Christopher "Gino" Pellani

Christopher Pellani: Christopher is a dynamic percussionist adept in all musical styles. His performance versatility includes concerts, television shows and videos, as well as regular film and studio recordings. He also maintains an ongoing instructional and music therapy practice.
Pellani has recorded and performed rock, r & b and world beat music with a diverse array of artists. He is always in demand for concert and studio dates. Christopher was chosen as one of the ten outstanding drummers for BAM magazines November 1993 article on “UNSUNG DRUMMING HEROES OF L.A.”, and competed for the national finals for the LONG BEACH BLUES festival in 1993.
Mr. Pellani was also the first western drummer ever to play a concert in Hanoi, North Vietnam with Air Supply in January of 1997. “Gino”, as he is often called by his friends for no apparent reason that anyone can remember, has released three critically acclaimed “SOUNDSCAPE PYRAMIDS” CD's so far. I suspect there are many more on the way know his level of energy. Click here or Christopher's picture to check out his own website.

About Christopher, by Wade:
Christopher is a consummate accompanist. He’s is a very unique personality, being able to seemingly communicate with just about anybody he encounters. He is an accomplished musicologist. He seems to influence everybody he plays with, simply by knowing about the music the artist is interested in. "Gino" has an incredible repertoire. I've never been able to stump him. When I thought I'd learned something to impress him with, he almost always already knew it, plus others like it, that I usually hadn’t heard yet. Christopher has a lot to do with the New Orleans music in my repertoire, obscure music I probably wouldn’t have ever dug up on my own. He's had a huge influence on me.

Soundscape's first CD Revue from Wade:
SOUNDSCAPE PYRAMIDS, THE RETURN by Christopher Pellani.
“The Return”, Christopher Pellani’s “Soundscape Pyramids” debut project is an eloquent mix of tribal and hypnotic meditation music with intermittent ocean front sounds, cleverly guided and arranged by "Gino" himself. Christopher really deserves a lot of credit for this effort. What started as a spiritual drum ceremony turned into a recording concept that will probably keep Pellani busy for the rest of his earthly days. Basically what he did was collected a number of percussionists together and asked them to contribute in a drum circle jam kind of setting. He then captured the inspired musical ceremony on tape. After listening through what he had recorded, he asked his favorite musician friends to play along with their improvisational contributions, all the while being gently guided by Christopher’s vision. What we end up with is over an hour of inspirational, wonderfully eclectic and spiritually uplifting music.
The contributors also deserve credit here, too. Jim Wright had just about everything to do with the engineering, recording and mixing of this disc. He, myself, Clifford Rehrig, John Meadows, Cecilia Noel, R. H. and others, all contributed in writing as well as performing. But none of it would have happened with out Christopher’s personable leadership and quest for a musical vision. It’s well worth the karmic responsibility you incur while playing it on your CD player.

IMPORTANT NOTE FROM WADE!
Diamondhard no longer carries Christopher's CD. We don't know what's become of them. But, who cares? You can order "The Return," or any of the newer Soundscape CD's through my web site's CD order form by typing in SOUNDSCAPE in the Number of CD's box. Or you can contact Christopher directly by going to his website at SoundFormation.com.