Ralfe Band (GB / Talitres / Warp rec)

Tornano in Italia, a presentare (per la prima volta da quando è uscita, su Warp, e in esclusiva data nazionale) la colonna sonora del film "Bunny & The Bull" di Paul King (http://www.bunnyandthebull.com/).

28/08/10 Santarcangelo di Romagna (RN) @ Malafesta

myspace/ralfeband

last update: 28-aug-10 6:30 PM

Julia Kent (Ita / Important rec)
european tour (in collaboration with OFF booking)

After years of playing cello with a myriad of artists and ensembles, Julia Kent retired to her Lower East Side apartment to make a solo record inspired by touring and the disjunctions of travel. Incorporating multitracked cello, omnichord, and field recordings from airports around the world, her "lovely, melancholy," compositions, full of "aching romanticism ... rich melodicism, and detailed arrangements," make up /Delay/, her solo debut, released by Shayo Records in Europe and Important Records in North America.

She has performed solo in Europe, the UK, New York, and Canada, using live looping and effects to create layers of melody and rhythm on the cello. Of her appearance at the Donau Festival in Austria, the Wire said: “Cellist Julia Kent's set, in which she sampled and played over herself, was a thing of miniature beauty.” Lucid Culture described a recent New York appearance as: "...riveting and frequently cinematic...moving from trippy, echoey and atmospheric to stark and haunting..."

08/09/10 Malmo @ Inkonst
12/09/10 Copenhagen @ Kobenhavns Musikteater
13/09/10 Berlin @ Bang Bang Club
14/09/10 Leipzig @ Horns Erben
15/09/10 Erfurt @ Museumskeller
16/09/10 Dresden @ Thalia Kino
17/09/10 Prague @ Divadlo Dobeska
28/09/10 Radio Session (FM Brussel & Radio Panik) @ Brussels
29/09/10 Brussels @ A Song A Place

hi-re photo: #1, #2
myspace/julia_kent

last update: 27-lug-10 10:05 AM

27/07/10 Terracina @ Piazza Municipio tba
28/07/10 Vasto (Ch) @ Beat Café
29/07/10 Ancona @ Mole Vanvitelliana / Sconcerti
30/07/10 Ravenna @ Hana-Bi
31/07/10 Ovaro (Ud) @ Piazza
02/08/10 Roseto degli Abruzzi (Pe) @ Soundlabs Festival

more tba

hi-re photo: #1, #2
myspace/ahawkandahacksaw

last update: 20-jul-10 0:49 AM

Guano Padano (Ita / Important rec)

GUANO PADANO:
ALESSANDRO "ASSO" STEFANA: chitarre elettriche ed acustiche, banjo, steel guitar, pedal steel guitar, raagini, omnichord, stylophone.
DANILO GALLO: contrabbasso, vibrafono, piano, organo.
ZENO DE ROSSI: batteria, slit drum, bull buster, glockenspiel.

"...Jack Frost has all the comforts of home; fireplace, wood floor, banjo, whiskey soaked reverb electric guitar, drums and upright bass....
....Del Rey is built on a Hawaiian guitar motif followed by star spinning string arrangements that seem to race across a chromatic night sky. Reverb drenched lines, vibraphone tremolo and eastern influence chord changes makes this song stand out amongst the other tracks. The diminished melodies and transitions helps build a deep sense of tension throughout the song until the second half picks up with the rhythm section running down the country style romp... it is these wonderfully weird pairings stylistically and within the arrangements that makes this album a unique and bold outing...
....Epiphany starts with organ and glockenspiel scoping out a night time scene all the while strange sounds gurgle and boil in the background making this another track destined for the soundtrack files of Hollywood's up and coming movie scores.... At the end of the song, the band gets caught up in a dub delay web that feels more like a lasso is trying to slow down an iron horse out of control. Great liveliness and performances here...
IF THERE EVER WAS A SOUNDTRACK WAITING TO FIND ITS MATE IN THE CINEMATIC WORLD, THIS ALBUM BY GUANO PADANO WILL SURELY FIND GOOD COMPANIES WITH THE LIKES OF FELLINI, LEONE, JARMUSCH and SOFIA COPPOLA"
- Joey Burns, September 9, 2009, Calexico, Tucson, AZ

12/08/10 Brescia @ Radio Onda d'Urto
16/08/10 Ancona @ Mole Vanvitelliana
17/08/10 Ravenna @ Hana-Bi

