Profoundly inspired by the painter Giorgio DeChirico...

I've played out in the NY metro area throughout the last decade. Lately as my work has been taking me to Eastern Europe, I've been playing at various music venues in Kiev (Ukraine) and Tbilisi (Georgia) of all places! You'll never know where I will turn up!

Distribution has changed. Record labels are finding it harder to justify their existence. Never has the playing field been more level. Everybody (and their brother) can now distribute their music online.

No. Music is not my career. I already have one of those. It is my passion however and I like the idea of making my music available to anyone who is interested in giving it a listen. The Internet has allowed me to do that very easily.

I've been playing music since I was a kid. I learned drums first in grade school and then someone gave me a guitar as a birthday present. I tooled around with it until someone tuned it for me and showed me a few basic chords. I taught myself the rest. It wasn't until I got into The Beatles that I wanted to actually "play" and write music as well. To me there was never a point in playing unless you're playing your own music. I've been in and out of bands over the years (mostly out these days), but I am always writing and recording when time allows.

I recently realized the dream of having a real home studio to create in. Affectionately known as "Yanni Road", it is where all of the tracks posted here were recorded.

The Beatles, 60s Brit-Pop, 90s Brit-pop, "Exile"-era Stones, World Music, Nick Drake, Burt Bachrach, David Bowie, Damon Albarn, Italian pop, Blues, Brian Wilson, John Barry, Ambient music, Elliott Smith, Elton John, Brian Eno, Baroque music, Glam Rock, Power Pop...just about anything that spills out of a speaker and into my ear... .

Anywhere in the Mediterranean where it's warm and dry and always sunny! Given the chance I'd move to Rome in a heartbeat. Either that or a Greek island in the Aegean.

10 fingers, 1 set of vocal chords, a brain (or half a brain depending on how you see it).......AND a Roland XP-80 keyboard with a bunch of expansion cards added in, 2 Fender telecasters - an American standard tele tuned standard and a reissue '72 tele custom tuned like Keef's (5 strings, open G)....both typically going through my Vox AC30 or Fender Blues Junior, A beautiful burst Elitist Epiphone Casino, my treasured Rickenbacker 4001v63 bass, a Martin DM acoustic, An Epiphone AJ500 acoustic, a Mapex drum kit, an old rickety piano and various resources for percussion too numerous to name, PLUS a growing collection of outboard gear including an amazing Neumann TLM 49, a bunch of mics from China, all at times going through a chandler TG2 preamp and a focusrite octopre preamp (used primarily for drums) and a bunch of other things....all recorded onto a Protools Rig running on a Mac Quad....**phew**

But wait, there's more!.....A couple of new additions to the guitar family - A beautiful Fireglo Rickenbacker 330 (circa 1988), and a lovely Les Paul Traditional (circa 2008) in what I call the "Jimmy Page Tea Burst" finish. I crank this up through the AC30 with just the right amount of top boost and my inner Mick Ronson comes out!

New amps here at Yanni Road include a vintage Ampeg VT-22 (a la Keef's amp of choice on "Exile on Main Street"), and a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe. Both have been recently re-tubed and now have face melting capabilities at the appropriate volume!

"The Greeks took Troy because they kept on trying!"
Thucydides

"There is only one evil in the world, ignorance, and only one good, knowledge"
Socrates