Amirani Records



AMRN # 033 A WINDY SEASON T I D A L™ Proudly co-produced with GRIMedia records and Teriyaki records Finally on cd the music of this unusual lined-up wind quartet featuring Angelo Contini on tbone, Mirio Cosottini on trumpet&flugelhorn, Alessio Pisani on bassoon&contra-bassoon and Gianni Mimmo on soprano sax. AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING Fantastic inner voices and terrific textures by an absolutely original wind Quartet, leading us through the magic of Tide. A dance of elements, a fluid structure, solidly multi-centered, with live nerve-endings. !! Simply unmissable !! ------------------------------- AMRN # 032 GIANNI MIMMO_________ DANIEL LEVIN TURBULENT FLOW Proudly co-produced with Teriyaki records The exquiste charme of the Turbulence!! A blessed chemistry, here: genereous playing, fluid interplay, restless energy and passionate musical delicatessen by two sizzling intense performers in a great recording session. Effervescent textures, dangerous whirlpools, lyrical sparks by acclaimed vanguard cellist Daniel Levin and the unmistakable voice of Gianni Mimmo’s soprano sax !!!!! great liners by GILLES LAHEURTE !!! ------------------------------- AMRN # 031 M A G I M C Edoardo Marraffa _ Thollem McDonas _ Stefano Giust POLISHING THE MIRROR Oustanding performers, high concentration, remarkable interplay! Awesome trio featuring the unmistakable powerful Edoardo Marraffa on tenor&sopranino saxes, the bold piano exploring of Thollem McDonas, the pushing dash on drums by Stefano Giust in a far from conventional, passionate and cutting edge concert recorded live in Bologna. ------------------------------- AMRN # 030 D I S S O I L O G O I NYX Proudly co-produced with Auditorium Edizioni amazing journey through the ancient greek myth of NYX. A primordial goddess call inspiring the oblique and lyrical shady music of Dissòi Lògoi, acclaimed open form group enstablished by Alberto Morelli and Franco Parravicini, here driving us in an asthonishing display of styles and influences, to a multi faceted result of tracks as short stories and parts of a pulsing whole at the same time. Exquisite! ------------------------------- AMRN # 029 A G A I N Gianni Mimmo _ Hannah Marshall _ Nicola Guazzaloca THE SHOREDITCH TRIO LIVE IN BRUXELLES Air-Odeon studio session Proudly co-produced with Teriyaki records!! Live at Air-Odeon studio in Bruxelles during the 2010 Belgian tour, recorded and mastered by the magic Michel Huon, here is the second excellent release of this awesome trio featuring an inventive, fresher, refined istant compositions. ------------------------------- AMRN # 028 EA ORCHESTRA electro acoustic orchestra LIKEIDOS Mind & hearth warming, this large ensemble delivers stunning interpretations of compositions by Alessio Pisani and Mirio Cosottini in a perfectly balanced, engaging , intriguing recording session. Featuring the most intersting voices of the italian avant.-scene, EAorchestra plays sincere in an high level release. ------------------------------- CHECK OUT THE NEW LINE BY AMIRANI RECORDS DEDICATED TO CONTEMPORARY COMPOSED MUSIC AMIRANI CONTEMPORARY ----------------------------- AMRN # 027-01C SYLVANO BUSSOTTI Brutto, Ignudo First volume for AMIRANI CONTEMPORARY, the new line dedicated to contemporary composed music. A special dedicated to Maestro SYLVANO BUSSOTTI, including his voice excerpted from an interview recorded by Gianni Mimmo. Amazing interpretations by GIANNI LENOCI on piano and ROCCO PARISI on clarinets. !!! UNIQUE !!! ------------------------------- AMRN #026 Gianni Mimmo _ Harri Sjöström LIVE AT BAUCHHUND, BERLIN 2010 The soprano saxophone is an unsafe place. Here two musicians, devoted to the “fish horn”, considered among the most interesting sound declinations of the soprano saxophone, in an intriguing sound mirror play recorded live in Berlin. Lyrical, ispired, harsh and warm at the same time they are performers with a personal style, great skills and sensitive feelings. !! great live release!! ------------------------------- AMRN #025 ElectroAcousticSilence F L A T I M E This second superbe step for ElectroAcousticSilence on Amirani Records delivers a perfect recording, and an awesome listening experience. Lyrical flights , sudden atmosphere changes, contemporary delights and grovy dashes. Don’t miss FLATIME! ------------------------------- AMRN #024 Lol Coxhill _ Enzo Rocco FINE TUNING THE GRADISCA CONCERT Certified creativity here! Master mariner Lol Coxhill and catchy touch guitar man Enzo Rocco Sound dancing live at All Frontiers Festival 08 finally on cd! Great fresh duo delivers here an happy, humorous performance and a