07/01/10 Genova @ La Claque-Teatro della Tosse
08/01/10 Roma @ Circolo degli Artisti
09/01/10 Faenza (Ra) @ Clandestino
10/01/10 Ariano Polesine (Ro) @ Porcupine Pub
12/01/10 Lubiana @ Metelkova
07/02/10 Milano @ Magnolia
27/02/10 Firenze @ Sala Vanni
28/02/10 Pegognaga (Mn) @ Casbah
08/04/10 Torino @ venue tba
09/04/10 Brescia @ Lio Bar
10/04/10 Verona @ Interzona
11/04/10 Pisa @ Caracol
12/04/10 Prato @ Capanno Black Out
13/04/10 Roma @ Circolo degli Artisti
14/04/10 Cesena @ Nero su Bianco
03/06/10 Padova @ Summer Student Festival (Golena San Massimo)
12/06/10 Vitulazio (Ce) @ Art & Soul Festival
20/06/10 Rimini @ Domus di Bacco
08/07/10 Cuneo @ Nuvolari Libera Tribù

last update: 12-lug-10 5:20 PM

Parallel 41

Julia Kent (cello + pedals) + Barbara De Dominicis (voice + live electronics) + Davide Lonardi (video installation)

Live/Impro performance/project in progress for cello, electronics,voice & visuals

Parallel-° 41is a small journey that we decided to embark on after a series of musical events experienced  together that go under the name of Intermittenze.(youtube.com/watch?v=eYzwNQKQKl8)
We aim  to realize some sessions of "spontaneous" recordings (audio/video) influenced by the environment in which they happen (Recording sessions can be "open" to a public but not necessarily and/or  can be followed or preceded by a live performance--in the vicinity of the chosen-place (but not necessarily....) We decided and tried to play completely free, an improvisation without any set parameters or compositional ideas but the unique influence of  the places that host us. We use  cello, pedals, voice, images, casuality, laptop, field recordings,found sound and a few toys.
We have been and still are looking for unique locations with an inner acoustic potential in order to let our music interact with the environmental sounds... A magic room; a cave, a valley, a path between the mountains, a room with a view, a factory, a meadow, an arcade, a museum, a room of  dolls, a secret or forbidden place, the attic of the grandfather, a farmhouse, a church (pref. deconsecrated!), a farm, a shed by the sea, a mule track, a dismantled factory, a barge.. A "room" where we can spend some hours or a few days, have the chance to recordOur sonic adventure started at Val da Pozzo. A beautiful farmhouse-artists in residenceplaced in the Piedmont  valleys. This first "session"  happened at the end of September 2009.
The second "Parallel 41" session  happened at the end of october. We were in  an abandoned tunnel in the near of Bolzano, located in the mountainssurrounding beautiful Alto Adige Valleys........

Julia Kent was born in Vancouver, Canada, studied cello at Indiana University, Bloomington, and lives in New York. In 2007 she released a solo record, Delay, inspired by touring and the disjunctions of travel, incorporating multitracked cello, omnichord, and field recordings from airports around the world. As a solo artist, she has performed at the Donau Festival in Austria, the LEM festival in Barcelona, and at venues throughout Europe and the U.S. Lucid Culture described a recent New York appearance as: "riveting and frequently cinematic...moving from trippy, echoey and atmospheric to stark and haunting". She is now working on a new solo record of multitracked and effected cello inspired by the intersection between organic and technological processes, and between human beings and the natural environment.

www.juliakent.com 
 
Barbara De Dominicis's work is suspended somwhere between writing and music. She tries to spread the sounds she gathers from different enviorements into her  improvvisations or songs, both altering them or simply using them as they are. Her projects include “Cabaret Noir” (with Pasquale Bardaro). "The Body, exposed", “Poe-Si” (with Mirko Signorile and 99 posse Marco Messina). Lately she is working with media artist  Davide Lonardi on a new audio-visual project called Kuul-Ma. In 2008 she produced her solo album Anti-Gone: a sort of hidden concept album  based on a narrative theme of greek mythology. At the  moment she is working on a new solo album under  disc under themoniker "Apres Soon" - an assemblage of drones and field recordings, electronics, voices and string instruments.

www.soonapres.com
myspace.com/barbaradedominicis 

Davide Lonardi. Artist, writer and director. As a film maker he has produced four documentaries focused on italian contemporarary artists : Claudio Ambrosini (Big Bang Music, 2004) Fabrizio Plessi, (the opera to video, 2004), Rabarama (2005), Luigi Del Sal (The Route fantastic, 2005). He works in the field of dynamic and interactive installations based on projects of contamination of multimedia elements using materials of everyday life and nature. He has collaborated with several musicians (RachelZ, Jerry Marotta, Chris Boulet) and satellite channels (3channel, Alice, Marcopolo). In 2009, he realizes a music video for the single of Barbara De Dominicis "Disremembering Echo" now on air on major national networks.

www.auhasard.org
http://www.vimeo.com/auhasard 

02/09/10 Torino @ Cortile della Farmacia
04/09/10 Marina di Pisa tba

22/05/10 Bologna @ Museo della Musica
11/02/10 Modena @ Galleria Vetusta
05/02/10 Napoli @ Teatro Instabile

hi-re photo: #1
myspace/barbaradedominicis
myspace/julia_kent

last update: 12-lug-10 5:23 PM

19/06/10 Montella (Av) @ Convento di S. Francesco a Folloni "Sentieri Barocchi" (performing The Versailles Sessions)
27/06/10 Mantova @ Palazzo Te "Eterotopie"
30/06/10 Ravenna @ Rocca Brancaleone "Ravenna Festival" (with AntiVj) tbc


