Long Song Records

Long Song Records Jazz. Rock. Improvised Music, and More. Visit our Bandcamp page https://longsongrecords.bandcamp.com/
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Long Song Records is a label that usually works with Italian and International artists coming from jazz, rock, avant and improvised music. The label intention is involving both famous and unknown artists pushing them towards unheard of territory, inviting them to discuss, explore, invent. Long Song Records è un'etichetta che solitamente lavora con artisti italiani e internazionali, abituati ad ope

rare in contesti jazz, rock, avant e di musica improvvisata. L’obiettivo è coinvolgere artisti famosi e meno conosciuti spingendoli verso nuovi territori musicali e invitandoli a discutere, esplorare, inventare.

It's time for you to refresh your memory and remember  Bobby Lee Rodgers's first Long Song adventure. Bobby Lee Rodgers ...
28/06/2024

It's time for you to refresh your memory and remember Bobby Lee Rodgers's first Long Song adventure. Bobby Lee Rodgers is such a funk rock and jazz force of nature, and that's why he also made the J. & F. BAND records so special and spicy with his presence, songs, surreal humour, and his amazing guitar technique.

from the album Sled

OUT NOW!!! OUT NOW!! OUT NOW!! OUT NOW!! OUT NOW!!LIVE A TRUE "AMERICAN MUSIC EXPERIENCE" WITH:JAIMOE:drums and percussi...
25/06/2024

OUT NOW!!! OUT NOW!! OUT NOW!! OUT NOW!! OUT NOW!!

LIVE A TRUE "AMERICAN MUSIC EXPERIENCE" WITH:

JAIMOE:
drums and percussion
JOE FONDA:
electric and double bass,
vocals
TIZIANO "TIZ THE WIZ" TONONI:
drums, percussion, gongs
PAOLO “PEE WEE”
DURANTE:
piano, hammond, synth, mellotron
DAVID GRISSOM:
guitar
JON IRABAGON:
tenor saxophone
EMANUELE “5P”
PARRINI:
violin
BOBBY LEE RODGERS:
guitar, vocals, backing vocals
CRAIG GREEN:
guitar

9 track album

THE J. & F. BAND: "STAR MOTEL: AN AMERICAN MUSIC EXPERIENCE", OUT JUNE 25th, EXCLUSIVELY AVAILABLE ON OUR BANDCAMP PAGE:...
22/06/2024

THE J. & F. BAND: "STAR MOTEL: AN AMERICAN MUSIC EXPERIENCE", OUT JUNE 25th, EXCLUSIVELY AVAILABLE ON OUR BANDCAMP PAGE: https://longsongrecords.bandcamp.com/album/star-motel-an-american-music-experience
A TRULY FANTASTIC AND ADVENTUROUS RECORDS WITH:
JAIMOE:
drums and percussion
JOE FONDA:
electric and double bass,
vocals
TIZIANO "TIZ THE WIZ" TONONI:
drums, percussion, gongs
PAOLO “PEE WEE”
DURANTE:
piano, hammond, synth, mellotron
DAVID GRISSOM:
guitar
JON IRABAGON:
tenor saxophone
EMANUELE “5P”
PARRINI:
violin
BOBBY LEE RODGERS:
guitar, vocals, backing vocals
CRAIG GREEN:
guitar
(pictures by David Apuzzo, Photography )

Critics and listeners who were able to get previews of this record are already getting very excited. "THIS RECORD, FRANK...
18/06/2024

Critics and listeners who were able to get previews of this record are already getting very excited. "THIS RECORD, FRANKLY, IS A BOMB" said more than one. DISCOVER WHY with this 15 minute long incredible rendition of a super blues classic, where THE J.& F. BAND WILL LITERALLY BLOW YOUR MIND with one of the hottest hard grooving codas ever. OUT IN ONE WEEK! Pre-order it here.

from the album Star Motel: An American Music Experience

Many thanks to the revered critic Mauro Zambellini for his enthusiastic words after the pre-listening of J. & F. BAND'S ...
11/06/2024

