MUSIC
OLIVER RIVER GESS BAND
The "Oliver River Gess Band" - whose name jokingly alludes to a local stream, with a reference to the fluvial tradition of the orchestras that performed on the boats of the southern States at the time when the spelling of the term "jazz" was not yet standardized - was born in Cuneo in 1991, performing for the first three years of activity as "King Oliver's Jazz Keepers".
The intent is, from the beginning, programmatic: to divulge and propose live the New Orleans genre of the dawn, and in particular the recordings of the legendary “King” Oliver with his Creole Jazz Band. The work requires an accurate and laborious recovery of the original arrangements, made with patient transcriptions from often rudimentary recordings, a characteristic of the orchestra that obtains immediate and prestigious acclaim from the very first concert performances.
TAXI DOWNTOWN TRIO
Fhurt gently, caress by scratching the strings and the voice.Taxi Downtown is the fastest way to the slums of music, in that area of the city where sordid rooms open only to loyal customers, protagonists and recipients of blues stories .Taxi Downtown doesn't take you where you wanted to go, because the taxi driver is like the bartender and it's like the blues, the acoustics seem electric and known melodies are diluted in original arrangements.Taxi Downtown doesn't even charge the fare. Because that's where he wanted to go too.
DUB FIRE
The Dub Fire offers original songs and covers roots and dubs chosen from the vast Jamaican repertoire. The lineup ranges from Dennis Brown to Morgan Heritage without neglecting the Bob Marley classics. The heir band of various Cebane roots bands has existed for about 20 years and operates mainly in Piedmont and Liguria. Born as a trio, the group has undergone many variations of staff reaching up to 7 elements, currently Dub Fire are 4. On stage, next to Flavio Bruno (keyboards, vocals, live mixing), historical soul of the band, go up , Giampiero Secco (guitar and backing vocals), Marco Lo Baido (bass) and Stefano Frongia (drums). In 2000 Dub Fire self-produced their first demo titled “Mr. Jones ". The work includes original compositions, with lyrics in English and French, composed and sung by Auguste and covers performed by Flavio Bruno. The second demo, “All Right”, was made between 2002 and 2003 and contains three original songs plus a “version”. Dub Fire had among their ranks Fabrizio Viscardi, lead guitarist following Francesco De Gregori during the 1997/98 tour, who played in the group for about two years taking part in the recordings of the “Mr. Jones ". Other illustrious live collaborations have been with Toti Canzonieri, the excellent saxophonist of the Tribà (who, among other things, contributed, together with Giotto Napolitano, trumpeter of the Tribà, to the realization of the second demo), Massimo Celsi jazz pianist of maximum level and Renzo Coniglio, appreciated Monregalese drummer. Over the years the group has participated in various contests going as far as Rome. In 2003 and 2004 their song "All Right" was broadcast during the Demo broadcast of Radio RAI. Prince Thierry, a famous French DJ, has also broadcast several of their songs in his radio broadcasts. Dub Fire's lyrics speak of common experiences such as love, environmental re-evaluation and Rastafarianism as a philosophy and lifestyle. In this regard, the group, however, has many reservations about the fact that Haile Selassie is the reincarnation of God. Dub Fire offer themselves for live concerts, situations that vary from the social center to the event with more groups, from the benefit evening to the brewery, etc.
TICHÝ TRIO
The Tichý Trio is a fortunate acolyte of new Argonauts, who move into the musical sea of 2019 in the hopeful search for the golden fleece (but ebony or crimson is fine too!). Captain and pianist Albert "Giasone" Tichý explains: "Our trio, with Diego Dutto on trumpet, cornet and flugelhorn, and Marco Lo Baido on bass and clarinet, is not afraid of sailing in uncertain waters: Creole jazz players from Chicago and New Orleans, Fellini echoes of the Dolce Vita, elegant Californian hipsters from the 1950s and Tuscan taverns where Waits meets Pinocchio (and they go to the circus together), all sprinkled by some "razzmatazz" of a well-known lawyer from Asti ... because as Paolo Conte says, in music time is but a continuum and an illusion. So let us have fun driving our boat between the Simplegades, the itinerant rocks of the twentieth century music that - instead of scaring us to death - fill us with a sailor's euphoria! "
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