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Palermo Sketches Siwula/Iacovone/Mazzù/Troja Almendra Music 2018
BLAISE SIWULA – ROCCO JOHN IACOVONE
GIANCARLO MAZZU' - LUCIANO TROJA
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1. I diavoli della Zisa 5:02
2. Gioiamia 4:54
3. 101 2:20
4. Addàura 5:53
5. sketches 1a [Road to...] 1:04
6. sketches 1b [... Villafranca Sicula] 1:06
7. Tagliavia 4:04
8. Antenna on the Hill 4:35
9. Ricovero degli Spersi 5:21
10. sketches 2a 1:16
11. sketches 2b 1:55
12. sketches 2c 0:21
13. sketches 2d 1:37
14. Charleston 5:39
15. Noblesse oblige 8:19
16. Punta Raisi 8:25 |
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Almendra Musica, 2018
Blaise Siwula: clarinet, alto sax
Rocco John Iacovone: soprano aax, alto Sax
Giancarlo Mazzù: electric guitar, voice, drums
Luciano Troja: piano
Music by Blaise Siwula, Rocco John Iacovone, Giancarlo Mazzù, Luciano Troja
Release date October 30, 2018
Produced by Luciano Troja, Giancarlo Mazzù, Luca Rinaudo
Recorded live-in-studio on May 5, 2017
by Luca Rinaudo and Danilo Romancino at Zeit Studio (Palermo, Italy)
Mixed and mastered by Luca Rinaudo at Zeit Studio (Palermo, Italy)
Art direction and graphic design: Antonio Cusimano | 3112htm
Original painting on inlay: Denise Fusco Iacovone
Product manager: Gianluca Cangemi
This album is dedicated to Manlio Nicosia
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Broad-ways
Rags To Ragas
An Italian Tale
Tasting Beauty
Beneath the Ritual
Quasimodale
Sometimes the Journey is a Vision
Live At The Metropolitan Room NYC
D'istante3
At Home With Zindars
Seven Tales About Standards Vol.2
Mannahatta
My Funny Valentine
Jazz On The Beach Vol.1
Seven Tales About Standards
Double Rainbow
Taranta’s Circles
[uno]
…travels
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G. Mazzù - L. Troja
F. Branciamore
B. Siwula - L. Troja
A. Cicero - L. Troja
G. Mazzù - L. Troja
Siwula/Troja/Murchison
Rosalba Lazzarotto
Siwula/Mazzù/Troja
G. Mazzù & L. Troja
Mazzù/Siwula/Troja
Luciano Troja
L. Troja - G. Mazzù
Mahanada
Rosalba Lazzarotto
AA.VV.
L. Troja - G. Mazzù
Rosalba Lazzarotto
Mahanada
Mahanada
Jazz Travels Group |
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ACK Records, 2017
No Frills Music, 2016
Almendra Music, 2016
Slam Productions, 2015
No Frills Music, 2015
R. Lazzarotto, 2015
No Frills Music, 2014
Slam Productions, 2013
Slam Productions, 2012
Luciano Troja, 2010
Splasc(H) Records, 2009
Splasc(H) Records, 2008
WideLab 2008
Wide Sound, 2007
Splasc(H) Records, 2006
Wide Sound, 2006
Splasc(H) Records, 2005
Ethnoworld, 2004
C.C. Production, 2003
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GIANCARLO
MAZZU'- LUCIANO TROJA - FRANCESCO BRANCIAMORE
Broad - ways
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1.
Begin The Beguine (Cole Porter, 1934)
2. Puttin’ On the Ritz (Irving Berlin, 1927)
3. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes – part 1 (Jerome
Kern – Otto Harbach, 1933)
4. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes – part 2 (Jerome Kern
– Otto Harbach, 1933)
5. Night and Day (Cole Porter, 1932)
6. I Concentrate on You (Cole Porter, 1940)
7. Something Gotta Give (Johnny Mercer, 1954)
8. Change Partners (Irving Berlin, 1938)
9. Let’s Face The Music And Dance (Irving Berlin,
1936)
10. The Way You Look Tonight (Jerome Kern –Dorothy
Fields, 1936)
11. Cheek To Cheek (Irving Berlin, 1935)
12. Dancing in the Dark (Arthur Schwartz - Howard Dietz,
1931)
13. A Fine Romance (Jerome Kern - Dorothy Fields, 1936)
14. All Of You (Cole Porter, 1954) |
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ACK
Records, 2017
Recorded on October 30 2009
At Sonoria Studios, Scordia (CT)
Sound engineer: Vincenzo Cavalli
Graphic project: Walter Silvestrini – PixaelXpixeL.it
Giancarlo
Mazzù guitar
Luciano Troja piano
Francesco Branciamore drums |
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BLAISE
SIWULA - LUCIANO TROJA
Rags To
Ragas |
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1.