Many thanks to the revered critic Mauro Zambellini for his enthusiastic words after the pre-listening of J. & F. BAND'S "STAR MOTEL" record (available for pre-order on our Bandcamp page!). Here they are:
"The J&F Band's fourth album will be released at the end of the month and, frankly, it's a bomb. The collective which counts on Italian and American musicians including the drummer Tiziano Tononi, the percussionist ex Allman Jaimoe, the bassist Joe Fonda, the guitarist David Grissom, the keyboardist Paolo Durante, the singer Bobby Lee Rodgers and others this time went beyond the best expectations, although to be honest even the previous albums were already really good, especially Me and The Devil. The formula is the same but saying this is a limitation because their music comes from live performances where jazz improvisation is based on very specific rock and blues references and bases, on this occasion a very particular reinterpretation of the well-known Route 66 by almost ten minutes, an equally incandescent You Keep Me Running by Jimmy Reed lasting over 15 minutes where Jon Irabagon's sax goes crazy as if we were at the Village Vanguard and a distorted and unrecognizable Take The Highway by the Marshall Tucker Band which takes you to a place where you never thought about going. But there are also original compositions and a sound dynamic always ready to surprise and amaze with its inventiveness... Under the production of the tireless Fabrizio Perissinotto who gathered everyone in the Firehouse 12 studio in New Haven, Connecticut, the place where they go to record great flower of American musicians, this time the J&F Band has decided to divide Star Motel, a splendid cover of an on the road mood with the subtitle An American Music Experience, into two parts: the first CD with six mostly sung tracks where jazz is the instrument for playing blues and rock in a different way according to an attitude that was mastered by the Allmans, the second CD where the ensemble indulges in instrumentals following the concept of a Mingus Medley through a jam of passion, technique, feeling, inventiveness , risks and rigor in that dimension that is typical of creating together without friction and hierarchies. A double album that goes beyond the boundaries of genres in a declaration of luminous and exhilarating universal music. Listen to believe". (picture by David Apuzzo)

NEW DOUBLE CD COMING SOON! OUT JUNE, 25.The  J. & F. BAND is on the move once again! The new musical journey taken by th...
03/06/2024

NEW DOUBLE CD COMING SOON! OUT JUNE, 25.

The J. & F. BAND is on the move once again! The new musical journey taken by the band with "Star Motel: an American Music Experience" spans from the North-East Chicago blues, with Route 66, to the funk of the deep South, going West to L.A. via Nogales, Arizona, to meet the Mingus ghost and his visions, back through the Great Plains where the Rez is the way of life for many. To end where it all began, in the South-East country and funky vibe...
PRE-ORDER AVAILABLE ON OUR BANDCAMP PAGE.

RELEASE DATE: JUNE, 25 2024The J. & F. BAND is on the move once again! The new musical journey taken by the band with "STAR MOTEL: AN AMERICAN MUSIC EXPERIEN...

Guitar World interviews Andy Aledort about his critically acclaimed record "IN A DREAM", available on our Bandcamp page!...
28/05/2024

Guitar World interviews Andy Aledort about his critically acclaimed record "IN A DREAM", available on our Bandcamp page! so cool!

The veteran guitarist’s new album, In a Dream, features US guitar great David Grissom, plus covers of Jimi Hendrix, Cream and Albert King

With a new double CD coming, right around the corner, let's make a jump into the past to remember a nice cool track from...
27/05/2024

With a new double CD coming, right around the corner, let's make a jump into the past to remember a nice cool track from the J .& F. BAND second record, "Cajun Blue", graced by a really nice brass section!
find the record on our LONG SONG RECORDS Bandcamp page!

"Cajun Blue", the new J. & F. Band album is available for pre-order on our bandcamp page:https://longsongrecords.bandcamp.com/album/cajun-blueMusic and lyric...

