Liveset

Radioforest (ExperimenTribe Records)
https://antonio-testa.bandcamp.com/track/equinoxio

Antonio Testa specializes in organic sound and the creation of musical atmospheres through the use of a vast array of mostly native and shamanic instruments, together with his own creations made from organic and recycled materials. Tribal-Ethno-Ambient is a genre merging musical forms and cultural sensibilities of the world's indigenous cultures sent through the filters of today's sound artists. By using state-of-the-art recording tools and processing technology, common ground is found between animal skin drum, the shaman's rattle and the digital domain. While the outlines of this style can be easily suggested and co-opted through more superficial cut and paste computer methods, RADIOFOREST shows that Testa clearly understands how powerful the authentic ethno-ambient form can be when created with a deep sense of the primal mind. Shifting trance percussion, ocarina, flutes, and synth textures co-mingle with field recordings from Mexico, Africa and Italy. In Antonio's words, the "radio" aspect is the music or the tribal drum transmitting outwards, a calling of the spirits to help the state of our planet. If you appreciate the solo music of Jorge Reyes, Testa and Alio Die, Suspended Memories, TUU, or Steve's ORIGINS and ARTIFACTS, then this is a must-have release.

Steve Roach
credits
released April 11, 2004

Equinoxio

jOAO: U.De.Souza: lyric,voice and classic guitar. Raphael Scinia:
electric guitar. Antonio Testa: percussion and produced.
https://antonio-testa.bandcamp.com/track/joao

JOAO

Il faut vivre - SanzaMamu is Antonio Testa: ethnic percussion, samples, drums and programming.
Valentin Mufila: vocals, backing vocals and guitars.
All tracks written by A.Testa & V. Mufila except track 12: by A. Testa and track13: by Diallo Victoire of Cinèkry-prod, V. Mufila, A.Testa
https://antonio-testa.bandcamp.com/album/il-faut-vivre


Guest musicians who contributed to this project:

backing vocals on tracks 1.5: Rahién Testa, on tracks 2.3.4.5.7.8: Gnahoua Destinée, on track 4: Kouakou Pélagie.
keyboards, synth on tracks1.2.3.5.6.7.8.9.11 and accordion track 4.10: Stefano Colombo.
bass guitar on tracks 1.7.10 and bouzouki on track 7: Mario Macaluso.
bass guitar on tracks 2.3.4.5.6.8.9.11: Fabio Abhivan Ottaviano.
cello on tracks 1.2.5.6.8.9.11: Cecilia Santo.
alto & tenor sax on tracks 8.10: Dario Paini.
oboe on track1: Chiara Maifrini.
drums on tracks 4.8.10.11: Pablo Paracchino,
violin on tracks 2.9: Lino Cannavacciulo.
transverse flute on tracks 3.9.11: Marta Sandroni.
classic guitar on tracks 1.5.10: and electric guitar 3.6.11: Rodolfo Airoldi
classic guitar on track 12: Francesco Saverio Porciello.

Produced and arrangements by Antonio Testa at Tribe studio Italy.
Mixed by A. Testa and Rodolfo Airoldi.
Mastered by Tito Rinesi.
Artwork by Alberto Agazzani
ExperimenTribe Records 2023 (c) (p)


01 Il faut vivre  4.23
02 Who knows 4.56
03 Kalumbandì 3.56
04 Yambì          4.16
05 Rafiki           4.38
06 Minuit           3.45
07 SanzaMamu 3.26
08 Les Mots      3.59
09 Matsho         5.14
10 Monzele       4.31
11 Regina Makeda 3.21
12 Dance to Bobo  5.25
13 Valeur relative 3.24

