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APERTURE - gardens of Via Filippo Re - Bologna - June 25, 2010

diaphragms as the nomads to their concerts if they are people who has seen dozens of times that those times could be listed by mystical fervor and recall with philological precision, his wife and young adults with accompanying side by side, in the front row, with kids who may have discovered the band by downloading a torrent from one of the last case, fiacchissimi discs.

Whatever you do, more than a couple of decades now, to a concert Aperture the audience never fails ; this evening then, it will be because admission is free, friendly courtyard gardens of Via Filippo Re literally overflowing with frantic fans of all ages, ready to crowding in front of the barricade as in heat thirteen to the principle of the Take That concert as soon as the steel Federico Fiume (one mind and lider maximo always behind the training in Florence ) appears on the stage system only gives the pedal and the guitar.

Over the years I have seen play the diaphragm at least thirteen times (I honestly lost count), I followed Fiume (and his forelock, progressively more and more gray) in length and breadth of improbable town festivals, local noble and authentic taverns of the lowest category , and I never thought I could still move at a concert like the first time that I placed the needle on the grooves of "Siberia".

But when everything is ready and Fiumani attacks, just the riff bearing Siberia, I realize that is absolutely right my friend Roberta (Aperture that if he is seen "only" three times and now stands before me singing at breakneck speed, as in a trance in front of a golden idol): each time with Aperture is like the first time .

And despite those songs have kept me company for a very substantial portion of my life, listen Siberia in January, the smell of roses, I love to watch, diamond in the rough Is always something new and still be able to get deep lacerations.

pity then that will break the spell relentlessly when, after a hail of amarcord high intensity as those mentioned above, Fiumani pull out a betrayal I feel like a monster, which closes the album track "Walking on the wild side "2007, whose first stanza read (and I quote):" you stick four fingers in her ass / The pull out full of shit / Moreover, what do you expect? / After all, what I was looking for? .

not have to be a Harvard graduate bucks to see that between this case and a piece of the album, say, until "The Return of Desire," of water has passed under the bridge ...

still something new and repertory paccianesco then back to cry with, one after the other, Lips blue, green , Elena, Hot, Three times tears: a hat-trick to spread the bison. Then again trinkets from past records (especially the last "Hard to Find"), until the closing oil and Blue Ocean as encore.

They played fifty minutes and as long as it lasted, I have shuffled the bowel like in a pot, a lot of songs were missing, but for this there will always be the next concert.

vote 7

Matteo Cortesi

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RICOLOOP - Garden Salvatore Pincherle - Bologna - June 18, 2010

We welcome the signing of a new blog: Matteo Cortesi

Ricoloop is a genius, but of those who find it easier to perform on street corners rather than inside a room or in a concert hall.

Like some of his "colleagues" more or less illustrious past (on all the heroic bum Moondog blind), his vision of music and things of this world is completely personal, strictly self-sufficient and self-sufficient, using only homemade instruments as Moondog, so Ricoloop uses for its own performance, to 95% of their body and your breath.

The remaining 5% is occupied by a guitar, a bass, a (scassatissima) diamonica a couple of pianos and rudimentary, in any case the whole thing played for a few seconds and with the sole purpose of adding tiny shades to pieces already practically completed.

Ricoloop The modus operandi is simple: starting from the principles underlying the beatboxing (which is the practice - Perfected by Bobby McFerrin and particularly popular within the hip-hop - which consists in imitating the sounds of drums and other instruments with the use of voice), he develops real songs from scratch, by registering footswitchable a "layer" after the other and put each layer - precisely - in the loop. The end result is

beyond a reasonable description, and must be seen and heard to be able to understand the magnitude.

Above all else, is to impress the vast musical culture man (born Rico wurde in September 1968 in Dresden), able to range with disarming nonchalance (and often within the same song) from techno to Indian ragas to any type of ethnic music from around the world and from every latitude involving the use of voice (but even this is a necessary element, from Because Rico is perfectly capable of playing a virtually unlimited range of sounds).

is the third time in three years that Ricoloop performs in the pleasant surroundings of the gardens Pincherle, and once again impresses with its extreme generosity and vitality , we get that are not yet eight o'clock and he has already begun, God knows what.

find him bending over the pedal to sweat and fret like a maniac at the rate of urgent basis that he has just created, and the time is uncertain, it starts to fall a few drops of rain and the audience - when anything that large - is lost as a crazed swarm of bees .

Rico cares, and continues to bleed and add layers and fidgeting in front of it even if no more than fifteen people, the rain stops and starts to get people but for Rico is the same, behave the same way if there were twenty or two thousand, is in his trip and do not take it, and it is still elsewhere.

