Marino De Rosas

ARNR 0199

Format: Digipack with 16-page booklet

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Marino De Rosas is a great Sardinian guitarist who, over many years of studying, developed an entirely unique technique for performing and composing original scores for acoustic guitar.

An interesting color in Meridies is the use of other traditional Sardinian instruments which, today, are seen more often on display in museums than on stage.
The result of this endeavor is a unique blend of sonorities, brought forth also through the use of reed instruments, reminiscent of the artisan's country workshop, town festivals on horseback and the sounds and flavors of the jewel of the Mediterranean, Sardinia.

TRACKLISTING:

• Transumanza (5:56)

• Reina Eleonora (4:54)

• Isole (4:40)

• Kandelera (3:23)

• Ninna Nanna (4:27)

• Mediterraneo (3:11)

• Cannonau (4:21)

• Chelos de Oro (7:41)

• Meridies (1:59)

Neji

ARNR 0796

Format: Digipack

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Written and pronounced with the short "a" vowel, "sat" means being, essence and truth in the modern Indo-Aryan languages. On the other hand, lengthening the "a", "sayt" indicates the symbolic number seven.
The relationship between these two meanings lies at the heart of the artistic output of the group Nefi, the multi-instrumental trio who is joined here by the Saphir String Quartet (3+4=7), as well as guests including noted accordionist Gianni Coscia.

A union of ambient, World and western classical sounds inspired by Sufism and the Middle East, the music is a multicolored work and a meeting between East and West.
Classical guitar, flutes, saxophones, accordion, tabla, percussion, harmonic singing, and a string quartet create a recording not to be missed by those who are curious and by those who love to fly far away on the wings of sound.

TRACKLISTING:

• Kavala (4:56)

• Nur (6:40)

• Limbu (3:32)

• Dadra (11:22)

• Trentuno (7:02)

• Wabi (2:55)

• Khamael (6:00)

• Sat (11:33)

A. Virgilio Savona

ARNR 0205

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With and without the Quartetto Cetra, with and without Lucia Mannucci, the story of Virgilio Savona’s artistic career covers half a century of such ingenious and multifaceted activity that it was with great pleasure and admiration that the Club Tenco chose to dedicate the 2004 Rassegna della canzone d’autore at Sanremo to him. A tribute that has also and above all served to draw attention to a little-known range of politically engaged, provocative and satirical songs which are now presented on this album, with the addition of a couple of previously unrecorded ones (“Il formichiere” and “Dietro le quinte”).

In fact, after revolutionizing the Italian song with his irony and swing back in the forties, creating for the quartet an enormous repertoire of which Virgilio was chiefly responsible for the music (with sparkling rhythms and a felicitous vein of melody), producing hit after hit, contributing to the emergence of television programs of a quality that would be inconceivable today and developing such imaginative genres as parody, children’s songs and the “metasong,” from the mid-sixties onward Savona’s production began to include more “committed” songs, as they were called at the time.
This culminated in the crucial watershed of 1969, when he wrote all the lyrics and music for a record that was highly critical of contemporary society, Pianeta pericoloso(“Dangerous Planet,”). Some of the songs on the album were performed by Corrado Paniand others by an unassuming university student, Odìs Lévy. The next step was a magnificent one: Virgilio adapted texts by Latin authors and set them to music, entrusting them to Giorgio Gaber for an LP with the eloquent title "Sexus et politician".

In 1972 he entered the field as a singer-songwriter in his own right, openly political and antimilitaristic in his attitude: this was the album "E' lunga la strada" (“The Road Is Long”).

Over the following years Virgilio produced a whole series of politically and socially engaged records, including collections of songs about emigration, exile and lagers.
Another important disc on which he worked was the one by the singer Jemima in 1973, for which he adapted lyrics by Ignazio Buttitta and the French singer-songwriter Claire Charasz, among others, setting them to music. But from this time on there were many LPs of quality on which he worked as producer or arranger, in collaboration with the publisher Mario De Luigi. Among the most significant were Dania’s "Son' sempre io la donna", "Margot’s Sul cammino dell’ineguaglianza" and "La follia", Mannucci’s Canzoni da battello del Settecento veneziano, Franco Trincale’s "Siamo uguali alla catena" and Michele L. Straniero’s "La Madonna della Fiat".

In 1988, he would go on to set some of the latter’s caustic and poetic lyrics to music. They were recorded by Straniero himself in the collection Piccolo cabaret teologico-politico, finally brought out on CD in 2003.

