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Il Drago è Astratto

Earth ******** Sea ********* Sky Dance ******* Music ****** Poetry Snow ******** Moon ****** Cherry Blossom >>

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Quilibrì
Il Drago è Astratto

Everything Is Whatever

Expressionist, grotesque and sardonic, nostalgically disillusioned and looking for a new aesthetic "ideology". Danilo Gallo's new work as a leader is more and more tight-lipped in its micro-stories. Short stories to suggest, using contrast, vast universes (here nocturnal, there pearl-like), malaise, mockery, nostalgia, claims and absences. >>

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Gallo & The Roosters
Everything Is Whatever

Codename: Ohmlaut

Slippery but abrasive sounds like shark skin, delicious as an resistor-würstel flavoured omelette. >>

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Piero Bittolo Bon Jümp The Shark
Codename: Ohmlaut

From Time To Time

It is a manifesto rather than a tribute. Seven first takes, seven unique pieces carved in a fine wood by almost steady hands. >>

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Emanuele Maniscalco
From Time To Time

4 Stories

A spontaneous and totally improvised session, documented by the exact event sequence of this musical encounter. An organic live recording, treated with a minimum mastering and absolutely no edits. >>

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Matt Renzi/Stefano Senni/Jimmy Weinstein
4 Stories

To Infinity And Beyond

Before Gagarin, this is the voice of a russian cosmonaut who never made it back from the outer space and whose history the world never knew about. >>

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Ja Vigiu Plamja
To Infinity And Beyond

8888

Small cells of instant invention are the cards of a quickly built castle, willing to share its powerful fragility and why not, to blow on them ... for the mere sake of chaos and his mysterious order. >>

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Falsopiano
8888

It's Nine O'Clock

Happened at nine in the evening, the same day of the same year. >>

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The Humans
It's Nine O'Clock

Fernando

A good artistic fellowship needs lucky encounters and a balance of personalities that is often hard to reach. >>

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Pepe Medri & Timbuctù Orkestra
Fernando

Sorapis

Newly awarded as European jazz musician of the year from the Franch Jazz Academy, Franco D'Andrea carries on his fellowship with El Gallo Rojo with this second work. >>

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Franco D'Andrea Quartet
Sorapis

Da Lontano Era Un'Isola

Seen from a distance, some rocks look like a small world with their continents, islands, seas. The astronauts see the Earth like that, a planet wrapped in clouds. >>

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Bandello Corini Battaglia
Da Lontano Era Un'Isola

The Big Empty

An austere, beautiful cd. Massaron’s relation to jazz is somewhere between a young Derek Bailey fighting his way out, and an older Derek Bailey making his peace with what’s left. >>

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Simone Massaron
The Big Empty

The Manne I Love! (vol.1 & vol.2)

This cd is an act of Love for the late great American drummer, composer and band leader, Shelly Manne. Most of the material on it was either written or recorded by Shelly during a career long more than four decades, from the late 1930's until his premature death in 1984. >>

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Zeno De Rossi Shtik
The Manne I Love! (vol.1 & vol.2)

Ecce Combo

The double-sided core of Laser Pigs' music relies in the balance between formal strictness and the irresistible impulse to dissolve the form itself. >>

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Alfonso Santimone Laser Pigs
Ecce Combo

Elegy For The Punk Movement

... a research on musical "gradients": black is not black in itself, but black in relation to the white that comes before. Differences, variations, constantly mutable parameters, moving between written and improvised sounds. Musical relativism. >>

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Orange Room
Elegy For The Punk Movement

We Hope We Understand!

The result of this recording sure is "here and now"; due to the high grade of interplay among Italian and German musicians, the wish of understanding each other and understanding the musical materials involved, with their implicit and explicit influences, seems to be fulfilled. >>

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Giorgio Pacorig & Danilo Gallo Zwei Mal Drei
We Hope We Understand!