Carousel dream 8:57
2. Sun surgency 06:04
3. There and back again 06:48
4. Regtime in Brooklyn 10:43
5. When there's freedom for all 07:51
6. Next time George 11:17
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NoFrillsMusic.com
(2016)
©
siwula troja
recorded May 2and 2016
at wombat studios brooklyn, ny
eng.ross bonadonna
mixing mastering blaise siwula
artwork: blaise siwula
Blaise
Siwula, clarinet/alto sax
Luciano Troja, piano
nofrillsmusic nfm 012
Released
December 24th, 2016
www.nofrillsmusic.com
www.blaisesiwula.com/cds_from_nofrillsmusiccom__elsewhere/rags_to_ragas/
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LUCIANO
TROJA & ANTONIO CICERO An
Italian Tale
inspired by Giovanni D'Anzi's melodies |
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1.
An Italian Tale 3:31
2. You are the Melody 3:50
3. Radio 3:29
4. Legs 4:33
5. Rose 4:00
6. Tempi moderni 1:55
7. Bici 4:59
8. Rabagliati 2:45
9. You two
10. Nel Vento [bonus track] 3:21 |
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All
compositions by Luciano Troja
Antonio Cicero,
bassoon
Luciano Troja, piano
released October 25, 2016
Produced by Gianluca Cangemi & Luca Rinaudo
Co-executive producer: Danilo Romancino
Recorded live-in-studio on March 29, 2016 (tracks 1-9)
and November 12, 2015 (track 10) at Zeit Studio, Palermo
[Italy] by Gianluca Cangemi & Luca Rinaudo.
Mixed and mastered by Luca Rinaudo at Zeit Studio, Palermo
[Italy]
Art direction and design by Antonio Cusimano | 3112htm.com
2016 Almendra Music | almendramusic.com
| facebook.com/AlmendraMusic
https://almendramusic.bandcamp.com/album/an-italian-tale
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GIANCARLO
MAZZÙ - LUCIANO TROJA Tasting
Beauty |
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1.
Tasting Beauty 7:02
2. Blues for Giuseppino 5:54
3. Quando amavamo l'America 4:33
4. Qui 7:05
5. Barbara and Blaise 3:26
6. Somiglia 6:57
7. Natural Wisdom 5:21
8. Fat Mouse in Brooklyn 4:32
9. Village Flowers 4:14
10. Caserta 4:07 |
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Recorded on April 30, 2013, at Wombat Studios, in Brooklyn
(NY)
Giancarlo Mazzù, guitar
Luciano Troja, piano
Recording engineer: Ross Bonadonna
Mixed
and mastered by Alessandro Luvarà, Spain Audio
Studio, Molochio (RC)
Graphic by The Half Sumo
Collective, New York
Produced
by Giancarlo Mazzù and Luciano Troja
www.slamproductions.net/menus/main.asp
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BLAISE
SIWULA /LUCIANO TROJA/JOHN MURCHISON
Beneath the
Ritual |
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1.
Softly Into the Night 2:58
2. Shadow Dance (If There Is One) 3:18
3. When the Song Is Home 3:23
4. The Challenge Is in the Absolute 2:18
5. A Garden for Delights Played Again 5:05
6. Beneath the Ritual 5:42
7. We of the Universal in Tempo 3:18
8. Migration 4:49
9. Loop of Distinction 8:13
10.Light in Ascension 2:35
11.Challenges 4:51
12.If It Wasn't You 5:00
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NoFrillsMusic.com
(2015)
Blaise
Siwula, alto/tenor sax & clarinet
Luciano Troja, piano
John Murchison, piano
Cover
photo: Cristina Prudente
Sound engineer: Ross Bonadonna
Recorded
April 26th, 2014 at Wombat Studio, Brooklyn NY
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/blaisesiwula11
http://www.nofrillsmusic.com
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BLAISE
SIWULA/GIANCARLO MAZZÙ/LUCIANO TROJA
Sometimes
the Journey is a Vision |
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1.