Sanzamamu

Journey to Rasa Valley 
The project was born from the meeting of three musicians with different experiences, but united by their deep passion for Sound as a path to knowledge and healing. Igor Orifici's Bansuri flute and Adalberto Zappalà's Sitar join in the production by musician Antonio Testa, who has been able to create a meeting point between the Indian sounds and real soundscapes. The result is a distinct sound journey that leads the listener into a world of images, of breaths, of ancestral and archaic sounds. This journey comes through as an experience that combines the primordial echoes of nature with the classical aesthetics of Indian ragas. Journey to Rasa Valley is an exploration journey through an imaginary Valley of Rasa, leading us towards a deeper meaning. “Rasa” literally means "essence, lymph"; within a musical context it indicates the feeling and the state of mind that music channels into the listener. But Rasa is also the real geographical-and beloved-place that leads to the city of Valcuvia (Varese), where this album was created and recorded at Antonio Testa's Tribe Studio. The album Journey to Rasa Valley was created by: Antonio Testa producer, musician, percussionist and music therapist. 
Adalberto Zappalà yoga teacher, musician and composer, music therapist belonging to Vemu Mukunda's Nada Brahma method. 
Igor Orifici musician, player and designer maker of Bansuri flutes, trained by Lorenzo Squillari at the Conservatory of Vicenza, Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia, Supriyo Dutta. 
ExperimenTribe Records 2024 © (P) 2024
https://antonio-testa.bandcamp.com/album/journey-to-rasa-valley

JOURNEY TO RASA VALLEY

KALUBA

live recording.
Radioforest (ExperimenTribe Records)
https://antonio-testa.bandcamp.com/album/radioforest

Antonio Testa specializes in organic sound and the creation of musical atmospheres through the use of a vast array of mostly native and shamanic instruments, together with his own creations made from organic and recycled materials. Tribal-Ethno-Ambient is a genre merging musical forms and cultural sensibilities of the world's indigenous cultures sent through the filters of today's sound artists. By using state-of-the-art recording tools and processing technology, common ground is found between animal skin drum, the shaman's rattle and the digital domain. While the outlines of this style can be easily suggested and co-opted through more superficial cut and paste computer methods, RADIOFOREST shows that Testa clearly understands how powerful the authentic ethno-ambient form can be when created with a deep sense of the primal mind. Shifting trance percussion, ocarina, flutes, and synth textures co-mingle with field recordings from Mexico, Africa and Italy. In Antonio's words, the "radio" aspect is the music or the tribal drum transmitting outwards, a calling of the spirits to help the state of our planet. If you appreciate the solo music of Jorge Reyes, Testa and Alio Die, Suspended Memories, TUU, or Steve's ORIGINS and ARTIFACTS, then this is a must-have release.

Steve Roach
credits
released April 11, 2004

Antonio Testa: Ethnic Percussion, Performer, Stalagmite, Flute, Synthesizer, Sampler, Electronics, Textures & Drones, Field Recordings From Mexico, Africa and Italy.
Track 1 Percussion: Beatriz Alvear,Touche Moreno. Sampler, Electronics Drones: M. Zini. Voice, Percussion: Lumumba
Track 3 Voice: Kayum Garcia
Track 4 Flute Nay: W. Maioli, Sampler, Electronics: M. Zini
Track 5 Singing Bowls Crystal Bowls: Daniela Risser
Track 6 Sampler, Electronics Textures & Drones: Alio Die
Track 9 Voice Intro: Ixchel Group
Track 10 Synthesizer: Lupo Pasini.
Voice, Singing Bowls Dobaci: Maurizio Dall'Olio

Written and Composed by Antonio Testa at Tribe studio in Milan Italy
ExperimenTribe Records 2004 © SIAE Italy.
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Lumumba

Dance to Bobò
ExperimenTribe https://antonio-testa.bandcamp.com/track/dance-to-bobo-2

