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Gruppo Di Improvvisazione "Nuova Consonanza"

Gruppo Di Improvvisazione "Nuova Consonanza"-S/T-'66 Improvisation-NEW LP+CD


Way ahead of their time, Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza were an experimental collective fully based on improvised music. It was the only European group exclusively made of composers, instead of simple performers. The Group tried to break the schemes by making use of new instruments and electronic effects, reinventing new timbres, using the voice in an unconventional way. They were also known for the presence of Ennio Morricone on trumpet who, at the same time (1966), was also working as a soundtrack composer for Sergio Leone’s western movies!
 
Up until now all the works have been the fruit of a composer and that this «open» form was in reality still «closed» to a still greater opening.
It was the presence in Rome of one of its principal members, the composer Larry Austin, that encouraged the formation of the IMPROVISATION GROUP OF THE NUOVA CONSONANZA, which is the only group in Europe formed exclusively of Composers.
The members of this group intercalate the instruments into various formations, from a minimum of two instruments, to a total formation. The essential element of the group is a sense of good understanding, which is the base for finding a fertile field first for discussion and then for performance.
This is the first time in the history of western music that more than one composer get together playing various instruments, where the result is no longer the result of an individual effort but of a joint effort.
For all this, it is clear that the GROUP makes an effort to surmount the limits of this system, and despite these limits, in some cases, gives glimpses of new horizons, of a new system, with the use of new instruments. The continual invention of timbres, and also the use of some electronic effects, for example the use of voices as impulse-phonemons, puts the group in a position of actuality, where contemporary composers of subjective vision have yet to arrive.
All the pieces in this collection are absolutely «improvised» and are not the result of «editing». The most interesting thing is that the actual duration of the piece for the listener is the same as that taken for its production, that is an «effort» of few minutes. The art of improvisation is fascinating and this way of «composing together» results in an internal and external tension of great sensitivity, and I think that this is the only magic still possible in the music of to-day, no longer written, and completely deprived of all myth in front of that personage once called Author.


Label:
Schema ‎– SCEB944LP
Series:
Schema Easy Series –
Format:
Vinyl, LP, Gatefold
CD
Country:
Italy
Released:
Oct 2016
Genre:
Classical
Style:
Free Improvisation, Contemporary, Abstract, Experimental
Tracklist
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A1     Improvvisazione Per Otto

    Clarinet – Jerry Rosen (2)Fortepiano – Frederic RzewskiFortepiano, Timpani – Franco EvangelistiOrgan [Hammond] – Roland KaynPercussion – Mario BertonciniTenor Saxophone – Ivan VandorTrombone – John HeinemanTrumpet – Ennio Morricone

    
A2     Trio Di Fiati

    Tenor Saxophone – Ivan VandorTrombone – John HeinemanTrumpet – Ennio Morricone

    
A3     String Quartet

    Fortepiano [Prepared] – Franco Evangelisti, John Heineman, Mario Bertoncini, Roland Kayn

    
A4     Improvvisazione Per Cinque

    Cello – John HeinemanFortepiano – Frederic RzewskiFortepiano, Celesta, Timpani – Franco EvangelistiOrgan [Hammond], Vibraphone, Marimbula – Roland KaynPercussion, Timpani – Mario Bertoncini

    
B1     Quartetto

    Fortepiano – Mario BertonciniPercussion – Frederic RzewskiTenor Saxophone – Ivan VandorTrombone – John Heineman

    
B2     Trio Per Violoncello, Tromba E Lastra Di Cristallo

    Cello – John HeinemanPerformer [Cristal Plate] – Frederic RzewskiTrumpet – Ennio Morricone

    
B3     RKBA 1675/I

    Cello – John HeinemanFortepiano – Franco EvangelistiOrgan [Hammond] – Roland KaynPercussion – Mario BertonciniTam-tam [Grande Tam Tam] – Frederic Rzewski

    
B4     Cantata

    Performer [Filtered & Reverberated Voice] – Ennio Morricone, Franco Evangelisti, Frederic Rzewski, Mario Bertoncini, Roland Kayn

    
CD-1     Improvvisazione Per Otto     7:39
CD-2     Trio Di Fiati     3:16
CD-3     String Quartet     4:16
CD-4     Improvvsazione Per Cinque     7:08
CD-5     Quartetto     7:30
CD-6     Trio Per Violoncello, Tromba E Lastra Di Cristallo     5:49
CD-7     RKBA 1675/I     5:13
CD-8     Cantata     3:32

Credits

    Musical Assistance – Pasquale Santomartino
    Recorded By – Sergio Marcotulli
    Recorded By [Re-recording] – Mario Rosselli
    Sleeve Notes – Franco Evangelisti

Notes
First full reissue of the original LP - replica edition limited to 500 copies.

Comes with OBI and bonus CD version in clear sleeve inside LP sleeve.