Tommaso Colliva is a Grammy Winning, engineer, mix engineer and remix artist. Over his career to date he has worked with
Muse, Damon Albarn, Franz Ferdinand, Phoenix, Greg Dulli, Mark Lanegan, Katie Melua, Mutt Lange, Butch Vig, Jim Abbiss, Rich Costey, Spike Stent, John Parish and
Afterhours amongst many others.
Starting his career as an assistant at Officine Meccaniche, the world-famous studio in Milan, Tommaso worked his way quickly up to chief engineer, working on recordings for
Erykah Badu,
Shania Twain,
Michael Nyman and
Manu Chao along the way.
In 2005, Tommaso met
Muse during the recording of their breakthrough record ‘Black Holes & Revelations’ when they recorded strings and overdubs at Officine Meccaniche. The pairing clicked and Colliva has become a long-term collaborator and friend, his role progressing from engineer and additional production to mixing two tracks from Grammy nominated album ‘The 2nd Law’ and co-producing latest release ‘Drones’ which won ‘Best Rock Album’ at the
2016 Grammy Awards.
Colliva also has a long-standing relationship with Italian rock veterans,
Afterhours. Initially engineering 2005’s ‘Ballads for Little Hyenas’, produced by
Greg Dulli of
Afghan Wigs and released worldwide by
One Little Indian, Tommaso then produced following three
Afterhours‘ albums ‘I Milanesi Ammazzano il Sabato’ (2010), ‘Padania’ (2013) and "Folfiri o Folfox" all of which topped the Italian Album Chart.
He founded and produces Italian cult retro-funk outfit,
Calibro 35, who have released 5 studios albums to date and been sampled by
Dr Dre,
Jay Z and
Child Of Lovamongst others.
Tommaso has won
Producer of the Year awards from several notable Italian organisations including at MEI in 2012 and at MarteAwards in 2011.
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