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M​É​LI​È​S

by Massimo Falascone Seven

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1.
Parafaragamus 04:52
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2.
Moving Train 06:20
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3.
Rubber Head 10:32
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4.
Homorchestra 07:16
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5.
Luna Trip 08:54
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6.
Maquillage 07:27
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7.
Left Alone/Sirene 10:46
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Non Impossibile 08:13
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about

A musical journey made up of eight tracks, each inspired by a short film by Georges Méliès, poet and experimenter, inventor of cinema as a dream, a forerunner in the technique of editing and pioneer of special effects, creator of amazing fantasies.

The music is composed of original compositions with a large space reserved for improvisation.

At the center of everything, as always, is sound.
And then the game, the fantasy, the interaction. A human and sound kaleidoscope full of shapes and colors, in the poetic and visionary spirit of Méliès: apparitions, repetitions and metamorphoses, expositions and fades, magic tricks and magic formulas, journeys to unknown worlds.

Not the soundtrack of silent films, therefore, but a music that flows independently with a duration of its own and dictated by the succession of improvisations and written parts, rich in graphic signs, captions, suggestions and images.
There is no lack of psychedelic tributes to Daevid Allen, founder of "Gong", and harmolodic dedications to Ornette Coleman. With the spirit of Sun Ra watching us from above.

"Méliès" is in fact also an archaeological site, in which fragments of the musical thought of those who came before us can be found, favorite authors of a recent past, whose memories constitute the basis on which this music is based.
A music perhaps no longer - or not only - avant-garde, which wants to consolidate itself in a modern tradition and thus withstand the shocks of time.

credits

released January 1, 2019

Massimo Falascone : saxophones, crackle box, objects, electronics
Giancarlo Nino Locatelli : clarinets, objects
Alessandra Novaga : guitar
Alberto Tacchini : piano, synthesizer, electronics
Silvia Bolognesi : double bass
Cristiano Calcagnile : drums, percussion, glockenspiel
Filippo Monico : percussion, strange objects, soap bubbles

All compositions by Massimo Falascone except “Left Alone” by Mal Waldron
Recorded at Teatro Sant’Andrea, Pisa (IT) on April 15th and 16th 2018 by Griffin Rodriguez
Editing, mixing and mastering : Massimo Falascone (Mumacs Studio, Milano)
Cover art : Leonardo Falascone

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Fonterossa Siena, Italy

Fonterossa records is the label founded by Silvia Bolognesi , (double bassist and composer from Italy) in 2010 to guarantee freedom of production in full creative autonomy. Fonterossa records is a cultural space open to new musical proposals, to those artists who with Silvia share passions for improvisation and avant-garde jazz as a contemporary music research. ... more

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