SHALOMA LOCOMOTIVA ORCHESTRA

24 Pages Booklet-poster with photos and texts

premiere recording

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Shaloma Locomotiva Orchestra 7+1 (2014)

Mitchell Froom: mellotron, celesta, harmonium, farfisa fast 5
Paolo Fresu: trumpet, flugelhorn
Jimmy Villotti: electric guitar
Bruno Perrault: ondes Martenot
Massimo Simonini: prepared theremin (with samples, home made sounds, turntables/records, field recordings)
Gianfranco Grisi: glass harp
Mirko Monduzzi: electric guitar, electric guitar bass, prepared drum machines
Mirco Mariani: 12 strings electric guitar, piano, voice

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Shaloma Locomotiva Orchestra 2+2+1 (2016)

Mirko Monduzzi: mellotron, prepared drum machines
Michele Orvieti: mellotron
Christian Ravaglioli: mellotron
Massimo Simonini: prepared theremin (with samples, home made sounds, turntables/records, field recordings)
Mirco Mariani: mellotron, rhodes piano, voice

music and lyrics by Mirco Mariani
except track
1 by Massimo Simonini, Bruno Perrault, Gianfranco Grisi - transfigurations by Massimo Simonini
2 by Sergio Endrigo, lyrics by José Martí - translated in italian by Sergio Endrigo
4 by Consuelo Velázquez
8 Canción mexicana tradicional, lyrics by Mirco Mariani
9 by Secondo Casadei
10 by Jimmy Villotti, Paolo Fresu
14 by Massimo Simonini

premiere recording

Produced by Mitchell Froom, Massimo Simonini
Recorded by Massimo Carli, Enzo Cimino, Roberto Salvati
Mixed by David Boucher
Mastered by Bob Drake

Cover: photo by Pietro Bondi - transformations by Massimo Golfieri

Design Massimo Golfieri, Concetta Nasone

For more than a decade, the versatile musician and composer Mirco Mariani has been pursuing a unique experimental journey on song-forms through the parallel projects he founded: Saluti da Saturno, eXtraLiscio and Fwora Jorgensen.
Since 2014, AngelicA festival has produced and commissioned to Mariani several special projects of variation, extension and new arrangement of these groups’ repertoire.
The record Shaloma Locomotiva Orchestra documents, for the first time, two of these special events: the concerts for octet on 19th and 20th May 2014 at the Teatro Comunale Luciano Pavarotti in Modena and the Teatro Rossini in Lugo, and the one for quintet hosted by AngelicA in its own Centro di Ricerca Musicale / Teatro San Leonardo on 15th January 2016.
Fascinated by the extra-ordinary sounds of the vintage instruments around which he built LABOTRON, a laboratory/recording studio open to the most diverse collaborations, for these concerts Mariani surrounded himself with guests from the most varied musical backgrounds. Mitchell Froom from the USA (producer and instrumentalist who worked with Tom Waits, Paul McCartney, Los Lobos and Suzanne Vega, among others), the trumpet and flugelhorn jazz player Paolo Fresu, the guitarist Jimmy Villotti (Guccini and Paolo Conte’s historic collaborator), the French virtuoso of the ondes Martenot Bruno Perrault and Gianfranco Grisi with his cristallarmonio (an “organ” made of glasses) joined his usual team of collaborators (Massimo Simonini’s “prepared theremin”, Mirko Monduzzi’s guitar/bass, Christian Ravaioli and Michele Orvieti’s mellotrons). With their sensitivity and their instruments they further enriched the sound palette of these live concerts, within which dreamlike melodies and gentle rhythms merged with primitive and original drum machines, the soundscapes of progressive keyboards, elegant traces of jazz and distorted guitars.
Produced by Mitchell Froom and Massimo Simonini, the CD was mostly mixed in California by David Boucher, former sound technician for Randy Newman, Bruce Springsteen and Rufus Wainwright


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Da oltre un decennio, il poliedrico musicista e compositore Mirco Mariani persegue un singolare percorso di sperimentazione sulla forma-canzone nei progetti paralleli da lui fondati: Saluti da Saturno, eXtraLiscio e Fwora Jorgensen.
A partire dal 2014 il festival AngelicA ha prodotto e commissionato a Mariani progetti speciali di variazione, estensione e nuovi arrangiamenti del repertorio di queste formazioni.
Il disco Shaloma Locomotiva Orchestra documenta per la prima volta due di questi eventi speciali: i concerti in ottetto, del 19 e 20 maggio 2014 al Teatro Comunale Luciano Pavarotti di Modena e al Teatro Rossini di Lugo, e in quintetto del 15 gennaio 2016 ospitato da AngelicA presso il proprio Centro di Ricerca Musicale / Teatro San Leonardo.
Affascinato dalle sonorità extra-ordinarie degli strumenti vintage attorno a cui ha creato il LABOTRON, un laboratorio-studio di registrazione aperto alle più disparate collaborazioni, Mariani ha raccolto attorno a sé per questi concerti ospiti dalle estrazioni musicali più diverse: l’americano Mitchell Froom (produttore e strumentista che ha lavorato tra gli altri con Tom Waits, Paul McCartney, Los Lobos e Suzanne Vega), il trombettista/flicornista jazz Paolo Fresu, il chitarrista Jimmy Villotti (collaboratore storico di Guccini e Paolo Conte), il virtuoso francese delle onde Martenot Bruno Perrault, e Gianfranco Grisi con il suo cristallarmonio (un "organo" di bicchieri di vetro), si sono perciò aggiunti al suo nucleo di collaboratori abituali (il "theremin preparato" di Massimo Simonini, la chitarra/basso di Mirko Monduzzi, i mellotron di Christian Ravaglioli e Michele Orvieti), per andare ad arricchire ulteriormente con le proprie sensibilità e strumenti le tavolozze sonore di questi live, nei quali melodie sognanti e gentili ritmi si sposano a primitive e originali drum machine, tappeti di tastiere progressive, eleganti accenni jazz e chitarre distorte.
Prodotto da Mitchell Froom e Massimo Simonini, il cd è stato prevalentemente mixato in California da David Boucher, già tecnico del suono per Randy Newman, Bruce Springsteen e Rufus Wainwright.

Label : "i dischi di angelica" IDA044