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Toshinori Kondo
Massimo Pupillo
Tony Buck
ETERNAL TRIANGLE


Toshinori Kondo: electric trumpet
Massimo Pupillo: electric bass, electronics
Tony Buck: drums, percussion


music by Toshinori Kondo, Massimo Pupillo, Tony Buck


PREMIERE RECORDING


Produced by Massimo Pupillo

Co-Produced by - Executive Producer: Massimo Simonini


Recorded on May 5th by Roberto Salvati at Centro di Ricerca Musicale - Teatro San Leonardo, during AngelicA | Festival Internazionale di Musica, twenty-ninth year, 2019, Bologna, Italy

Mixed in 2021/2022 by Lorenzo Stecconi and Massimo Pupillo at Triple Sun, Roma, Italy

Mastered in September 2022 by Bob Drake at Studio Midi-Pyrénées, La Borde Basse, Caudeval, France


Design: Massimo Golfieri, Concetta Nasone


Made with the support of the REGIONE EMILIA-ROMAGNA within the framework of the Music Law L.R. 2/2018 - year 2022


i dischi di angelica (IDA 052 - 2022)


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“Eternal Triangle was a dream come true: bringing together two of my favourite musicians in the whole world with me on the stage of AngelicA. Two musicians capable of encompassing both the most earthly and natural and the most rarefied and cosmic dimensions of sound, spontaneously and often seamlessly. Drawing from inspiration and life experience. We certainly didn’t know this performance was going to be Toshinori Kondo’s last one outside of Japan, and his last concert with a band. This is why in opening the files to work on the mixing we were struck by the sensation of a journey into the unknown and by the fact that it was Kondo-san’s trumpet that was guiding us onto this path. Once or twice every few thousand concerts one gets the impression of having touched “that thing”, the inexpressible, which gives meaning to the rest of time, to the rest of the journey. Like the efforts of the mythological alchemists’ lab. This, which remained the first and only concert of Eternal Triangle, was indeed one of those rare moments of coronation.”
Massimo Pupillo (23rd May 2022)
 
The 2019 edition of AngelicA presented, only a few days apart, two exceptional trios assembled around two legends of the improvised music scene: Peter Brötzmann and Toshinori Kondo.
Travel companions since the 80s throughout countless experiences (amongst which the amazing Die Like a Dog quartet, dedicated to Albert Ayler), the two found themselves in Bologna, this time as part of two different line-ups: Brötzmann was presenting the Italian premiere of his music trio with drummer Hamid Drake and the Gnawa musician Maâlem Moukhtar Gania (documented on the record The Catch Of A Ghost, IDA 041); Kondo was instead with Eternal Triangle – a trio founded with bass player Massimo Pupillo and drummer Tony Buck which represented something completely new, even though the participants’ paths had crossed on a few other occasions, since both Kondo and Bucks had already played with bassist Pupillo: more precisely as part of Hairy Bones (Brötzmann/Kondo/Pupillo/Nilssen-Love), and as part of the Buck/Pupillo duo.
Musicians belonging to different generations and paths of life, all of which took them outside of the prearranged boundaries of their genre and instrument: Tony Buck being for 35 years the extraordinary drummer behind the expansive and enveloping soundscapes of the trio The Necks, but also active for a long time in Japan through the fierce avant-rock of Otomo Yoshihide and Kato Hideki’s Peril, and a member of Kletka Red, the quartet Transmit with Magda Mayas, the trio Glacial with David Watson and Lee Ranaldo, etc; Massimo Pupillo as co-founder in 1997 of the free-hardcore-punk project Zu, and then co-header of several projects with musicians Thurston Moore, Jim O'Rourke, FM Einheit, Oren Ambarchi, Stefano Pilia, Gordon Sharp, Katia Labèque etc; and finally master Toshinori Kondo (born in 1948), whose electrified trumpet crossed since the 70s the most impervious fields of free improvisation to finally reach fusion, nu-jazz, trip-hop and ambient music, alongside musicians such as Mototeru Takagi, Eugene Chadbourne, Henry Kaiser, Derek Bailey, Milford Graves, Tristan Honsinger, Bill Laswell, Dj Krush, Eraldo Bernocchi and many more.
In this concert in Bologna, which fatefully remained the trio’s only one, the connection among the musicians appears perfect, creating a dialogue through which each one drew equally from their own experiences to add nuances to the sound palette, but it was undeniably - as Pupillo recounts in the notes – the Japanese master that acted as a real reference point to build the rich and feverish soundscapes that were being explored.
 