God Fried Finger

Musicians as biological databases, subtle consciences that give their own memories a new employment. Those memories are redeemed from the tyranny of their original purposes and nostalgic reminiscence. Musicians as liberating - and rescued - souls. >>

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Blonde Zeros
God Fried Finger

Fresh Frozen

Fresh Frozen was first through composed, but then the "guts" took over. The lines crumpled in many improvised creeks. An apparently pure soul showed its imperfections. >>

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Fresh Frozen
Fresh Frozen

Six Dances Under

These tunes are aimed to make structures where the sonic improviser has to live with the space bonds, and the body improviser has to live with the sound bonds. Movable structures whose overall meaning slips from the control of the individuals. It's the ultimate will to generate communication. >>

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Antonio Borghini & Malebranche
Six Dances Under

When The Teacher

Einfalt is a neolanguage for chamber music improvisers, a labyrinthic speech to the wandering listeners. >>

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Einfalt
When The Teacher

L.O.V.E.

Baritone sax and drums. Banjo and harmonica. A duo without boundaries, which uses its absurd logic to infringe the most sanctimonious listeners' taboos. >>

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Pospaghemme
L.O.V.E.

Saints And Sinners

A hagiography that features a few saints and lots of sinners: it is the second recording effort from one of the most persuasive piano trios on the Italian scene, ... >>

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Rope
Saints And Sinners

Half The Fun

Half The Fun is an instantaneous composition experiment, an unpredictable score conveyed by the sharp conversation of four equal voices. >>

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Franco D'Andrea Quartet
Half The Fun

Blind Tail

Disenchanted music, guided from a restless instinct. A journey that loves obstacles, sudden turns and uproarious cracks. >>

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Headless Cat
Blind Tail

Off-Site Meetings

Misty textures ripped by iridescent melodic events. Imaginative sketches, free from the genre pattern. Long sonic arcades slip into the bends of a silent space, while meetings of visionary artists happen covertly in the Europe of the crisis. >>

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Giulio Corini Libero Motu
Off-Site Meetings

Sugoi Sentai! Gattai!!

If jazz is dead, if the great masters aren't as great as they used to be, if Charlie Parker and Miles Davis' music is a relic of the past, how can you explain this record? >>

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Piero Bittolo Bon Jump The Shark
Sugoi Sentai! Gattai!!

Periferiche sospese

This band looks like a sort of anti-spaceship, a hand-crafted machine with a long range, well made and well driven. It doesn't make noises and cries, but a sound that smells of musk, damp ground, pulverized stone. It doesn't hurtle up, but down to a dark-toned musical world. >>

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Dimitri Sillato Playground
Periferiche sospese

The Exploding Note Theory

You might describe his music as very mysterious, full of surprises, kind of chamber music that partakes equally of jazz, rock, folk, and world influences to arrive at a very distinctive sound of its own ... >>

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Gallo & The Roosters + Gary Lucas
The Exploding Note Theory

Gagarin!

Electric sounds spreading in dreamlike and restless landscapes, haunted by low-fi ghosts. >>

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Mickey Finn + Cuong Vu
Gagarin!

Tirodarco

Animals of silence emerged from the light of the free wood, from nests and bushes, and it was clear that not for guile, not for fear they were closed in themselves and silent, but they were intent to listen. >>

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Tirodarco
Tirodarco

Memories of a Barber

How to deal with styles and repertoires coming from the past with a contemporary feeling, avoiding both revivalism and up-to-date deconstructionism? How to match lost and old-fashioned tunes with newborn themes? >>

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Houdini's Cage
Memories of a Barber

R.E.A.L.

From the set theory, an intersection of two bodies: K (Köln --> Cologne) and B (Berlin), consisting of all elements that can be found in both K and B (in German it's called Schnittmenge). >>

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Schmittmenge Meier
R.E.A.L.

cm 12x12

Beauty does not tolerate the ritual and the iteration of ritual. She is naked, unique, irreplaceable. She dreams, she makes the others dream, she creates worlds and worlds of dreams, also creates reality. Beyond Myth. >>

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Einfalt
cm 12x12

Musiker!

MKB's new musical exodus "narrates" to us, like a musical Chatwin, the gestures of Sam Musiker, Jewish Clarinet player from the postwar Big Apple, who with his recording Tanz (made with his father-in-law Dave Tarras, also a clarinet player, one of the greats of klezmer music) wrote one of the defining works of contemporary klezmer music. >>

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Meshuge Klezmer Band
Musiker!

