illàchime quartet is an instrumental ensemble founded in naples (italy) by fabrizio elvetico and gianluca paladino. it joins electronics and acoustic instruments. it gathers sounds and noises from the surroundings as well as scattered fragments of acoustic memories, which form the texture for the interventions of the musicians along rough and terse lines, often improvised. final target: to intrigue and to seduce the audience by means of an unconventional, highly kinematic sonic experience.

the band released its eponymous first album in 2004, then a contribute on the vol. 9 of bip_hop generation series (previous volumes of this compilation contained tracks by artists as murcof, scanner, mira calix, phonem). another release is planned for a compilation by the dublin-based label psychonavigation records.
the second album (february 2009), i'm normal my heart still works, is released by the italian labels fratto9/underthesky and lizard. some international artists have given their contribution to the album: mark stewart (voice of pop group and maffia), graham lewis (voice and bass player of wire), rhys chatham (avantgarde musician from new york) and salvatore bonafede (one of the most well-known italian jazzists).

through the last two years, the music of illachime quartet has stimulated imagination in other musicians. amongst them: mark stewart again, dirk dresselhaus a.k.a. schneider tm, retinat.it (a band that releases for the chicago based label hefty records), domenico sciajno (an electronic performer/composer who has worked with alvin curran, kim cascone, tim hodgkinson, cor fuller and many others) and emanuele errante (karaoke kalk, apegenine), and FERC (a side project by fabrizio elvetico from illachime and rossella cangini, an experimental vocalist from turin). the result is a new remix album out now (july 2012), named "sales".

Instrumental quartet from Florence (Italy)
Mario Campajola: bass
Martino Lega: drums
Davide Woods: sax
Davide Bonizzoni: guitar
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Sax player & composer from Barletta.
Founder and art director of Mediterraneo Radicale, platform for the creative music & arts(Italy). 
Founder of Mediterranean Creative Records, label of experimental music.
Co-founder and artistic co-director of Springtime Jazz Festival, MEMU Festival & Fringe Off.

Some project:
- Where I Come From [world, jazz]
- The Outer Space Society [post rock, experimental, jazz]
- A New Story To Tell [contemporary jazz]
- Antijazz Connection [improvised, experimental]
- Portrait of a Butterfly [jazz, rock]
- E.V.A. [jazz, rock]
- Samparka [improvised, experimental]
- Seven Mantras [solo sax_improvised, experimental]
- Torino Milano Improvisers Orchestra [improvised, experimental]

Forefront nasce come trio nel 2012, con l'improvvisazione radicale alla base del proprio lavoro.
Nel 2013, con l'ingresso del sassofonista Antonio Raia, il percorso artistico inizia a guardare anche alla composizione scritta, utilizzata come scenografia dei mondi sonori che mutano di perfmoance in performance.

Il loro primo lavoro su disco è dedicato alla musica contemporanea, aleatoria e a quella concreta, spettrale ed elettroacustica, e quindi a musicisti del secolo scorso che hanno cambiato il corso della musica, come John Cage, Morton Feldman, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Arnold Schönberg, Iannis Xenakis, Luciano Berio.

Forefront si propone di esplorare i meandri più oscuri dell'estetica contemporanea senza però erigere essa stessa a canone o modello.
La doppia accezione del vocabolo Forefront come "Avanguardia" e "prima linea", racconta il tentativo di entrare nella contemporaneità dalla porta principale senza però cullarsi nella sua formalità, ma facendo della forma l'elemento da distruggere e ricostruire ad ogni battuta.
Forefront mette in scena la nausea dell'epoca post-scientista, dove l'unica via per dondolarsi nel mal di mare ontologico dell'uomo contemporaneo è lo smarrimento. Perdersi per ritrovarsi ogni volta diversi e talvolta deformati dietro gli angoli spigolosi dell'improvvisazione radicale, spesso senza riuscire a riconoscersi. L'identità diventa un volto sfigurato e deformato nello specchio sonoro che riflette la malattia. In questo specchio bisogna riflettersi per poi distruggersi.

Jack D'Amico_inside piano, prepared and unprepared piano/rhodes
Umberto Lepore_double bass/el bass
Marco Castaldo_drums

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