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eRiK was born in 1980.
His musical career began at age 15.
Slash, Marty Freedman & Satriani all unknowingly became his teachers, through their Cd's.
In 2005 he was the guitarist in a band called TBM.
With this band he composed and recorded some demo tapes.The band was formed by Sergio Piccaluga (Keyboards), Walter Atzeni (Drums),
Moreno Tolu (Bass) Marco Pinna (Guitars) Angelo Mirigliani (Vocals).This group disbanded after 2 years, when eRiK received an offer to join KER, formed By
Marco Orrù (Drums), Marco Medda (Guitars), Danilo Toro (Bass), Giovanni Fanzecco (Vocals).
With the new band, he recorded some new progressive tracks called "Epoca Sbagliata" and "Il gioco"at the Switch Studio, where he met Brian and Yan Maillard, who at the time were members of the band M.A.P.O.
The band KER very quickly folded, and Marino Maillard (Guitars and Band leader of M.A.P.O.) asked eRiK to join his band to complete the line up.But the problem was that they needed a bass player.
For the first time eRiK started playing the bass guitar, and joined the band.
He studied bass techniques and all that he needed to play on all of the M.A.P.O. track list, and the tour started.
In 2001 they composed and recorded the album called "If Only". It was then that he clicked the "START" button for the first time on a Pc and began experimenting with midi sequencers, synths and HD Recording software.
ERiK started sequencing many keyboard parts from instrumental songs like "The Dance of eternity",
Paradigm Shift, Universal Mind, and more from many other artists like “Dream Theater”, “Liquid Tension Experiment”,”Steve Vai” and “Lobotomis”.
Finally, eRik Brian & Yan decide to form an instrumental Trio to play live. This trio was called Solid Session III, and they embarked on a long tour in their country.
At the same time, M.A.P.O. quit their tour, and the Trio left the band to compose some new material.
This new material was more "Heavy Metal" and now Solid Session III needed only a small change by adding a vocalist and a
Keyboardist. Enter Samuele Pintus & Americo Rigoldi.
The new line up was now perfect, and they started to record the new album.
In 2004 the band changed its name to SolidVision releasing "Eleven", the first release of the band.
eRiK then joined the Ibanez Artist Roster Endorsing a Btb Prestige Series Bass. At the same time he made the www.solidvision.org official website.
In 2006 a new "SolidVision" prog metal CD called "The Hurricane" appeared on “Metal scene”.
eRiK then started a deal with eSound (Hartke XLight Strings) and became a "Dominici" band member, later to compose and record the second part
of "O3 A Trilogy", the solo project by the former Dream Theater singer "Charlie Dominici".
In 2007 InsideOut Music released DOMINICI "O3 A TRILOGY PART 2".
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