"In 2019, Andrea Centazzo discovered unlabeled tape reels in his mother's attic in Udine - boxes assumed lost seven years earlier. What emerged from these deteriorating reels, transferred by engineer Sergio Tomasini during COVID lockdowns, was unexpected: unreleased ...
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"In the summer of 1976, a peculiar album appeared in Italian record shops, its cover bearing no artist name, only the cryptic moniker "Elektriktus". For the handful of listeners who encountered it before it vanished from circulation, the music posed a question that ...
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250 copies, black vinyl - Recorded live in concert in Pistoia on December 14, 1977. Percussion: Andrea Centazzo, Soprano Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone: Evan Parker, Synthesizer, Piano, Trumpet: Alvin Curran more »
250 copies, black vinyl, Recorded live in concert in Roma, Italy, December 12, 1977. Percussion: Andrea Centazzo, Soprano Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone: Evan Parker, Synthesizer, Piano, Trumpet: Alvin Curran more »
"The final two LPs in the latest Ictus batch, "The Ictus Archives Vol. 1" and "The Ictus Archives Vol. 2", both draw on the same period that the veteran saxophonist produced "Clangs" and "Trio Live", both recorded in 1976 during of two weeks that he was touring Italy ...
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"The final two LPs in the latest Ictus batch, "The Ictus Archives Vol. 1" and "The Ictus Archives Vol. 2", both draw on the same period that the veteran saxophonist produced "Clangs" and "Trio Live", both recorded in 1976 during of two weeks that he was touring Italy ...
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"On the same trip to the United States that produced "U.S.A. Concerts" and "Environment for Sextet", Andrea Centazzo also connected with the San Francisco-based Rova Saxophone Quartet, formed the previous year by Jon Raskin, Larry Ochs, Andrew Voigt and Bruce Ackley ...
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"The Italian Ictus imprint was founded in 1976 by percussionist and composer, Andrea Centazzo, and his wife Carla Lugli. Running for just under a decade, until relaunching during the mid-2000s, the label produced a couple of dozen highly celebrated releases, the ...
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"In the history of free improvised music, there has been arguably no greater advocate for the idiom's power and potential than the English guitarist Derek Bailey. Fiercely principled, between his emergence during the 1960s and his death in 2005, he cut a wide path, ...
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