16/01/10 Roma @ Brancaleone
11/04/10 Roma @ Auditorium - Meet in Town
15/04/10 Roma @ Teatro Palladium

myspace/murcof

last update: 23-apr-10 12:52 PM

Above the Tree (Ita / Boring Machines, MarinaioGaio, About a Boy, etc)

Il percorso musicale di Marco Bernacchia aka Above the Tree parte sin da piccolo con gli studi classici, subito abbandonati in favore di una personale e ludica scoperta del mondo dei suoni, passata attraverso un vecchio organo e una chitarra che viene ripetutamente percossa alla ricerca di un effetto contatto/suono che sia interessante. La ricerca tende soprattutto alla produzione di suoni/rumori che siano stranianti per se stesso, una specie di ricerca psichedelica senza sostanze aggiunte. Marco passa dai solitari esperimenti sulla sua chitarra a suonare in gruppo con altre persone, formando i M.A.Z.C.A. con i quali dal 1999 incide quattro dischi e collaborando con altre persone su diversi progetti tra cui AL:RM! nel 2006 con Paolo Campagnola (Arbdesastr) e Falling Birds nel 2008 con Mattia Coletti. Dal 2007 però la voglia di sperimentare in proprio si manifesta di nuovo ed è così che nasce il progetto Above the Tree, un insieme di musica e performance che si esprime attraverso suoni ruvidi e imperfetti, nel tentativo di raggiungere un livello di comunicazione personale tra il suo mondo e la natura circostante. Si può parlare di un blues scarno e rarefatto, ma anche di musica concreta data la natura del suono prodotto da Above the Tree con l'uso del corpo nello spazio. Nessun oggetto che gli stia attorno può rimanere indenne a lungo. Il risultato è una espressione pangeografica di suoni che di volta in volta ricordano un angolo diverso di mondo, ovunque ci sia un albero dove salire. Se le equazioni matematiche si possono applicare alla musica, allora Above the Tree sta agli Animal Collective come la musica 8-bit sta all'elettronica.

27/08/10 Santarcangelo di Romagna (RN) @ MalaFesta
28/08/10 Frosinone @ Cantina Mediterraneo

hi-re photo: #1
myspace/bluerevenge1

last update: 23-giu-10 10:46 AM

Egle Sommacal (Bologna / Unhip)

24/07/10 Taranto @ Coop. Owen
25/07/10 Vasto (Ch) @ Beat Café

04/06/10 Bologna @ Fienile Fluò
08/05/10 Bergamo @ Castello Colleoni
16/01/10 Pisa @ Caracol
26/11/09 Genova @ La Claque - Teatro della Tosse
18/12/09 Bologna @ Fienile Fluò

hi-re photo: #1, #2
myspace/eglesommacal

last update: 12-lug-10 5:12 PM

Musica da Cucina (Milano / City Living)

Fabio Bonelli's side project, of Milaus.

04/06/10 Pisa @ Newroz
05/06/10 Città di Castello (Pg) @ AmbientAzioni
06/06/10 Rimini @ Domus di Bacco

24/04/10 Genova @ VIlla Croce, Museo di Arte Contemporanea
05/02/09 Potenza @ New Evoé
27/03/09 Anghiari (Ar) @ Live at Home
24/11/09 Faenza (Ra) @ Showindow

myspace/musicadacucina

ultimo aggiornamento: 20-may-10 8:36 PM

Barbara De Dominicis ”Anti Gone” (Italia / WM Recordings)

02/07/09 Live a Village-Radio 2 Rai
24/07/09 Bologna @ Giardino Lorusso, via L. Berti 2/3 (ex Bestial Market)
27/07/09 Bolzano @ Terrazza Caffé Teatro
22/08/09 Carpi (Mo) @ Coccobello

hi-re photo: #1
myspace/barbaradedominicis

last update: 23-jun-09 3:19 PM

Father Murphy (Ita / Boring Machines)
www.maledetto.it

“Truly masterfully put together, amazing songs with tons of space and utterly original arrangements. [...] Just an incredible album.”, - John Dieterich of Deerhoof, from Pitchfork, about ...and He told us to turn to the Sun
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20/02/09 Parma @ Veronika Club
21/02/09 Giussago (Pv) @ Ortosonico

hi-re photo: #1
myspace/reverendmurphy

last update: 10-mar-09 2:45 PM

Bevel (Usa / Contraphonic)

TBA

hi-re photo: #1, #2
mp3: The Purchase

last update: 14-jul-08 10:23 AM

Blessed Child Opera (Napoli / Seahorse rec).

Alessandro "Asso" Stefana (Brescia / Important Records)

Musica da Cucina (Milano / City Living)

last update: 5-gen-10 12:46 PM