... a short improv jam on a familiar Christmas theme - live in studio ... 

Christmas Improv Jam 2013 ... C.T.U

various projects involving Bill Austin from the 70's, 80's and 90's .

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Videos on Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNF-6I6e7r4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnWVLtu7580

Donatella Basilico: keyboards, drums (acoustic set, electro-acoustic Roland TD9 set ), percussions, lead vocals
Piero Caniparo: electric guitar, acoustic guitar, bass guitar, guitar synth Roland GR 55, choirs

The most part of our "structural" first tracks are played and recorded live together, usually drums and guitar or drums and bass; drums parts are from a real drum set 

Original drawing by D.B., not for reproduction


We' re deeply lovers of music, of many different genres: from classical and opera to rock, progressive rock, psychedelic, jazz, fusion, tango, dreampop, ambient, experimental  and beyond...
We' re trying at the moment to find our identity and expressivity in our favourite musical world:
progressive rock.
Comments, exchange of opinions, observations, advice are always welcome.
We're also on You Tube if you feel like to pass by...
Thank you for attention and feedback, I like to answer everyone, if sometimes I'm a little slow is because I lke to listen to your work while I answer.
I really like reposting the tracks I liked on our personal profile but obviously I can't keep them more than a few days. 
Donatella

We reccomend visiting Jul's Progcast Blog, a truly interesting and well done blog about indie prog rock but not only. You can find such a great music, it's really well worth a visit.
https://julsprogkastblog.blogspot.com

The Music of DK Sale
DKSALE.NET
https://www.facebook.com/davidksale


Thank you - 
WFDU
KBBI
WSUM
WZEW
KPFT
WSCA
WHFC
WZMB
WFIT
WMXM
kSER
WUKY
WETS
CKUA
KVNF
KRFC
WRRW
WERU
KRVM
WZMB
KRVS

Thanks for playing Ivory League Music

Zap-Pascal is a musician who play accordion, electronic, flute, and use other sounds from his imagination, in solo and in groups since the eighties of the last century... Previously, he played saxophone, slide trombone.

Different experiences between folk tunes, jazz, classical, contemporary, electronic & art - rock music give him large possibilities to explore sounds with himself & other musicians !

- His last live and studo side project is LOCUSTA MIGRATORIA



Para representar lo que percibimos visualmente, debemos recrear los tres colores primarios de la luz, rojo, azul y amarillo, cuya combinación en diferentes proporciones genera la gama cromática de todo lo que vemos. Sin embargo, para inventar paisajes sonoros, delinear imágenes auditivas, pintar el aire con sonidos e iluminar el silencio, bastan dos elementos, dos entes creativos que al unirse forman el azul primigenio de donde emergen todos los colores sonoros imaginables: CIAN.  

CIAN es la afortunada consecuencia de la comunión entre la vocalista Lizeth Ruvalcaba y el bajista Eliud Ernandes, quienes, a principios de 2013, por simple diversión ensamblaron un par de canciones con base en capas de sonido generadas con voz y bajo únicamente. Para ello utilizaron ‘loopers’, dispositivos digitales que graban lo que el músico toca o canta y lo repiten para formar alfombras (loops) sobre las que se pueden ejecutar nuevas figuras.  

La idea era no utilizar sonidos previamente grabados, sino generarlos sobre la marcha, sobreponiéndolos o reemplazándolos conforme avanzara la canción en turno; una labor ardua y minuciosa, tanto por el rigor de la ejecución donde un pequeño error o un simple chasquido indeseado —y repetido por el looper— puede echar a perder la pieza que se interpreta; como por la variedad tímbrica que se debe extraer a los instrumentos para que se distingan conforme se acumulan en las capas que se graban al vuelo. 

A diferencia de otros músicos que incursionan en esta técnica llamada 'looping', CIAN no se limita a grabar una alfombra sonora para luego improvisar sobre ella, sino que cada fragmento, cada sonido que se graba en los loopers, es parte de una composición con estructura bien definida. 

El resultado es espectacular, no sólo porque el dueto resuelve magistralmente las dificultades descritas, sino por la cálida belleza contenida en los temas, que sitúa el arte muy por encima de la técnica, haciendo que el oyente se olvide de la ejecución y se concentre en el gozo estético.  

Desde su nacimiento, CIAN mostró un sonido personal distintivo, tan intenso como original, que los identifica de inmediato; algo muy difícil de lograr al primer intento. Creo que esto se debe a la actitud creativa del ensamble, que no parece haber buscado dicho sonido de manera deliberada, sino que lo dejó fluir naturalmente, sin preconcebirlo, como resultado de las influencias, la maestría y la interacción de sus integrantes, aunadas a su evidente experiencia en audioproducción.   

Por ello es imposible ubicar a CIAN en un género musical específico, ya que en su obra confluyen el jazz de ECM, el soul, el rock progresivo, el tecno, los cantos irlandeses, el ambient, los frippertronics y hasta el minimalismo de Steve Reich, además de influencias que mi oído no alcanza a discernir. 

Tan nutrida fusión de géneros y estilos no puede menos que ofrecer un inmenso colorido musical, lleno de sonoridades diversas, elaborados contrapuntos y paisajes auditivos llenos de magia. Prueba plena de que, para generar música en toda su magnificencia cromática, bastan dos elementos creativos, imaginativos y talentosos: Liz Ruvalcaba y Eliud Ernandes: CIAN.  

Jorge Alveláis
Músico de Rock Progresivo y Pop Rock.  
Productor musical y audiovisual.

Hey… Thanks for visiting and listening.

Some of the stuff that you'll find here will be dark...weird,
wonderful and bizarre, interesting and maybe not so interesting.

There will be no specific gènre in mind so if you hear something that doesn't move you, try another track as there may be something that you will like...

Feel free to leave any comments, good or bad and do visit again as you might find that next time your here, something new has landed and you might just think, "Hey……."

Sincerely,

A fan of sound...

Stacy Russo, a librarian and professor at Santa Ana College in Santa Ana, California, is a poet, writer, and artist. She believes in libraries as community spaces; lifelong learning; poetry; public education; peaceful living; feminism; and the power of personal story. Stacy's books are Love Activism (Litwin Books); We Were Going to Change the World: Interviews with Women from the 1970s and 1980s Southern California Punk Rock Scene (Santa Monica Press); Life as Activism: June Jordan’s Writings from The Progressive (Litwin Books); and The Library as Place in California (McFarland). 

Stacy's articles, poetry, and reviews have appeared in Feminist Teacher, Feminist Collections, American Libraries, Counterpoise, Library Journal, Chaffey Review, Serials Review, and the anthology Open Doors: An Invitation to Poetry (Chaparral Canyon Press). Her poetry zines include Poems a Librarian Wrote on Her Lunch Break; Young and Hungry in Paradise; and California Wine: Poems for Everybody. 

Stacy holds degrees from the University of California, Berkeley; Chapman University; and San Jose State University. She serves as Chair of the Library Technology Program and Co-Chair of the Nealley Library at Santa Ana College. She always takes her coffee black; eats chocolate every morning; and loves to nap at the ocean.

... various musical projects involving guitar and bass player Bill Austin =

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