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lends an ear to what rings true in the production of sound and art, whether experimental or not. Attention to tales from within, to narration torn from vividly chequered imprecision, to fragments of pure air, snatches of urgency, tentative dirges, and to bright traces, silences and depths, that together enable a mapping both published and unpublished creativity.

a m i r a n i r e c o r d s

awakens curiosity, reveals the light in fragments and observes the richness of mingling. Its collection of exchanges and risky juxtapositions will catalogue, and like little flags on a map, clarify the emergence of underlying intentions. A network that vibrates in twists and turns. An acute listening that first pinpoints the elements and then understands the whole.

a m i r a n i r e c o r d s

intent is to create a series of connections between artistic endeavour in Italy and the world at large, both domains that are often constrained by rigid boundaries. The production plan for Year 1 consists 4 or 5 projects (see our website news for details) which will circle outwards from a common centre. As they seek to increase opportunities for collaboration, the projects will ascertain intentions, with a premium on sincerity and creative innovation.

a m i r a n i r e c o r d s

wants to reinvest its proceeds in new projects – a self-perpetuating cycle of unearthing and releasing unpublished materials from musicians and artists whose personal quests are unique in both method and objective. Interaction between languages, deeper relations between text and music, images and sound-art and telluric instrumental and vocal improvisations. Each production will be treated with due and utmost attention to detail: sound quality, graphics, conceptual truth. The production is a concept of the artist’s journey, a document of his time.

a m i r a n i r e c o r d s

wants to retail itself through reciprocal arrangements with other production units. State of the art retailing would of course be very welcome, but the primary feature of networks that we initiate or create is that they will be closely knit.

Airchamber 3 | Crumble | Amirani Records

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Alessandria, Italy based trio, Airchamber3 is working hard on improvisations, experimental sounds performances, trying to keep focused their ideas and creating ever new, intense, subtle narrations. After many live performances their style has become piercing and dramatic. Expanding the electro-acoustic concept to the complexity and diversity, their way to proceed in creating sounds makes great their music. Vertical and oblique, deep and superficial find here the possibility to be heard and experienced. Airchamber3 is proudly produced by amirani records.
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Karmel & Xabier Iriondo | Gianni Mimmo | Cristiano Calcagnile’s Nibiru Ensemble | Airchamber 3+4 | Claudio Fasoli & Mario Zara | Pierfrancesco Mucari | Angelo Contini & Federico Cumar | Francesco Cusa & Shirin Demma | NovoTono | ON WAR | Amirani Records

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Asked by amirani records, many musicians, each one with their own project, are here involved in the conceptual investigation of the confictual relationship among human beings. All tracks are original compositions for this goal. Amirani’s intent is to moove or provoke artists to compose and perform around social issues. Relationships and communication with all muscians involved in this adventure has been excellent and Amirani is thinking about a second volume for the next year. Each artist/composer/performer has been requested to explain his piece, to introduce his proceeding, to describe his way to approach to concept “War”. So in the booklet one can find an explanation for each piece directly from the musician. To extend the communication, to enhance the perspective, to create more possibilities of relations each piece has been completed with a marvellous photo by Elda Papa. So be confident to find here a nice, fresh, intense Amirani style work. Continue reading →

Anthony Braxton Quartet | Standards (Brussels) 2006 | Amirani Records

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Anthony Braxton’s periodical incursions in standards repertory are always a new way to think classical structures. His style is immediately clear: pixeling notes, sudden fastness, stretched sentences. A live recording with all the freshness one needs to be in deep touch with creativity and joyous interplay. Italian partners provide a vivid sustain, an evocative tone palette, a great rhythmic support and sincere brilliant solos.

An elegant cardboard 6 CD box (Decca style) including a 26 pages booklet with three little essays by Italian poet and writer Erika Dagnino Continue reading →

Cristiano Calcagnile and Monica Demuru | Blastula | Scarnoduo | Amirani Records

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Accurate graphics and all texts booklet offer the opportunity of an ever new interpretation of “Scarnoduo”, like a great story that really deserves to be told again and again. The word to describe this cd is Beautiful. A performance where text and sounds find a natural way to drive the listener in a re-combinatory possibility. Drummer Cristiano Calcagnile offers here one of his best declination working tight to the theatrical, full spectrum narrative voice of Monica Demuru in a cd that can be considered a post modern troubadour-tale experience. Don’t miss this one!” — Gianni Mimmo Continue reading →

EAR & NOW | Eclipse | Amirani Records

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Eclipse is a wind, opening and moving the pages of a book, hidden to our attention because too important, too inexorable. It’s a music that soon leaves its first aesthetical dimension to begin to dig up, as a drop, as a bedded narration,a choir. A same story we pass through, we listen as told in different places, with different shadings, from different sides. As if the possibility to come across a time, through scenes that freeze themselves in a sort of tableau vivant, animated by dense symbols. Great and overwhelming, ritual and evocative, the Eclpise still retains the power of admonition, of calling to re-consider our single perspectives as parts of a pulsing complexity, we can’t properly describe.

EAR&NOW delivers a perfected work where it is easier to feel the harshness of lives moving there, like sharpnesses of a tide, darkened by a lunar Eclipse. Eclipse is each one’s other side. Continue reading →

Gianni Mimmo | Angelo Contini | Xabier Iriondo | Elda Papa | Agua Mimmo | Kursk – truth in the end | Amirani Records

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Starting from an extremely accurate recording of a performance by Gianni Mimmo, Angelo Contini and Xabier Iriondo in an italian ancient church and then working on the music as on a real storyboard, here is a thrilling, touching, exciting DVD about the tragically epic adventure of the Russian nuclear submarine, realized in an intense relationship between music and images. Drama is explored in an imaginative creative way. From launch to point of no return, Elda Papa’s photos and Agua Mimmo’s movie along with Xabier Iriondo’s sound treatments keep each tragedy step in its epic-metaphorical aspect. Don’t miss this great work! Continue reading →

Angelo Contini | Gianni Mimmo | Stefano Pastor | Forgiving July | Amirani Records

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The output is a strange chamber music with sudden strokes of controlled (even not) violence. The relationship finds its way among oblique narrations, with lyrical and dramatic moments, and intriguing harmonic textures . In fact the woodwind-string-brass trio is a very unusual interesting tone melange and the improvisation strategies are here enahanced with subtleness and intensity. Tensive-relaxed ! sincere-cuttin edge ! sculpting light atmospheres ! Contemporary avant-jazz / experimental background and extended instrumental skills give a rich nuance palette, a multi-perspective idea of music and vivid listening experience. Continue reading →

Esther Lamneck | Claudio Lugo | GenoaSoundCards | Amirani Records

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Sounds are like dancing souls in these deeply experienced promenades through Genoa places and rows and docks and voices. Archaic hungarian Tàrogatò surprising tone played in a contemporary attitude by Esther Lamneck finds in Claudio Lugo’s curved soprano sax the perfect partner to melt their horns with the living humours of the town sounds. Recorded live in the streets and on the docks. Beautiful video track by Roberto Merani, filming the transformation and the evolution of this magic sea town, adds fresh and nostalgic sights, a sort of keen sounding image. Deep feeling work! Continue reading →