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RAMI ATASSI
I am a multidisciplinary creator working across music, media, and technology. I build systems that help people learn, grow, and perform at the highest level.
Practice Areas
Music Education
I run Guitar Tactics, where I have taught hundreds of guitarists in person and online. My upcoming course, Modal Mastery (launching January 2025), distills my improvisation framework into a structured and modern learning system.
Marketing Consulting
Through Tune Up Consulting (founded 2017), I help founder-led companies punch above their weight with high-performance digital strategy, creative production, and automation.
Original Music Projects
I lead The Cosmic Dance Band, release my own original music, and help run Midnight Tea, a Chicago-based creative music organization dedicated to improvised music and cross-cultural collaboration.
Creative Highlights
- Composer for THE LEGEND OF KINGDOM COME (2024) and director of its Kickstarter campaign which raised more than 465,000 dollars
- Dancing Together (Ropeadope Records, 2023) with The Cosmic Dance Band
- Best Original Music winner at the 2022 Fine Arts Film Festival for the feature film Bad Animal
- Performances at Pitchfork Music Festival (2018) and SXSW (2019)
- Guitar on SKYLANDING (2016), produced by Yoko Ono
Press
The Cosmic Dance Band blends sounds of the Middle East with jazz harmony and modern sonics. This group and its combined spirit informs the heart of his latest album, Dancing Together, a procession of desert-baked rhythms and intoxicating hooks, which marks Atassi's arrival as a major player.
The Cosmic Dance Band sounds like what might happen if you had a left-field mix of psychedelic and jazz artists, Mdou Moctar, Wes Montgomery, Cave, the Natural Information Society, in your blunt rotation.
For Rami Atassi, sonic inspiration extends far beyond the city's borders. He has amassed an eclectic range of influences, desert guitar, jazz, Tropicália, samba, Arabic folk music, and Afrobeat, that populate his music.
Want to talk about a project?
Please email me at rami [at] ramiatassi [dot] com