 
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“Eternal Triangle è stato un sogno realizzato: mettere insieme due dei miei musicisti preferiti al mondo con me sul palco di AngelicA. Due musicisti che erano in grado di spaziare nelle dimensioni più terrene e naturali e in quelle più rarefatte e cosmiche del suono con naturalezza e a volte senza soluzione di continuità. Attingendo dall'ispirazione ed una esperienza di una vita.
Non sapevamo certo che quel live sarebbe stato l’ultimo di Toshinori Kondo fuori dal Giappone, e il suo ultimo concerto con una band. Per questo aprendo i file per lavorare al mix siamo rimasti colpiti dal senso di viaggio verso l’ignoto e dal fatto che fosse proprio la tromba di Kondo-san a guidarci in questo percorso.
Una volta o due ogni migliaia di concerti si ha l’impressione di aver toccato “quella cosa”, indicibile, che dà il senso a tutto il resto del tempo, del percorso. Come gli sforzi del mitologico laboratorio degli alchimisti.
Questo, che è rimasto il primo ed unico concerto di Eternal Triangle, è stato sicuramente uno di quei rari punti di coronazione.” 
Massimo Pupillo (23 maggio 2022)
 
L’edizione 2019 di AngelicA presentò, a distanza di pochi giorni l’uno dall’altro, due trii d’eccezione, riuniti attorno a due leggende della musica improvvisata: Peter Brötzmann e Toshinori Kondo.
Compagni di viaggio fin dagli anni 80 in mille esperienze (tra cui il formidabile Die Like a Dog quartet dedicato ad Albert Ayler), i due si trovavano a Bologna questa volta in due formazioni separate: Brötzmann per la prima italiana del suo trio con il batterista Hamid Drake e con il musicista gnawa Maâlem Moukhtar Gania (documentato dal cd The Catch Of A Ghost, IDA 041); e Kondo, invece, con gli Eternal Triangle – formati con il bassista Massimo Pupillo e il batterista Tony Buck e che rappresentavano una novità assoluta, anche se i partecipanti si erano già sfiorati in alcune occasioni, avendo sia Kondo che Buck già suonato con il bassista: più precisamente, negli Hairy Bones (Brötzmann/Kondo/Pupillo/Nilssen-Love), e nel duo Buck/Pupillo.
Musicisti appartenenti a generazioni e percorsi diversi, ma ciascuno dei quali li ha portati fuori dai generi prestabiliti e dai confini del proprio strumento: Tony Buck, da 35 anni il prodigioso batterista delle trame dilatate e avvolgenti del trio The Necks, ma anche a lungo attivo in Giappone con il furibondo avant-rock dei Peril di Otomo Yoshihide e Kato Hideki, e membro dei Kletka Red, del quartetto Transmit con Magda Mayas, del trio Glacial con David Watson e Lee Ranaldo, ecc; Massimo Pupillo co-fondatore nel '97 dei free-hardcore-punk Zu, e poi cotitolare di progetti con Thurston Moore, Jim O'Rourke, FM Einheit, Oren Ambarchi, Stefano Pilia, Gordon Sharp, Katia Labèque ecc; infine il decano Toshinori Kondo (classe 1948), la cui tromba elettrificata dagli anni 70 in poi ha attraversato i più aspri terreni della free improvisation per poi approdare alla fusion, al nu-jazz, al trip hop e all’ambient, in compagnia di musicisti come Mototeru Takagi, Eugene Chadbourne, Henry Kaiser, Derek Bailey, Milford Graves, Tristan Honsinger, Bill Laswell, Dj Krush, Eraldo Bernocchi e moltissimi altri.
In questo concerto di Bologna, che il destino ha voluto rimanesse l'unico del trio, l'intesa tra i musicisti appare perfetta, un dialogo in cui ciascuno ha attinto in maniera paritaria dalle proprie esperienze per aggiungere sfumature alla tavolozza sonora, ma in mezzo al quale – come racconta Pupillo nelle note – il veterano musicista giapponese ha fatto da vero e proprio punto di riferimento per costruire i ricchi e febbricitanti paesaggi sonori attraversati.
 
 
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Label : "i dischi di angelica”  IDA 052 - 2022

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I dischi di angelica is a non-profit music label which was founded, in 1991.Its aim is producing sonic anthologies along with each edition of the festival. Quite soon though it opened perspectives towards works which offered themself over the years ...
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