Raffaele Matta is a modern guitar player inspired by jazz, rock, Indian classical, and other contemporary music and form of arts. He has developed his personal language by combining a melodic approach coming from various styles where Jazz is still prominent, with rhythm concepts influenced both from Indian classical music and jazz .Born in Sardegna, Italy on May 21, 1973 He began studying guitar in Italy and then at the Musicians Institute of Technology (GIT) in Los Angeles and the European Musicians Institute in Pescara (Italy) He also studied Indian classical music in Mumbai, with various top notch musicians and instrumentalists and developed a very unique rhythm system to integrate Indian rhythms with other music styles.He published several solo recordings and a music education book about arpeggios for guitar improvisation: ARPLOG, Arpeggio Logic for Guitar. Aside from being a musician, Raffaele Matta is also a novel writer. He has published “Bach, a Cagliari, si è trovato bene” his first novel and “L’imperfezione della realtà” his second book.
