As most of you know, the great poet Michael Lally is my long-time and dear friend. I have spent many hours in the last few days using my home recording studio to put together a mashup of Michael's poetry with speeches from Barak Obama and comments from Colin Powell. I took Michael's clips from his CD "What You Find There."
I hope you dig with I have done. Click on the link below which will take you to the MP3 file which you can download and play with any MP3 player.
I'd love to read your comments and/or answer any questions you might have.
Here is the link to the MP3 file.
3 comments:
Damn man, I am honored and humbled by your use of my words in this beautiful mash up. Thank you.
That was cool.
Presentation of the CD (abeat records):
DRIVING OUT … birth of the cool
Flight Band (16-piece ensemble) directed by Biagio Coppa
Special Guest: Claudio Fasoli
Introduction by : Arrigo Cappelletti
The Flight Band’s performance is faithful to the original score of “Birth of the Cool” whose compositional spirit is left untouched, while some of its linguistic and structural elements are altered and mixed together in the process. At the beginning, the Flight Band’s line-up demanded a readaptation of the original music performed by the memorable Miles Davis’ group which recorded for Capitol between 1949 and 1950 (a number of songs recorded with a nine-piece group including, among others, Max Roach, Lee Konitz, John Lewis, Gerry Mulligan who worked on most of the arrangements together with Lewis and Gil Evans).
The work is inspired by various historical experiences like those of the so-called “non-traditional” big bands – such as the Sun Ra Arkestra and the Liberation Music Orchestra – as well as by the various groups directed by Gil Evans and, more recently, by Butch Morris and Carla Bley.
As properly suggested by Arrigo Cappelletti in the CD cover notes “assisted by his lab-orchestra, Biagio Coppa places Birth of The Cool on the operating table where he proceeds to dismantle, deconstruct it by tearing it into very small pieces. It is only at the end of this process that he tries to put its bits back together restoring a semblance of the songs that everybody knows, but what he really offers the listener is something totally new: a phantasmagoria of colours, rhythms, sounds where Davis is just a pretext and jazz alternates with concrete, serial, electronic, rock music and sometimes even with lounge music.”
Furthermore, by using different modern orchestra conduction techniques, such as “sound painting”, Biagio Coppa can freely release his taste for “variation” in its widest sense: the leader directs and controls the musical events with precise gestures, while each musician is free to choose what he wishes to play. The appeal of this project lies in the relation that is created between the director and the musicians through a sort of “oral transmission” of the arrangements, so that the whole group is made aware of its responsibilities as the work slowly progresses and takes shape.
Quoting the contribution of Roberto Fiore to the cover notes: “The whole operation required an ordinary (!?) but tireless application of the Galilean motto “try and try again”, by pursuing the charms of “fate” and “necessity””.
The active contribution of soloist Claudio Fasoli is the prestigious completion of this charming, original and unquestionably accomplished work of reinterpretation of BIRTH of The COOL.
FLIGHT BAND
Biagio Coppa arrangements and conduction
Maurizio Modica trumpet
Mario Mariotti trumpet, flugelhorn
Riccardo Mestroni alto sax
Fabio Delvò alto sax, flute
Paolo Branzaglia tenor sax
Alessandro Caiani tenor sax
Davide Bova tenor sax (concert)
Enzo Montrasio clarinets
Nicola Riato bass clarinet (recording sessions)
Alberto Scavazza baritone sax
Renato Di Nubila baritone sax
Rocco Cavallaro guitar
Giuseppe Fiorito piano, keyboards
Franco Pandini double-bass
Francesco Chicco Carrara electric bass, efx
Gino Natalicchio drums, percussions
Saturday 8 November 2008, 09:30 p.m.
TEATRO TROISI (piazza Gen. Dalla Chiesa) – San Donato Milanese - ITALY
Event sponsored by Comune di San Donato Milanese
Credits: Eni polo sociale di gruppo
Free entrance
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