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Artist:
GRUPPO DI IMPROVVISAZIONE NUOVA CONSONANZA
Title:
Nuova Consonanza
Label:
BELLA CASA (UK)
Format:
CD
Price:
$17.00
Catalog #:
CASA 009CD
Reissue of this 1975 self-titled album, originally released on the Cinevox label. Tracks are: "Settimino," "Eflot," "Soup" and "Scratch." Two of these are also commonly available on CD on the Edition RZ compilation, unfortunately; the other two ("Settimino" & "Scratch") are not on CD, so you have approx 30 minutes of exclusive/rare material here on this release. Gruppo are the classic Italian freeform outfit from the '60s & '70s, still pretty undocumented on CD. All pieces created by: Giovanni Piazza, Ennio Morricone, Mario Bertoncini, Gualtiero Branchi, Francesco Evangelisti, Egisto Macchi, Jesus Villa Rojo. "The least-known and rarest musical exploration of Ennio Morricone's career. He played trumpet in the extraordinary Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza from 1965 when it was founded by composer Franco Evangelisti. These lengthy improvised sound collages are challenging to listen to but have their own beauty and are of serious historical importance. Gruppo recorded albums for RCA Italia and Cinevox up to 1975 including under Morricone's auspices, soundtracks for the trippy
Gli Occhi Freddi Della Paura
and
Un Tranquillo posto di Campagna
where their improvised 35-minute suite mirrored the formal score."
Artist:
GRUPPO DI IMPROVVISAZIONE NUOVA CONSONANZA
Title:
Azioni
Label:
DIE SCHACHTEL (ITALY)
Format:
2CD/DVD
Price:
$47.50
Catalog #:
DS 013CD
"This deluxe boxed edition presents some of the most compelling improvisations of this extraordinary improv group active in the '60s and featuring such names as Ennio Morricone, Ivan Vandor, Roland Kayn, Franco Evangelisti, Walter Branchi, Mario Bertoncini and John Heineman. Spanning from free-jazz to total abstract noise and wild electronic sounds, these pieces were recorded between 1967 and 1969 and are released here for the first time. The enclosed video DVD, shot in a stunning black and white, is a unique document that captures the rehearsal of the thrilling concert that the group gave in Rome in 1967. It features both English and Italian subtitles. The cloth-covered box contains three individual digipak, a 72-pages Italian-English booklet and a poster. "Il Gruppo was a brilliant and prolific composer's collective exploring extended techniques and new sound sources through the medium of improvisation. Although very much a product of its time, their music remains timeless. They were instrumental in founding a radical tradition of western musical improvisation that owed little or nothing to anybody and created some of the strangest music ever made. They were utterly unique." --John Zorn, NYC 2006. DVD is PAL format for Europe, region 0.
Artist:
GRUPPO DI IMPROVVISAZIONE NUOVA CONSONANZA
Title:
Kompositionen 1967-75
Label:
EDITION RZ (GERMANY)
Format:
CD
Price:
$20.00
Catalog #:
RZ 1009CD
1992 release. Italian improvisation group formed in 1964. The group featured
Mario Bertoncini
(percussion, piano),
Walter Branchi
(double-bass),
Franco Evangelisti
(piano),
Hohn Heineman
(trombone, cello),
Roland Kayn
(Hammond organ, vibraphone, marimba),
Egisto Macchi
(percussion, celesta) and (most famously)
Ennio Morricone
(trumpet).
Frederic Rzewski
(piano) also appears. Historic stuff, ala
AMM
or
MEV
.
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