Suda between songs and plenty of smiles like a child for First Communion and thanks the public " to allow him to be himself . Then the stops with the thanks, you too busy to drain some of the music that carries within it, the pieces follow one after the other as rosaries shelled by calloused hands of a Sicilian widow, lose track of time, we and he, and when we wake are ten three quarters and bouncers kindly invite us to reach the exit.
He is a giant.
rating 8
Matteo Cortesi

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BEATLES - Magical Mystery Tour - 1967

"Magical Mystery Tour" is a strange affair. It's an album of Beatles and not ...

What happened was that Paul, during a trip to America, coming into contact with a hippy community, had the idea for a new film . He had just started to write the soundtrack while receiving very little enthusiasm on the part of others.

the end the film (an obvious paraphrase of an LSD trip) was created and broadcast by the BBC but picked up only criticism, even if the role should be acknowledged at least the forerunner of the "road movie" which opened two years later by "Easy rider. "

The soundtrack consists of 6 pieces came out in England as Double single , but in America, where the film was not to go out, the six tracks joined the A and B sides of singles released during the '67.

items include the "new" we note the melancholy " The Fool on the Hill" (perhaps the song most "noble" of the disk), the acidic "Blue Jay Way (Harrison) and" I'm the walrus "of an increasingly hallucinatory Lennon, ennobled by a stunning arrangement by Martin. Next to them the songs they had composed what is now considered the single most beautiful the history of pop : "Strawberry Fields Forever" / "Penny Lane" and another song Historically, the lennoniana "All you need is love" with its B-side "Baby You're A Richman." In particular, first, that his message Accustomed immediately anthem, was good, albeit in a very superficial, the unforgettable summer of "peace & love." Rated 6.5

Lucio Mazzi

Running With A Period

BEATLES - Sgt Pepper ... - 1967

Once released "Revolver", the Beatles left for an exhausting tour in Asia followed by an equally unsatisfactory in the U.S. where they were opposed to the famous phrase of Lennon on their popularity exceeding that of Jesus Christ . returned home with a nervous wreck and had the assurance from their manager Brian Epstein that they would never set foot on stage, back in the recording studio for a new album that should have been focused on their childhood in Liverpool.

The first two amazing songs out (not without great effort) were "Penny Lane" by Paul and "Strawberry Fields Forever" by John, but because the label wanted to release a new single, the two tracks were "requirements" for 45 laps. So the two pieces could not enter the project and the Beatles album liverpool had start all over again.

But the four were in a phase of this creative ferment that two days after completion of "Penny Lane" were already in the studio working on "A Day In The Life ", the masterpiece of their masterpiece album "Sergeant Pepper" .

"Sergeant Pepper" is the album that beatlesmaniaci waving to demonstrate how the Four have revolutionized the world of pop . They are right. There

who does not recognize the innovations on this disc a breaking point clear with what had been before and, together, a new starting point. "Revolver" had already shown how the Beatles were "forward" and "Sergeant Pepper" said that in fact they were actually going along another road.

No one had ever heard him use the orchestra in a song like "A Day In The Life", no one had ever heard of combining hard rock band and vaudeville in a way ... so naturally, no one had ever heard so many sound effects in the service of songs that eventually were phenomenal because of their (apparent) simplicity.

It probably was never released an album so obviously created under the influence of LSD. Although other musicians were slaves to drugs, perhaps even more than the Beatles, no one could bear the influence ... so disciplined in his own artistic production.

"Sergeant Pepper" is universally considered the best album of the Beatles and one of the masterpieces of the history of rock. And this, (which is far from obvious) was immediately apparent.

At its release, the American and radio days suspended for their music programming to transmit only those songs and the Times called it "a defining moment in the history of Western civilization." The album was

for two hundred weeks on chart and eventually represent an inexhaustible mine of ideas not just for pop, but also for the more evolved rock that would come later.

Rating 9

Lucio Mazzi

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BEATLES - Revolver - 1966 CASTEL SAN PIETRO

After "Revolver" the pop was never the same. On this, no discussion.

The Beatles who'd touched the water with his foot by publishing "Rubber Soul", this time he dived for fish in the musical and thematic research and experimentation in sound .

scatter the live shows during which they ended up parodying themselves could not even hear what sounded lost their marbles by the screams of fans, the four dedicated fully to the work of composition and, crucially assisted George Martin, of realization in the room.

and have fun. Touching all topics, from taxes to Buddhism, exploring all genres of music, from childhood song ("Yellow Submarine"), the R & B ("Got To Get You Into My Life", where "you" do not is a lady, but, apparently, cocaine), to psychedelic pop ("She Said She Said", "Tomorrow Never Knows"), the Eastern music ("Love you to") to romantic song ("For No One") to blues ("Taxman"). And since

we are talking about good songs. Then there are the masterpieces .