Each musical work by Antonio Testa could be described as a journey that takes us around the world.
The attitude is similar to that of other eminent musicologists like David Parsons and Stephan Micus, but Testa’s approach to music is a very personal one.
"Ecosphere" confirms the eclecticismat the base of his music career
It was created in order “to find a balance between the biosphere and the technosphere' .
Translated into sound, it means a blessed meeting between the new deep rhythmic of the digital age and the old traditional harmonies of the world’s music.
In order to interpret them, Testa has trusted once again the magnetic voice of Susana Beatriz Alvear , author of lyrics and vocals and also responsible for five of the first six tracks, languid trip-hop dances in which the trumpet of Roberto Santoro ("Recuerdos ") shines alongside the acoustic guitars of Francesco Saverio Porciello (" Dance To Bobo ") and the drones played by Alio Die mixed with his bases and his bouzoki strings (played by Tito Rinesi).
In "Maya Prayer" we find fields recordings recorded by Testa in the forests of Mexico. Before the final track there is also space for a long-tropical ambient improvisation recorded in 1995 in Milan with U. de Souza, Raphael Scinia, Susana Beatriz Alvear and Rosana Santos.
Roberto Mandolini
credits
released December 10, 2008

Composed and recorded at Tribe studio in Milan, Italy 2008.

All music composed and perfomed by Antonio Testa © SIAE Italy except:: Tracks 2&4 A.Testa & Tito Rinesi, Tracks 11 A.Testa, U.De Souza, Raphael Scinia.

Antonio Testa: Drum, Percussion, Organic instruments, Kalabash, Talking Drum, Udu, Bambù, Teponatli, Horn, Wood, Bone flutes, Mbira, Darbuka, Stones, Shell, Stalagmite, Voice, Piano, Keyboards, Samples, Textures and Drones, Programming, Fields recording from Burkina Faso, Mexico and Italy.

S.B.Alvear: Lyrics, Classic and Etnic voices on Tracks:1.2.3.5.6
Roberto Santoro: Trumbet and Classic guitar Track 2
Tito Rinesi: Programming, Keyboards and Bouzouki Track 4.
Alio Die: Drone Track 4.
Davide Mantovani: Bass guitar Tracks 2.5.
Francesco Saverio Porciello: Acoustic guitars Track 6.
Kayum: voice recording live at Mexico forest Track 8.
U.De Souza: Lyric, voice and Classic guitar Track 11.
Raphael Scinia: Electric guitar Track 11.
S.B. Alvear: Percussion Track 11.
Rosana Santos: Percussion Track 11
Track 11 recording live at Tribe studio Milan Italy.

Artwork by Mariella Fumagalli.
Photo by Rahièn Testa.

ExperimenTribe Records 2008

Dance to Bobo

https://antonio-testa.bandcamp.com/album/inframundis

Italian sound-sculptor Antonio Testa creates a series of sonic environments that are often suggestive of found sound or musical representations of wondrous places. The listener is inclined to envision the musician working in low light somewhere below ground in harmony with his space, each taking equal part: artist and expanse. Softly clanging chimes are scattered against bird song and water movement, a low drone even and measured permeating everything. Meditative evolving strains are rippled by unidentifiable sonorous percussives, almost rhythmic. Reverberating fluids, spills and streams run across smooth synthetic textures. Turbulence gently heaves whilst a soft female voice speaks. We even get to hear Rahien Testa's first cry on the opening eponymous track. The impression is one of timelessness; ancient simplicity against contemporary clarity. The gear list includes stalagmites and field recordings as well as contributions from fellow musicians Alio Die (samples, textures, drones, soundscapes from Thailand), Susana Beatriz Alvear and Maurizio Dall'olio (voice), Daniela Risser (crystal bowls) and others.INFRAMUNDIS, meaning inland "universe" in Latin, is the latest in a considerable discography from percussionist Antonio Testa. Antonio's website points out that he "specializes in organic sound and the creation of musical atmospheres through the use of a vast array of mostly native and shamanic instruments, together with his own creations made from organic and recycled materials". This interest is clearly evident on this recording, which is primarily a musical research into stalagmite and stalactite sounds mixed with textures and drones. Stefano Musso shares in four of the ten recordings. INFRAMUNDIS is surely an album that will appeal to fans of Alio Die. Very meditative and evocative, this CD is one for experimental sound lovers looking for something with an exotic edge, or cavern music without the cold isolationist tone employed by other subterranean explorations.