positive creative push ------------------------------- AMRN #023 THE SHOREDITCH CONCERT Hannah Marshall _ Nicola Guazzaloca _ Gianni Mimmo _ Leila Adu Awesome performance! Live at St.Leonard’s Church in London this perfectly balanced quartet gives here lyrical and angular, warm and sensual, inventive and complex lines in the crystal acoustic of a severe architecture. Don’t miss this music! ------------------------------- Amrn # 022 R E C I P R O C A L U N C L E S gianni lenoci_piano and gianni mimmo_soprano sax Dialogic moves and thrilling chamber improvisations between the marvellous piano of Gianni Lenoci and the crystal soprano sax of Gianni Mimmo. Shared roots, unusual approaches, freshness and sudden dramatic colours in a memorable recording ------------------------------- Amrn #021 B L A S T U L A Cristiano Calcagnile_drums & Monica Demuru_voice _SCARNODUO_ the word to describe this cd is Beautiful. A performance where text and sounds find a natural way to drive the listener in a re-combinatory possibility. Drummer Cristiano Calcagnile offers here one of his best declination working tight to the theatrical, full spectrum narrative voice of Monica Demuru in a cd that can be considered a post modern troubadour-tale experience. Don’t miss this one! ------------------------------- amrn #020 F I V E R O O M S Gianni Mimmo – Angelo Contini – John Russell – J-M Van Schouwburg – Andrea Serrapiglio soprano sax / trombone / guitar / voice / cello NO ROOM FOR DOUBT Featuring guitar impro-legend John Russell, the acrobatic voice of Jean Michel Van Schouwburg, fresh cello incursions of Andrea Serrapiglio, grounding tbone-quakes of Angelo Contini and sculpting soprano sax of Gianni Mimmo, this stellar quintet will push your listening in a sort of walk within intimate spaces, opened by sudden blades of light. Pure as the soundtrack of a Japanese theatre piece, un-idiomatic threads develop an oblique narration. Mysterious and magic, materic and lyrical, warm and permuting. No room for doubt, get lost in these magic five rooms! ------------------------------- amrn #019 N O B L E A R T Thollem McDonas_piano……….Nicola Guazzaloca_piano A respectful match of two outstanding “comprovisers” a deligthtful dance of fingers shaping the sound. Like a developing, living, plastic sculpture that gently and slowly changes, modifies its creators ------------------------------- amrn #018 F O R G I V I N G J U L Y Live at Novarajazz ‘08 Gianni Mimmo_soprano sax, Angelo Contini_tbone, Stefano Pastor_violin Forgiving July is a multi-perspective investigation of sound. Three different personalities offering different glances, in a tri-dimensional approach to improvisation ------------------------------- Proudly co-produced with Phonometaklab, ReRmegacorp, Wallace records amrn #017 EAR & NOW E C L I P S E Great and overhelming, ritual and evocative, the Eclpise still retains the power of admonition, of calling to re-consider our single perspectives as parts of a pulsing complexity ------------------------------- AMRN #016 LENOCI _ MAGLIOCCHI _ ZINGARO S E R E N D I P I T Y Like children with a precious thing in their hands, the trio dangerously manages the sound developments with a great sensitivity and brave directions. The attention to quality and drama of what is taking shape under their playing seems to get back in a sort of reflection, a surprising discovery of an unespected beauty. Recorded live at 2007 Bari jazz festival here is an excellent and vivid performance. The free violin legend Carlos Zingaro along with the subtleness of Gianni Lenoci ‘s touch on and in the piano and the colourful energetic percussion of Marcello Magliocchi deliver a fresh, deep, sometimes joyous music. ------------------------------- AMRN #015 E A S I L E N C E ELECTRO.ACOUSTIC.SILENCE CONO DI OMBRA E LUCE EA Silence trio crosses dramatic soundscapes, outfiltering a nitid, spherical, dense matter. Whispering shadows gently flowing in the hiding dark space of an ancient synagogue. A morphing thunder pushed by acoustical swords, generating long distance waves and slow, inexorable tides. A stunning contemporary work deeply conceived to get perfect sounding ideas, dancing with the space around. -------------------------------------------------- O U T N O W !!!! A N T H O N Y B R A X T O N featuring Alessandro Giachero on piano, Antonio Borghini on double bass Cristiano Calcagnile on drums Recorded LIVE at PP cafe, Brussels, Belgium 6CDs- box great liner notes by Erika Dagnino Anthony Braxton ‘s periodical incursions in standards repertory are always a new way to think classical structures. Amirani Records is proud to be part of the adventure