Here's our pal Andy Aledort on his time spent with Dickey Betts
23/04/2024

Here's our pal Andy Aledort on his time spent with Dickey Betts

Guitar World’s Andy Aledort played over 250 shows around the globe with his hero. He traces his history with the late Allman Brothers Band icon, and shares his personal experience of working with the complex, generous guitar legend who once gave him one of Duane Allman’s slides

This label's connection with the legendary Allman Brothers Band is not to underestimate. Drummer Jaimoe has been part of...
19/04/2024

This label's connection with the legendary Allman Brothers Band is not to underestimate. Drummer Jaimoe has been part of our super cult band The J.&F. Band (J stands for Jaimoe) for three records so far (and the fourth one is on the way), and then we have the amazing Andy Aledort with us. We reissued his 1999 record "Put A Sock In It" some years ago, and his new record "In A Dream" is making critics and fans (old and new) enthusiast.
Andy has joined the Dickey Betts Band for more or less twelve years in the past, and he had to play slide and harmony lines on many ABB songs. what a great guitars coupling!!!!!
We are deeply deeply sad for the passing of Dickey Betts...
The ABB and Dickey's playing have always been at the base of our musical vision as a label.
the love for "LONG SONGS" was truly insipired, among others, by the long extended pieces the ABB played live.
Dickey left a great mark on us, and he will be forever missed. R.I.P..

“Excellent record, unpredictable and passionate–highlights the wide spectrum of Aledort’s musical vision of volcanic gui...
14/03/2024

“Excellent record, unpredictable and passionate–highlights the wide spectrum of Aledort’s musical vision of volcanic guitar creativity and inventiveness.” 4 of 5 stars! ****

Great review of Andy Aledort's "IN A DREAM", available on our Bandcamp page, in the new issue of BUSCADERO magazine. Many thanks once again to Mauro Zambellini for his kind words of appreciation.

"IN A DREAM" RECORD REVIEW

A new album by ".. PERHAPS THE (wait for it) OUT-AND-OUT GREATEST PARTY BAND ALIVE.." is on the way soon. (Picture by Da...
07/03/2024

A new album by ".. PERHAPS THE (wait for it) OUT-AND-OUT GREATEST PARTY BAND ALIVE.." is on the way soon. (Picture by David Apuzzo, Photography )

Simply one of the GREATEST covers EVER of one of the best Curtis Mayfield songs, "Move On Up". THE FUZZMEN will make you...
06/03/2024

Simply one of the GREATEST covers EVER of one of the best Curtis Mayfield songs, "Move On Up". THE FUZZMEN will make you dance and sing with uplifiting musical joy and otherworldy musicianship.
And please take notice of the incredible violin solo (courtesy of maestro Emanuele Parrini)!

from the album THE FUZZMEN

"A spectacular release! A real jewel, enjoyable, enthralling and surprising, one that excites and triggers fantastic emo...
14/02/2024

"A spectacular release! A real jewel, enjoyable, enthralling and surprising, one that excites and triggers fantastic emotions!"
A terrific review of “In A Dream” from the Italian music journal Free Zone, by Giannini Zuretti: here’s the translation:
Andy Aledort is a name that may be unknown to most. He is actually well known for his transcriptions, his educational columns and his DVDs; he has also toured for the past two decades with Dickey Betts and the Jimi Hendrix Tribute. His penultimate double album, “Light of Love,” contained 17 original songs and a cover of the Muddy Waters classic, “You Shook Me,” as well as including the song “Have Mercy On Me,” recorded with Stevie Ray Vaughan's legendary Double Trouble rhythm section, with Tommy Shannon on bass and Chris Layton on drums.
He is also the co-author with Alan Paul of the New York Times best-selling biography, “Texas Flood: The Inside Story of Stevie Ray Vaughan” published in 2020. Now, through Fabrizio Perissinotto's Long Song Records, is this amazing CD entitled “In A Dream,” a record that contains tracks influenced by musicians with whom Andy played and wrote about, from Jimi Hendrix, the Beatles and Frank Zappa to John Scofield, Eric Clapton and Stevie Ray Vaughan, all filtered, however, through a personal style that shines through on the one hand in all his stylistic ability, on the other his originality in tackling a very difficult task, which could be reduced to a pure exercise in style easily falling into banality.
Instead, the results are spectacular thanks to the amazing musicians who accompany him in this series of recordings made on 13 and 14 September 2022 at Firehouse 12, in New Haven, Connecticut. They respond brilliantly to Aledort on guitar, voice and also bass on “Moonwaves,” and David Grissom, a formidable musician alongside Joe Ely (and I limit myself to the single quote) who adds second lead guitar on Albert King’s “Can't You See What You're Doing To Me.”
The players are Joe Fonda, bass on seven of the eight songs (as well as being a member of the J&F Band with Allman Brothers drummer Jaimoe Johansson), the amazing Tiziano Tononi on drums—a war machine, a musician for whom definitions risk being reductive in the presence of an overflowing class—Jon Irabagon, formidable saxophonist well known in the field Jazz, and P*e Wee Durante on keyboards, a gentleman who played alongside bluesmen of the caliber of Nick Becattini and Rudy Rotta but also with Ben E King, Eddie Floyd, The Miracles, Percy Sledge, Martha Reeves just to name a few.
The story of this album is that three of the five original songs came to Andy in a dream, representing a perfect fusion of many musical ideas and traditions that came together in his subconscious mind, emerging completely. The rest came by itself, as the musicians in the studio became familiar with each other. The result is a real jewel, enjoyable, enthralling, surprising right from the initial “Lawdy Mama” made famous by Cream in 1966 on their debut album, “Fresh Cream.”
From here on, and we are talking about 67 minutes of swirling and bewitching music. Goosebumps emotions follow one another, like when the STRATOSPHERIC version arrives of “Pali Gap,” a piece by Jimi Hendrix, included on Rainbow Bridge (1971). This famous piece takes inspiration from Nu'uanu Pali, the famous cliff on the island of O'ahu in Hawaii which years ago even the excellent Tolo Marton had ennobled with his own version.
How do you make such a beautiful piece personal? Simple; add a stunning sax entrance, and the piece takes on bright colours. A masterpiece.
Now, I don't know how Fabrizio Perissinotto came up with the idea of ​​making records like this, but what might seem like madness, I must say that to us (and I think I can also speak on behalf of many enthusiasts), excites and triggers fantastic emotions.
A dive into a dream……well, don't wake me please.
https://www.giannizuretti.com/.../andy-aledort-in-a.../...

