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Giampiero Bigazzi is an Italian record producer, musician and composer who has been in business since 1969.

He has collaborated on numerous projects of the independent Italian scene, experimenting with the most different musical genres.
He has collaborated with artists and groups such as Tuxedomoon, Wim Mertens, Novalia, Minimal Compact, Embryo, Cudù, Militia, Dissidenten, Beau Geste, Orio Odori, Enzo Favata, Damiano Puliti, Arturo Stalteri, Fabio Capanni, Maurizio Dami, Giancarlo Cardini, Roger Eno, Paolo Carlini, Kocani Orkestar, Daniele Sepe, Martinicca Boison and, above all, his brother Arlo Bigazzi.

In 1976 he was the founder of Canzoniere del Valdarno, an atypical politicaly inspired folk group linked to Italian folk tradition.
In 1980, after Canzoniere del Valdarno was disbanded, he and his brother Arlo Bigazzi created the Naïf Orchestra; a musical experiment bringing music free from constraints of stylistic or commercial character.
In 1983, with Maurizio Dami, Arlo Bigazzi and Marzio Benelli, they create a production team that launches the Fuzz Dance label. They have a remarkable international success with some 12" records and especially with Alexander Robotnick, who's 'Problèmes d'Amour' has been considered a pioneer landmark of house-music.
Along with his brother Arlo Bigazzi and Paolo Lotti he composed and produced in 1989 the music for the opera / video / ballet "Coppi Arrive" for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Prato.
In 1992 he composed the original music for M.Gorkj's "Albergo Dei Poveri" video / film, directed by Claudio Carini, and in 1993, together with Orio Odori, the soundtrack for Unicoop's corporate film about Tuscany.

Giampiero Bigazzi writes for magazines, websites and newspapers, and has written some books for Stampa Alternativa ("Tuxedomoon" in 1988, "The Residents" and "Coast To Coast / Punk Rock Images "in 1989) and since 2007 for the Editrice Zona (including, together with Arlo,"Nottecampana" by Carlo Monni).

From 1984 to 1994 he was a member of the secretary of the "Independent Music Meeting" in Florence and from 1985 to 1993 he was the artistic director of the "Greetings Festival" of San Giovanni Valdarno.
In 1995, starting with the music of Nicola Alesini and Pier Luigi Andreoni, he created the multimedia project Marco Polo, which included David Sylvian, Roger Eno, Harold Budd, David Torn, Arlo Bigazzi, Steven Jansen, Richard Barbieri, Arturo Stalteri Damiano Clean.
Since the second half of the 1990s he has dedicated a lot of his time to video art and the design of live music shows ("Fellini", "Pasolini, Rosa Fragments") and he has produced several documentaries and ambient-movies (Tuxedomoon, Paolo Lotti, Sudden Band, Masala, Arturo Stalteri).
In 2001, along with Orio Odori, he founded the "Banda Improvvisa" band with which he produced (with the help of Arlo Bigazzi) three albums.

Since 2005 he has designed and directed the East-West Festival which takes place in the Province of Arezzo.

In 2008 he performed and staged the show "Nottecampana" with Carlo Monni, Arlo Bigazzi, Orio Odori, dedicated to the poem of Dino Campana.
In 2009 he founded the cosmopolitan Canti Erranti project.
In 2010 he wrote and directed the theater-music show "“Borisvian – La vita è come un dente”" (Borisvian - Life Is Like a Tooth) dedicated to Boris Vian with Pierfrancesco Bigazzi and Martinique Boison.
In 2011 he wrote and staged the show "Camicia Rossa – Canti e storie su quei ragazzi che fecero l’Italia" (Red Shirt - songs and stories about those guys who made Italy) with the Banda Improvvisa and Canti Erranti.
And in 2012, still for the ensemble Canti Erranti, he made the the narrative concert "Senza Padrone – sogni e storie sull’impresa a proprietà collettiva" (Without a Master - dreams and stories about the collective enterprise).
He is the national vice-president of Audiocoop, an association of independent music producers.
He is a member of the Order of Journalists in Tuscany.

He directs the web-book-international magazine Sonora.
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Brother of : Arlo Bigazzi
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