Patrizio Fariselli was playing with Area. In 1977 he did record this very nice piano solo record with or without preparations. Another very good reissue from Cramps.
“Awesome piano release on the legendary ’nova musicha’ series, brand new remastered-digipack edition for this italian master of the post-avantgard scene. Originally recorded in 1975.”
“An excellent and breathy recording with lush piano elegies awash in a radical sonic realm that is profoundly reminiscent of Charlemagne Palestine but in a very hectic-spirited way, truly an excellent and underrated recording that explores new piano possibilities. Digipack edition.”
“Davorin-Jagodic was a Yugoslavic-Croatian composer who realized this great album in 1975 appearing in the Nurse With Wound List. Featuring some creepy, sometimes droning, electronic musique concret. Should make fans of musique concret (especially the early stuff) very happy.”
“Humbly engaged but never over-determined, Cheap Imitation remains John Cage’s most devotional and enduring homage to a lifelong contract between the Maestro of Stony Point and Erik Satie. Composed when he was refused permission to use the arrangement for Satie’s “Socrates” as the “accompaniment” to Merce Cunningham’s choreography, Cheap Imitation is a tempered, harmonically rich and wryly simple melodic examination. This newly remastered edition marks the first US release of this historic recording.”
“Giusto Pio’s Motore immobile was his debut LP. On the first title track, he uses a droning organ and moves from triad to triad, superimposing the next one briefly before moving on, occasionally expanding the sound with octave doubling and then just as quickly subtracting the lower tones. Intermittent humming and violin provide additional notes. On “Ananta”, he uses a piano flourish to introduce each triad, landing on the tonic note each time. Very calm, and very mysterious, this record is as overlooked as they come (part of the appeal, of course).”
“Of all of Demetrio Stratos’ recordings, this 1978 live date with violinist Lucio Fabbri is easily the most accessible and least adventurous. That said, Recitarcantando is also perhaps the most songlike and beautiful of Stratos’ albums and deserves recognition for showcasing the vocalist as a singer of uncommon power and originality.”
“Originally released on LP in 1973 as number 16 in the Nova Musicha series. Recorded at Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College, Oakland, California. Includes 12-page booklet with photographs, score and liner notes in Italian.”
New release for Alvin Curran, Paolo Tofani and Mauro Tespio : Electrifying all the objects is the common interest of those three artists. We could say that represents the bridge between the ancient music experience and the present music technology : "Technology is one of those myths that return cyclically to haunt all of us, now then and surely in the future... ... with the later I began to record the world or sound around me, knowing intuitively that it was an on-going and never-ending symphony of immense beauty...". Alvin Curran: piano, prepared piano, sampling keyboard, percussion, shell, tube, Shofar. Paolo Tofani: Trikanta Veena connected to a Axon Ax 50 Apple MacBook Pro midi converter by a GK-2 esaphonic Roland. Mauro Tespio: trumpet, tibetan bells, percussion, Balaphone, Synth EMS Aks.
“A stunner of an 8CD box set dedicated to the history of Italian futurist music - put together by Daniele Lombardi - the most complete collection of music ever assembled in reverence of the historical Futurismo movement of the Italian avant garde! Disc 1 features Daniele Lombardi at the piano performing material by FB Pratella, Silvio Mix, F. Casavola and others, plus the first recording of L Russolo’s Intonarumori and Arco Enarmonico. Disc 2 features Metropolis - a three part composition by Lombardi, where intonarumori (noisemaker) samples are processed digitally. Disc 3 is the second collection of works by Daniele Lombardi with Gabriella Bartolomei, featuring recordings made for radio. Disc 4 features “vocal writing” performed by Gabriella Bartolomei and other works. Disc 5 is a tribute to Luigi Russolo. Disc 6 is a complete collection of all FT Marinetti’s “declamazioni”, from 1920 to 1935. Disc 7 features “Zavod”, a famous orchestral score by A. Mossolov and a collection of famous songs and piano compositions by H. Cowell. Disc 8 features Roberto Fabbricianni’s futuristic scores for solo flute.” label info