Alejo Nobili holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology, from University de Palermo (Buenos Aires, Argentina). He’s specialized in Jungian Psychology and CBT.
He is a Music Producer, Composer, Pianist and Multi-instrumentalist. He has participated in +100 music productions, including albums of his own authorship, as well as productions for worldwide artists with various musical genres, and also Film OSTs.
He’s the creator of the YouTube channel (+4k subs) called “Salir del Laberinto” (in Spanish) where he shares his research on Personal Growth, Western Esotericism and Hypnosis from a Jungian Psychology’s perspective.
He has undertaken musical research trips to India, Greece, and Scandinavia, and produced a documentary about his musical research in Crete, Greece, titled “My trip to Crete” which is available in his YouTube Channel (in Spanish).
In terms of postgraduate training, he holds a Diploma in Jungian Psychology from the Argentine Jungian Association, 2022, and continues with ongoing education.
In 2021, he presented the results of his research on psychology and music, within the framework of Neuropsychology, at the UCES Research Conference (University of Business and Social Sciences) in a paper titled Musical Emotional Judgment in Adults from Argentina and India with Musical Training.
This research aimed to describe musical emotional judgment and the type of valence in an adult from Argentina and an adult from India, both with musical training, and compare the results between participants.
The research was supervised by Dr. Wanda Rubinstein, Associate Professor of Neuropsychology in the Psychology and Neuropsychopathology Programs of Music Therapy at UBA (Buenos Aires University), Main Professor at the University of Palermo, and Member of the Board of the Argentine Neuropsychological Society (SONEPSA).
He studied Indian Classical Music (Hindustani) in India with Harsh Narayan, Pt. Brij Narayan, and Aruna Narayan, members of the Pt. Ram Narayan family, specializing in the legendary bowed string instrument called Sarangi.
He is one of the few professional performers of this instrument coming from Latin America and also Worldwide, besides not being an Indian born musician. He’s a renowned as a session musician recording Sarangi from his ability to play this instrument in western music, like jazz, folk, singer/songwriter, cinematic and world music.
The sarangi is known for its captivating sound and the extraordinary technical difficulty required to master it, which is why it is an instrument that is virtually on the brink of extinction. It has over 30 sympathetic strings that vibrate in harmony with its ancient melodic sound.
Since 2011, he has been a Kriyaban of Self-Realization Fellowship, the school founded in 1920 by Paramahansa Yogananda, the author of the renowned book Autobiography of a Yogi. Kriya Yoga has various meanings and aspects, but in this case, it mainly refers to an ancient and advanced meditation technique taught by Paramahansa Yogananda to the West through his school.
He is a performer of the Cretan Lyra, an ancient Greek instrument descended from the Constantinople Lyra. He traveled to Crete, Greece, and researched Cretan music there. He has produced and created a documentary about the folk instruments of the island of Crete (Greece), where he not only visited some of the most renowned luthiers on the island, such as Stagakis Manolis, but also interviewed one of the greatest exponents of Cretan music: Ross Daly.
The documentary premiered on April 24, 2020, and is available for free on the YouTube channel “Salir del Laberinto” under the title “My Journey to Crete” (available in Spanish).
As a Pianist and Composer of the jazz duo The SoHo Rentals, they released five albums: Vol. I, Vol. II, TSR33, Metanoia, and Transición.
Their album titled TSR33 was performed live during their tour in NYC, USA, in July/August 2013. The tour was Sponsored and Declared of Cultural Interest by the Argentine National Secretariat of Culture.
They have published their own cover versions of contemporary music in a modern jazz style, such as Björk’s Jóga, Neil Young’s Don’t let it bring you down, David Bowie’s Heroes, Led Zeppelin’s Kashmir, Radiohead’s Pyramid song, Depeche Mode’s Behind the wheel, among others
He graduated from EMBA, Escuela de Música de Buenos Aires where he also had the opportunity to participate in masterclasses with musicians and bands such as Richard Bona, Victor Wooten, Jeff Berlin, Mike Stern, Javier Malosetti, Mario Parmisano, The Bad Plus, among others.
In 2016, he released Constantinopla, published through Club del Disco and selected as Album of the Month in the “World Folklores” section of Club del Disco in November 2016.
The album features guest artists such as Julián Polito on viola da gamba, Sami Abadi on violin and electronics, Facundo Cruz on sitar, Sergio Ribnikov Gunnarsson on Irish bouzouki, among others.
The record includes musical compositions that blend sounds and instruments from both the East and the West.
Here, Alejo Nobili plays both Piano and Sarangi. He has also produced, mixed and mastered it in his studio called Bamboo Studio, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
In 2014, he traveled to Scandinavia and researched the indigenous culture of the Sami people in northern Norway, establishing direct contact with their culture and ancestral music.
He composed the original music for the documentary Extremos: Viaje a Karukinka (2015), directed by Juan Manuel Ferraro and Federico Molentino. The film explores the intersection between the present-day life of western civilization in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, and the remnants of the Selk’nam people, the ancestral native people from this land, whose last pure representative, Ángela Loij, passed away in 1974.
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