La clinica del rasoio

Rollerball is the first human combustion engine and consists of five simple pistons, all manufactured in various Italian regions. This is its remarkable strength. World unique, Rollerball is a device that produces loud, rolling, blurred sounds. >>

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Rollerball
La clinica del rasoio

Orange Room

Beppe Scardino's two sides are well-represented in this work; on one side you'll find the sardonic Livorno native, salacious and shrewd. On the other side lies the tender, reflective, impassioned mediator. >>

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Orange Room
Orange Room

Psychocandy

Psychocandy: a soft acid trip with the unusual guitar brotherhood Volpi/Terragnoli: two worlds meeting through their extreme differences. Rather than emerge, the two guitars help crafting the plot of the bassist's quartet. >>

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Stefano Senni Saul Bass
Psychocandy

Cocktail Saturno

You, drink Cocktail Saturno! Raise the glasses! Toast! The blue color and intense flavor will take you into a cosmic and interstellar travel to enjoy very close the galaxy of a changing and amending flavour, like a chameleon. >>

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Standhard3io & Silvia Donati
Cocktail Saturno

Libero Motu

Placid, kammerspielt-like encounter of three individuals who show their temperaments to each other, like being in front of a mirror. >>

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Giulio Corini Libero Motu
Libero Motu

Comeglians

Free clashes of the "Furlania" (lands of Friuli) in that of the comelican valley, recorded during the small jazz festival organized by D'Agaro in August 2006. Gluttony allegiance towards its own free jazz background, as if it were the first time. >>

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Daniele D'Agaro Adriatics Orchestra
Comeglians

Me'or 'Einayim

Me'or 'Einayim is a precious collection of songs coming from the heart of contemporary Jewish culture. It is the clear definition of a common ground, skipping through time and space yet maintaining a sense of shining, desperate vitality ... >>

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Zeno de Rossi Shtik
Me'or 'Einayim

Achtung!

Achtung is an extraordinary work on the quality, weight and density of the single sonoric events therein, and the faculty of organizing them within a continuum which is a vehicle for deep esthetic sensations. It is an unimpeded descent into the territories of surprise, a vertiginous mapping, in real time, of the many worlds which exist in the linguistic universe of new jazz. >>

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Wergeld
Achtung!

Dudek!

Music in its purest state. Improvisation intended as a method of instant collective composition. Sonorous symbols which are as bare and essential as Zen aphorisms are dropped onto hypnotic and feverish pulsations. >>

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Mickey Finn
Dudek!

Pequenas Flores do Inferno

A dialogue between deep and conscious sensibilities. An exploration into the extreme resources of the two instruments, led among extraordinarily mobile and varied tonal colours. >>

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Achille Succi e Salvatore Maiore
Pequenas Flores do Inferno

Crooning The Anger

Distinct traces in the air. Clarity of direction. Miraculously changing emotive geometry. The music which Enrico Sartori presents us with in this CD is dense and multidirectional. >>

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Henry Taylor
Crooning The Anger

Brian Had A Little Plate

Roots torn-out in order to enter into a practice of creative nomadism, to wander far from dogmas and preordained linguistic behaviour. >>

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Rootless
Brian Had A Little Plate

Plunge

Instantaneous references to creative intuitions above a solid floor of composition. An exchange of suggestions between Europe and New York. >>

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Zeno de Rossi Sultry
Plunge

Todo Chueco

A surprising alliance of instruments which are usually confined to the hidden side of the music. A superb creative plot, a magnificent conspiracy against the institution of anaemic and well-mannered jazz. >>

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Gallo & the Roosters
Todo Chueco

L' Anniversaire

Songs which let their sophisticated construction slide onto the rails of the most hypnotic and mysterious rhythm that exists. >>

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Enrico Terragnoli Orchestra Vertical
L' Anniversaire

Have You Met Miss Bates?

Wandering about between Jelly Roll Morton and Duke Ellington, between Bill Triglia and John Zorn on routes dear to Thelonious Monk and Herbie Nichols and further. >>

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Rope
Have You Met Miss Bates?

Shachor

Instrumental melodic lines which become fixed in the mind, which take their time before moving part of themselves somewhere new. >>

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Full Metal Klezmer
Shachor

Treyf 1929

Some Klezmorim on this side and the other side of the ocean engage in a challenge with time and space on the words of a fascinating and meshuge tale. >>

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Meshuge Klezmer Band
Treyf 1929