PST

Review of Electric Roots on Stratoblogster.com

Review of Electric Roots written by JP of Stratoblogster Guitar BlogNicola Costa: American Electric Roots Home From RomeGuitarist, Nicola Costa's playing sounds like an Austin, Texas musician who trav...
Posted by Nicola Costa on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:36:00 PST

Review of Electric Roots on Rootstime.be

Review of Electric Roots written by Ronny Bervoets of RootstimeThose who follow the Rootstime discussions weekly, will, have seen that there the last times there were also a few times fusion guitarist...
Posted by Nicola Costa on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:46:00 PST

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