"Eleanor Rigby ", written by Paul with the decisive contribution of the other three and masterfully arranged by George Martin they have cleverly used a string octet , is one of the classics of the group: a beautiful text that in concluding part, with the death of the protagonist and the priest who cleans his hands from the earth away from the burial, did not fail to shock the public.

" Here, There and Everywhere " Paul is considered by his best song that manages to combine melody and lyrics in a sweet honey absolutely no .

" Tomorrow Never Knows" is the song most experimental never recorded by the Beatles up to that point, the text inspired by the Tibetan Book of the Dead "is sung by John with a plaintive voice filtered through a guitar amplifier to obtain an almost mystical atmosphere. This is a song written (by Lennon) under the direct influence of ' LSD at that time was experiencing (the "Book of the Dead" is a reference text of culture LSD) speaks acid and its universe, and in this sense it was certainly one of the most socially influential songs ever made by the Beatles. It must be said, that because of LSD, Lennon would have spent the next two years in a constant state of mental deterioration that eventually reduce it to almost a wreck. Only with great mental and physical strength he managed to get out. Unlike many that the acid had literally burned the brain.

"Revolver" album was a critical for the Beatles, but especially for the pop with her insights found himself confronted. It would not be easy. It just started to digest all these new developments, would come the Sergeant Pepper and his band of lonely hearts ...

rating 8

Lucio Mazzi

Savanna Samson In Streaming

IN BLUES - Castel S. Peter (Bo) June 4 to 6

"Who does not love the blues has a hole in the soul" is an old saying by an unknown hand engraved on the wall of an old record store in Mississippi. We came to mind in the midst of thousands of people crowded the square in Castel San Pietro Terme (paesone between Bologna and Imola) for the first weekend in June of Castel San Pietro in Blues, the festival for fourteen years offers interesting music, often to debut in Italy.

after midnight when no one wanted to go from the square it was realized that there in the spa town no one has a hole in your soul.

had to be a party and they did, some even favored the entrance free, but in any case, the enthusiasm with which the concerts were greeted showed interest in music that manages to drag to entertain. The evening of Friday, a sort of preview in the Hall of the medieval castle, saw the performance of English Eddie Martin, singer, guitarist and harmonica player of high school, rigorous in its proposal for a blues sound, able to communicate with people who filled the small theater, so much so that many were left out.

Martin in the afternoon then had a meeting with the public in which he talked of his own music (called by critic Matthew Gaccioli ), what it means to be a bluesman in third millennium, with wide availability and simplicity. In the evening the stage of the square has seen the first part of the party with the British Martin Harley and the Hill Country Revue , American band to debut in Italy.

thirty-six alternates to the acoustic guitar lap slide guitar (the guitar on his legs held in a horizontal position), Harley (joined by Jay Carter Pete Swatton bass and drums) has enthused by tracks engaging, high-impact rimtico and presented with clear voice .

Far field sound for Hill Country Revue (pictured Scarpante Stefano), a band formed just over a year ago by Cody Dickinson of North Mississippi Allstars (visitors to the festival two years ago) but here he played the bass and washboard, joined by Daniel Robert Coburn harmonica and lead vocals, guitar Kirk Smithhart Edward Cleveland and battery.

With a cross between southern rock and acoustic blues of "hills", the Hcr have dragged the ability to vary the repertoire, including songs from "Make a move", the bell'esordio disk last year, and some covers. End with the inevitable between jamsession all artists.

opened Sunday afternoon with the presentation, the castle keep, the Angels lost the Mississippi "the book (Meridiano Zero publisher) to Fabrizio Poggi, great harmonica player who has put on paper a way to 'voices' (from A to Z of Albama Zydeco) in the world of blues. A book to be savored.

In the evening concert with the Americans Jason Ricci, harmonica player and singer, and the duo of Peter Karp and Sue Foley . A goblin on the scene that is generous in over ninety-minute concert, Ricci and his band New Blood (with whom he recorded the recent "Done with the devil"), has proposed a very rocking blues, almost pyrotechnic with the harmonica as if it were used in only a guitar, well supported by a quartet knit. Karp and end with Foley, who with "He Said, She Said", the disc released in the spring by Blind Pig reached the summit of the top ten U.S. blues.

Both guitarists, he is a singersongwriter of experience, she was a singer, perhaps too soft for an outdoor concert, brought a refined repertoire, with Niles and Mike Catapano Terratico low battery. After the exciting Ricci, the duo set the mood by listening to tones than to open air festival, and perhaps this is their limit, but there have been applause . As for the long Final jam with all the actors on stage. Castel San

Peter maintained his vocation to the blues and the wish that the appointment is not being overwhelmed by the cuts that are tearing down the culture.

