Quintorigo - Opposites (INCIPIT RECORDS 2018)

I Quintorigo celebrano i vent’anni dall’esordio sulla scena musicale con un doppio album composto per metà di brani di propria composizione e per metà di cover. Insieme al quartetto (Andrea Costa: violino, Gionata Costa: violoncello, Valentino Bianchi: sax e Stefano Ricci: contrabbasso) hanno partecipato al lavoro Alessio Velliscig (voce), Gianluca Nanni (batteria), Enrico Rava al flicorno e Joe Pisto alla voce.

Opposizione, giust-apposizione, contrapposizione di fenomeni artistici lontani nel tempo e nello spazio: quanto dista Duke Ellington da David Bowie? Qual è la strada più breve fra Ornette Coleman e i Rage Against the Machine? E spesso, cercano di dimostrare i Quintorigo, le distanze non sono poi così grandi e di conseguenza le opposizioni sono solo apparenti. La Musica è un universo molto più facile da percorrere di quello siderale. Non servono astronavi o ponti di Einstein-Rosen per una gita turistica non esaustiva ma sensata. Il personalissimo percorso che propongono i Quintorigo è proprio questo: una rivisitazione di classici e un dialogo con essi, in 10 cover e 11 brani originali, con la massima libertà artistica. Un lavoro in cui la conseguita maturità li riporta al fanciullesco stupore di fronte ai propri mostri sacri e al folle proposito di emularli e sfidarli. Un album, anzi due, che suonano “deliranti” nel senso etimologico del termine, che escono dal solco dell’artisticamente corretto e soprattutto del già ascoltato.

CD1

1) 1977

2) Special Mind

3) Aeneis

4) A Pigeon's Overview

5) Opposite Attract

6) Grey Comedy

7) Suit And Tie Bandits

8) Dust Town

9) Fuck The Bank

10) The great surrender

11) Waltz For Naima

CD2

1) Congeniality 

2) Stolen Moments 

3) Well You Needn't / Think Of One

4) Space Oddity 

5) Jeru 

6) Blue Rondo A La Turk

7) Killing In The Name 

8) Boy Meets Horn

9) Alabama Song 

10) You Go To My Head

Quintorigo & Roberto Gatto - Around Zappa (2015)

A sincere, philological and experimental thanksgiving to Frank Zappa. Not merely a tribute concert or live-concept. A monographic work, accurate in its theatrical and scenographic details, an entertaining opportunity for everybody to know and rediscover Zappa’s universe.

It’s impossible to sum up briefly the countless influences in Zappa’s music, just as so many are the musicians who adopted (sometimes unconsciously) something precious from him. Among these are Quintorigo.

Critics had already found in Quintorigo’s music an evident Zappianic code almost as a priori and obsessive forma mentis. The show is also an emotional and instinctive performance, an exquisite and tasty selection from Zappa’s works which will lead us to gorge on his discography, stodgy dishes included.

Working on Zappa’s music has always been a project in embryo. Thanks to Roberto Gatto all this came true. Gatto, outstanding star of Italian and international jazz with renowned career, since forever harboring an unrestrained passion for Zappa, invited Quintorigo to bring about this beautiful idea together. Thankful and eager the band accepted. Coming out soon the album “Around Zappa”.

The cd playlist begins with instrumentals such as Uncle Meat and Peaches En Regalia. Moris Pradella joins the band singing Cosmik Debris, Don’t Eat The Yellow Snow, Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up, King Kong, Big Swifty, Igor’s Boogie, Village Of The Sun. The beautiful Uncle Remus is introduced by the violin of Andrea Costa while Gionata Costa at the cello leads the melanchonic Black Napkins, making good use of effects to convey the charisma of an electric guitar enriched by the expressiveness of the cello. And an end with a bang, playing Echidna’s Arf (Of You) e Zomby Woof.

Quintorigo and Roberto Gatto approach Zappa with refined arrangements still respecting the essence of the original songs, reread with personal sounds, exquisite textures and unrestrained experimental trend, mark of Quintorigo since their beginning. With Roberto Gatto, Quintorigo prove once again themselves distinguished musicians, gaining without reserve the passionate audience’s approval. “Around Zappa” is not to be missed by Zappa’s fans and recommended for everyone.

Valentino Bianchi: saxophones

Andrea Costa: violin

Stefano Ricci: double bass

Gionata Costa: cello

Roberto Gatto: drums

Moris Pradella: vocals

1. Uncle Meat

2. Peaches en Regalia

3. Cosmik Debris

4. Montana

5. Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up

6. King Kong

7. Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow

8. Uncle Remus

9. Big Swifty

10. Igor’s Boogie

11. Black Napkins

12. Village of the Sun

13. Echidna’s Arf (Of You)

14. Zomby Woof

Arrangements:

Stefano Ricci: 1, 10

Quintorigo & Roberto Gatto: 2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 12, 14

Roberto Gatto: 4, 13

Valentino Bianchi: 6, 8

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