Steve Roach 
credits
released March 11, 2007

Written, produced, composed,recorded, editing and mixed by A.Testa
A.Testa: Percussion, Flute, Stalagmites,Synths,Texture and Drones, Field recordings from Italy.

On Tracks 1-2-4-7 Stefano Musso "Alio Die" Samples, Textures and Drones, Soundscape from Thailand, mixed at Lunae studio.
On track 1 Rahièn Testa first cry 1997.
On track 6 S.B. Alvear voice, Vincenzo Morgillo poetry.
On track 8 Daniela Risser Crystal bowls.
On track 9 Lupo Pasini Synths. Maurizio Dall'olio Dobaci and voice.

Recorded and mixed by A.Testa at Tribe studio Milan, Italy © SIAE Italy.

Mastered by Andrey Faryus.
Cover photo by Enrico Labriola allother photo by Andrey Faryus.
Artwork by Sara Luciani.

ExperimenTribe Records 2007

Inframundis

https://antonio-testa.bandcamp.com/album/senza-tempo-nel-tempo

Music to dream of a different world: not new age nor ambient. What Antonio Testa offers in the CD “Senza tempo nel tempo” (Timeless in time) (Tribe) is something that you might have never heard before : a journey of discovery across new soundscapes using instruments made by him with the materials that nature has to offer. Didjeridou, seed bells and shells, bone whistles, magnolia leaves, water gourds, bamboo flutes, stones, and, above all, the incredible sound of the stalagmites. The journey begins with “Jungle”: the sounds of a natural mother and stepmother, where the sense of mystery and danger reach ecstasy. “Sea Life” is lighter, and the flow of water between the shells rattles, takes you into a world where everything is muffled and slow, while in “Spirits” you can feel the magic that insinuates itself in small things, with the tools that are perfect imitation of animals voices. But the masterpiece from Timeless in Time is without a doubt the closing song “Stalagmite”, where the trickle of eternal flow plays in the background. In this song Antonio Testa plays the real stalagmites in a cave, just as if they were a normal xylophone. Music and magic thus blend in a circle full of mysterious charm that take us back to a primitive world where the voice of nature, not the one of man, is in the foreground. A musical journey not to be missed if you really aim to listen to something truly different and innovative.

Luca Valtorta
credits
released August 11, 1994

Composed and recorded in August 1994 at Tribe studio in Milan, Italy.

All music composed and perfomed by Antonio Testa © SIAE Italy.

Antonio Testa: Ethnic percussion instruments, Drums, Jangro, Darbuka, Teponatli, Stalagmite, Nay, Flute, Recorder, Drone, Elettronic.

Artwork by Maura Potron, Photo by Enrico Labriola

ExperimenTribe Records 1994

Stalagmite

https://antonio-testa.bandcamp.com/album/sounds-of-the-nature

No science and no magic will be ever able to find the angelic purity of the sounds that men could hear in those days”- This sound map, full of singing birds, breaths of wind, water fountains, the distant tolling of bells, of crickets and insects, is an acoustic sculpture of great impact on our daily hearing system offended by the painful sounds of human society. With this work by Antonio Testa, you’ll be able to discover the sound of nature as it has always been, and with it, its wonderful balance. The artist has followed the life of the park, he has immersed himself in its biological rhythms until he became an integral part of it, he has seized the park’s hidden expressions. A work of acoustic ecology, which highlights the pain that the human impact has caused

Gianluigi Gasparetti / Deep Listenings
credits
released May 1, 1998

Recording in 1998 In the Natural Park of the Capanne di Marcarolo (AL) Italy.
Ideation and Recording: Antonio Testa