Andy Aledort - In a Dream. Long Song Records 2024 DL/CD

"IN A DREAM" by Andy Aledort is not a pre-order anymore, and now officially released in its whole shining splendor! List...
02/02/2024

"IN A DREAM" by Andy Aledort is not a pre-order anymore, and now officially released in its whole shining splendor! Listen to some new beautiful tracks now available, like the epic Albert King cover "Can't You See What You Are Doing To Me", featuring the great David Grissom as special guest. Blues Rock power at its absolute best!

from the album IN A DREAM

25/01/2024

take a look at Andy Aledort and friends during the recording session of his just released new record "IN A DREAM". Old school live approach is always the best and NEVER disappoints!
get the record here https://longsongrecords.bandcamp.com/album/in-a-dream

Revisiting the immortal traditional "JOHN BARLEYCORN" already made famous by Traffic many decades ago. THE FUZZMEN trans...
24/01/2024

Revisiting the immortal traditional "JOHN BARLEYCORN" already made famous by Traffic many decades ago. THE FUZZMEN transformed it into an epic 20 minute musical tour de force, here's the peaceful conclusion, for your hearts and minds..

from the album THE FUZZMEN

OUT NOW! Andy Aledort "IN A DREAM"!!!!Warren Haynes on IN A DREAM: “In Munich with a night off and listening to ‘In A Dr...
23/01/2024

OUT NOW! Andy Aledort "IN A DREAM"!!!!

Warren Haynes on IN A DREAM: “In Munich with a night off and listening to ‘In A Dream'. Andy’s playing his ass off as always and the guitar sounds are great. I love the harmonized slide guitars on ‘Hymn'"

Steve Vai: “‘IN A DREAM’ reveals Andy’s authentic love of blues and it shines through in the atmosphere he created. He is burning an old torch in a new way and it works, and it’s great to have a record like this that captures that authenticity"

Joe Satriani: “Nice playing all over IN A DREAM!"

