Corrado Rustici is a pioneering guitarist in both progressive
and fusion rock. He has performed with a range of artists, from
Whitney Houston to Miles Davis to Zakir Hussein, and has acted
as producer for some of the best selling musicians of all time,
including Eric Clapton, Sinead O'Connor, Luciano Pavaroti, and
Andrea Bocelli. In this exclusive Unbound interview
with WIE founder (and fellow musician) Andrew Cohen,
Corrado speaks about his past, his path, the nature of the
creative heart, mind, and soul, and what he thinks integral
music is—and could be. Their conversation proceeds with a
natural ease and clarity, from the biographical to the
philosophical and spiritual, interrupted only by
music—with featured selections from Corrado's new album,
Deconstruction of a Postmodern Musician, interspersed
throughout. They close with a discussion of the ever-perplexing
question of why some great artists can exemplify the highest
attainments in their creative life yet in their personal life
express something quite different, and why sometimes, in that
rare confluence of God-given talent and personal character, an
artist seeks to be aligned and unified, in thought and deed,
with the infinite source of their creativity.
“A musician is, like everything else, a whole/part
manifestation of the human cultural and spiritual place in this
universe of context within context. He is also in the unusual
position of being able to operate at many different levels of
the Universal hierarchy. The Holonic musician—within
the hierarchy of Spirit.”
Corrado Rustici
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Recorded on: 7/26/2007
Arts and Creativity
Integral Theory