MIA 2015 – Conducted Ensembles
The complete recordings of the MIA 2015 Conducted Ensembles
with
Afonso Castanheira, Alvaro Rosso, Carlos Canão, Dario Nitti, Eduard Altaba, Francisco Andrade, François Choiselat, João Godinho, Laura Marques, Luis Fernandes, Luis Guerreiro, Nuno Morão, Nuno Ribeiro, Paulo Duarte, Paulo Pimentel, Pedro Castello Lopes and João Pedro Viegas.
Caserma Session [HysM?115]
George Hadow – drums
Dario Nitti – drums
Stefano Spataro – electric guitars/bass
Luiz Rocha – soprano/bass clarinets
Recorded at Ex Caserma Liberata – Italy – Puglia – Bari
Spring 2015
Sono Pazzi Questi Romani – They’re crazy, these Romans
The guys from NED – Nostra Etichetta Discografica, went to the biggest piano shop in Rome (around 250 exhibited pianos), gathered together many musicians, set up some microphones and started playing. Loudly. I was there to witness many grand pianos producing an avalanche of sounds, waves of harmonics moving around that old basement that once was part of the Domus Aurea, the house of Emperor Nero himself.
The crazy visionary behind the mixing desk was Paolo Sinigaglia and the players were Luca Miti, Benedetto Fanna, Giovanni Guaccero, Marco Olivieri, Roberto Dogustan, Dario Nitti, Lorenzo Lustri, Kapitan Mikonos, Anna Guidi, Marco Ariano and, at the second round, myself.
I’m late publishing it. It all happened the 19th January 2015.
Dario Nitti is a good friend and drummer, and one of the organizers of a fabulous project: On February 2014, Bari citizens occupied an old, abandoned, military base which is now used as an artistic and social facility. They call it Ex Caserma Liberata or, literally translated to English, Freed Ex-Headquarter.
Those photos were shot on 2nd February 2015 inside a Trullo at Valle d’Itria, where we spent some days playing music, eating rabbits, wild boars and cheese. Amazing.
Many musicians that came to MIA attended the Desterro‘s Jam Session the following Tuesday.
Here’s a gallery of some of those inspiring performances.
May 19th, 2015
IV Free Flow Festival – complete program
more info about the festival here
