GEPETTO is the project of George PINILLA, composer, Franco-Spanish singer, self-taught multi-instrumentalist musician. He has been playing for twenty-five years in a seventies cover group from Bordeaux (France). He started composing demos in 2005 and surrounded himself with a few musician friends and family members to form what would become Gepetto.
His influences are diverse: Beatles, Pink Floyd, Genesis, Yes, Mike Oldfield, Ange, Santana, Deep Purple, Triana, Manfred Mann Earth Band and 80s bands like Marillion, Pendragon, IQ and latino sound...
After doing some models, he decided to release the first album in 2016 “From heaven to the stars”. In 2018, with several old and new musicians, he recorded his new compositions. The particularity of this project is also that the vocals are in English and Spanish. The second album is "Evolutive Songs".
After this, they contact a new guitarist Pascal Agard and the excellent keyboard player, Luis Puente director of the conservatory of Irun (Spain) and go ahead.. The new album “Awaiting Madre” is about the relation with my mother who dies during the recording. It’s two long pieces, more than 25 mn each. One sing in English and the other in Spanish.
1: Awaiting (25.00)
2: Mother (26.00)
Musicians:
Laurent Simonnet: additional keyboards and piano (2)
Luis Puente: piano and Moog synth (1)
Stephan Granjeon: drums and percussion
Pascal Agard: guitar lead Tiphaine Rivière: bass (1)
Julien Pinilla: final vibraphone (2)
Chris Palmer: vocals (1)
Pilar Pinilla Valencia: final voice “la jota navarra”(2)
George Pinilla: backing vocals (1) vocals and backing vocals (2), bass (2), guitars (electric lead and rhythm, folk, twelve strings and classical nylon), synths, organ, piano and Mellotron
