Maurizio Di Tollo, Agostino Macor and Fabio Zuffanti are three musicians active for some years - respectively in the role of drummer, keyboardist and bassist - in the Italian prog band la Maschera Di Cera. This group, active since 2001, has produced four studio albums and is rapidly become one of the most qualified and followed Italian band of the new school of progressive rock. Maurizio, Agostino and Fabio are versatile musicians active in various other musical projects ranging from prog to jazz, pop and songwriting.
In 2011 the three musicians decided to create a project based on re-proposition of the soundtracks of some of the dark and mysterious Italian TV fictions of the seventies made by master like Simonetti, Ortolani or Pisano. To do this they close in the studio using only original and vintage instruments as Mellotron, Minimoog, Hammond, Theremin, Fender Rhodes...
The result is the album 'L'ombra della sera' (which gave also the name of the project), published in February 2012 by AMS/BTF label.
To make this work, the three musicians have used the collaboration of two other components of la Maschera Di Cera (Alessandro Corvaglia on vocals and Andrea Monetti on flute), Paul Furio Marrasso on double bass, Roberto Calcagno and Francesco Nappi Mascardi on trumpet and sax).
Everything was recorded and artistically co-produced by Rox Villa at Hilary studios in Genoa.
The sound of the record goes back to the dark and gothic school of Van Der Graaf Generator, to some experimental pages of King Crimson and mix chamber music, psychedelic and funky flavours with the modern taste and original of which the three musicians are equipped which have allowed them to make these musics very personal. As if they had composed them.
'L'ombra della sera' comes out on papersleeve vynil replica gatefold CD and limited edition LP (scheduled for next months) and contains:
01. GAMMA (Enrico Simonetti) 11'12''
02. RITRATTO DI DONNA VELATA (Riz Ortolani) 03'51''
03. LA TRACCIA VERDE (Berto Pisano) 06'35''
04. IL SEGNO DEL COMANDO (Cento campane) (Romeo Grano) 05'03''
05. HO INCONTRATO UN'OMBRA (A blue shadow) (Berto Pisano) 17'51''
Info: www.zuffantiprojects.con/l'ombra della sera
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