In 1973, however, came another radical change: always interested in songs for children, Savona chose to take them to a new level by setting the nursery rhymes of Gianni Rodarito music and singing them on an album with Lucia. This would earn him a prestigious commission from the Maggio Musicale Fiorentinoto set more of Rodari’s texts to music, leading to the composition of the splendid "Opera delle filastrocche" (“Nursery-Rhyme Opera”).
This genre of children’s songs – to lyrics by Savona and Mannucci themselves, as well as Tata Giacobetti and the poet Dania Lupi– would continue with other works, often published in support of illustrated books.
In the same field Savona was to produce a number of other fundamental collections, on record and in printed form, but all drawing on the heritage of the folk tradition.

It is clear that Virgilio Savona has not neglected anything, from the commercial song to diatribes against the ills of society, from self-mockery to intellectual cabaret, from swing to folk, from flamenco to twist and from tango to disco.
A half-century of Italian music has passed through him. With some prescient flashes of inspiration: such as when in “Se il jazz fosse nato a Roma” he predicted the birth of what was to become the popular orchestra of the Testaccio, or when in 1954 he published a satirical song whose title says it all: “Troppi affari, Cavaliere!”*

Enrico de Angelis artistic director of the Club Tenco

* Translator’s note: “Too Many Business Deals, Cavaliere”. Cavaliere is the title by which the Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi is known.

TRACKLISTING:

• E' lunga la strada (3:45)

• Nella testa di Nicola (1:57)

• Qualcosa in cui credere ancora (3:16)

• Percorso numero uno (1:09)

• Il tavolo d'avorio (2:07)

• The little green man (3:21)

• Ragiona Amico Mio (2:21)

• Percorso numero due (0:56)

• Voltiamo il foglio (2:30)

• La merda (2:02)

• Prova a pesare Annibale (2:38)

• Percorso numero tre (0:52)

• Il prete visionario (2:59)

• Il formichiere (2:45)

• Dietro le quinte (3:22)

• Ogni anno a fine d'Agosto (2:57)

• La ballata di Via Tibaldi (5:01)

• Sono cose delicate (2:18)

• Commiato (3:08)

Paolo Giaro

ARNR 0698

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"When I visited Paolo Giaro at his studio I felt I had stepped into the den of a wizard. It seems he has invited an entire world of international musicians to pass through Pesaro, and has absorbed their influence and influenced them in turn.
He has created a complex and original style of music, enriched with rhythms and melodies from the streets of the world and bound together by his extraordinary twentieth-century compositional mind. This is, to me, a truly fascinating direction for music to take."

Ralph Towner

TRACKLISTING:

• Dani Un (6:33)

• Urbino (14:18)

• L'acrobata (6:53)

• La danza degli Elastici (8:43)

• Circa un Circo (6:23)

Paolo Giaro, Krishna Bhatt, Debiprasad Gosh

ARNR 0696

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The title track, “Dancing in the Light of the Full Moon" portrays, like a photo, the character of India at the end of the millennium, with the colors of all its modernity projected into its past.
East and West meet and inspire each other in this performance by the Italian guitarist, keyboard player and composer Paolo Giaro.
Together with Krishna Bhatt on sitar and vocals, Debiprasad Gosh on sarod as well as tabla and percussion, Paolo creates an original musical bridge with a fusion of fascinating and unpredictable languages.

A harmonious meeting between Indian music, New Age, Jazz and World Music, this recording exemplifies Paolo’s search for a common dimension where “everyone can sit at the same table and eat what he brings.

TRACKLISTING:

• Dancing in the light of the full moon (13:50)

• The secrets of Dagam (7:14)

• Impressions of Reawakening (12:12)

• Fex (1:35)

• As we travel with the Sun (10:41)

• Your own Shadows (9:52)

Fabio Forte

ARCD 0801

Format: Digipack

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Asia Blue is the latest creation of Fabio Forte, the Italian trombonist, composer and arranger known throughout Europe and among cognoscenti in the US.
Forte has performed and recorded with Kenny Clark, Ennio Morricone, Tony Scott, and Pino Daniele. He is also the arranger for, and an essential element in the success of, Italian popstars including Gianni Morandi and teen phenomenon Plastico.

On Asia Blue, one hears the immediately recognizable and typical sounds of Indian music which Forte innovatively crosses with European melodies and the sound inspired by classic jazz solos on Blue Note Records from its 50's and 60's heyday.
The music on Asia Blue is magical, suffusing instruments from different traditions into a carefully crafted universal beat that creates an atmosphere which stimulates the imagination, frees the mind and touches every soul.

This recording showcases Fabio Forte's harmonious sensibility and warmth in a context that melts current trends in Chill-Out, Acid Jazz and Electronica. It also establishes beyond doubt that
Fabio Forte is a world-class musical creative force in the field of progressive music.

