Dall'apparizione al festival Zappanale del 2008 proviene il nuovo album del gruppo belga The Wrong Object capitanato dal chitarrista Michel Delville. Ospiti del quintetto in quell'occasione erano Stanley Jason Zappa (sax tenore) e Nick Skrowaczewski (percussioni). Un breve estratto video è in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4ASwxS_dNk
"The Wrong Object teams up with Stanley Jason Zappa (tenor sax) and Nick Skrowaczewski (percussions) to radically revisit old sounds and create new ditties ... in a far from silent way! This explosive septet, who performed at Zappanale in August 2008, is producing music which is free and open, loose but tight. Despite their inclination towards free form these guys never lose sight of the groove (making it perhaps less of a dancefloor than other prog-jazz bands) in their exploration of the space between, rather than the fusion of nu-jazz, improvised music, electronics, progressive chamber rock and other related sub-genres. An ideal introduction to their recent live repertoire."
Già una dozzina di anni fa, ben prima di acquisire parentela in casa Gong, Dave Sturt e Theo Travis avevano allacciato legami progettando insieme la sonorizzazione in studio e dal vivo di pellicole dell'epoca del muto: il sodalizio, Cipher, ha prodotto nel tempo concerti, album e installazioni multimediali cui talvolta ha preso parte lo stesso Daevid Allen. In questi giorni, confermando una certa preferenza per l'horror ed il noir, il duo si è rimesso in pista con proprie musiche per Il gabinetto del dottor Caligari, in occasione del novantesimo compleanno del capolavoro di Robert Wiene: "It's the most influential of German Expressionist films. Now, to mark the 90th anniversary of the making of The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, the electro-jazz duo Cipher have composed a new soundtrack to accompany its nightmarish scenes. Updating the tradition of live pianists in cinemas, the duo are performing the new score live as the silent film is screened in its original hand-tinted version across the country this month. Cipher's Theo Travis plays haunting soprano saxophone, flute and keys, and Dave Sturt plays fretless bass while using pedals to produce the sounds that create their layered, dark, atmospheric music. Director Robert Wiene's 1920 film tells the tale of Dr Caligari, a hypnotist who travels the carnival circuit with somnambulist Cesare. When a series of murders coincides with the pair's visit, it appears the hypnotist has been ordering Cesare to commit the murders. But is all as it seems? Cipher have a history of writing scores for sinister films, including Alfred Hitchcock's The Lodger and Blackmail, FW Murnau's The Last Laugh, and GW Pabst's Pandora's Box in their repertoire. Travis explains: "We tend to pick films that are dark to write new music for. It's about capturing the mood of the film with a mixture of improvisation and composition. The Cabinet of Dr Caligari is one of the most moody and dramatic films ever made, one that continues to exert a huge influence on film-makers".
http://www.cipher.f9.co.uk/index.htm
Geoff Leigh e Adriano Lanzi compiono questa settimana un breve giro di concerti in Italia: il 4 febbraio a Roma (Scuola Popolare di Musica di Testaccio, ex Mattatoio), il 5 febbraio a Pisa (circolo Caracol) e il 6 a S. Vito di Leguzzano, Schio VI (Centro Stabile di Cultura). Calyx e Wikipedia aiutano a comporre il quadro dei suoi trascorsi musicali, da Henry Cow in poi, mentre di sé così annota Leigh: "Generally a nice bloke according to most of my friends - pretty good cook - fairly sociable - like a good discussion / natter, but also need plenty of space, peace & quiet. Otherwise a normal scrawny ol' jazzer/rocker with a taste for the strange, beautiful, weird, wonderful, & bizarre aspects of human life."
http://www.myspace.com/geoffleighhttp://www.aliensatsea.blogspot.comhttp://www.myspace.com/adrianolanzihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff_Leighhttp://calyx.perso.neuf.fr/mus/leigh_geoff.html
