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GASPARE DE VITO

Passing Notes

At tha age of 23, Gaspare De Vito stopped playing in order to become a designer. Then he re-started playing sax in 2005, in Barcellona, getting close to the Cuban music which is continuously echoed in “Passing Notes”. De Vito uses his instruments by exploiting all the musical nuances: from the darker cante hondo to the growls, the harder and boiling sounds, in order to get to the main characteristic of the whole cd: the Cuban ocha, music and religion mixed together. And the ocha is just known as the union of African rhythms and the South American ones, “The Fish From London” is a perfect exemple of it.

Warm, dry notes, minimalism. “Passing Notes” is the celebration of De Vito’s art who has arranged and composed these nine tracks. In fact there are a lot of  breaks, the cd on the whole does not give space to the orchestration. Flute and sax are the absolute protagonists in their thousands of uses: water and air sounds in “Sunrise (First Day)”, to the African flavour of “Morning Prayer” til the funeral “Too Easy To Love”. Not to mention the seduction, maybe the eros, of the alluring “Looking For The Roots”.

If you love sax, “Passing Notes” is a masterpiece. Those who love mainstream jazz maybe fill find it too essential. It is actually a very good cd.

Original Italian version on ROCKIT: http://www.rockit.it/album/10210/gaspare-de-vito-passing-notes

Courses can sometimes be real curses… I mean, during my school career it happened (and it’s still happening) that lessons are boring, teachers are real assholes and exams are hard and anxiogenous.

Well, with this course I felt at ease: I’ve just done what I like. Writing in English and let people know what my passions are. I love words and for the first time I’ve felt that somebody (maybe only the teacher, but a person is enough) was listening to me, or rather, reading my thoughts.

I’ve written two books and hardly my friends have read them. Prof. Iamarf has read them and this meant a lot to me. I felt my works were not just a solipsistic exercise…

Well, dear Andreas, I’ve understood that even if I hate being alive and can’t find many people taking care of my tortured soul, somebody on the net can understand what I feel.

Prof, a volte mi sono trovata lì lì per mandarle una mail sulle mie paturnie e i miei disastri familiari… poi mi sono trattenuta perché non era forse politically correct. Al di là di tutto, quello che più ho imparato non è stato tanto l’aprire un blog o capire delicious…. ma che forse vale la pena continuare a respirare… perché qualcuno che ti ascolta c’è…

thanx!

PETRINGA

Sabir

This cd is like a traduction into music of the “esperanto”: different cultures and languages which mingle into a real musical Babele. There’s a lot of East culture in these 9 songs, especially in “Oasis” and in “Arabesque”. But also Southern United States’ jazz and mediterranean melodies. We are face to face with a complete fusion between free-jazz and arabic dances which play a lot with improvising and seduction. “Sweet Obsession” is the jewel of a well-played cd which is pleasant but too heavy in contents. The union itself of the music of the two opposite parts of the world has to be deeply understood before appreciating its originality. This cd goes beyond the multi-ethnical events and the jam sessions of musicians from all the world. Spontaneous and technical aspects together in a great new project. Wonderful clarinet: Gabriele Mirabassi.

Original Italian version on ROCKIT: http://www.rockit.it/album/9997/petringa-sabir

ANDREA BUFFA

…in effetti c’ho molto da ridere

These seven songs have only a great pro: they are played and sung with passion. With that spirit which is the characteristic of the musicians with a natural and genuine approach to their early music. This demo is not a perfect one, as the texts are ordinary and the melodies similar one to the other. It’s difficult to memorize the rhythms and the chorus lines which is not so good for a folk cd. “Ombre della città” is the best song but it could have been better if it had been only in dialect. There’s much work to do, but Andrea Buffa has got a good potential.

Original Italian version on ROCKIT: http://www.rockit.it/album/10065/andrea-buffa-in-effetti-cho-molto-da-ridere

MED IN ITALI

Soluzione

An ordinary name, a demo given almost brutely: a cd with a title written with a pen and a faded booklet, “home-made”. Horrible first impression. But when the stereo swallows the cd and hides its simplicistic aspect, the Med in Itali show an unexpected perfection. Precise harmonies, lyrics which are easily memorized and a wonderful voice. They mix rock and jazz in a new unidentified genre. It’s not manieristic swing and neither minimalistic blues. It’s not easy to define their music if with only one word: magnfique! We need more songs. The Med in Itali must give us a full album.

Original Italian article on ROCKIT: http://www.rockit.it/magazine/album.php?x=9532

I think my downloadable books you can find on the right side of my blog talk for themselves.

I do approve the concept of free and open source, but I still have some doubts… I mean… I’m sure of the fact that ideas in the abstract and books, music (and even film documentary 🙂   )etc… in practice should be ABSOLUTELY FREE. But at the same time, I don’t know if this is ECONOMICALLY POSSIBLE. I would like to become a singer and I really would like to give everybody my music for free, but if I do this, how will I earn a living? The same for my knack for writing. At the moment I’m writing CD reviews just for art’s sake. I’m working as a translator in order to pay the university rates…

Well, what I’m afraid of is that the professions of writer, musician or movie-maker could even disappear. Everybody will be able to write, sing or direct a movie, but only for pleasure and not as a job…

I’m really in two minds….

Here it is a nice comics my Prof. suggested us:

http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/comics/digital.php