The Morning Sun Has Gone West 8:50
2. Ginger Is Her Name 9:25
3. What a Change for Time 10:10
4. Soft Like a Dream That's Real 6:12
5. As Though Found Behind a Small Tree 5:31
6. Dragon's Wing 6:20
7. That Was a Shift 8:23
8. Sometimes the Journey Is a Vision 8:42
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NoFrillsMusic.com
(2014)
Blaise Siwula, alto/tenor sax &
clarinet
Giancarlo Mazzù, guitar, drums,
vocals
Luciano Troja, piano
Recorded on April 25, 2013 at Wombat Studios in Brooklyn,
NY
Sound engineer: Russ Bonadonna.
http://www.nofrillsmusic.com |
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GIANCARLO
MAZZÙ & LUCIANO TROJA
Live at the Metropolitan Room NYC
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1.
Bye Bye Blackbird (Ray Henderson-Mort Dixon) 3:54
02. Cheek to Cheek (Irving Berlin) 2:23
03. Softly As in a Morning Sunrise (Sigmund Romberg -
Oscar Hammerstein II) 4:47
04. But Not for Me (George & Ira Gershwin) 3:53
05.My Funny Valentine (Richard Rodgers - Lorenz Hart)
7:32
06.Autumn Leaves (Jacques Prevert - Joseph Kosma) 5:36
07. When I Fall in Love (Victor Young - Edward Heyman)
4:57
08.All the Things You Are (Jerome Kern - Oscar Hammerstein
II) 5:15
09.You and the Night and the Music (Howard Dietz - Arthur
Schwartz) 3:40
10. Take the "A" Train (Billy Strayhorn) 7:20
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Slam Productions, 2013
Giancarlo
Mazzù, guitar
Luciano Troja, piano
Recording
details:
Recorded
2-track live on April 15, 2009, at the Metropolitan
Room, New York City
Recording engineer at the Metropolitan Room NYC: Jean-Pierre
Perreaux
Mixed and mastered by Alessandro Luvarà, Spain
Audio Studio, Molochio (RC),
Italy
http://www.slamproductions.net/menus/main.asp?PN=Detail&QItemID=299
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/giancarlo-mazzu-luciano-troja/id664914173
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GIANCARLO
MAZZÙ /BLAISE SIWULA/LUCIANO TROJA
D'istante3 |
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1.
Istante 1 (11:38)
2. Istante 2 (9:20)
3. Istante 3 (4:04)
4. Istante 4 (9:25)
5. Istante 5 (7:03)
6. Istante 6 (11:52)
7. Istante 7 (8:37) |
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Slam
Productions - UK, 2012
Giancarlo Mazzù, guitar, drums
Blaise Siwula, alto & tenor saxophone,
bass clarinet, clarinet
Luciano Troja, piano
All compositions by Giancarlo Mazzù, Blaise Siwula
and Luciano Troja.
Recorded on April 25, 2011 at Wombat Studios in Brooklyn,
NY
Sound engineer: Russ Bonadonna.
Mixed and mastered by Blaise Siwula.
Produced by Giancarlo Mazzu', Blaise Siwula and Luciano
Troja
www.facebook.com/istante3
www.reverbnation.com/distante3
Buy it on:
ITunes:
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/distante3/id575693760
EMusic:
http://www.emusic.com/listen/#/album/giancarlo-mazzu/distante3/13693114/:
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LUCIANO
TROJA At
Home With Zindars |
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1.
