Alessandro D'Alessandro
ALESSANDRO D'ALESSANDRO
Accordion player (italian organetto), producer, composer, has collaborated both in studio and live with numerous artists.
Always interested in the most varied musical forms he is considered "one of the most talented e creative Italian accordion players". In 2017 he won TARGA TENCO. He is the soloist and director of OrchestraBottoni, a particular big band made up mostly of accordions. He have played in most important festival in Italy and other countries as France, Germany, Chile, Poland, Albania, Portugal, Spain, England, Denmark, Turkey, Austria, Switzerland.
In the 2021 he published the first solo album named ‘Canzoni-for prepareted accordion & electronics’ which was awarded as the best album in the Italian World Music.
"Canzoni", it's a project of exploration of the author's song, with the transposition of some classics into the language of a "prepared" accordion which, in his hands, seems to take on "the breath of an orchestra".