LIVE IN PISA

August 13th, 2013

EDOARDO RICCI / EUGENIO SANNA / ROGER TURNER
Live in Pisa

Burp Publications 2013 – Mhmusic – MHM12
cd

Edoardo Ricci alto saxophone, bass clarinet, trombone
Eugenio Sanna guitar, objects
Roger Turner drums & percussions


Edoardo Ricci
is a key figure in the underground music panorama in Italy.
He’s an accomplished multi-instrumentalist, caustic illustrator and irreverent poet.

Eugenio Sanna is an extraordinary guitarist both for his unique style and background. For decades he has been dedicated to the development and divulgation of improvised music and sound as a therapeutic tool.

Roger Turner is described by The Wire magazine as a giant of improvised music.

Recorded by Alessandro Boscolo Live in Pisa documents a concert held at Teatro Verdi in Pisa during the Instabile Jazz Festival November 26, 2006.

It’s the second album this trio recorded for Burp after 2002’s I Segnali della Ritirata (MHM7 – Burp Publications / Mhmusic).

Three improvisers create bundles of sound  that intertwine and release themselves as in a dance through an uninterrupted flow of sound, rhythm, silence, space. The trio structure enables Ricci, Sanna and Turner to rove through many different moods, contexts and relationships for a simultaneous, unconventional musical exploration.
S. Arcangeli

Al laghetto, gracidando a mezza voce tre oche (fiati, chitarra, batteria) si studiano e con piccoli movimenti imponderabili ma gradualmente concentrici si appressano ad un nucleo invisibile. Un filo di fumo di sigaretta disegna a mezz’aria un ritratto di Michail Bakunin e poi si dissolve.
Vittore Baroni

The album will be soon available for streaming and download on bandcamp.
the cd edition it’s available now directly from Burp writing a message to emporium@burpenterprise.com 

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Edoardo Ricci is a key figure in the underground music panorama in Italy.
He’s an accomplished multi-instrumentalist, caustic illustrator and irreverent poet.
From Avantgarde Jazz to free improvised music, from experimental rock to primitivist cabaret and noise exploration, his career delineates a unique personality in a forty-year long trip in music from the other side of the fence.

In the late sixties he concentrated on reed instruments. Even if he favors alto saxophone and bass clarinet, over the years Ricci developed his own personal technique on many other wind instruments including  trombone.

In the early seventies, he gained notice for playing in Guido Mazzon‘s Gruppo Contemporaneo. He became a revelation in the Italian avant-garde jazz scene and soon he became interested in radical improvisation and experimental music.

In 1973 together with Francesco Donnini he founded the legendary pataphysical orchestra N.E.E.M. based  in Florence. A large ensemble that blends composed and improvised music and theatre in its own idiosyncratic way. The Orchestra recorded one cult album in 1978, Come Eravamo Brutti da Piccini on the Materiali Sonori label and a second one,  Lo Jodel del Segafanciullo in 2002 on Burp Publications under the moniker of e-N.E.E.M. Projekt. The group is still active.

In the late seventies and early eighties among the many artists he played with, were Tristan Honsinger and Sean Bergin and with Muzic Circo and Padouk. Also in the late seventies, Ricci started his collaboration with Eugenio Sanna, later documented by two albums on Burp  Lo Scorfano Miracolato and Le Sette Premonizioni Ortofrutticole, that were recognized as representing a crucial moment in Italian creative music at that time.

Since the nineties his musical path lead him to encounter a number of international figures among which the heterogenous Florence-based collective Burp Enterprise. In 1996, he joined  Mat Pogo and WJ Meatball in Jealousy Party and founded Crap with trumpet player Roy Paci and drummer Jacopo Andreini. He also played with  freeform heavy rockers Bron Y Aur and in 200? recorded I Segnali della Ritirata with Eugenio Sanna and Roger Turner.

In 2013 he contributed to two Jealousy Party albums, Mercato Centrale, just out for Burp, and All Yours soon to be released on Audition. Currently, he plays with the Florence-based new music collective Blutwurst and with the circuit bending project Athanoi together with Stefano Bartolini. He plays on  Morire Per La Patria the most recent album by the Milanese avant rock unit Fuzz Orchestra.

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Eugenio Sanna is an extraordinary guitarist both for his unique style and background. For decades he has been dedicated to the development and divulgation of improvised music and sound as a therapeutic tool.

He started playing in the early seventies with the country band Le Storie Del Vento. After being part of many rock bands in the mid-seventies he started to be interested in jazz and improvised music. He’s among the founders of C.R.I.M. in Pisa, an organization that in those years organized  concerts and workshops with musicians like Milford Graves, Martin Joseph, Gunther Hampel, Leo Smith and Steve Lacy. He met John Russell, Phil Wachsmann, Derek Bailey and Roger Turner. He started his training as a music therapist. In the late eighties Sanna inaugurated a long collaboration with musicians from Tuscany and Milan including Edoardo Ricci, Stefano Bartolini, Filippo Monico and Roberto Del Piano and joined the N.E.E.M. ensemble.

In the early nineties he explored ambient music and collaborated with Fluxus member Giuseppe Chiari. Among the others, he collaborated with Douglas Dunn, Cheryl Banks, Mauro Orselli, Mike Cooper, Jean Marc Montera, Peter Kowald, Eddie Prévost, Tristan Honsinger, John Edwards, Phil Minton and John Zorn.

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Roger Turner grew up amongst the Canterbury musical scene of the 1960s with a strong jazz background. Since 1974, his work focused on exploring a more personal percussion language through the processes of improvisation, solo work, collaborations with experimental rock musics and free-form song.  His development has been shaped by his extensive work with dance, film and visual art, involvements in numerous jazz-based ensembles, and workshop residencies..

Most of all, however, he concentrated on music-making with many of the finest European and international musicians in ad-hoc and group improvising collaborations including Alan Silva, Cecil Taylor, Henry Grimes, Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, Keith Rowe, Toshinori Kondo, Irene Schweitzer, Joelle Leandre…

He is currently working in Konk Pack (with Tim Hodgkinson and Thomas Lehn), a duo w/ Annette Peacock, the Josef Nadj Dance Project,the Phil Minton Quartet, a trio with Michel Doneda and John Russell, and duos with John Russell and Phil Minton.

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One Response to “LIVE IN PISA”

  1. io Says:

    bellissima scheda….un grazie a più strati