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The Harp And The Donkey (CD)
he only widely available album from Italy's loose avant-street fanfare ensemble N.O.R.M.A., L'Arpe e l'Asino (The Harp and the Donkey) collects diverse and disparate works. The piece that justifies this release is Erik Satie's wild Cinéma: Entr'acte Symphonique de Relâche. Tiziano Popoli and Massimo Simonini have arranged the piece for the seven-piece group augmented by drummer Chris Cutler. Their rendition would make Satie proud: wild, burlesque, and irreverent, it throws in references to all musical styles. Satie's microscopic writing (67 sections in 23 minutes) provides a springboard for cut-and-paste-style blending. One thinks of John Zorn or Jean Derome and René Lussier's large-ensemble projects from the late '80s and early '90s (Confitures de Gagaku, Le Corps de l'Ouvrage, even Je Me Souviens) -- plus, guitarist Giorgio Casadei's twangy sound gets very close to Lussier's. The remainder of the disc is split into two sections. "Teatro" (16 minutes) culls music by Popoli and Simonini for two theater productions. Much quieter and sparser, the music here serves as a disconcerting anticlimax, completely counterproductive even though it does have its moments. The last portion of the album (ten minutes) presents four short improvisations by N.O.R.M.A., recorded between 1993 and 1996. Two tracks feature guest vocalist Phil Minton, another trumpeter Riccardo Pittau. They make a suitable conclusion but are no match for the organized craziness that took place earlier.
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Type: CD
Recorded: 1997
Release Date: 1997-02-01
Label: ReR Megacorporation
Country: Euro
Item No: RERNORMA1
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Track List
01 Cinema: prima parte
02 Cinema: seconda parte
03 Cinema: titoli di coda
04 Teatro within amleto-lunatica ispagnola: attori meccanici
05 Teatro within amleto-lunatica ispagnola: ofelia
06 Teatro within amleto-lunatica ispagnola: sono tutti morti
07 Teatro carillon-la frenesia dell' anima: frenesia
08 Teatro carillon-la frenesia dell' anima: anima
09 Teatro carillon-la frenesia dell' anima: tieni
10 Teatro carillon-la frenesia dell' anima: tieni
11 Impro: trains tango
12 Impro: etere
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