from the upcoming FERC album "The Trail of Monologues". italian version. text taken from Baudelaire's Journaux Intimes

Run Run Run

The Elvetico/Cangini duo FERC is a jazz/industrial/visual project from Italy that has just completed a first unreleased album containing five tracks and a ghost track. We use vocals, electronics, piano and bass along with real-time video and audio processing.
Slams is an interplay between vocals and industrial machine sounds played live
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more info at: http://www.illachime.net/ferc/introducing_FERC.pdf
email: ferc.2011@gmail.com

FERC - Slams

versione italiana di "the trail of monologues".

La scia dei monologhi

From the album "The Trail of Monologues". An interpretation of a piece by the great flemish composer Adrian Willaert (1490-1562)

O bene mio

One track from the unreleased album by Nero Diaspora, a free improvisation trio from Italy composed by Rossella Cangini, Fabrizio Elvetico and Gandolfo Pagano.

Nero Diaspora #08

Another track from the unreleased album by Nero Diaspora, a free improvisation trio from Italy composed by Rossella Cangini, Fabrizio Elvetico and Gandolfo Pagano.

ROSSELLA CANGINI Singer from Turin. She has specialised her improvisation technique within several different artistic contexts, such as, experimental theatre, avantgarde jazz, free-style and rap. She studied the Tuvana Musical Culture with Sainkho Namtchylak and improvisation with Ellen Christi. The list of artists that Rossella Cangini has played and recorded with includes: Billy Cobham, Don Moye, Salvatore Bonafede, Ellen Christi, Carlo Actis Dato and Claudio Lodati (founders in Turin of two avangarde jazz institutes, Artstudio and C.M.C).
GANDOLFO PAGANO Guitarist from Palermo. He played rock, blues and jazz for a number of years, but has focused his musical research for the past ten years on experimental improvisation, which he sees as a methodical overcoming of the limitations of the instument. He has played and collaborated with, amongst others,: Tim Hodgkinson, Eugene Chadbourne, Peter Kutin, Anthony Pateras, Sean Baxter, David Brown, Cat Hope, Franz Rosati, Ramon Moro, Jean-Marc Montera, Andrea Valle and Domenico Sciajno.
FABRIZIO ELVETICO Was born in Naples and studied piano and composition with Franco Donatoni among others. He has had an active, and often intense, long period of studio and concert activity with free improvisation bands since the late 1970's, and has since then extended his activities to include ancient and contemporary music, as well as movie soundtracks and sound installations. He has collaborated with, among others: Mark Stewart, Rhys Chatham, Graham Lewis (Wire), Schneider tm, Philippe Petit, Salvatore Bonafede and Domenico Sciajno.

Nero Diaspora #03

a remix by FERC of Illachime Quartet's "Flying Home", from the 2009 album "I'm Normal, my Heart still Works"

Illachime Quartet vs FERC - Na-To versus Nato

The Elvetico/Cangini duo FERC is a jazz/industrial/visual project that joins acoustic sounds and electronic treatments, starting from circular sequences in continuous transformation and from various kind of sounds and noises. In this scenario, the two musicians intervene by means of improvised lines that aim to accumulate tension. Picking up from a background that includes contemporary music, jazz, punk, electroacoustic landscapes, the duo never forgets the goal of seducing the listener, melting together physical approach and musical research. FERC performances include also real time video drawing and processing.
FABRIZIO ELVETICO was born in Naples and studied piano and composition - with Franco Donatoni among others - gaining his diploma in choral music and graduating in studies of the history of aesthetics with a thesis on the works of Pierre Boulez. His compositions have been performed in public by polyphonic choirs and chamber music ensembles under his direction. He has had an intense studio and concert activity in jazz, rock and free improvisation bands since the late 70's. With Psychotomy has extended his activity to movies, audiovisual and artistic sound installations. In 2004 he has started with Gianluca Paladino a new band, the Illàchime Quartet which released in 2004 an eponymous album, in 2008 a contribution to Bip_Hop Generation Series vol. 9, and in 2009 a second album containing contributions by some international guest artists. He has collaborated, among others, with Mark Stewart (Pop Group, Maffia), Rhys Chatham, Graham Lewis (Wire), Schneider TM, Philippe Petit, Salvatore Bonafede, Domenico Sciajno. Since 1999 is also professor of Harmony and Musical Analysis at the National music Conservatory of Trapani (Sicily).
ROSSELLA CANGINI is a singer from Turin involved in vocal research and experimental techniques. She specialised her improvisation techniques within several different artistic contexts (experimental theatre/techno/avantgarde jazz/free style/rap). Afterwards, she gained in 1994 a CEE scholarship for show artists, she enlarged her knowledge of the various kinds of scenical techniques, including recitation, vocal expression and interpretation from the operetta style to the modern singing. She studied the Tuvana musical culture with Sainkho Namtchylak and improvisation with Ellen Christie with who still collaborates in live performances and recording releases. The list of artists Rossella Cangini has played and recorded with, includes: Billy Cobham, Don Moye (drummer of Art Ensemble of Chicago), Mark Stewart (Pop Group, Maffia), Salvatore Bonafede, Ellen Christi, Carlo Actis Dato and Claudio Lodati (founders in Turin of two avangarde jazz institutes, Artstudio and C.M.C), Marco Messina (founder of 99 Posse and electronic music producer), Lauro Rossi (trombonist of Italian Instabile Orchestra), Illachime Quartet.

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