Andrea Gobbi

Andrea Gobbi is an Italian record producer, mixing and mastering engineer, multi-instrumentalist and composer. Originally from Rome, he moved to Scotland in 2001 and is currently based in Glasgow.
== Career ==
=== Musician ===
In 2001 Andrea founded and was also composer, arranger and producer of folk and electronic band Laki Mera. in 2004. The band used a blend of acoustic and electronic instruments as well as live samples of machinery to create electro pop songs.
While being part of the band Laki Mera, Andrea Gobbi together with band members Laura Donnelly and Keir Long released their debut album Clutter in 2008, The proximity Effect in 2011.
Andrea's current work is mainly at his music studio Carrier Waves in Glasgow, although he still performs live as an electronic musician with Jarlath Henderson’s band. Work in his studio entails creating beats and soundscapes, triggering samples of acoustic instruments through the use of an array of different electronic devices, such as the Percussa wireless audiocubes.
===Producer and engineer===
Andrea’s work as a producer and studio engineer started to get publicly noticed in 2013 when three of the albums he produced and engineered featured in the Scottish Herald’s Top 50 Albums of the Year : Turn all Memory to White Noise by Laki Mera , Later...When TV Turns to Static by Glasvegas And Airfix by Ross Ainslie and Jarlath Henderson.
He is regularly working with well-established and award winning artists such as Jarlath Henderson, Treacherous Orchestra, Talisk, Hamish Napier, Ross Ainslie and Ali Hutton.
Gobbi mixed, recorded and produced two albums that received five stars reviews and were selected as Top of the World records by folk magazine Songlines: Sanctuary by Ross Ainslie and Hearts Broken and Heads Turned by Jarlath Henderson.
At present he works for the band Talisk as production manager and live engineer. He also produced, engineered and mixed their album Beyond. The band have won various awards, including the Belhaven Bursary for Innovation in Music, BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, MG Alba Scots Trad Music Awards among others. 
He contributed to the creation of folk duo Ross Ainslie and Ali Hutton, for whom he regularly works as a producer. Ainslie and Hutton won a BBC Radio 2 Folk Award for Best Duo in 2017 and were nominated for the same award in 2018.
Andrea has worked as a live sound engineer with many Scottish artists since the start of his career in 2005. These include the 11-piece band Treacherous Orchestra, for whom he also co-engineered their most recent album Grind.
From 2011 throughout 2014 he worked as live engineer for Glaswegian indie band Glasvegas. The band also worked with Andrea in his studio on all of their recordings during that time, with special focus on their 3rd album, both mixed and recorded by Andrea in 2012. 
Since 2013 he has regularly been a live sound engineer at the main arena of the Rainforest World Music Festival which takes place in Borneo, Malaysia. 
Since 2017 Andrea has been the main sound engineer for Showcase Scotland Expo, an established music organisation committed to promote mainly traditional and folk Scottish music around the world.
==Awards==
Andrea Gobbi won a Scottish Trad Award for Producer of the Year in 2018 and was nominated for Studio Engineer of the Year in 2019.
== Discography ==
=== Mixing and mastering engineer ===
*2011 - Mama Siberia – Mama Siberia
*2013 - Seams – Distance and Time
*2013 - Mans Ruin – Working for the Man
*2013 - Ross Ainslie & Jarlath Henderson – Airfix
*2013 - Variable Timeline – Nouve Forme
*2013 - Inveraray & District Pipe Band - Ascension live
*2015 - Rura – Despite the Dark
*2015 - Treacherous Orchestra - Grind
*2015 - Ross Ainslie – Remembering / 2017 - Sanctuary
*2016 - Claire Hastings – Between River and Railway
*2016 - Hamish Nappier – The River / 2018 - The Railway
*2016 - Ross Ainslie & Ali Hutton – Symbiosis / 2018 - Symbiosis II
*2016 - Jarlath Henderson – Hearts Broken, Heads Turned 2019 - Raw
*2017 - Dougie Mc Cance – Composed
*2017 - Old Blind Dogs – Room with a View
*2018 - Talisk – Beyond
*2018 - Imar – Avalanche
*2018 - Kinnaris Quintet – Free One
*2018 - Mairearad & Anna – Farran
*2018 - Innes Watson – Guitar Colloquium
*2018 - Gary Innes – Imminent
*2019 - Roberto Cassani – Oh…L’Amore
*2019 - Will McNicol with Innotet – Volume One
*2019 - Larún – When the City Sleeps
*2019 - INNO X JAR – A Moment In Time
*2019 - Niteworks – Castle of Light
*2019 - Ciaran Ryan – Banjaxed
*2020 - Hamish Napier – The Woods
===Producer and arranger===
*2009 - Biorn – Verso Nord
*2013 - Variable Timeline – Nuove Forme
*2016 - Jarlath Henderson – Hearts Broken, Heads Turned
*2016 - Hamish Napier – The River / 2018 - The Railway
*2016 - Ross & Ali – Symbiosis / 2018 - Symbiosis II
*2017 - Black Market Tune - Drifters & Vagabonds, (sampling, percussion)
*2017 - Old Blind Dogs – Room with a View
*2018 - Niteworks - Air Fàir and Là
*2018 - Talisk – Beyond
*2018 - Kinnaris Quintet – Free One
*2018 - Ross Ainslie – Sanctuary
*2020 - Hamish Napier – The Woods
== References ==
== External Links ==
* Andrea Gobbi Official website
* Andrea Gobbi on Linkedin
* Andrea Gobbi on Facebook
* Andrea Gobbi on Instagram
* Andrea Gobbi on Vimeo
Category:Mastering engineers
Category:Italian record producers
Category:21st-century Italian musicians
Category:Living people
Category:Multi-instrumentalists
Category:Italian musicians
Category:Italian composers