Tommy Talamanca

Tommy Talamanca is an Italian guitar virtuoso, keyboard player, and a sound engineer & producer, most famous for his work in Italian death metal band Sadist. He is notable for his ability as a music producer and engineer, but also for his talent of playing a six or seven string guitar and the key board simultaneously.^[1]

Biography

Talamanca started playing guitar at the age of 11. He joined a metal band Sadist (now one of the most famous Italian death metal bands) in 1991, and has been in the band ever since.^[2] He plays both guitar and keyboard simultaneously in the band. During his spare time he started a small analog recording studio in 1996, named Nadir Recording Studio. The small studio grew up, and actually moved in a building with 2 studios, 4 rehearsal rooms and a big live area. Currently, Nadir Music Srl is a company involved multiple music projects, and works with international jazz artists as well as hard rock ones.

Tommy Talamanca is a session player for lots of different bands, including The famili, Metal gang, Infection Code, Nerve, and Dirty Balls. He is also a live engineer for Trio Bobo, Drummeria, Nerve, Ritual of Rebirth, Infection Code, Dark Lunacy, Kirlian Camera, and a producer for Sadist, Dark Lunacy, Athlantis, Nerve, Ritual of Rebirth, and Thefamili. He also contributed to Obscura's highly acclaimed album Omnivium, playing a guitar solo on the song "Euclidean Elements".

In 2011, Talamanca and Dutch fretless bassist Jeroen Paul Thesseling (former member of Pestilence and Obscura) announced that they formed a new project named 'Nufutic', that will incorporate a wide range of music, including a fusion of Death Metal, jazz fusion, flamenco, etc.

Discography

• Sadist - Above the Light (1993)
• Sadist - Tribe (1996)
• Sadist - Crust (1997)
• Sadist - Lego (2000)
• Sadist - Sadist (2007)
• Sadist - Season in Silence (2010)
• Tommy Talamanca - Na zapad (2013)

References

External links

• TommyTalamanca.com
• Metalscript interview - Tommy Talamanca of Sadist