Ornithologist: Massimo Campora
Faunist: Renato Cottalasso

Editing and Mastering: Max Costa

Photographs: Massimo Campora and Renato Cottalasso

ExperimenTribe Records © SIAE Italy 1998

Sound of the nature

https://antonio-testa.bandcamp.com/album/sacb

This CD published by Tribe is titled "Sacred - Bright Way" (Sacred paths on Mother Earth) " and it is the guide to a good travel experience in the Land of the Maya. Among the temples and sacred sites of ancient Mexico, a sort of spiritual diary written by several hands collects the memories of a pilgrimage to the "Sacred" route, the enlightened way which leads to the inner awakening and propitiates astral calm, according to the ancient shamanic teachings of the Aztec. But more than a travelling reportage, the writings that accompany the CD of Antonio Testa are a collection of thoughts on both the small and great mysteries of human existence, a guide that promotes that excursions of the soul that the authors use in that adventure;it tells us about the emotions felt during the ceremonies for the Spring Equinox or the perception of an eminent presence in the jungle of Chiapas and in the Natural Park of the Birds, or in the joyous ritual of the singing well described by the story. Furthermore , there is the music composed by Antonio Testa for this occasion, the sounding page (preceded by an essay by the artist) that brings us a little closer into the midst of these ancient cultures and thir timeless spiritual moments, right into the land of their ancestors:the dances and the songs around Life’s fire which burns into the wind of the cosmic night and that threw its shadows on our time.

ALDO CHIMENTI Rocherilla

Shaman Coyotl

Antonio Testa   https://antonio-testa.bandcamp.com/track/rapanui

Each musical work by Antonio Testa could be described as a journey that takes us around the world.
The attitude is similar to that of other eminent musicologists like David Parsons and Stephan Micus, but Testa’s approach to music is a very personal one.
"Ecosphere" confirms the eclecticismat the base of his music career
It was created in order “to find a balance between the biosphere and the technosphere' .
Translated into sound, it means a blessed meeting between the new deep rhythmic of the digital age and the old traditional harmonies of the world’s music.
In order to interpret them, Testa has trusted once again the magnetic voice of Susana Beatriz Alvear , author of lyrics and vocals and also responsible for five of the first six tracks, languid trip-hop dances in which the trumpet of Roberto Santoro ("Recuerdos ") shines alongside the acoustic guitars of Francesco Saverio Porciello (" Dance To Bobo ") and the drones played by Alio Die mixed with his bases and his bouzoki strings (played by Tito Rinesi).
In "Maya Prayer" we find fields recordings recorded by Testa in the forests of Mexico. Before the final track there is also space for a long-tropical ambient improvisation recorded in 1995 in Milan with U. de Souza, Raphael Scinia, Susana Beatriz Alvear and Rosana Santos.
Roberto Mandolini
credits
released December 10, 2008

Composed and recorded at Tribe studio in Milan, Italy 2008.

All music composed and perfomed by Antonio Testa © SIAE Italy except:: Tracks 2&4 A.Testa & Tito Rinesi, Tracks 11 A.Testa, U.De Souza, Raphael Scinia.

Antonio Testa: Drum, Percussion, Organic instruments, Kalabash, Talking Drum, Udu, Bambù, Teponatli, Horn, Wood, Bone flutes, Mbira, Darbuka, Stones, Shell, Stalagmite, Voice, Piano, Keyboards, Samples, Textures and Drones, Programming, Fields recording from Burkina Faso, Mexico and Italy.

S.B.Alvear: Lyrics, Classic and Etnic voices on Tracks:1.2.3.5.6
Roberto Santoro: Trumbet and Classic guitar Track 2
Tito Rinesi: Programming, Keyboards and Bouzouki Track 4.
Alio Die: Drone Track 4.
Davide Mantovani: Bass guitar Tracks 2.5.
Francesco Saverio Porciello: Acoustic guitars Track 6.
Kayum: voice recording live at Mexico forest Track 8.
U.De Souza: Lyric, voice and Classic guitar Track 11.
Raphael Scinia: Electric guitar Track 11.
S.B. Alvear: Percussion Track 11.
Rosana Santos: Percussion Track 11
Track 11 recording live at Tribe studio Milan Italy.

Artwork by Mariella Fumagalli.
Photo by Rahièn Testa.

ExperimenTribe Records 2008

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