Mother Of Earl (Earl Zindars) 4:31
2. Nice Place (Earl Zindars) 3:19
3. Silverado Trail (Earl Zindars) 6:18
4. Four Times ‘Round (Earl Zindars ) 3:13
5. Z Waltz (Earl Zindars) 2:28
6. Sareen Jurer - Part 1 (Earl Zindars) 4:03
7. Sareen Jurer - Part 2 (Earl Zindars) 3:48
8. Lullaby For Helene (Earl Zindars) 3:12
9. Karen’s Mode (Earl Zindars) 3:32
10. My Love Is An April Song (Earl Zindars) 6:24
11. ThreeTimes ‘Round (Earl Zindars) 3:22
12. Earl And Bill (Luciano Troja) 5:55
13. I Always Think Of You (Earl Zindars) 2:29
14. Joy (Earl Zindars) 5:05
15. How My Heart Sings (Anne & Earl Zindars) 2:21
16. Roses For Annig (Earl Zindars) 4:14 |
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Luciano
Troja (2010)
Luciano Troja, piano solo |
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All compositions by Earl Zindars
except “How My Heart Sings” written by Anne
& Earl Zindars
and “Earl And Bill” written by Luciano Troja
Zindars Publishing Company
All Rights Reserved
Recorded in New York City
Uptime Studios,
Tracks 3-10-12-15 in April 18, 2006,
Tracks 2-6-7 in April, 11, 2007
Tracks 1-4-5-8-9-11-13-16 in April 28-29, 2008
Track 14 in April 18, 2009 Sound
Engineer: M.P.Kuo
Mixed and Mastering: M.P. Kuo and Francesco Paolo Maimone
Design: Francesco Mento, Alessandra Ciraolo, and Cristina
Fatato
English texts: Nicholas Frangella and Antonella Santoro
Photos: Luciano Troja and Valentina Prudente
Bill Evans Portrait: Luigi Scarcella
Project by Luciano Troja
Produced by Luciano Troja and Valentina Prudente
www.myspace.com/lucianotroja
www.facebook.com
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LUCIANO
TROJA-GIANCARLO MAZZU’
Seven Tales About Standards Vol.2 |
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Bye Bye Blackbird 3:14
2 Cheek To Cheek 3:48
3 Softly As A In Morning Sunrise 4:00
4 East Of The Sun (And West Of The Moon) 3:34
5 Autumn Leaves (Les Feuilles Mortes) 4:19
6 Everything Happens To Me 4:44
7 Bye Bye BlackBird (alternate take) 5:23
8 All The Things You Are 6:16
9 Cheek To Cheek (alternate take) 3:04
10 Softly As A Morning Sunrise (alternate take) 5:18 |
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CDH
1544.2
Splasc(H) Records (2009)
Luciano Troja, piano; Giancarlo Mazzù,
nylon string guitar |
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Recorded on October, 2, 2008
at Sonoria Studio Rec , Scordia (CT).
Sound engineer: Vincenzo Cavalli.
Mixed:.by Alessandro Luvarà at Spain Audio Studio,
Molochio (RC
Cover:
Peppo Spagnoli, “Chair” cm.70x100, 1969
Photos: foto di Francesco Mento (Luciano Troja) e Roberto
Pace (Giancarlo Mazzù)..
Graphic design: Luigi Naro
Liner notes: Giancarlo Mazzù & Luciano Troja
English texts: Pete Kercher
Produced by Peppo Spagnoli for Splasc(H) Records, a division
of Senz’H Soc. Coop., Arcisate (VA)
www.myspace.com/mazzutrojacom
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MAHANADA
Mannahatta |
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Something Specific And Perfect For My City 3:58
2 The Aboriginal Name 2:29
3 A Word, Liquid, Sane, Unruly 4:12
4 Musical, Self-Sufficient 6:34
5 The Word Of My City 6:10
6 The Down-Town Streets 3:49
7 Immigrants Arriving 4:35
8 Vehicles 2:52
9 Broadway 4:08
10 The Women, the Shops and Shows 3:29
11 A Million People 6:18
12 City Of Hurried And Sparkling Waters 4:29
13 City Of Spires And Masts 3:28
14 City Nested In Bays 4:05
15 My City! 5:19
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CDH
2518.2
Splasc(H) Records (2008)
LUCIANO TROJA piano
GIANCARLO MAZZÙ prepared guitar,
voices
CARMELO COGLITORE soprano sax, bass clarinet,
drums
CARLO NICITA alto flute
Recorded on 17 April, 2006
at Uptime Studios, New York City
Sound engineer: M.P. Kuo
Mixed: M.P.Kuo and Carlo Nicita
Cover: “NYC Subway” Miriam West, 1999.
Assemblage, cm. 21X55
Photos: Francesco Mento, Andrew P. White
www.mahanada.com
www.myspace.com/mahanadaquartet
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LUCIANO
TROJA-GIANCARLO MAZZU’
Seven Tales About Standards
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1.But
Not For Me (George & Ira Gershwin) 6,36
2.Mack The Knife (Kurt Weill) 6,41
Mp3
preview
3.My Funny Valentine (Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart) 9,09
4.When The Saints Go Marching In (Traditional) 6,08
5.Summertime (George & Ira Gershwin) 6,58
6.When I Fall In Love (Edward Heyman- Victor Young) 3,44
Mp3
preview
7.Take The “A” Train (Billy Strayhorn) 10,12
Mp3
preview
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Luciano
Troja, piano; Giancarlo Mazzù,
nylon string guitar |
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Recorded
two-tracks live in Taormina- Italy, Palazzo dei Congressi,
August, 4-5, 2005
Editino & Mastering, Alessandro Luvarà, Spain
Audio Studio, Molochio (RC), Italy |
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Splasc(H)
Records, 2006
www.myspace.com/mazzutrojacom
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MAHANADA
Taranta’s Circles |
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1.
