Diego Origlia (Cuneo, 1970)



Move the first steps in the world of professional music in Genova, under the direction of Beppe Gambetta.

After a strong experience with the group of traditional Occitan music "LOU DALFIN" and the publication of the CD "W JAN D'L'EIRETTO" (1992), he move to New York where he spend two years working as a waiter in italians restaurants, playing all over around and living the multiethnic culture of the Big Apple. After a trimester at the "American Institute of Guitar", he participate at workshops with Joe Diorio, Jim Hall, Mick Goodrick, Mike Stern.

In '96 he spend one year in Buenos Aires (Argentina), where he study the classical guitar and the Latin-American repertoir with Esteban Morgado and get in touch with the "nuevo continente latino".

Back in Europe, he try to fix the images of these travelling years producing his first album "DOLCEAMARGO" (1999) and he present it at the Nice Jazz Festival (Cimiez) among the FNAC selections.

After a stay of one year in Saorge, medieval village on the borderline between Italy and France, he settle down in Nice and produce the second album, "D'AUTRES AMORES" (2001), "...an attempt of criticism looking for a bit of hope in a society hard to stand, but that we live in and it's better to try to assume..."

Always committed to the instruction, he develop a work based on rhythm and psychomotricity in different therapeutic centers heeding the psychiatric diseases.

Author and composer coming from the popular tradition and affiliated at the italian SIAE, plays the guitars, some flutes, a bit of piano, the percussions, he sings and dances... he speaks italian, french, spanish and english ; he lives in Nice (France) with the statute of indipendent artist and he cooperate with "La Maioun dou BeBop" of Maestro Jean Luc Danna.

Diego truly believes in the social role and not just the aesthetics of music and art in general and feel a personal responsability for the free circulation of ideas, the equal distribution of the material wealth and the share of philosophical and spiritual values.

1999 Dolceamargo
2001 D'autres amores

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"TROUBADOUR"
Diego Origlia - solo

A musical journey that blend the mediterranean tradition with the jazz and the latin-american music. Diego, troubadour, tells his crossing with his own compositions and a "extraits" of the musics that inspired him. The classical guitar comp the voice, take often the first role and incorporate differents techniques constantly looking for a personal sound and identity.

"Diego Origlia quartet"
Diego Origlia - Acoustic guitar/flute/voice
Manu Carrè - saxophone
Stefano Risso - acustic bass
Jean Luc Danna - drums

A free interpretation of some pieces from the two albums "dolceamargo and "d'autres amores"