Speleology Nicola Guida

• 1Anamnesys06:03
• 2Event Horizon00:46
• 3Sycophant05:59
• 4Come Inside04:34
• 5Maximum Depth Is Its Surface01:14
• 6L' Éspace Du Dedans04:30
• 7The Blade Sensei: Suite For A Suicide Shokunin04:10
• Total Runtime27:16

Info for Speleology

MIMS is delighted to premiere “Come Inside”, the second single lifted from Italian pianist, composer and producer, Nicola Guida’s forthcoming ‘Speleology’ album, due for release early next year on Inner Circle Music, the prestigious US label headed by sax legend Greg Osby.

“Come Inside” is a laid back exploration of jazz and hip hop, featuring Karnival Kid on MC duties. His nonchalant yet powerful delivery recalls Loyle Carner, and flows beautifully over Guida’s delicate playing, melting the notes of his piano into a seamless harmonic stream. Soothing flutes provide the melodic line throughout, with additional production adding layers of sonic richness.

A disciplined virtuoso and a freethinking, genre-bending pianist, Nicola Guida is a London-based Italian jazz pianist, composer and producer. Academician at heart - he's the author of two respected thesis on jazz and holds a Masters in Philosophy. On “Come Inside”, Nicola tells us "I'm so delighted to release this tune which contains a sample of one of my heroes, legendary Italian composer Piero Piccioni".

Nicola Guida

Nicola Guida
is an Italian pianist, composer and producer. Based in London, he is emerging as one of the most inspired Italian jazz musicians of the new generation. Mentored by Barry Harris, Peter Martin, Aaron Goldberg, Greg Burk and Danilo Rea, Guida creates an original sound space, where the piano gesture is both elegant and underground at the same time. Nicola Guida performed on the stages of Umbria Jazz, Roma Jazz Festival, Electrik Jinja Tokyo, Jazzit Fest, Unit31 London, Vladí Mladí Jazz Prague, Heart London, Tuscia in Jazz, Macro Roma, just to name a few. His collaborations include some of the most renowned Italian and international musicians such as Lee Pearson, Greg Osby, Fabio Zeppetella, John B. Arnold, Rosario Giuliani, Paolo Damiani, Beppe Vessicchio, Alita Moses, Ryo Shibata, AINÉ, Tatsuo Sunaga, Charles Burchell, Yoshihito P Koizumi, Alex Braga, Gaetano Partipilo, Sheila Maurice Grey, Neue Grafik, Khalab and many others. In 2015 he won the award as best soloist at the Fara Music Jazz Festival, and he was among the winners of the first edition of AIR in 2017, a project promoted by the Italian Jazz Musicians Association and Italian Society of Authors and Publishers, which led him to spend a month residency at the Italian Cultural Institute, in Tokyo. In 2019 he won the Jazzfruit International Award at Mladí Ladí Jazz, in Prague. His debut album, Speleology, is about to be released by the end of 2020 via Inner Circle Music, a prestigious American label founded by the legendary Greg Osby, and distributed worldwide by AWAL - London.

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