GENRE
The musical genre of SANGI is in melodic jazz, fusion and progressive rock. It’s music also suitable for images soundtrack. All the songs are instrumental amd characterized by a strong presence of guitar, played by Sangy.
CAREER
SANGI (Maurizio Sangineto) started his music career in Vicenza (Italy) in 1971, about 14teen age, as guitarist and composer.
Awarded in 1975 as winner of a qualified schools competition, he created the basis of his first album with the help of a group of friends, from Vicenza too, young musicians: Marco Marchetti (keyboards), Diego Olivieri (bass), Claudio Cibinel (drums).
In the years he also become bass player, percussions and elctronic keyboards player too.
He also extended his activity in arrangement, production and msuic publishing.
In 1978, with this group and some special guests, he recorded in Vicenza and released the instrumental album “Steps”, today considered a cult of its genre.
The album, released in a limited edition (only 1000 vinyl copies), has been
highly praised by critics and used for lot of TV broadcastings.
These the album credits:
Guitar, Percussion – Sangi (Maurizio Sangineto SANGY)
Drums, Percussion – Claudio “Cibi” Cibinel*
Electric Bass – Diego Olivieri
Electric Piano – Marco Marchetti
Engineer [Recording & Mixing] – Aldo Menti
Photography portraits By – Mauro Novello
Photography [Cover] By – Paolo Romio “Krom”
Synthesizer [Solina] – Enrico Borgo
Tenor Saxophone – Sergio Montini
Vocals – Delia Gualtiero
Special guest on Synthesizer [ARP 2600] Lucio “Violino” Fabbri.
Music composed and Arranged by Maurizio Sangineto
After this debut, SANGY in 1978 was called to compose and perform the soundtrack of an important italian movie (“Ombre”, starring Monica Guerritore and Lou Castel), recorded in Milano at Radius Studio.
This album has never been published as record.
With this performance, SANGY has been the youngest italian movie composer.