Christian Mascetta Trio

I’ve been playing with bassist Pietro Pancella and drummer Michele Santoleri for seven
years now, and about three years ago we started this new musical journey.
It all began in Michele’s soundproof studio: that’s where we have built our musical
foundations, experimented and created… In other words, the perfect place to record a
live album!
All the time we spent together resulted in a unique sense of interplay and a very cohesive
sound.
That is also the reason why the trio is my favorite lineup, besides the fact that it allows
more harmonic possibilities and freedom in improvisation.
Another fascinating aspect is the idea of having three instruments and make them sound
as if they were a whole big band!
As a composer, I wanted to write songs that could tell something of my experiences, my
studies, my affections and the awareness of a special friendship such as ours.
I always try not to compose as a guitarist. I like to think as if I were a pianist, developing
chords with both hands, in order to have more interesting sounds.
Pietro and Michele did a great job with the interpretation of the most detailed parts, but at
the same time they kept an outstanding creativity when playing something more “free”.
Those are the moments in which we create an intense energy, an actual machine that
generates a unique sound in the middle of the chaos of interplay.