TRACKLISTING:

• Asia Blue (4:17)

• Tuvan Pink (4:52)

• Chillin' Out Taj (4:14)

• Shaman's Drive (4:21)

• Emerald Pool (5:17)

• My Heart, Your Highplanes (3:51)

• To Nini Red Sun (3:50)

• Shiva Cocktail (4:10)

• Ûttar Baghya (5:02)

• Fabio Forte-Jungle Baba Mix (4:12)

Angelo Ricciardi

ARNR 0694

Format: Jewelbox

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TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCK

Ricciardi's lyrical saxophone glides gracefully over a wheel of sound continuum and emotional colorations in a delicate and intuitive state of mystical contemplation. Included are vocal tracks by Simona Eugenelo and overtone chanting by Matteo Silva. This record is dedicated to the culture of Tibet and includes a special arrangement of a Song written by H.H. the XIV Dalai Lama himself.

TRACKLISTING:

• The Journey's Beginning (7:35)

• Tibetan Women's Song (4:50)

• Pilgrim's Way (5:36)

• Song of Precious Life (6:48)

• Touching the Ground-Touching the Stars (6:14)

• To be born a Khampa (4:50)

• Bardo Prayer (5:38)

• The Yogi (4:42)

• Song of Enlightenment (6:15)

• Back through the Villages (5:50)

• Words of Truth (9:02)

Auria Vizia

ARNR 1297

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Truly a masterpiece. Meditation music in a class of its own, due to the uncommon richness of the sound textures, and subtlety of the melodic ebb and flow. Ideal for all forms of therapeutic healing work or as a relaxing and regenerative experience while working, driving, or dreaming...

TRACKLISTING:

• Sacred Tree Circle (11:27)

• Rainow Drops (9:04)

• Crystal River (8:43)

• Union (11:02)

• Vortex of Light (12:27)

Auria Vizia

ARNR 1796

Format: Jewelbox

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Intimate, relaxing soundscapes designed for enhancing awareness of the seven chakras and ideal for chakra-work, meditation, and other joys. This work, by the Dutch composer and therapist AuriaVizia, is also a perfect tonic for daily life, in the office or at home. It is discreet yet effective, relaxing and revitalizing. A long-awaited healing music record and welcome addition to Amiata's Inner Arts.

TRACKLISTING:

• Sunday's lava (8:28)

• Orange Monday (7:10)

• Tuesday and lime (7:11)

• Wednesday's picnic (8:53)

• Thursday's swim (8:41)

• Sundown on Friday (8:41)

• White Saturday (9:31)

Gaspare Bernardi

ARCD 0701

Format: Jewelbox+O-card

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A delicate and tender musical fresco by central Italian lyricist and songwriter Gaspare Bernardi. Far from fashion and trends, an introspective, poetic voice of truth, beautifully arranged and produced. Includes notes by Alejandro Jodorowsky.

TRACKLISTING:

• Arco Terrestre (5:35)

• Bolero(4:37)

• Corno magico (3:58)

• Legami e gameti (6:24)

• Le cose di tutti i giorni (4:37)

• Interno 9b (4:24)

• Tamburi (5:04)

• Se ci penso (6:02)

• Per chi lo vedrà (3:42)

• Quoquo modo (4:54)

Adea

ARNR 2296

Format: Jewelbox

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Music for relaxation and other joys by the well-known ambient music artist and flautist, Adea.
The gentle sound of the flute flows effortlessly on a soft carpet of natural sounds, echoed by the harmony of the piano and the textures of the electronics.

This record is a relaxing soundscape; it is ideal for Shiatsu and Reiki sessions, and as a discreet background for all other relaxing or healing arts.

TRACKLISTING:

• DAY

• The Smile of the Morning (9:55)

• The Dream of the Valley (6:54)

• Windwave (12:24)

• NIGHT

• Moonlights (8:34)

• Free Flights (9:50)

• The Smile of the Peace (4:20)

Antonio Breschi

ARNR 1196

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TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCK

Antonio has the rare talent of being able to pick melodies "out of the air". He avoids complex structures and goes straight for a direct emotional charge, often carried by the simplest of melodic lines.
His free flowing style is sometimes almost impressionistic, but the recurring themes and simple chord patterns are clearly "new romantic".

TRACKLISTING:

• Pastorale-Gentle Hills of Home (3:44)

• Improvviso-Under an Olive Tree (5:33)

• Barcarola-On a Fisherman's Boat (7:16)

• Studio in Sol-The Vineyard Rose (3:49)

• Etruscan Lullaby (2:59)

• Notturno-Silent Nights (4:46)

• Studio in Re-By Arno Springs (4:15)

• Boletus-The Road to Amiata (5:03)

• Fantasia-Villages and Castels (5:58)