"Andy Aledort has been at the pinnacle of American guitardom for decades. He has toured the world with Dickey Betts, played with Double Trouble and the Band of Gypsys, jammed with a who’s who of six string greats, from Joe Satriani to Warren Haynes, and taught half the world to play guitar as an instructor and journalist. Now he is coming into his as a solo artist, an exciting development evidenced on IN A DREAM"
(Alan Paul - Author, NYT bestseller, "Brothers and Sisters: The Allman Brothers Band and the Album That Defined the 70s"; "Texas Flood: The Inside Story of Stevie Ray Vaughan", "One Way Out: The Inside History of the Allman Brothers Band")

8 track album

SINOPIA! ONCE AGAIN! Very nice review from the prestigious DUSTED MAGAZINE website! "It’s a conversation, but an atempor...
16/01/2024

SINOPIA! ONCE AGAIN! Very nice review from the prestigious DUSTED MAGAZINE website!
"It’s a conversation, but an atemporal one, with the questions widely separated from their response in time and space and meaning. And yet you can hear two brave, unconventional artists challenging each other, contradicting each other, finding areas of common inquiry, in pieces that are aggressive and serene, knottily intellectual and visceral all at once".

get the digital record on our Bandcamp page or the Vinyl on the Soundohm Music distribution website!

Photo of Novaga by Juho Liukkonen/Photo of Kid Millions by Lisa Corson Alessandra Novaga & Kid Millions - SINOPIA #2 A cross-continental collaboration from Italian experimental guitarist Alessandro...

SODAPOP! grazie a Vasco Viviani per una gran bella recensione E  anche una gran bella intervista (link all'intervista in...
16/01/2024

SODAPOP! grazie a Vasco Viviani per una gran bella recensione E anche una gran bella intervista (link all'intervista in basso dopo la recensione) ad Alessandra Novaga e John Colpitts per SINOPIA. Accorrette signore e signori, accorrete......

Alessandra Novaga & Kid Millions - Sinopia (Long Song, 2023) - Sodapop

Very special thanks to Helga Franzetti from Buscadero rock magazine for including THE FUZZMEN among her favourite record...
15/01/2024

Very special thanks to Helga Franzetti from Buscadero rock magazine for including THE FUZZMEN among her favourite records of 2023!

Finally! American friends, SINOPIA by Alessandra Novaga & Kid Millions (John Colpitts) is now available in your country ...
09/01/2024

Finally! American friends, SINOPIA by Alessandra Novaga & Kid Millions (John Colpitts) is now available in your country thanks to the guys at Forced Exposure Music Distribution! Go get your copy!

A sinopia is an ancient preparatory sketch technique for a fresco. If you scrape the final work off the wall, the sketch remains; simplified and powerful in its starkness. Alessandra Novaga, an experimental guitarist/composer based in Milan, Italy found this historic technique resonated with....

01/01/2024

😎"Following the push of creativity, The Fuzzmen explore sound territories combining an avant-garde attitude, rock guitars, Mardi Gras excitement, jazz spiritualism and psychedelic visions in a music as sparkling and exciting as they could be the adventurous jams of Miles Davis of the electric period.." (Luca Salmini - Buscadero Magazine)

Thanks Luca Salmini (BUSCADERO rock magazine) for this NICE REVIEW! get the record here
https://longsongrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-fuzzmen-2

