Vincenzo Pastano and Marc Urselli Music downloads store

Vincenzo Pastano and Marc Urselli Music downloads store

Past the Mark is a transatlantic collaboration between Vince Pastano (one of Italy’s most in-demand guitar players) and Marc Urselli (New York-based 3-time Grammy award winning producer/ engineer/composer). The project started as long-distance collaborative-composing experiment back in 2003, but unfortunately due to their insanely busy schedules, it took a little over 7 years for them to write enough material for a full album. However, in the meantime, Pastano released at least 5 other records of his own and Urselli recorded and/or mixed around 100 records in that timeframe. Musically, Past the Mark is a mixture of the composers’ backgrounds in electronic music and rock. The production is entirely electronic-based and mixes drum’n bass, ambient, world music and downtempo into a unique blend of sampled acoustic and electronic sounds. All the melodies, riffs and counterparts are played by the electric guitar, which is turn is treated, effected, sliced and diced digitally. The compositional process always started with an idea of either one of the musicians, who then would send it to the other to continue writing on and around the original idea.