314-39| Alfonso Santimone Laser Pigs | Ecce Combo |
This recording is made of some of my own original compositions, a collective improvisation and a sort of personal rewriting of Arnold Schönberg's "Sechs Kleine Klavierstücke" Op.19.
Laser Pigs deals with a musically dense and groundbreaking material, very important for the subsequent developments of the music of the 20th century. It is placed into a different perspective by means of an adventurous attitude and a great amount of unstable energy.
My own compositions are heterofonic architectures conceived with a great amount of formal content, but dissolved and deconstructed during the improvisational process.
The double-sided core of Laser Pigs' music relies in the balance between formal strictness and the irresistible impulse to dissolve the form itself.
Alfonso Santimone
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Tracks:
1. SECHS KLEINE KLAVIERSTÜCKE, OP.19 (I) (Arnold Schönberg) --> Listen Mp3!
2. BOOL (Alfonso Santimone) --> Listen Mp3!
3. SECHS KLEINE KLAVIERSTÜCKE, OP.19 (II) (Arnold Schönberg)
4. ARNOLD'S LOOP MACHINES (Santimone / Bittolo Bon / Bigoni / Gallo / De Rossi)
5. SECHS KLEINE KLAVIERSTÜCKE, OP.19 (III) (Arnold Schönberg)
6. ECCE COMBO (Alfonso Santimone)
7. SECHS KLEINE KLAVIERSTÜCKE, OP.19 (IV) (Arnold Schönberg)
8. HIGH TENSION STORE (Alfonso Santimone)
9. SECHS KLEINE KLAVIERSTÜCKE, OP.19 (V) (Arnold Schönberg)
10. RIDING A PHOTON (Alfonso Santimone)
11. SECHS KLEINE KLAVIERSTÜCKE, OP.19 (VI) (Arnold Schönberg)
Personnel:
PIERO BITTOLO BON alto sax, bass clarinet, baritone sax, flute
FRANCESCO BIGONI tenor sax, clarinet
DANIELE SANTIMONE phantom guitar
ALFONSO SANTIMONE piano, compositions
DANILO GALLO bass
ZENO DE ROSSI drums
Recorded in July 2008 by STEFANO AMERIO at Artesuono Studio in Cavalicco (UD), Italy
Mixed in July 2010 by ENRICO TERRAGNOLI and ALFONSO SANTIMONE at Little Greedy Sisters Studio in Golosine (VR), Italy
Mastered in September 2010 by MAX TRISOTTO in Padova, Italy
Images and Artwork by FRANCESCO CHIACCHIO
Graphics and Design by MASSIMILIANO SORRENTINI
Alfonso's random thought of the day: "hide the form to eat the worm"
Review quotes:
Ángel Gómez Aparicio
Cuadernos de Jazz - marzo 2011
http://www.cuadernosdejazz.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1314
valutazione: 4 stelle
"Este es un animal de raro pelaje [...] Retorcido y exigente con los músicos a la manera del apogeo de la música downtown, tan dada a la precisión como a la audacia y al desenfreno, los vaivenes, la contundente artillería y la tan poderosa lógica como dislocada ilógica de Ecce Combo dejan sin resuello y sitúan a Alfonso Santimone como un músico a seguir"
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Federico Scoppio
Musica Jazz - febbraio 2011
http://www.musicajazz.it/reviews/562
DISCO DEL MESE - febbraio 2011
"Spazi minimali e intasamenti elettrici si alternano e non si calpestano. Tolgono il fiato per la semplicità con cui vengono proposti, senza conflitti, senza dolori"