AMRN # 033

A WINDY SEASON
T I D A L™

Proudly co-produced with GRIMedia records and Teriyaki records

Finally on cd the music of this unusual lined-up wind quartet
featuring
Angelo Contini on tbone, Mirio Cosottini on trumpet&flugelhorn,
Alessio Pisani on bassoon&contra-bassoon and Gianni Mimmo on soprano sax.

AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING

Fantastic inner voices and terrific textures by an absolutely original wind Quartet, leading us
through the magic of Tide.
A dance of elements, a fluid structure, solidly multi-centered, with live nerve-endings.

!! Simply unmissable !!

-------------------------------

AMRN # 032

GIANNI MIMMO_________ DANIEL LEVIN
TURBULENT FLOW

Proudly co-produced with Teriyaki records

The exquiste charme of the Turbulence!!
A blessed chemistry, here:
genereous playing, fluid interplay, restless energy
and passionate musical delicatessen
by two sizzling intense performers in a great recording session.
Effervescent textures, dangerous whirlpools, lyrical sparks
by acclaimed vanguard cellist Daniel Levin and
the unmistakable voice of Gianni Mimmo’s soprano sax

!!!!! great liners by GILLES LAHEURTE !!!

-------------------------------

AMRN # 031

M A G I M C
Edoardo Marraffa _ Thollem McDonas _ Stefano Giust

POLISHING THE MIRROR

Oustanding performers, high concentration, remarkable interplay!
Awesome trio featuring
the unmistakable powerful Edoardo Marraffa on tenor&sopranino saxes,
the bold piano exploring of Thollem McDonas,
the pushing dash on drums by Stefano Giust
in a far from conventional, passionate and cutting edge concert
recorded live in Bologna.

-------------------------------

AMRN # 030

D I S S O I L O G O I

NYX
Proudly co-produced with Auditorium Edizioni

amazing journey through the ancient greek myth of NYX.
A primordial goddess call
inspiring the oblique and lyrical shady music of
Dissòi Lògoi,
acclaimed open form group enstablished
by Alberto Morelli and Franco Parravicini,
here driving us in an asthonishing display of styles and influences,
to a multi faceted result of
tracks as short stories and parts of a pulsing whole at the same time.
Exquisite!

-------------------------------

AMRN # 029

A G A I N

Gianni Mimmo _ Hannah Marshall _ Nicola Guazzaloca
THE SHOREDITCH TRIO

LIVE IN BRUXELLES
Air-Odeon studio session

Proudly co-produced with Teriyaki records!!

Live at Air-Odeon studio in Bruxelles during the 2010 Belgian tour, recorded
and mastered by the magic Michel Huon, here is the second
excellent release of this awesome trio featuring an inventive,
fresher, refined istant compositions.

-------------------------------

AMRN # 028

EA ORCHESTRA
electro acoustic orchestra
LIKEIDOS

Mind & hearth warming, this large ensemble delivers
stunning interpretations of compositions
by Alessio Pisani and Mirio Cosottini
in a perfectly balanced, engaging , intriguing recording session.
Featuring the most intersting voices of the italian avant.-scene,
EAorchestra plays sincere in an high level release.

-------------------------------

CHECK OUT THE NEW LINE BY AMIRANI RECORDS DEDICATED TO CONTEMPORARY COMPOSED MUSIC
AMIRANI CONTEMPORARY

-----------------------------

AMRN # 027-01C

SYLVANO BUSSOTTI
Brutto, Ignudo

First volume for AMIRANI CONTEMPORARY, the new line dedicated to contemporary composed music.
A special dedicated to Maestro SYLVANO BUSSOTTI,
including his voice excerpted from an interview recorded by Gianni Mimmo.
Amazing interpretations by
GIANNI LENOCI on piano and ROCCO PARISI on clarinets.

!!! UNIQUE !!!

-------------------------------

AMRN #026

Gianni Mimmo _ Harri Sjöström
LIVE AT BAUCHHUND, BERLIN 2010

The soprano saxophone is an unsafe place.
Here two musicians, devoted to the “fish horn”, considered among the most interesting sound declinations of the soprano saxophone, in an intriguing sound mirror play recorded live in Berlin.
Lyrical, ispired, harsh and warm at the same time they are performers with a personal style, great skills and sensitive feelings.

!! great live release!!

-------------------------------

AMRN #025

ElectroAcousticSilence
F L A T I M E

This second superbe step for ElectroAcousticSilence
on Amirani Records delivers
a perfect recording, and an awesome listening experience.
Lyrical flights , sudden atmosphere changes,
contemporary delights and grovy dashes.
Don’t miss FLATIME!

