HANS-JOACHIM ROEDELIUS "Piano Piano" ( 1991)

This post is for Richard, friend of Materiali Sonori releases, who have asked to listen to this 1991 album. Beside his pioneering and famous works with edging kraut bands as KLUSTER, CLUSTER, HARMONIA etc., the edging composer Hans-Joachim Roedelius also has released numerous solo works, most of which are ambient-newage-modern classical orientated... and "PIANO PIANO" is one of them. Simple piano sounds and few electronics are enough, for the composer, to draw slowly (piano piano) melodic, quiet, impressionistic landscapes of sometime great sentimental immediacy.

H-J ROEDELIUS Leicht Gemacht

PIANO PIANO (12 tracks)

LUIS RIZZO CUARTETO " Tristesse " (Materiali Sonori, 1990)

Argentinian composer and guitarist LUIS RIZZO is one of the contemporary avant-tango and tango-revival acting figures, a competent heir to a really great tradition built by tango monsters (and also Rizzo's masters) as ASTOR PIAZZOLLA, JUAN JOSE MOSALINI, OSVALDO MANZI...
In 70's Rizzo participates to Mosalini's avant ensemble "Guardia Nueva", in 80's he stays in france and plays a lot in Europe. In 1988 he releases, with a trio, the album"Tango d'hier et d'aujourd'hui" (label Circe, France) and two years later, he meets italian producer Marco Castellani and starts his long collaboration with label Materiali Sonori.
"TRISTESSE" is the first fruit of this collaboration, a collection of 13 pieces written by various composers (11 tangos, 1 milonga, 1 valse), with Rizzo on guitar, Susanna Rizzi on vocals and Cesar Stroscio, future leader of the very good ensemble ESQUINA, (see our post for label Materiali Sonori), on bandoneon.

Listen to a sample here:

LUIS RIZZO CUARTETO - Tristesse (composer: Luis Rizzo)

LUIS RIZZO CUARTETO
(with singer Susanna Rizzi )
Cesar Stroscio - bandoneon
Carlos Carsen - bass
Adrian Politi - guitar
Luis Rizzo - guitar

ARTURO STALTERI "Racconti Brevi" + "...E il Pavone Parlo Alla Luna" ( ITA, 1987)

Second solo work of an expert in 70's electronic -progressive music, who expands here his art of landscapism and unlocks some new realms of imagination...

"...E il pavone..." was out circa early 80's. Reissued in 2004 by MP records.
The 1987 Materiali Sonori edition included as first part, the unreleased compositions "Racconti Brevi".

"Racconti Brevi":
01. Lo speccio di galadriel [5:30]
02.Passi sulle dune [2:30]
03. Danza della londra [1:16]
04. Piccoli pinguini [2:44]
05. Volo notturno [3:01]
"...e il Pavone Parlo Alla Luna":
06. Goa di fronte all' oceano [5:43]
07. Mulini [4:40]
08. ...e il pavone parlo alla luna [1:36]
09. La pescatrice di perle [4:08]
10. Morceau [0:49]
11. Raga Occidentale [17:03]
12. Nel palazzo dei venti [3:22]

ARTURO STALTERI - piano, guitar, synth
RODOLFO RUBERTI - electric guitar
DARIO BELLARDINI - clarinet
RICCARDO MIGLIETTA - tabla
DANTE MAJORANA - flute

Listen here to Raga Occidentale

More ARTURO STALTERI at La Folie Du Jour:

MATERIALI SONORI: The Dreamreality Of Sonic Materials
ARTURO STALTERI - Flowers

MATERIALI SONORI: The Dreamreality Of Sonic Materials

 Arlo Bigazzi

Influential italian and international artists explore through Arlo Bigazzi's Materiali Sonori label directions in modern music...

I. TERRE NASCOSTE [Lands Hidden]

"Also in Raissa, city of sadness, an invisible thread there unwinds and binds one living being to another, then unravels and afterwards is stretched again between moving points, drawing new, rapid forms so that at every second the unhappy city contains a happy city unaware of its own existence."