Here's the complete review:
A new album by the J. & F. Band, the large ensemble headed by bassist Joe Fonda and former Allman Brothers drummer Jaimoe, is currently in the works, and the Milanese label is waiting for its realization Long Song Records meanwhile publishes the recordings of the parallel project The Fuzzmen, which includes Fonda on bass, Bobby Lee Rodgers on electric and acoustic guitars and vocals, Piero Bittolo Bon and Beppe Scardino on saxophones and clarinets, Emanuele Parrini on violin, P*e Wee Durante on keyboards and TizianoTononi on drums and percussion. Following the push of creativity, The Fuzzmen explore sound territories more or less in line with those contemplated by the major formation, combining with the same avant-garde attitude rock guitars, Mardi Gras excitement, jazz spiritualism and psychedelic visions in a music as sparkling and exciting as they could be the adventurous jams of Miles Davis of the electric period. "...Jazz is what helped me understand how necessary it is to seize the moment..." guitarist Bobby Lee Rodgers declared some time ago and it is probably this assumption that regulates the tenor of the recording sessions, when, on 9 and 10 November 203.9, the musicians enter the Everybody On The Shore studio in Milan with the sole aim of having fun and playing as much as they can, only to realize that they have made an eponymous debut, which aligns original autographs and rearrangements of classics performed with the intention of fueling the calligraphic precision of the writing with the free flow of improvisation and the stroke of genius of ideas. Produced by Fabrizio Perissinotto, the label's enlightened label manager, The Fuzzmen is the clear snapshot of a close-knit, versatile and dynamic collective that moves on the wave of the "good vibrations" that must have hovered in the studio at the time of the recording sessions, as you can sense it from the enthusiasm and energy that pervade the rattling garage rock of Freeze, which derails in the screams of a saxophone escaped from a song by The Sonics and in the virtuosic electric flames of a guitar, which makes us understand why Rodgers deserves a professorship at prestigious Berkiee College of Music. In the following Get To Know the band changes skin, beating a funky groove that brings to mind the Meters with rubbery basses, hot brass and keyboards that drip with feeling, while it takes on the appearance of a visionary free jazz orchestra in the grandiose version of the traditional John Barleycorn (Must Die), a monumental suite divided into five parts that oscillates between avant-garde and psychedelia as if it were a spatial jam session between Sun Ra's Arkestra and the No Neck Blues Band. After such an explosion of creativity, the Fuzzmen return to the ranks so to speak with the dynamic funky-soul of Curtis Mayfield's Move On Up, in which the extraordinary evolutions of Parrini's violin take the place of an entire orchestra and with the final What l Want, a soft ballad suspended between folk and soul like those that fill Marc Cohn's discography, which closes the work with a touch of composed elegance. In keeping with the label's corporate name, there isn't a single song on the record that falls under 7 minutes, because The Fuzzmen perform best over long distances: a situation in which they feel freer to follow the music wherever it pleases to lead them. LUCA SALMINI

Jazz. Rock. Improvised Music, and More. Visit our Bandcamp page https://longsongrecords.bandcamp.com

SINOPIA di Alessandra Novaga e Kid Millions è tra i 5 dischi del 2023 per Stefano Pifferi! GRAZIE.il disco lo trovate qu...
01/01/2024

SINOPIA di Alessandra Novaga e Kid Millions è tra i 5 dischi del 2023 per Stefano Pifferi! GRAZIE.
il disco lo trovate qui in formato digitale https://longsongrecords.bandcamp.com/album/sinopia
e qui in vinile
https://www.soundohm.com/product/sinopia-lp

Ecco la scaletta del 29.12.2023 - "5 dischi del 2023 scelti da Chiara Lee, Stefano Pifferi, Antonio Pellicori"

GEORGIA ANNE MULDROW, Nuke’s Blues, da “da “AA.VV., Red Hot & Ra: Nuclear War” - The Red Hot Organization

Chiara Lee
YOUMNA SABA, Akaleel, da “Wishah” - Touch T33.22, Ruptured RPTD047
MARTYNA BASTA, It Could Be As It Was Forever ft. claire rousay, da “Slowly Forgetting, Barely Remembering” - Warm Winters Ltd. WW027
YA TOSIBA, Mənəm, da “ASAP İnşallah” - Huge Bass HB025
DANIA, Foreign Body, da "Foreign Body" - Ecstatic ELP079
RAJA KIRIK, ACT IV. Slompret Slompret, da "Phantasmagoria Of Jathilant" - Yes No Wave Music YESNO106

Stefano Pifferi
BONO/BURATTINI, Sogno nel Vigneto, da “Suono in un Tempo Trasfigurato” - Maple Death Records MDR063
V/Z, Caffè Giallo, da “Suono Assente” - AD93 WHYT059
MARLENE RIBEIRO, What It Is, da “Toquei No Sol” - Rocket Recordings/Lovers & Lollypops Launch267/L&L #133
SUZANNE CIANI / JONATHAN FITOUSSI, Coral Reef, da “Golden Apples Of The Sun” - Obliques/Atmospheric OBL06/ATMO-003
ALESSANDRA NOVAGA & KID MILLIONS, Sinopia #1, da “Sinopia” - Long Song Records LSRLP161/2023

