Filippo Gambetta is an accomplished musician who reaps the rewards of a radiant maturity declined on different musical fields. Otto Baffi is a well thought out album, the best work that Filippo Gambetta has so far released. Hearing is believing.Disco Club
Wherever grit, fantasy, technical expertise , and excellent compositional ideas , for an album that is set to become a classic of the acoustic notes.Il Manifesto
Filippo Gambetta is emerging thanks to an expanded musical conception that goes beyond tradition, also carefully handled to perfection. His
undoubted technical skills are a complement to a sound philosophy that surprises you at every turn, suspended on a lucky balance between
lyricism and rhythmic changes.Blow Up
Very interesting album. You find new tarantellas, mazurkas, waltzes, polkas, bourrées, scottishes with remarkable arrangements.Il Diapasonblog
Twelve chapters of ideas, numbering creativity, metabolization of so much music heard, technique at the service of melody and immediacy, relaxed instrumental skills of an artist for whom nothing is foreclosed. “Otto Baffi” is a journey that once finished you immediately want to redo.BlogFoolk
Twelve tracks of great value, touching the listener with Spanish stylings, illuminating with rhythmic crossings, inviting with narrative intentions. Rating: 8Spettakolo.it
Gambetta’s excellent levels are reconfirmed in this self-released album, whose refined and diversified melodies denote attention to details and are enhanced by the participation of numerous musicians friends which follow one another in Filippo’s lab. It is known that constraint (and the implementation of strategies to circumvent it) sometimes produces much better results of the absolute freedom. This is the case of Otto Baffi.Audio Review
A fresh album of excellent workmanship.Le Canard Folk
There can be no dispute that Filippo Gambetta is a master of the instrument. His virtuosic dexterity shines through every track yet there is never the feeling that you are listening to a flashy player. Genoa has a huge reputation for fine musicians; this man must be among their finest.Folk Roots
Otto Baffi definitely proves once more the artistic maturity of Filippo Gambetta and his desire to experience and face new musical challenges. A disc with a remarkable executive musical quality – supported by many good musicians who accompany him – and intelligent and attractive arrangements, suitable for both an enjoyable listening, both a pleasant dance. Ultimately an excellent and recommended listening.Folk Bulletin
Andirivieni is a precious album that ranges between aspects of manifold folk music idioms and brings out Filippo Gambetta’s composure in the performance of mature compositions.Jam (Italia, 2009)
The Genoese button accordion player make us a present of his most mature and intense album, with no need of stupefying the listener with special effects.Alias / Il Manifesto (Italia, 2009)
A fluid, mature, sharp and evocative album played by a solid trio with great team-work.Mondomix (Italia, 2009)
A Sharp and sparkling acoustic music album with selfconfident and contrapuntal performances that don’t drift along dangerous pastel shades and colours.Il Giornale della Musica (Italia, 2009)
Andirivieni is a sort of manifesto of a specific creative approach that we support in new folk music, characterized by the good balance of ideas and spontaneity. A gift for those who enjoy universal music and cosmopolitan diatonic accordion melodies.Folk Bullettin (Italia, 2009)
Gambetta is a true virtuoso, who knows very well where to go to: only Music,no freaking-out. The tunes are accessible and contagious. Also two surrealist-like compositions of Gambetta are nice to listen to, you won’t hear any negative comment on this Andrivieni from us.New Folk Sounds (Paesi Bassi 2009)
Andirivieni is another impressive solo outing from Filippo Gambetta. The variety of the material and the melodic nature make it an accessible and sublimely pleasurable experience.Michael Hingston
Filippo Gambetta uses folk as a tool in his own compositions. His melodeon playing is crisp and the music full of interesting rhythmic, harmonic and textural ideas.FOLK ROOTS (UK)
In Pria Goaea Filippo Gambetta displays considerable technique, fluid phrasing and deep feelingTHE TORONTO STAR (CANADA)
There’s no disputing the musician’s skill – the most spiritely passages display some dazzing fingerwork – but he also plays at an emotional level past his years, wrining surprisig depth out of his instrument.UPTOWN MAGAZINE (CANADA)
After Stria, this album confirms that the accordionist Filippo Gambetta can be considered a rising star of the ethnofolk scene. Every track of Pria Goaea have its own colour. Filippo Gambetta is a complete musician.MONDOMIX PAPIER (Francia)
Filippo Gambetta is by now a reality, young and rich of technique and talent, in the Italian and European button accordion scene. Imagination isn’t the most appropriate word to express the artistic skill of Filippo Gambetta, whose best and suitable description could be geniality. Stria is the best debut album of the last years.FOLK BULLETTIN (Italia)
Filippo Gambetta has been building a solid and deserved reputation as a melodeon virtuoso. Overall Stria is an in-depht and convincing journey in the countless musical narratives offered by the interplay between melodeon and different ccmbinaticns of bowed and plucked strings.SONGLINES (Regno Unito)
Stria is more than a first recording and the leader’s ideas, not only the musical ones, suggest a more than reassuring maturity…. composed and arranged by Gambetta himself, Stria provides pleasant images.BLOW UP (ITALY)
The Italian folk music scene seems to have found an international stature musician in the young Genoese button accordion player Filippo Gambetta.MUSICA! LA REPUBBLICA (Italia)
Stam and Gambetta play with uncommon empathy, going far beyond the occasional collaboration and coordinating skillfully their instruments.BLOW UP ! (Italia)
This album celebrates the collaboration of two exceptional musicians from two sides of the big pond.
The tunes spark of openness and the joyfulness of playing together.FOLKWORLD (DE)
The album by Emilyn Stam and Filippo Gambetta duo gives back the desire to play (and dance) beyond borders.
When they hit up a tune, it almost seems that all the glittering stardust of stateless notes turns us around, such is the sense of jubilant security they convey.IL GIORNALE DELLA MUSICA (Italia)
The two have a superbly intuitive understanding
[the album] is never impenetrably abstruse, and it is actually pretty emotional at timesFOLK ROOTS (UK)
Maestrale turns out to be a very nice, playful record that can make you really happy: played well and with pleasure and varied enough to keep your interest alive for all forty minutes.
Rootstime - Belgium
“Maestrale” is the unstoppable breath of folk music that know how to look ahead. A work that reinvigorates the tradition by programming ten pieces with exquisite dancing lightness that cross sound geographies, retaining an enviable melodic hold.Blogfoolk (Italia)
Gambetta, one of the protagonists of the international scene on his instrument, insists on the dual nature of the repertoire: for dancing and for listening. It is joyful music, it never tires.Rete Due CSR Switzerland
Above all, it is nice to point out how this CD flows with a sort of joyful intensity, almost without detachment between one song and another, despite the many sources it drinks: thanks to a superior instrumental class, and well-thought-out ideas. Clear.
Guido Festinese – The Journal of MusicIl Giornale della Musica (Italia)
With dancing grace and an unbridled imagination in inventing new melodies that know of roots to be used as a positive example for those who believe that acoustic folk is museum immobility. It shows us once more that tradition is not the icy cult of ashes, as Mahler said.Il Manifesto (Italy)
A trio of Ligurians open to the sounds of the world. The compositions are synthetic creatures not at all robotic, with a beating heartBlow Up (Italia)