Santu Paulu (trad.) 1:05
2. La taranta (trad: .arr.Mahanada) 7:39
3. Taranta's Circles (Troja) 2:58
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4. Ballati, ballati (trad.:arr.Mahanada) 3:44
5. Tarantella di Siderno (trad.) 1:36
6. Na passiata 'nta marina (Mazzú, Nicita, Coglitore,
Troja) 2:01
7. Egle (Mazzú) 4:42
8. Film (Troja) 7:06
Mp3 preview
9. Ninna lu sonnu (lyrics traditional./music:Mazzú)
5:12
10. Lu mercatu i Santa Teresa (Mazzú, Nicita, Coglitore,
Troja) 1:20
11. Chiaro scuro - part one (Nicita) 3:02
12. Chiaro scuro - part two (Nicita) 6:11
13. 'nto brisciri (Coglitore) 2:05
14. 'nto scurari (Coglitore) 6:08
15. Mi pari di vidiri... (Mazzú, Nicita, Coglitore,
Troja) 2:35
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16. Niu niu e accussì finiu (Coglitore) 4:00 |
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MAHANADA
Luciano Troja, piano; Giancarlo
Mazzù, vocal, guitar, tamburello, liraki,
wooden flutes;
Carlo Nicita, flutes, bansuri, percussion; Carmelo
Coglitore, bass clarinet, soprano sax, drums |
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Recorded
in Reggio Calabria, at Auditorium of the Conservatory
“F.Cilea”, July, 28, 29 e 30, 2004, Engineers:
Teresa Mascianà and Angelo Sposato
Splasc(H) Records, 2005
www.mahanada.com
www.myspace.com/mahanadaquartet
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MAHANADA
[uno] |
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1. Impromenade
(Nicita-Coglitore-Troja-Mazzu') - 3:59
2. Angels's son - Take one (Nicita) - 11:50
3. Immaginando Bob (Coglitore) - 7:10
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4. 1 (Troja) - 6:39
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5.-16 Frammenti cosmici (Nicita-Coglitore-Troja-Mazzu')
- 46:36
17. Angels's son - Take two (Nicita) - 9:48
18 Desert's wind (Mazzu') - 9:45
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MAHANADA
Luciano Troja, piano; Carmelo
Coglitore, bass clarinet, tenor sax;
Carlo Nicita, flutes, electronics; Giancarlo
Mazzù, sitar, bouzuki, rebab, cetra, tabla,
mridangam, dholak, damaru, stones, tibetan bells, overtone
singing |
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Recorded
on April, 27, 2003, at Music Day Studio, S. Teresa di
Riva (ME).Sound Engineers: Massimo De Pasquale and Carlo
Nicita
Ethnoworld, 2004
www.mahanada.com
www.myspace.com/mahanadaquartet
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ROSALBA
LAZZAROTTO DOUBLE PIANO ORCHESTRA
Double Rainbow |
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1.
Fly
2. Key to Double Rainbow
3. Double Rainbow
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4. Key to Turning Around
5. Turning around
6. Vanishing
7. Key to Conversazione in Solstizio
8. Conversazione in Solstizio
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9. Key to I'te Vurria Vasà
10. I'te Vurria Vasà
11. Key to Scilla e Cariddi
12. Scilla e Cariddi
13. Key to Haga
14. Haga
15 Close the door
16 …Another fly
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All Compositions By Rosalba Lazzarotto |
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Rosalba
Lazzarotto, vocal, composition;
Salvatore Bonafede, piano (right channel);
Luciano Troja, piano (left channel);
Samuele Garofoli, trumpet, flugelhorn;
Gabriele Pesaresi, double-bass
Recorded in Nepezzano (Teramo) on January, 6,7, 2006,
at Musicomania Digital Studio
Wide Sound, 2006
www.rosalbalazzarotto.it
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