ALESINI, ANDREONI
quinsai, la citta il cielo (from "Marco Polo", 1996)
ARTURO STALTERI
viking 1 ("Syriarise", 1992)
MILITIA
giorno dopo giorno ("Elvengamello, 1997)
DREM BRUINSMA
forest ("Six Reels Of Joy", 1991)
EMBRYO 
zack gluck ("Zack Gluck, 1984)
ST. BROWN & BL. REININGER
tarantella ("Croatian Variations", 1992)
ST. BROWN & BL. REININGER
gaia ("Croatian Variations", 1992)
LA 1919
la lunga marcia dei lemmings ("Giorni Felici", 1997)
GIOVANOTTI MONDANI MECCANICI
back and forth ("GMM", 1985)
DREM BRUINSMA
all but one ("Six Reels Of Joy", 1991)
MILITIA
studio z (v.a. Sonora 4/94, 1994)
MARIPOSA
trovarobato ("Portobello Illusioni", 2000)
DANIEL SCHELL & KARO
gira girasole ("Gira Girasole", 1994)
ROEDELIUS, ALESINI, CAPANNI
genius move ("Friendly Games", 1992)

listen to: part i - terre nascoste

ΙΙ. TERRE DETTE [Lands Told]

"...the city high above the gulf is always there, but i can no more call it by a name, nor remember how i could ever have given it a name which has a totally different meaning."

 

PAOLO LOTTI
ricordi mai dipinti ("Nuda Solitudine", 1994)
HAYWARD, FRITH, LASWELL, HOWARD
iurodivil ("Meridiem", 1998)
CUDU [Bigazzi, Lotti, Burchard, Steven Brown, L.V.Lieshout]
Debbussy sur la mer avec arpege ("Waterplay", 1990)
DAMIANO PULITI
alien orifice (v.a. Sonora 4/94, 1994)
CLARE ANN MATZ
sweet lament ("Some Secrets", 1996)
MILITIA
vorrei morire ("Elvengamello", 1997)
MILITIA
notturno ("Dunarobba", 1990)
LA 1919
Giorni felici ("Giorni Felici", 1997)
ORIO ODORI
construzione (v.a. Sonora 4/94, 1994)
ALESINI, ANDREONI
kubilay khan ("Marco Polo", 1996)
ST. BROWN & BL. REININGER

ombres chinoise ("Croatian Variations", 1992)
ARTURO STALTERI
le ultime luci di Brea ("Syriarise", 1992)
ESQUINA
milonga del angel ("Esquina", 1994)

listen to: part ii - terre dette 

texts from ITALO CALVINO'S "Le Citta Invisibili"
selected & translated by paramo
Materiali Sonori compilations
created by Koroviov

HARMONIA ENSEMBLE "Nino Rota" (ITA, 1992)

Italian chamber music ensemble HARMONIA works at the crossroads of classical and modern musical languages. Initially a trio of ORIO ODORI (clarinet), DAMIANO PULITI (cello) and ALESSANDRA GAROSI (piano) formed in 1991 and debuted in Materiali Sonori label with a work dedicated to NINO ROTA.
Including both covers on Rota's famous themes (from "8 1/2", "La Strada", "Rocco e i suoi frattelli", "Il Gattopardo", "Amarcord"...) and original HARMONIA compositions, the album suggests perhaps a not so innovative but certainly a romantic and emotionally valuable view of the work of the great master, refreshing the pleasures of that unrepeatable cinematic magnificence.

HARMONIA - Nino Rota
(12 tracks, approx 49 min)

*Check out also their remarkable 1994 release "Harmonia Meets Zappa"

ARTURO STALTERI " Flowers" (ITA, Materiali Sonori, 1995/1998)

"L`interminabile tempo mi adopera come un fruscio" -G.UNGARETTI

ARTURO STALTERI, a classical educated musician, was the man behind keyboards, percussions and vocals of italian prog legends PIERROT LUNAIRE. After two albums, the band paused activities and Arturo followed a solo way, released "Andre sulla luna" (1979), and "E il pavone parlo alla luna"(1987), both highly recommended electronic-prog-minimal-art-ambient LPs. "Flowers" originated from 1995; MATERIALI SONORI though, replaced first edition with a 1998, one-track-richer (sheltering sky theme) re-issue. A solo piano album where Arturo defines, in a way, the personal, favourite music universe that lies behind, around and inside his art. Names of Debussy, Glass, Sakamoto and also Chic Corea, Darryl Way gives an idea for the wide range of this impressionistic, minimal, modern, cinematic, endoscopic trip. Arturo adds to them compositions some fine pieces of his own, unifying a more complicated concept which suggests a multileveled,delightful and critical "reading" of the album.

Alone, facing piano`s black & white monochrome, as a witness of night & skylights ("un tasto bianco, un tasto nero..."), Arturo grows into his (and ours) nocturnal imagination, flowers with petals made of a moonlit touch.

FLOWERS. (80mb)

 "The interminable time treats me like a rustle"