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Giovanni Maier | featuring Marc Ribot and a Turtle Soup | Long Song Records

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Featuring Marc Ribot + A Turtle Soup is an ambitious double cd containing two sessions by the new quartet led by Giovanni Maier, “Technicolor”. Giovanni Maier is a skilled and critically acclaimed double bass player. His style is strong and intense, his attack on strings thunderous and precise. Among his many prestigious collaborations over the years: the famous “Italian Instabile Orchestra” and Enrico Rava (most famous Italian jazzman) Electric Quintet. Giovanni has just been voted “best Italian bass player” in the prestigious “Musica Jazz” magazine 2007 year’s end poll. With Technicolor Maier switches to electric bass, with a particular line-up with two electric keyboards (keyboards wizards Alfonso Santimone and Giorgio Pacorig) plus rhythm section (Maier plus drums rising star Zeno De Rossi). Continue reading →

The Shipwreck Bag Show | KC | Long Song Records

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Only one year has passed since the previous album, and the two survivors Xabier Iriondo / Roberto Bertacchini are already ready with a new collection of songs, thanks to their fresh creativity. The duo in this third album moves away from the ‘avant-rock experimental miniCD debut, pumping the vein of early blues and bundle it into eleven tracks in the form of song. “KC” is an album consisting of songs, because Iriondo first acts as a guitarist with a lot of riffs and distortion, and Bertacchini straighten a bit the rhythm of his drumming letting the voice to be the element of their a-rhythmic and drunk sound. To seal the magnificent proof there are his lyrics, visionaries and grotesque. Continue reading →

Janusz Zdunek 4 Syfon | Baterie | Not Two Records

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Janusz Zdunek the trumpeter and composer. Leader of projects Syfon (CDs: Jestem w kinie, To Prawda, Baterie, New Tango) and Marienburg (Pop Dom, Miasto Nic). Soundtrack composer to movies: Być, Trębacz, Pokonać siebie, Flesh And The Devil, Autonaprawa, Mocny człowiek/A Strong Man; co-composer music for: Bellissima, Dwie stówy z montażem. Janusz has been cooperating with Kazik Staszewski (albums: Melassa, Melodie Kurta Weilla, Piosenki Toma Waitsa, Czterdziesty pierwszy, Los się musi odmienić), Kazik’s cult band Kult (Ostateczny krach systemu korporacji, Salon Recreativo, Poligono Industrial, Hurra!, MTV Unplugged) and project Buldog (Singiel, Płyta, Chrystus miasta). Continue reading →

Daniele Cavallanti | Tiziano Tononi | Rings Of Fire | Long Song Records

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On this brand new CD, produced by Fabrizio Perissinotto, who originally conceived and commissioned the project to the two musicians, Cavallanti and Tononi present two long and ambitious suites (“Faces” by Daniele Cavallanti and “Phases” by Tiziano Tononi) for an extraordinary high level octet that features American violin rising star Jenny Scheinman, Emanuele Parrini on viola, Achille Succi on alto saxophone and bass clarinet, Massimo Mariani on guitar, Giovanni Maier on double and electric bass and Pacho on percussion. Featuring Jenny Scheinman & Emmanuele Parrini on strings, Danielle Cavallanti on tenor & bari saxes & Achille Succi on bass clarinet & alto sax, Massimo Mariani on electric guitar, Giovanni Maier on double & electric bass, Pacho on percussion, gongs & congas and Tiziano Tononi on drums & percussion. Both saxist Daniele Cavallanti and drummer, Tiziano Tononi have worked together in different projects for quite a while and can be heard on discs on Splasch and Black Saint. This amazing disc came in in November and I’ve played more than a dozen times since it is just incredible and it is 80 minutes long! Continue reading →

Simone Massaron | Breaking News | Long Song Records

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Breaking News is a project led by Italian guitarist Simone Massaron playing with a superb band: Daniele Cavallanti and Tiziano Tononi (from the critically acclaimed Italian Instabile Orchestra and Nexus), Steve Piccolo (Lounge Lizards) and the great New York guitarist Elliott Sharp. It’s raw and bluesy stuff, with jazz and improvised moments held together mainly by the saxophone and some experimental and free movements. There’s also a furious version of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Run Through The Jungle” featuring some exciting electric lap steel work by Elliott Sharp. Continue reading →

Craig Green and David King | Long Song Records

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Eclectic experienced and creative guitar player Craig Green plus celebrated and critically acclaimed drummer David King (from the Bad Plus and Happy Apple) will release in some months an excting and vibrant duo collaboration on Long Song Records. Totally improvised music in an odd setting (with piano from time to time, played by D.King), electric and also acoustic, working in many moods ranges. sketches of inventiveness and freshness all over. groovey and spacey, physical and ethereal, gentle and stinging. Music coming out of their hands and mind with an almost telepathic empathy, that gives life to true little “compositions”, as if written in advance. Continue reading →