MASSIVAN - Sambita Melankolika

Massivan´s personal and musical journey led him to the beautiful island of Formentera (next to Ibiza) quite some time ago already. And while listening to the new album of the „Blue Bar Formentera“ resident DJ and now happy family father, you can definitely say that he feels truly „satisfied“!
His last album „Family With 3 Hearts“ (released on renowned label Pschent Records) put his name on the radar of the international dancefloor- and lounge elite at last, prestigeous compilation entries for a.o. „Buddha Bar“ & „Hotel Costes“ came as no surprise by that time.
Supported by first call musicians like belgian guitar/bass virtuoso Nicolas Fiszman, top notch drummer Wolfgang Haffner and global electronica maestro ZEB as well as singers Bea Luna and Scheherazade Stone, it was mainly the opportunity to produce music with his 70 year old father Mirco - a long time violinist for the Zurich opera – that made Massivan feel that things are coming full circle finally on his fith album „Satisfied“. This iTunes exclusive release features a bonus album with remixes, edits and unreleased bonus tracks!

The man they call Massivan (aka Ivan Pezzini), was actually born the son of an italian violinist in Switzerland back in 1971. After enjoying a classical music education, playing the violin for 8 years as a kid and then later studying drums at the American Institue of Music (Vienna), he took a left turn careerwise in the early 90s and got deep into audio engineering and deejaying. And as „change“ had always definitely been a very familiar term in his life, Ivan decided to take on the challenge and went for the change.

As a co-founder of a label called Modest Records, our blessed swiss Italian protagonist then decided to literally become a progressive house activist, releasing (and charting) various influential singles under the „Josef’s Ruhe“ moniker (with full support from various genre dj dons like John Digweed, Timo Maas, Steve Lawler and Sasha). Those, in combination with a residency at Zürich’s legendary Labyrinth club, made Massivan catch a brief glimpse of dj jet setting and around-the-world-party lifestyle. By 2002, Ivan had scored a nice record deal as 50% of CALMSTREET, but due to the label going bust right after establishing CALMSTEEET’s longplayer „Third Wave“ on a global scale, he had to come up with a new masterplan altogether.

It was then when Massivan decided to move to Formentera, letting the pretty spiritual island vibes take control of his creativity (and personality of course)... full on. With his debut solo album „Daylife“ – a sort of jazzed up chill house affair - and the follow up, the heavily club music influenced „Massenwahn“ (released in 2006), as the results of his personal, spiritual and creative growth. Prestigeous compilation entries for a.o. Buddha Bar & Hotel Costes came as no surprise by that time.

But Massivan wasn’t satisfied just yet - the following albums „Wide“ (2008) and, in 2010, „Family With 3 Hearts“ (released on renowned label Pschent Records) were both destined to put his name on the radar of the international dancefloor- and lounge elite at last, as did his mesmerizing album production for Formentera based Singer Bea Luna.

And now, Massivan finally felt truly „Satisfied“ – about time to release his 5th (!) solo album by the same name!

Supported by first call musicians like belgian guitar/bass virtuoso Nicolas Fiszman, top notch drummer Wolfgang Haffner as well as singers Bea Luna and Scheherazade Stone, it was mainly the opportunity to produce music with his 70 year old father Mirco - a long time violinist for the Zurich opera – that made Massivan feel that things are coming full circle finally. The rare sonic space where the soul of a dj becomes one with the majestic beauty of classical strings.

„To me, all music is one,“ Massivan states – and smiles. „In the end, you could call ‚Satisfied’ a sort of downtempo concept album – and at the same time it’s also an ode to my father, who enabled me to first and foremost be in love with music!“