The Italian string-making tradition is famous throughout the world and I am honored to be able to represent Galli abroad as well. The AJF strings for acoustic guitar allow precise playing and eliminate finger noise, making them particularly effective during recording. They are extremely pleasant to the touch, the sound is balanced, the intonation is excellent and the timbre is warm, with the right brilliance.
Biography
In 1998 he was introduced to Robert Fripp's Guitar Craft in Salisbury, UK, and he kept studying with this technique since then. He plays acoustic guitar as soloist and together with Bert Lams from California Guitar Trio, passionately exploring the music of G.I.Gurdjieff and Ukrainian born Thomas de Hartmann. Thanks to The Archtop Foundation, he is the first artist to have recorded a solo album (Out of the Blue, 2023) using the famous D'Aquisto Centura Deluxe archtop from Scott Chinery's historic Blue Collection. He is well known for his 'Simple Music for Difficult People', a solo project with original music for electric guitar, described by the Press as "Progressives Echoes for the Third Millennium”. Inspired by the craftsmanship and poetry of Mechanical Art, Fabio Mittino collaborated with some of the world's best Automata makers, like François Junod (Switzerland), Susumu & Hideki Higashino (Japan), Keith Newstead (UK), and Teun de Vijs (Netherlands). His music mirrors the craftsmanship and intricacy of those contemporary mechanical sculptures, while retaining that mixture of innocent awe and wonder. He intensively tours in Europe, USA and Japan.
Ahmad Jamal: Fabio is a wonderful, talented guitarist. I took his cd to the States and they listened to his performance, and they loved it like I do!
Tuck Andress: It is both literally sublime and utterly personal. It feels simultaneously like a window into your soul and a portal into something more universal than any individual. I broke into a big smile when it first started, and that smile has never gone away.
Fernando Kabusacki: fabio mittino is one of the few “perfect musicians” I know in this planet (yes, other planets are full of them…). He is unbelievably skillful and virtuous (on any style!), writes beautiful music, deals with technology superbly, organizes tours (and even drives safely!) and most important: he has an amazing sense of humor so, maybe, there is hope that one day he will be as good as I am…