As a followup to his most personal project to date, 2015’s KOI, in-demand Italian session bassist and RareNoise recording artist Lorenzo Feliciati has upped the ante on his latest project, Elevator Man.
A powerhouse recording with echoes of King Crimson, Allan Holdsworth and other Prog Rock icons in its ten tracks, this latest outing by the prolific bassist-composer-arranger features a rotating cast of stellar musicians, including King Crimson drummer Pat Mastelotto, former Holdsworth drummer Chad Wackerman, Swedish Freak Guitar shredder Mattias IA Eklundh (of the Jonas Hellborg Trio and Art Metal), Italian progressive metal guitarist Marco Sfogli (currently of the legendary Italian Prog Rock band Premiata Forneria Marconi, aka PFM), trumpeter Cuong Vu and Feliciati’s Naked Truth bandmate Roy Powell on distortion-laced clavinet.
As well as composing and arranging all the material, Feliciati plays fretted and fretless basses, electric guitar and keyboards on his seventh and most potent recording as a leader to date.
Lorenzo Feliciati - fretted and fretless bass, electric guitars, keyboards Roberto Gualdi - drums Stan Adams - trombone and horn section arrangement Pierluigi Bastioli - bass trombone Duilio Ingrosso - baritone saxophone The Brick Lorenzo Feliciati - fretted bass Roy Powell - hohner clavinet Chad Wackerman - drums Stan Adams - trombone and horn section arrangement Pierluigi Bastioli - bass trombone Duilio Ingrosso - baritone sax 14 Stones Lorenzo Feliciati - fretted bass, electric guitars, keyboards Cuong Vu - trumpet Alessandro Gwis - acoustic piano with Reaktor running on laptop Pat Mastelotto - drums Stan Adams - trombone and horn section arrangement Pierluigi Bastioli - bass trombone Duilio Ingrosso - baritone sax Black Book, Red Letters Lorenzo Feliciati - upright bass, fretted bass with effects Sandro Satta - alto sax Claudio Corvini - trumpet Gianni Di Renzo - drums Three Women Lorenzo Feliciati - fretless bass, electric guitars, keyboards Cuong Vu - trumpet Antonio Jasevoli - electric guitar solo Davide Savarese - drums Stan Adams - trombone and horn section arrangement Pierluigi Bastioli - bass trombone Duilio Ingrosso - baritone sax Unchained Houdini Lorenzo Feliciati - fretted bass, electric guitars, keyboards Davide Pettirossi - drums The Third Door Lorenzo Feliciati - fretless bass, electric guitars, keyboards DJ Skizo – turntables & rhythm design S.O.S. Lorenzo Feliciati - fretted and fretless bass, electric guitars, keyboards Mattias IA Eklundh - electric guitar solo Luca Giacobbe - vibraphone Armando Croce - drums Thief Like Me Lorenzo Feliciati - fretted bass, moog bass Marco Sfogli - electric guitars Aidan Zammit - keyboards Gianluca Palmieri - drums U Turn in Falmouth Lorenzo Feliciati - fretted bass, electric guitars, Keyboards Davide Savarese – drums All tracks composed, arranged and produced by Lorenzo Feliciati, except ‘The Brick’ composed by Roy Powell Mixed by Alessandro Marcantoni at Metropolis studio, Milan Mastered by Michael Fossenkemper at Turtletone Studios, NYC