Fabio Golfetti (born April 10, 1960) is a Brazilian musician and record producer, famous for his work with progressive/ psychedelic rock band

Violeta de Outono Violeta de Outono ( Portuguese for Autumn Violet) is a Brazilian psychedelic/progressive rock band from São Paulo. Heavily influenced by The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Gong, they were originally a post-punk band w ...

. He is also the guitarist of Franco-British rock band

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since 2012.

Biography

Fabio Golfetti was born in

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in 1960. He grew up listening to Pink Floyd,

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and

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(with their 1967 album ''

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'' being one of his favorite releases by them), and as a teenager he learned how to play both the classical and the electric guitar, quoting

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, Syd Barrett,

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and

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as some of his major influences. In 1978 he founded Lux, his first band. Lux later became Ultimato in 1981, an instrumental

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/ no wave band with the arrival of drummer Cláudio Souza, and later came to be named

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in 1983, with the entrance of vocalist Guilherme Isnard (Voluntários da Pátria). With Zero, he took part in the recording of the single " Heróis". In 1985, Golfetti and Souza left Zero and formed alongside Angelo Pastorello the influential psychedelic rock band

. As of 2016 Violeta de Outono has released 7 studio albums, 2 EPs, 4 videos and 2 live albums. In 1988 he formed a side project to Violeta de Outono, called The Invisible Opera Company (Tropical Version Brazil); heavily inspired by the aesthetics of Daevid Allen, it has released four albums as of yet. In 2006 he appeared at the Gong Unconvention 2006 in Amsterdam with The Glissando Guitar Orchestræ. ''The Seven Drones (At Gong Uncon '06)'', a live album recording his performance at the event, was released in 2008. Golfetti is a full-time member of Gong since 2012; he previously toured with them in 2007, during a brief series of concerts in São Paulo, as a member of their "Gong Global Family" project. A live album of the concert was released in 2009. '' I See You'', Gong's first studio album with him as an official member of the band, was released on November 10, 2014.''I See You'' album release date
/ref> In 2015 he collaborated with fellow Gong bandmember Dave Sturt on his second solo album, ''Dreams and Absurdities''.

Discography

With Violeta de Outono

* 1987: ''

'' * 1989: '' Em Toda Parte'' * 1999: '' Mulher na Montanha'' * 2005: ''

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'' * 2007: '' Volume 7'' * 2012: '' Espectro'' * 2016: '' Spaces''

With The Invisible Opera Company (Tropical Version Brazil)

* 1991: ''The Eternal Voice'' * 1993: ''Glissando Spirit'' * 1996: ''Cosmic Dance Co.'' * 2010: ''UFO Planante''

With Zero

* 1985: " Heróis" (single)

With Gong

* 2009: '' Live in Brazil: 20 November 2007'' (live album) * 2014: '' I See You'' * 2016: ''

Rejoice! I'm Dead! ''Rejoice! I'm Dead!'' is the fourteenth studio album by Gong and the eleventh album by the Daevid Allen version of the group. It was released on . Overview ''Rejoice! I'm Dead!'' is the first Gong album to be released since the deaths of co-fou ...

'' (post-Daevid Allen)

With Dave Sturt

* 2015: ''Dreams and Absurdities''

Other works

* 1994: ''Angel's Breath'' (with Angel's Breath) * 2008: ''The Seven Drones (At Gong Uncon '06)'' (with

and The Glissando Guitar Orchestræ)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Golfetti, Fabio 1960 births Living people Musicians from São Paulo 21st-century Brazilian male singers 21st-century Brazilian singers Brazilian male guitarists 20th-century Brazilian male singers 20th-century Brazilian singers Brazilian record producers Psychedelic rock musicians Progressive rock musicians Post-punk musicians Gong (band) members Brazilian male singer-songwriters