Album Notes

Nostra Etichetta Discografica (NED)- Our Indie Label (OIL)

To all musicians

The aim of our indie label (OIL) is to promote and safeguard the musicians involved in extemporary music. Why a lot of musicians have chosen to turn themselves exclusively to “extemporary music”, and their way to concept it, it’s a main discussion topic. We think that a real expression of music, free from historic chains, economic interests and mainstream products, can (or could?) only be achieved by doing away with all codified languages. To make it possible, a deep “emptying” of the player’s musical personality is needed; perhaps, a temporary, witful “forgettfulness” of the music heard or played in the previous day could lead to a new relationship with themselves and the instrument, in order to inspire the unrestrainable freshness of a re-created approach.

A different definition of “extemporary music” , offered by a large number of musicians, lies in the concept of a mix between improvisation and composition, Though, according to us, improvisation refers quite exclusively to jazz, and composition to the score, which has nothing to do with extemporary music.
The quality of music we’re attempting to get should be self-creating. The musician turns into a medium throughout the sound flows and the result is hardly the more important thing.

The conception and diffusion of extemporary music presents some contradiction to work out: for instance, the release of a music cd defies the idea of “no-reproducibility” that music implies. So, we suggest even the recordings should be extemporary and to be taken before a sharing audience. We’ll call that result “ a document” instead of “a product”.

NED isn’t looking for collaborators rather for people who really believe in that vision of playing music, in order to keep the discussion true and free, and let the countertendency to be preserved.

Kind regards



IL FUOCO DI NED
V° Documento di musica estemporanea realizzato da NED (Nostra Etichetta Discografica)
(p) Studio V38

Per realizzare questo documento con il gruppo di musicisti organizzato da Gianfranco Tedeschi sono state necessarie tre sedute di registrazione:


-5 agosto 2006, 2h 30m, allo Studio v38
-24 settembre 2006, 3h 20m , allo Studio v38
-16 ottobre 2006, 2h40m, in aperta campagna

Totale registrazioni ‘sul nastro’: 8h 30m
Durata totale documento: 50:09

Il ‘taglio’ dei 18 frammenti presenti nel disco è a cura di Gianfranco Tedeschi e Paolo Sinigaglia. Nessun pezzo ha subito alcuna manomissione elettronica o trasformazione informatica. L’intero album è la documantazione di atti improvvisati estemporaneamente ‘dal vivo’ .

Hanno suonato 17 musicisti

Paolo Marchettini clarinetti
Alberto Popolla clarinetti
Michael Thieke clarinetto contralto
Stefano Cogolo flauti
Renato Ciunfrini clarinetto e sax tenore
Errico de Fabriitis sax soprano e tenore
Aurelio Tontini tromba
Andrea Blarzino tromba
Davide Piersanti trombone
Luca Venitucci pianoforte
Claudio Maioli pianoforte
Daniele del Monaco pianoforte preparato
Dario Salvagnini elettronica
Cristiano de Fabriitis batteria
Marco Ariano batteria
Roberto Bellatalla contrabbasso
Gianfranco Tedeschi contrabbasso.

La scelta di segnalare sul documento gli esecutori effettivi dei singoli frammenti, risulta dalle indicazioni proposte dal curatore.
IL FUOCO DI NED è stato stampato in 500 esemplari nell’ ottobre 2007 da NED-Studio V38 - Roma