25 February '10
From Jazzman (France), Philippe Carles' review which granted Half The Fun the "Choc!" label!
19 January '10
In 2009 several albums from El Gallo Rojo have received recognition and prizes:
Franco D'Andrea Quartet "Half the Fun"
- "Choc!" record for Jazzman (France)
- top album 2009 for the Italian magazine Musica & Dischi
- among the best 2009 albums (December) for All About Jazz Italy
Gallo & The Roosters + Gary Lucas "The Exploding Note Theory"
- best album of the month for italian magazine Musica Jazz (december 2009)
- best album of the month for italian magazine Blow Up (october 2009)
Houdini's Cage "Memories Of A Barber"
- among the best 2009 albums (January) for All About Jazz Italy
04 January '10
New releases from El Gallo Rojo:
Rope - Saints And Sinners [314-31]
Pospaghemme - L.O.V.E. [314-32]
Headless Cat - Blind Tail [314-29]
Dimitri Sillato Playground - Periferiche Sospese [314-26]
03 January '10
El Gallo Rojo on Dijazz Radio - Tijuana, Mexico!
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also BEST JAZZ 2009 (check Dijazz Radio #328)
Mickey Finn + Cuong Vu & Gallo and The Roosters + Gary Lucas
23 June '09
We are proud to announce that Franco D'Andrea Quartet's latest recording, Half The Fun [314-30], will be issued by El Gallo Rojo Records. The release is scheduled for september 2009.
"Franco is one of the finest pianists on the planet Earth. I always look forward to playing with Franco. I can enjoy listening with 100% of my attention". (Lee Konitz)
El Gallo Rojo Records
Is a thrust of the blade in the curtain, an invasion of light, an interruption in that fabric of predictability which now shrouds all those over-consolidated traditions. It's a game of mischievous false leads and of free associations - even between people, their instruments and their stories which is useful in rediscovering the pleasure of storytelling on several levels, unmasking unsuspected links which seem seperate to the lazy eye and ear.Giorgio Signoretti
El Gallo Rojo Records
El Gallo Rojo Records is a container without stylistic labels, a union of musicians with a natural bent for experimentation and linguistic crosswising who, around a record label, exchange ideas, suggestions, and listening and performance experiences. El Gallo Rojo is also a visual project, coordinated by Massimiliano Sorrentini and Sara Meneghini, in keeping with that same art of transverse poetry which characterizes the music, so that the aspect of graphic imagery really does accompany the sound, and is not merely an accessory. The visual artists and the written/spoken word will also have their own space in the Punto Rojo, a kind of parallel collection which will gather special limited editions, hybrid forms of sound, texts and images, but also collections of photographs, comic strips, dawings, short films and narrative.El Gallo Rojo is a collective subject who chooses independent productions and supports them through careful distribution, which passes via Internet and freely chooses its own outlets nationally.
Scratching in the hen-house with El Gallo Rojo are: Danilo Gallo, Zeno de Rossi, Francesco Bigoni,Alfonso Santimone, Enrico Terragnoli, Massimiliano Sorrentini, Stefano Senni, Martino Fedrigoli, Nelide Bandello, Beppe Scardino, Dimitri Sillato, Piero Bittolo Bon, Achille Succi, Simone Massaron.
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Recording musicians for El Gallo Rojo Records, in alphabetical order:
Alessandro Altarocca, Andrea Ayassot, Nelide Bandello, Roberto Bartoli, Fabio Basile, Han Bennink, Sean Bergin, Claudia Bidoli, Francesco Bigoni, Piero Bittolo Bon, Francesco Bearzatti, Gianni Bertoncini, Giancarlo Bianchetti, Antonio Borghini, Cristiano Calcagnile, Domenico Caliri, Tommaso Cappellato, Bla˛ Celarec, Greg Cohen, Anthony Coleman, Laura Copiello, Stefano Corsi, Giulio Corini, Daniele D'Agaro, Franco D'Andrea, Tobias Delius, Luca Dell'Anna, Amy Denio, Alessandro De Rossi, Zeno De Rossi, Silvia Donati, Andrea Faccioli, Nicola Fazzini, Alessandro Fedrigo, Pete Fitzpatrick, Danilo Gallo, U.T. Gandhi, Gianni Gebbia, Davide Ghidoni, J Kyle Gregory, Gerhard Gschloessl, Simone Guiducci, Dave Harris, Dan Kinzelman, Briggan Krauss, Roberto Lanciai, Robert Landfermann, Christian Lillinger, Frank London, Gary Lucas, Giovanni Maier, Salvatore Maiore, Oscar Marchioni, Bruno Marini, Simone Massaron, Pasquale Mirra, Aldo Mella, Mauro Ottolini, Giorgio Pacorig, Walter Paoli, Michele Polga, Fabrizio Puglisi, Gillian Quinian, Andrea Ranzato, Ted Reichman, Maurizio Rinaldi, Stefano Roveda, Jamie Saft, Fabrizio Saiu, Alfonso Santimone, Enrico Sartori, Beppe Scardino, Federico Scettri, Matthias Schriefl, Stefano Senni, Dimitri Sillato, Thomas Sinigaglia, Niccolo' Sorgato, Massimiliano Sorrentini, Chris Speed, Alessandro "Asso" Stefana, Achille Succi, Saverio Tasca, Elena Terragnoli, Enrico Terragnoli, Michael Thieke, Luca Venitucci, Maria Vicentini, Vincenzo Vasi, Dario Volpi, Cuong Vu, Roberto Zorzi.
