FRANCO MUSSIDA

Franco Mussida biography
Franco Mussida: Guitar and mind (with Franz Di Cioccio) of PFM, released two solo albums and one O.S.T. with Franz Di Cioccio. Since the 60's he is a protagonist of Italian music and one of the most appreciated Italian guitarists. With PFM he had (and it still has) the luck to play and be appreciated all over the world.

In 1984 the its a lot of study on the guitar come put to fruit. In fact it opens (like a founder) the CPM, Centro Professione Musica, that in short becomes one of the most important Italian music schools (with beyond 800 students). Other experience, this time in the world of the voluntary service, carry to be based on it also the MCS, Musica Contro la Sofferenza (Music Against the Sofference), with the purpose to carry music in the suffering center (community of recover, prisons) also thanks to the composition of a "Sinfonia Popolare Per 1000 chitarre" (Popular Symphony For 1000 Guitars), represented in a lot of towns between 1997 and 1999.

Solo work, after the O.S.T. (with Franz Di Cioccio) of "Attila Flagello Di Dio" (1983) is continued in 1991 with "Racconti Della Tenda Rossa". It is almost totally acoustic album and very simple with guests like Gianni Nocenzi (Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso), Angelo Branduardi and Mauro Gnecchi (Biglietto Per L'Inferno). The second, totally solo album, "Accordo (1995), is an album for synths and is an ambient music album.

Franco Mussida has an excellent collection of guitars. In fact on PFM site are listed, between acoustic, classic and electric, quite 22!!!

Mandi,
Andrea "Mandrakeroot" Salvador.



Why this artist must be listed in www.progarchives.com :
Franco Mussida is one of the more important guitarist of the ISP/ RPI. Its solo album represent the greatest expression of devotion for all what is music



Discography:
Racconti Della Tenda Rossa (1991)
Accordo (1995)