GB Music is the historic label of the songwriter and producer Giancarlo Bigazzi, who passed away in 2012, for over fifty years on the Italian and international music scene.
Giancarlo was a versatile producer with many skills: direct, selective in the choice of words to include in the melodies he composed as well as other authors he collaborated with; an incorruptible mentor and talent scout who constantly valorised the talents of young singers, in many cases leading them to success: Massimo Ranieri, Umberto Tozzi, Marco Masini and many others...
Available to listen, with a sensitive ear, a capacity for synthesis and intuition in finding the right words, sometimes biting (such as ‘Vaffanculo’ for Marco Masini's song or ‘Pensa’ in the case of Fabrizio Moro), his ‘guizzi’ and perseverance often gave originality to the songs of artists he launched.
The word Malinconoia (from the song sung by Masini) has even become a neologism in the italian lenguage.
One of Giancarlo's prerogatives was undoubtedly curiosity and reflection on social events, as in the case of ‘Si può dare di più’ sung by the Tozzi-Morandi-Ruggeri trio (and mentioned by Pope John Paul II during an Angelus), which already referred to the phenomenon of immigration in the late 1980s; along the same lines in the early 1990s, he wrote ‘Gli altri siamo noi’, a piece that is more topical than ever.
His love for music made him a ‘master of feeling’ and a poet of sentiment, building around him a true dialogue made up of sensations and desires. Witness those musicians (from Greg Mathieson to Marco Falagiani to name but a few) who worked alongside him and thus experienced his passion and talent.
As a producer, he always exposed himself with innovative courage.
In his ‘crafted intelligence’, a constant peculiarity in the composition phase, it was as if the sound was ‘waiting’ for a word; always with the aid of the ‘trombino’ (this is how Giancarlo had renamed the cassette recorder) as if it were a notepad to fix ‘the breath of an idea’, a means to translate his whistle between the notes of the piano.
The figure of Giancarlo Bigazzi is a guide that spans time.
Today, the path he took is continued by his son Giovanni, record producer and visual content coordinator, with the valuable collaboration of Franco Fasano, his first ‘artistic ally’ in the development of the various projects.
The path is enhanced by the communion of intentions with Gianna Albini Bigazzi (Giancarlo's wife and Giovanni's mother) who, in almost fifty years of Italian song history, has embodied for Giancarlo the role of supporter and trusted confidante, interlocutor of comparison, as well as welcoming port for the numerous artists, most of them still unknown, who have come to Villa Cingallegra in the hills of Florence.
GB Music today employs a staff of collaborators, both experienced and younger, according to the production projects, regarding the technical work in the studio, the images, the communication profile and the use of social networks.
One main mission is to enhance Maestro Bigazzi's repertoire through artistic research, where the performance of his songs and the value of remembrance are not an end in themselves, to give his work a contemporary projection, even in revisiting with modern arrangements the many songs that have left their mark on many generations.
