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“Plays Monk” was listed #2 best jazz cd of the year by KQED radio, an important North California radio. Read here.
And it’s not over: the prestigious All About New York Magazine voted “Plays Monk” best tributal recording of 2007!
This amazing band is constantly getting wider attention from everywhere.
Eclectic, experienced and creative guitar player Craig Green plus celebrated and critically acclaimed drummer David King (from the Bad Plus and Happy Apple) will release in some months an excting and vibrant duo collaboration on Long Song Records. Totally improvised music in an odd setting (with piano from time to time, played by D.King), electric and also acoustic, working in many moods ranges. sketches of inventiveness and freshness all over. groovey and spacey, physical and ethereal, gentle and stinging. Music coming out of their hands and mind with an almost telepathic empathy, that gives life to true little “compositions”, as if written in advance.
Stay tuned for future news.
This is the very nice opinion of Marc Ribot about Simone Massaron after they met to record the latest session of Giovanni Maier Technicolor:
“simone massaron is an inventive improviser and highly skilled guitarist, is a unique voice among a new generation of musicians literate in both the improvising traditions of derek bailey/fred frith and rock/free jazz, working towards a new language of the guitar”
You’ll listen to their joined forces soon on the coming release by Giovanni Maier.
We finished mixing the tracks by Giovanni Maier Techcnicolor with Marc Ribot.
The sound is powerful and straight. Drums and bass have a no reverb aggressive cutting edge, and the guitars are raw and bordering with noise. “pure” Long Song sound.
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Non esitate a contattarli se desiderate rivendere i nostri cd ovunque voi vogliate!
In June legendary guitar master Marc Ribot will record a session with Giovanni Maier and his technicolor band. Simone Massaron will join the project too. Expect amazing music to be released later this year. Technicolor part. 1 recorded in december is on its way to be finished. Hard grooving and trippy powerful music.
The great singer and songwriter Carla Bozulich, goddess of the alternative scene, and well rooted in many music styles, will record a cd with guitar ace Simone Massaron in June. Simone is writing nice music and they’ll join forces for the lyrics. Stay tuned for more news about this Long Song Records event, that has a singer for a full length project for the first time.
Acclaimed West Coast players Scott Amendola (drums), Ben Goldberg (clarinet) and Devin Hoff (bass) pay a tribute to greatest jazz composer ever, Thelonious Monk. Their renditions of his classic, without harmonical instruments, is fresh and exciting. “Plays Monk” is the way Long Song Records gets Monk music into his catalogue, and it’s fantastic.
“Duo Milano” will be released at the end of May. Part acoustic, part electric, is a totally improvised work. Daring, powerful, aggressive music from two modern guitar masters, that deeply respect each other and enjoy playing together a lot. For the first time on a full length cd in this kind of setting.
Giovanni Maier and his Technicolor band have recorded together with producer Fabrizio (that’s me writing) the first part of this electric project. The studio we used was the prestigious ArtEsuono in Udine, where the recording engineer Stefano Amerio is often acclaimed for his high quality results. Joining Giovanni were Zeno De Rossi (drummer with the famous Italian songwriter Vinicio Capossela) and Alfonso Santinone (Keyboards) from the exciting musicians project “El Gallo Rojo Records” and Giorgio Pacorig (Keyboards too). The music was fresh and unpredictable, with the unusual line-up of two keyboards plus rhythm section. You’ll hear something soon. A second session will be recorded in June with guitar aces Marc Ribot (!!!) and Simone Massaron. The feeling will be different, looser and more guitar-oriented.