Main: www.castelsanpietroinblues.it
rating 8
gianni gherardi

Cheat Engine Chickens Invaders

BEATLES - Rubber soul - 1965

The Beatles were growing up. Musically and personally. Were far less inclined to submit to the dictates of the industry and felt like something new groped. The knowledge that they can afford all this was part of their growth.

"Rubber Soul" is the disc that greet the past and the future began to ogle It seemed that the four guards now things in perspective, not content to maximize the present. In most of them were aware that to last as much as possible was essential to define a personal style . A style that was influenced in a decisive encounter with one of the most influential factors on the culture and life of the late 60s: the ' LSD.

In any case, the evidence of this "growth" are scattered liberally anywhere along the grooves: George playing the sitar in "Norvegian Wood" a sign of interest in the East will not be a fad (as for the other three), the same "Norwegian Wood", Dylan markedly in its thematic shows such as The Beatles, outside of their microcosm started to even look at the references that were not loved (and children ...) of the fathers of rock'n'roll, and the beautiful "Girl" has an unusual atmosphere tragic and forlorn, and also contains some early reflections by John on Christianity, "My life" presents for the first time Lennon struggling with the places and people from his past ; "Nowhere Man" is the first Beatles song that makes no mention of love, "Drive My Car" is one of the most modern songs of the group and one of the best songs opening of an album ... Paradoxically, the great and justly celebrated "Michelle", despite his great wealth harmonic , ends up being one of the episodes less "interesting" (as innovative) of the disc.

"Rubber Soul" album is definitely step by step "child" during the "adult", the demonstration that the group could grow because it had a real creative streak even if not yet fully expressed, and not remain tied to a fashion designed, like all fashions, to end in nothing. Where will the new themes, but also some experiments sound (some psychedelic beginning to peep from the cover with their faces distorted, the handling of tapes, exotic instruments) we understand the following years: what matters is that with this album the Beatles show in the most obvious and the first time a fundamental thing: have a tomorrow.
Rated 7.5
Lucio Mazzi

Cleaning A White Coat

AngelicA 2010 - Bologna-Modena

That which ended last Sunday with a concert by the vocal quartet of Joan Marini and Chorus Arcanto was the most beautiful and varied edition of the festival Angelico, that of twenty years.

The rich and varied program set up by Massimo Simonini, an art director with ideas all too clear and bright intelligence , has articulated a number of proposals that have also helped to discover artists of prestige but little popular here (the If Bernard Parmegiani who opened the festival with its sound spatialization in a packed Great Hall of Saint Lucia) or atypical to find jazz musicians such as saxophonists Henry Threadgill until the project "4 Skies" made for the ' occasion by Arto Lindsay with Toscanini Philharmonic, presented in theaters and Lugo Modena. Or the

success (sold out) 's Electric Masada John Zorn Arena del Sole for "Essential Cinema" (pictured above Massimo Golfieri) with eight musicians playing on the big picture of avant-garde silent films.

So are spontaneous considerations. The first is that although niche (and not meant to be derogatory term) Angels scored in this edition a great success with the public in terms of turnout, as noted by the same Simonini. The various concerts at the Teatro San Leonardo often recorded the out (150 seats to sit on), even with the benefit of an entrance accessible.

numbers seem insignificant, but to see a room full of young people listen to the violinist who plays Enzo Porta Luigi Nono Jon Rose playing with electronics and his "interactive arch, leads to optimism in these cutting time of all that has to do with culture.

But there is a problem of location, as they say the intellectuals. The Teatro San Leonardo "should" be the natural place of angels, but especially for the concerts to promote research and the production of musicians who would not otherwise have a place to express themselves, try and set up productions, concerts and seminars. A sort of "city-garde theater," according to a felicitous expression coined by Simonini. To prevent that every time the festival is to take hospitality around the region.

Here's the rub. In the past, the commissioner Guglielmi promised that this would become, then everything is blown. Now Felicori Mauro, Director of Culture, ensure that the municipality is planning to become stable in the San Leonardo, which is obviously in need of restoration to ensure its feasibility.

The lack of a mayor and a councilor of reference not favored by the political culture that we should pursue, and that so far has seen extraordinary team leader as the Regional Minister Alberto Ronchi, then sacrificed by the new Government in the name of the partition.

AngelicA is now a "brand", also known in Europe, witnessing the best contemporary sound production. But it is also a "logo" which should be safeguarded and protected by all institutions and professionals. To learn more about the festival and its history: www.aaa-angelica.com.
rating 8
Gianni Gherardi