Remembering Angelo Bruschini Guitarist For Massive Attack and The Blue Aeroplanes
Having written about the delightful melodic guitar band, the Blue Aeroplanes, last year (see below), it was a tough one to hear of the death of their founding guitarist Angelo Bruschini due to lung cancer recently.
At just 62 there would have been many more riffs and guitar flourishes to come.
His more recent home after that stellar Blue Aeroplanes flight of duty had been adding colour and aural soundscapes to Massive Attack. He was an accomplished guitarist with a technique that always served the song.
‘Swagger’ and ‘Beat Songs’ were the albums that I latched onto in 1990 and 1991. Jacket Hangs from ‘Swagger’ has it all that you want in an indie art rock song. With an opening riff that brings in the other players and adds Swirling guitars, lead, and backing vocal, a descending guitar line that resets the song for each part. At its heart, Angelo was weaving his magic. Song after song delivers a collective effort, but those flourishes that lift each song to new heights emanate from the man with the six-string sequences.
He was about early on and helped out on ‘Tolerance’ in 1986 and then the guitar backbone for albums ‘Friendloveraeroplane’ in 1988 to four albums later with ‘Life Model’ in 1994. Whilst there was the occasional live…