Antonio Pellicori
JASON MORAN, From the Dancehall to the Battlefield, da “From the Dancehall to the Battlefield” – Yes Records YS004
MATANA ROBERTS, we said, da “Coin Coin Chapter 5: In the garden…” – Constellation CST 170
ROB MAZUREK, Mantra (for Enzo), da “Music for Piano and Modular Synthesizer” – Ansible Editions 005
NATURAL INFORMATION SOCIETY, Is, da “Since Time Is Gravity” – Eremite Records MTE-78/79
LUCAS SANTTANA, O Paraíso, da “O Paraíso” – No Format NOF.56

https://www.raiplaysound.it/programmi/battiti

"Difficult but fully satisfying work, for the hearing and for the mind, as it leaves many spaces available to the listen...
22/12/2023

"Difficult but fully satisfying work, for the hearing and for the mind, as it leaves many spaces available to the listener to outline and compose his own synopic vision exactly as the two authors have masterfully done".

A pretty nice review of SINOPIA by Alessandra Novaga and Kid Millions by revered critic Stefano Pifferi on the "Sentire Ascoltare" prestigious web page.

Here's the complete text (orginal review in Italian):
In the incessant musical activity of our Alessandra Novaga there is also space for a rather particular expression, namely this duo shared with John Colpitts, probably much better known under the pseudonym Kid Millions with which he has enjoyed playing drums for Oneida for decades. A particular meeting between the two: they got to know each other and smelled each other during a residency called "Tutto Questo Sentire", way back in 2015 in Capalbio, Tuscany, but as often happens in similar situations the artistic spark (not the human one) doesn't snap immediately and things have to settle, wait for their time. And so it is only a few years later, through Alan Licht who interviewed Novaga for a piece that later ended up in his book "Common Tones", that Kid Millions' interest revived. No sooner said than done, the two meet again without meeting physically and proceed towards a shared recording project.

However, as the title of this work suggests, the two did not exchange ideas or improvisations but rather sinopies, that is, those preparatory drawings functional to the development of a fresco or a mosaic ("ghostly previews of the work on the walls", he defines them Kid Millions in the notes) which the two developed individually and then entrusted to their colleague for finishing. Thus, from the opening Sinopia #1 this process emerges by placing the two distant but facing each other, like a Sergio Leone-style duel in which the instruments face each other without any holds barred: on the one hand his incessant and turbulent rhythmic wreckage, on the other, the (e)static drone of her guitar creates a fracture and, at the same time, a union of intent that highlights the centrality of sinopia in this work. The same goes for the remaining (and various) tracks of the album, between hauntology music boxes (Sinopia #6), material voids and fullness (Sinopia #5), ghostly and dispersed guitar notes from outer space (Sinopia #3).

Difficult but fully satisfying work, for the hearing and for the mind, as it leaves many spaces available to the listener to outline and compose his own synopic vision exactly as the two authors have masterfully done.

L'incontro tra la batteria di Kid Millions e la chitarra di Alessandra Novaga si svolge sul filo del procedimento pittorico della sinopia

A dream come true, finally! We have always madly loved Wadada Leo Smith's music, and having him in person taking part to...
16/12/2023

A dream come true, finally! We have always madly loved Wadada Leo Smith's music, and having him in person taking part to a session of ours is AMAZING.
This is the new quartet project by our beloved and favourite bass player Joe Fonda and it also features our beloved super sweet and super piano player Satoko Fujii plus our great house drummer Tiziano Tononi. Pictures by David Apuzzo, Photography
Greg DiCrosta is always the cool sound engineer in the cool Firehouse 12 studios.

A dream come true, finally! We have always madly loved Wadada Leo Smith's music, and having him in person taking part to...
12/12/2023

A dream come true, finally! We have always madly loved Wadada Leo Smith's music, and having him in person taking part to a session of ours is AMAZING.
This is the new quartet project by our beloved and favourite bass player Joe Fonda and it also features our beloved super sweet and super piano player Satoko Fujii plus our great house drummer Tiziano Tononi. Pictures by David Apuzzo, Photography
Greg DiCrosta is always the cool sound engineer in the cool Firehouse 12 studios.

Blow your speakers and FREEZE your mind with THE FUZZMEN upcoming record, out December 19th."FREEZE is one of the strong...
01/12/2023

Blow your speakers and FREEZE your mind with THE FUZZMEN upcoming record, out December 19th.
"FREEZE is one of the strongest and best rock songs you'll hear this year!!! (fans)"

9 track album

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