::the project ::

Moonstone Project is the ambitious musical creature of italian guitarist Matt Filippini.

The first album, originally released back in 2006 as "Time To Take A Stand" is a collection of classic rock songs, written by Filippini himself with the collaboration of songwriters close to him...The music is influenced by British classic bluesy hard rock of 70's...you find bits of Free, Hendrix, Deep Purple, Led Zep...sounding as a 2000s record.

Not only a nostalgic affair:-))

As a bonus the album features guest appearances of a bunch of true Rock Legends: Ian Paice (Deep Purple, Whitesnake, Gary Moore, Paul Mc Cartney....) , Eric Bloom (Blue Oyster Cult), Steve Walsh (Kansas), Glenn Hughes (Trapeze, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, HTP..), Graham Bonnet (Rainbow, Impellitteri, Alcatrazz, Michael Shenker Group), Kelly Keeling (Michael Shenker Group, John Norum, Dokken, Stuarth Smith, Erik Norlander, George Lynch, Carmine Appice & many others), James Christian (House Of Lords) and Tony Franklin (Firm, Whitesnake, Blue Murder & a million others!), Carmine Appice (Vanilla Fudge, Blue Murder, King Cobra, Rod Stewart....everyone!), Paul Shortino (Rough Cutt, Quiet Riot, The Cutt).

Additional musicians to embellish this unique musical adventure are Enrico Sarzi & Alex Mori, Maurizio Corriga, Nik Mazzucconi, Chris Catena, Gianluca Tagliavini, Alex Del Vecchio, Daniel Flores, Johan Niemann.

The cd has been recorded @ Silicon Groove/Solid Groove Studios (Bergamo, Italy). Produced by: Matt Filippini & Max Numa. Co-produced by Vadim Galitsyn. Engineered by Vadim Galitsyn and Yonathan Ruckhman.

From 2006 to 2008 Matt Filippini played several shows in Europe with Moonstone Project featuring very special guests like Ian Paice, Glenn Hughes, Carmine Appice and Bernie Marsden (ex Whitesnake).

May 2008 the album has been reissued (on Mausoleum Records) with a new title "Hidden In Time", a revamped artwork in a deluxe digipak edition and 3 bonus tracks featuring Ian Paice and Glenn Hughes.

BUY IT HERE!

In June 2008 Matt with the help of the talented Alessandro Del Vecchio completed the new Moonstone Project studio album to be released somewhere in 2009. It will sound more like a real band than just a studio project and will feature some special guest as well to be announced soon!

TO BE CONTINUED..........