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Our fantastic artworkers:
the concept Massimiliano Sorrentini, Sara Meneghini, Danjel Zezelj, Ilaria Faccioli, Matteo Saccomani, Carola Ghilardi, Sebastiano Zuccatelli, Matteo Perazzoli, Sara Cimarosti, Emanuela Stanganelli
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. >>
314-36
Blonde Zeros
God Fried Finger
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. >>
314-34
Antonio Borghini & Malebranche
Six Dances Under
Einfalt is a neolanguage for chamber music improvisers, a labyrinthic speech to the wandering listeners. >>
314-33
Einfalt
When The Teacher
Baritone sax and drums. Banjo and harmonica. A duo without boundaries, which uses its absurd logic to infringe the most sanctimonious listeners' taboos. >>
314-32
Pospaghemme
L.O.V.E.
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, ... >>
314-31
Rope
Saints And Sinners
Half The Fun is an instantaneous composition experiment, an unpredictable score conveyed by the sharp conversation of four equal voices. >>
314-30
Franco D'Andrea Quartet
Half The Fun
Disenchanted music, guided from a restless instinct. A journey that loves obstacles, sudden turns and uproarious cracks. >>
314-29
Headless Cat
Blind Tail
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. >>
314-28
Giulio Corini Libero Motu
Off-Site Meetings
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? >>
314-27
Piero Bittolo Bon Jump The Shark
Sugoi Sentai! Gattai!!
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. >>
314-26
Dimitri Sillato Playground
Periferiche sospese
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 ... >>
314-25
Gallo & The Roosters + Gary Lucas
The Exploding Note Theory
Electric sounds spreading in dreamlike and restless landscapes, haunted by low-fi ghosts. >>
314-24
Mickey Finn + Cuong Vu
Gagarin!
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. >>
314-23
Tirodarco
Tirodarco
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? >>
314-22
Houdini's Cage
Memories of a Barber
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). >>
314-21
Schmittmenge Meier
R.E.A.L.
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. >>
314-20
Einfalt
cm 12x12
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. >>
314-19
Meshuge Klezmer Band
Musiker!
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. >>
314-18
Rollerball
La clinica del rasoio
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. >>
314-17
Orange Room
Orange Room
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. >>
314-16
Stefano Senni Saul Bass
Psychocandy
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. >>
314-15
Standhard3io & Silvia Donati
Cocktail Saturno
Placid, kammerspielt-like encounter of three individuals who show their temperaments to each other, like being in front of a mirror. >>
314-14
Giulio Corini Libero Motu
Libero Motu
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. >>
314-13
Daniele D'Agaro Adriatics Orchestra
Comeglians
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 ... >>
314-12
Zeno de Rossi Shtik
Me'or 'Einayim
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. >>
314-11
Wergeld
Achtung!
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. >>
314-10
Mickey Finn
Dudek!
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. >>
314-9
Achille Succi e Salvatore Maiore
Pequenas Flores do Inferno
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. >>
314-8
Henry Taylor
Crooning The Anger
Roots torn-out in order to enter into a practice of creative nomadism, to wander far from dogmas and preordained linguistic behaviour. >>
314-7
Rootless
Brian Had A Little Plate
Instantaneous references to creative intuitions above a solid floor of composition. An exchange of suggestions between Europe and New York. >>
314-6
Zeno de Rossi Sultry
Plunge
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. >>
314-5
Gallo and the Roosters
Todo Chueco
Songs which let their sophisticated construction slide onto the rails of the most hypnotic and mysterious rhythm that exists. >>
314-4
Enrico Terragnoli Orchestra Vertical
L' Anniversaire
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. >>
314-3
Rope
Have You Met Miss Bates?
Instrumental melodic lines which become fixed in the mind, which take their time before moving part of themselves somewhere new. >>
314-2
Full Metal Klezmer
Shachor
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. >>
314-1