-------------------------------

AMRN #024

Lol Coxhill _ Enzo Rocco
FINE TUNING

THE GRADISCA CONCERT
Certified creativity here!
Master mariner Lol Coxhill and catchy touch guitar man Enzo Rocco
Sound dancing live at All Frontiers Festival 08 finally on cd!
Great fresh duo delivers here an happy, humorous performance
and a positive creative push

-------------------------------

AMRN #023

THE SHOREDITCH CONCERT
Hannah Marshall _ Nicola Guazzaloca _ Gianni Mimmo _ Leila Adu

Awesome performance!
Live at St.Leonard’s Church in London this perfectly balanced quartet
gives here lyrical and angular, warm and sensual, inventive and complex lines
in the crystal acoustic of a severe architecture.
Don’t miss this music!

-------------------------------

Amrn # 022

R E C I P R O C A L U N C L E S
gianni lenoci_piano and gianni mimmo_soprano sax

Dialogic moves and thrilling chamber improvisations
between the marvellous piano of Gianni Lenoci
and the crystal soprano sax of Gianni Mimmo.
Shared roots, unusual approaches,
freshness and sudden dramatic colours in a memorable recording

-------------------------------

Amrn #021

B L A S T U L A
Cristiano Calcagnile_drums & Monica Demuru_voice
_SCARNODUO_

the word to describe this cd is
Beautiful.
A performance where text and sounds find a natural way
to drive the listener in a re-combinatory possibility.
Drummer Cristiano Calcagnile offers here one of his best declination
working tight to the theatrical, full spectrum narrative voice of
Monica Demuru in a cd that can be considered
a post modern troubadour-tale experience.
Don’t miss this one!

-------------------------------

amrn #020

F I V E R O O M S
Gianni Mimmo – Angelo Contini – John Russell – J-M Van Schouwburg – Andrea Serrapiglio
soprano sax / trombone / guitar / voice / cello

NO ROOM FOR DOUBT

Featuring guitar impro-legend John Russell,

the acrobatic voice of Jean Michel Van Schouwburg,

fresh cello incursions of Andrea Serrapiglio,

grounding tbone-quakes of Angelo Contini and

sculpting soprano sax of Gianni Mimmo,

this stellar quintet will push your listening

in a sort of walk within intimate spaces, opened by sudden blades of light.

Pure as the soundtrack of a Japanese theatre piece,

un-idiomatic threads develop an oblique narration.

Mysterious and magic, materic and lyrical, warm and permuting.

No room for doubt, get lost in these magic five rooms!

-------------------------------

amrn #019

N O B L E A R T
Thollem McDonas_piano……….Nicola Guazzaloca_piano

A respectful match of two outstanding “comprovisers”
a deligthtful dance of fingers shaping the sound.
Like a developing, living, plastic sculpture
that gently and slowly changes, modifies its creators

-------------------------------

amrn #018

F O R G I V I N G J U L Y
Live at Novarajazz ‘08
Gianni Mimmo_soprano sax, Angelo Contini_tbone, Stefano Pastor_violin

Forgiving July is a multi-perspective investigation of sound.
Three different personalities offering different glances,
in a tri-dimensional approach to improvisation

-------------------------------

Proudly co-produced with Phonometaklab, ReRmegacorp, Wallace records

amrn #017

EAR & NOW
E C L I P S E

Great and overhelming, ritual and evocative,
the Eclpise still retains the power of admonition,
of calling to re-consider our single perspectives
as parts of a pulsing complexity

-------------------------------

AMRN #016

LENOCI _ MAGLIOCCHI _ ZINGARO
S E R E N D I P I T Y

Like children with a precious thing in their hands, the trio dangerously manages the sound developments with a great sensitivity and brave directions.
The attention to quality and drama of what is taking shape under their playing seems to get back in a sort of reflection, a surprising discovery of an unespected beauty.
Recorded live at 2007 Bari jazz festival here is an excellent and vivid performance.
The free violin legend Carlos Zingaro along with the subtleness of Gianni Lenoci ‘s touch on and in the piano and the colourful energetic percussion of Marcello Magliocchi deliver a fresh, deep, sometimes joyous music.

-------------------------------

AMRN #015

E A S I L E N C E
ELECTRO.ACOUSTIC.SILENCE
CONO DI OMBRA E LUCE

EA Silence trio crosses dramatic soundscapes, outfiltering a nitid, spherical, dense matter.
Whispering shadows gently flowing in the hiding dark space of an ancient synagogue.
A morphing thunder pushed by acoustical swords,
generating long distance waves and slow, inexorable tides.
A stunning contemporary work deeply conceived to get perfect sounding ideas,
dancing with the space around.

--------------------------------------------------

O U T N O W !!!!

A N T H O N Y B R A X T O N

featuring

Alessandro Giachero on piano,

Antonio Borghini on double bass

Cristiano Calcagnile on drums

Recorded LIVE at PP cafe, Brussels, Belgium

6CDs- box

great liner notes by Erika Dagnino

Anthony Braxton ‘s periodical incursions in standards repertory are always a new way to think classical structures.
Amirani Records is proud to be part of the adventure