Experience the exciting folk jazz of clarinetist Paolo Rocca and Abruzzi diatonic accordionist Fiore Benigni playing Satie, Bach, Rodgers and Hammerstein and their own compositions, which like their playing borrow equally from Jazz and Italian Folk Music.
We'll also hear another Italian accordion and clarinet duo - Gianluigi Trovesi and Gianni Coscia and Gianluigi improvising on Purcell as he joins L'Arpeggiata Christina Pluhar on the title track of their latest album, Music For a While. We hear Fiore's teacher Ricardo Tesi with his Balkan composition and Kavisha Mazzella with a song from Abruzzo.
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Secret Steel
Lucky Oceans
APRA/AMCOS
Head Records HEAD 060 www.headrecords.com
Lucky Oceans – 'Secret Steel'
40 second excerpt
(Austral comp and perf: minor key pedal steel guitar with double bass, drums and electric guitar [Dave Brewer]
2308
CD Cut 9 – ‘Ma-Ba’
F. Benigni
Pub Not Spec
Finisterre Records FT 60 www.finisterre.it, distributed worldwide by www.felmay.it
Rocca-Benigni Duo – ‘Upset’
4:07
(Lively waltz for accordion and clarinet that the accordionist, Fiore Benigni wrote for a play)
2313
CD Cut 1 – ‘’Gnossienne no. 1’
Erik Satie
Pub Not Spec
Finisterre Records FT 60 www.finisterre.it, distributed worldwide by www.felmay.it
Rocca-Benigni Duo – ‘Upset’
2:29
(Vibrant version of Satie’s Gnossienne for accordion and bass clarinet )
Segue
2316
CD Cut 2 – ‘Emilse’
Paolo Rocca
Pub Not Spec
Finisterre Records FT 60 www.finisterre.it, distributed worldwide by www.felmay.it
Rocca-Benigni Duo – ‘Upset’
3:16
(Percussive accordion and fluid clarinet in uptempo, spirited instrumental
Segue
2319
CD Cut 9 – ‘Macedonia’
Riccardo Tesi
Pub Not Spec
Waltex Tricot CD 140
( no Australian distributor, to my knowledge.
Worldwide via www.riccardotesi.com )
Riccardo Tesi And Banditaliana - ’Lune’
4: 40
(Forceful, rhythmic, fleet, Balkanesque dance which still has an Italian accent. The leader/composer’s very deft diatonic accordion with ac guitar and what sounds like a tenor guitar/almost-mandolin, soprano and baritone saxes, tabla, ac bass and drums/percussion
2325
CD Cut 5 – ‘Scura maie’
Trad, arr Kavisha Mazzella
Peer Music
KM 006 www.kavisha.com
Kavisha Mazzella – ‘Riturnella’
3:05
(Austral arr and perf: Minor key waltz/lament in the voice of a parent impoverished by the death of a spouse. Kavisha sings and plays accordion, guitar and mandolin)
KAVISHA MAZZELLA CONCERT ALERT:
Sunday 26 October 2014 11:00 - 20:00 Carlton Italian Festa 2014
Saturday 01 November 2014 19:30 - 22:30 Kavisha at Music By The Sea Sandgate Qland Friday 14 November 2014 18:00 - 22:00 Swiss Italian Festa @ Old Hepburn Hotel VIC by
Friday 21 November 2014 - Sunday 23 November 2014 08:00 - 17:00Melaka Art and Performance festival Malaysia.
Sunday 28 December 2014 - Thursday 01 January 2015 08:00 - 17:00 Woodford Folk Festival
Friday 09 January 2015 - Sunday 11 January 2015 08:00 - 17:00 Cygnet Folk Festival
CANTIAMO IN TOSCANA May 19-30th 2015 - An interactive Choral Tour of Tuscany
Segue
2328
CD Cut 2 – ‘Ninna Nanna’
F. Benigni
Pub Not Spec
Finisterre Records FT 60 www.finisterre.it, distributed worldwide by www.felmay.it
Rocca-Benigni Duo – ‘Upset’
5:19
(Traditional Abruzzi song arranged for melody clarinet and rich diatonic accordion becomes lively, uptempo waltz)
2335
CD 2, Cut 3 – ‘Summer Noon’
Jeff Tweedy
Words Ampersand Music, BMI, admin by BMG Rights Management (US) LLC
dBpm Records 87344-2 (Through Warner in Australia)
Tweedy – ‘Sukierae’
3:32
(Summer noon I can always stay to radiate what the cello can’t play…Never leave your mother’s womb unless you want to see how hard a broken swoon’ Jeff sings, with his son Spencer Tweedy on drums)
Segue
2338
CD 2, Cut 3 – ‘World Away’
Jeff Tweedy
Words Ampersand Music, BMI, admin by BMG Rights Management (US) LLC
dBpm Records 87344-2 (Through Warner in Australia)
Tweedy – ‘Sukierae’
3:30
(Modified Bo Diddley drum beat by Jeff Tweedy’s son Spencer with Jeff doing the guitar, bass and vocals)
2342
CD Cut 5, ‘Minor Dance’
Gianluigi Trovesi
No Pub Spec
ECM 1703 543 034-2 (through Sonart)
Gianluigi Trovesi & Gianni Coscia - ‘In Cerca Di Cibo’
5:01
(duet for accordion and clarinet ... starts off slow and atmospheric and then into lively bent rhythm with some lovely soloing)
Segue
2347
CD Cut 6 – ‘Ex Abrupto’
F. Benigni
Pub Not Spec
Finisterre Records FT 60 www.finisterre.it, distributed worldwide by www.felmay.it
Rocca-Benigni Duo – ‘Upset’
4:52
(Sound engineer Paolo Modugno plays tapan drum on this Balkan romp for accordion and clarinet)
2353
CD Cut 2 – ‘Music For a While’
Thomas Purcell, words by John Dryden and Nathaniel Lee, arr Christina Pluhar
Pub Not Spec
Erato/Warner Classics 08256 463375 0 7
L’Arpeggiata Christina Pluhar – ‘Music For a While: Improvisations on Purcell’
Five minute excerpt
(Gianluigi Trovesi solos on clarinet, with a jazz trio sound including a walking double bass underlying Philippe Jaroussky’s high vocals in this new arrangement of John Dryden’s 1692 version of Oedipus)
Lyrics:
Music for a while
Shall all your cares beguile.
Wond'ring how your pains were eas'd
And disdaining to be pleas'd
Till Alecto free the dead
From their eternal bands,
Till the snakes drop from her head,
And the whip from out her hands.