Il duo formato da Massaron e Corini è la naturale conseguenza di anni di collaborazione artistica dei due musicisti. Il loro progetto è nato nel periodo nel quale i due hanno militato nel collettivo El Gallo Rojo, una delle realtà più interessanti nel panorama musicale Italiano dell’ultimo decennio.
Corini e Massaron amano la melodia e non sempre si preoccupano della forma che la vuole contenere.
Family è un disco che vuole rappresentare il loro amore per la musica e per quelli che sono stati i loro eroi musicali: Charlie Haden e Ornette Coleman tra i primi, ma anche la canzone dei primi del ‘900 ben rappresentata da Amapola e la musica popolare e folk di Llobet e Takemitsu.
Grazie a Stefano Castagna, fonico e produttore di Family, il duo rende omaggio anche alla ECM degli anni ’80, ricercando in alcuni momenti quel suono che è stato fondamentale nella crescita musicale dei due musicisti.
E’ proprio la ricerca sonora e la creatività di Castagna che ha portato i due musicisti all’uso dello studio come “strumento musicale” sia nella fase di registrazione che in quella di missaggio.
E sono i suoni catturati e processati, come nella bellissima versione di Amapola dove il riverbero è ricavato dalla risonanza delle corde di un pianoforte, a determinare i colori di questo quadro di ricordi e omaggi con il quale Giulio Corini e Simone Massaron si confrontano con i loro eroi come membri di una ideale famiglia musicale.
The duo formed by Massaron and Corini is the natural consequence of a years-long artistic collaboration of the two musicians. Their project was born during their activity in the collective “El Gallo Rojo”, one of the most interesting realities in the Italian music scene of the last decade.
Corini and Massaron love melodies and they don’t always worry about the form that contains it.
Family is a record that intends to represent their love for music and their musical heroes: Charlie Haden and Ornette Coleman are first in line, but also early 1900s songs – well represented by Amapola – and folk and popular music by Llobet and Takemitsu.
Thanks to Stefano Castagna, sound engineer and producer of Family, the duo pays homage also to the 80s ECM, looking sometimes to that sound that was essential to the musical evolution of the two musicians.
It was indeed Castagna’s sound research and creativity that made Massaron and Corini use the recording studio as musical instrument both recording and mixing. All the recorded and processed sounds, like those in the wonderful version of Amapola where reverb is obtained from the resonance of a piano, determine the colours of this picture of memories and homages that Giulio Corini and Simone Massaron use for dealing with their heroes, like members of an imaginary musical family.
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released April 1, 2020
1) El Noi De La Mare – traditional Catalan folksong
2) Albert Meets Nels – Simone Massaron
3) What A Friend We Have In Jesus – Charles Crozat Converse 1868
4) Billy The Kid – Traditional
5) Small Sky – Toru Takemitsu
6) T-Rex – Simone Massaron, Giulio Corini
7) Oh Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie – Edwin H. Chapin, Ossian
N. Dodge
8) In All Languages – Ornette Coleman
9) This Old Man - Traditional
10) Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman – Sanger D. Shafer
11) Family - Simone Massaron, Giulio Corini
12) Amapola – Joseph M. Lacalle
Simone Massaron: Acoustic and Electric Guitar, Loops, Objects, Drums.
Giulio Corini: Acoustic Bass, Objects.
Cover Photo: Simone Massaron
Artwork: Giulia Mantovani
Recorded at Ritmo&Blu Recording Studio Pozzolengo (BS) Italy june 24 and 25 2016 by Stefano Castagna
Mixed at Ritmo&Blu Recording Studio Pozzolengo (BS) Italy july 29 and december 7 2016 by Stefano Castagna
Produced by Simone Massaron, Giulio Corini and Stefano Castagna
Thanks to Emanuele Maniscalco
One of the most interesting italian improvisers of his generation, Giulio Corini has been working with important
international jazz musicians for many years.
Since 2005 he has directed the ensemble Libero Motu with whom he published for El Gallo Rojo Records “Libero Motu” ( 2007), “Off-site Meetings” (2009) and “Future Revival” (2015).
His discography includes more than 50 albums....more
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