Biography
Nilton Gappo is a self-taught multi-instrumentalist who is devoted to researching music in their more diverse and exotic forms around the world.
Was born on September 23, 1957 in Petropolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His first instrument was a acoustic guitar in 1976. He has always been a self-taught musician and in 1980 had many compositions. As needed to write them, taught himself something of musical writing, also going to do orchestrations for them. An example of this phase is the music Winter Sun from the cd Secret Gardens, originally composed for 12-string guitar with an exotic tunning in duets, and later as an orchestral concert for strings, choir, oboe and flute. On this recording the orchestration was replaced by synthesizers.
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In 1983 he moved to Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, where shortly afterwards began to develop a work of progressive rock with a group of friends. Along with the formation of the group also set up a recording studio where in addition to recording his own work, made trails, advertising and production of CDs for singers, ensembles and choirs, working with studios and recording since 1980.
In December 1999 he released his CD Secret Gardens, which received great critical acclaim internationally.
As a musician he played with Mamour Ba (Senegal) in the 3rd Blujazz Festival in Blumenau, the SESC Pinheiros in Sao Paulo and several concerts in Belo Horizonte, with Rajan Singh (Brazilian musician training in India) in two versions Mahamela-Festival of Indian Culture ; with Samuel Braga musician and luthier also the inventor of instruments Mahamela; with his progressive rock group Vivendi Modvs in many concerts in Belo Horizonte, several cities of Minas Gerais and Brasilia, where for large public and also in various holdings with singers and instrumentalists in Belo Horizonte and Petropolis. Since 2002 Nilton Gappo is developing a free improvisation work with his group YBY and a world music duo with violinist André Henriquez.
NILTON GAPPO & YBY
The group YBY is a project created by Nilton Gappo in 2002 with the proposal to make a new and free music based on improvisations and the mix of musical forms and styles, ranging from a tribal primitivism to futuristic without any compromise, using aesthetic and technological resources, such as synthesizers controlled by guitars and drums, rhythm loops recorded by apache indians, african percussionists,balineses,indians, arabs, etc..
Yby in brazilian indigenous language means ground, land, and so is Brazil, a mix of races and cultures, creative, healthy and full of improvisation.
NILTON GAPPO - Guitars, Dilruba, midi guitar and drums.
Current Participants:
ANDRÉ HENRIQUEZ - Violins, Erhu and Guitar.
QUINHO NEIVA - Acoustic Drums, Percussion and electronics.
YURI POPOFF - Bass
FABIO FONSECA - Keyboards.
Other Participants:
NOCA TOURINO - Guitar, Guitar Midi.
JORGE PESCARA - Bass and Megatar.
ALEX FRIAS - guitar, fretless electric Oud and Buzuk.
LEO NEIVA - Bass
Source: https://www.reverbnation.com/niltongappo
Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.