"Old and New" "This album is divided in four suites. Each suite is characterized by a different mood." The first 3 tracks come from my love for powerful big band funk music. They are sexy, vibrant, and positive. Tracks 4,5 and 6 where written at night, and they talk about memories and loneliness. Tracks 7,8,9 and 10, were inspired by my travelling. This part of the album shows my love for Film Scoring. Tracks 11 and 12 talk about dreams". "For me it's a return to my European jazz roots, but with the new influence of the rock and funky music I've been playing in the States for the last 3 years". The album is entirely written, performed and produced by Giulio Carmassi. The Artist Giulio Carmassi graduated in Italy as a classical pianist while studying jazz with top European players. He graduated as a recording engineer at the Musician's Institute in Hollywood CA. A year later, he completed the Film Scoring program at UCLA. In 2004, his song, Camels won "The Great American Song Contest" as best instrumental song. In 2006, Carmassi signed a demo deal with A&M Records/Universal as the bassist for the rock band Red Skeleton. Carmassi has performed live since the age of 12 as a drummer, bassist, pianist, trumpet, trombone and sax player, and as a singer. He is able to perform and improvise on almost every instrument, including French horn, Theremin, guitar, bass, drums, keys, sax, trumpet, trombone, cello, recorder, vibraphone etc.... Carmassi plays bass/trumpet/sax/ and sings wth the RetroFuture Pop Exotica band Vermouth. He is currently scoring a large scale theatre production opening in New York and Los Angeles, Spring 2007. Carmassi has 10 years of experience as a recording engineer and just finished recording and mixing his debut solo album "Old and New".