“Città invisibili”, triple album by L'Orastrana, is a work freely inspired by the book “Invisible cities” by Italo Calvino.
Eleven instrumental tracks for eleven journeys through the eleven themes distinguishing the fifty-five cities of the book, the real cities, the imagined and imaginary cities of the boundless Kublai Khan’s empire, seen through the Marco Polo’s eyes. Eyes that, like in the book, look where nobody else looks. 
L'Orastrana are Carlo Natali, electronic music composer and poet, the bass guitar virtuoso Mauro Rocchi and the electronic music producer Thomas Graber.

The whole thing is freely downloadable from our official website http://www.orastrana.it/ under the 'Audio' section.

[ora004 cd1] 04 L'OraStrana - Le città sottili

"Artelanterna" is a double net-album in mp3 format, recorded live through saturday 28 and sunday 29 october 2006, during the third edition of the homonymous contemporanean artists meeting, held at the Carrozzeria Rizieri in Pontedera PI, Italy.

The whole album is freely downloadable from our official website http://www.orastrana.it/ under the 'Audio' section.

[eq002 cd1] 06 L'Orastrana - Via Pisana Minidub

"Artelanterna" is a double net-album in mp3 format, recorded live through saturday 28 and sunday 29 october 2006, during the third edition of the homonymous contemporanean artists meeting, held at the Carrozzeria Rizieri in Pontedera PI, Italy.
This track is a jam session between Carlo Natali and Mauro Rocchi from l'Orastrana and the performer Enzo Correnti playin' his metaphysical flow.

The whole album is freely downloadable from our official website http://www.orastrana.it/ under the 'Audio' section.

<b>Released by: Orastrana.it</b>
Release/catalogue number: eq002
Release date: Feb 1, 2007 

[eq002 cd1] 04 L'Orastrana feat. Enzo Correnti - Menzel-El-Emir Freestyle Dub

Questo brano è stato registrato durante il concerto chiamato "Work in progress, part 2" a Tolentino MC, la sera del 20 luglio 2004.
È una poesia di Carlo Natali intitolata "Yawnstarter" musicata da Mauro Rocchi al basso elettrico e da Dj Sleepin' alle percussioni.


[unreleased] L'Orastrana - Yawnstarter (WIP2, Live in Tolentino MC 2004-07-20)

Questo brano è stato registrato durante il concerto chiamato "Work in progress, part 9" all'Ambient Pub di Tolentino MC, la sera del 31 ottobre 2007.
A un certo punto, verso la fine, c'è "Pelta, sarissa e sega", una poesia di Carlo Natali.
Al basso c'è Mauro Rocchi e ai marchingegni elettronici ci sono Thomas Graber e Carlo Natali. 


[unreleased] L'Orastrana - Pelta, Sarissa e Sega (WIP9, Live @ Ambient Tolentino MC 2007-10-31)

Questo brano è stato registrato il primo febbraio 2009 durante la performance dell'Orastrana "Il si bemolle dell'avvenir", nell'ambito della rassegna di musica e letteratura "Sil-La-Bo", organizzata dall'ARCI di quella città, che coinvolgeva oltre all'Orastrana anche Antonio Malagrida con Enrico Paolucci e Federico Tiburzi, i Li.B.Ra. con Marco Scarponi e Augusto Amabili, Giulia Elisei con Vanni e Flamì' di Luponair (Radio Erre) e l'immenso Massimo Zamboni.
La poesia è "Arcadia Felix", di Carlo Natali.
Al basso c'è Mauro Rocchi e ai marchingegni elettronici c'è Thomas Graber. 

[unreleased] L'Orastrana - Arcadia Felix (live @ ARCI Recanati MC 2009-02-01)

"Camerino, 2006-07-21 (w.i.p. 6.5)" is an instrumental album for travellers who are not in a hurry, a 74min sonic adventure, composed as it were both an initiation and a separation voyage, starting from an old riff that slowly crumbles into a chaos, that instead of imploding, suddenly glances towards landscapes trailing themselves with no hurry.

This session has been recorded alive on 21st July 2006 afternoon by cnat and master Rocchi in a nearly perfect loneliness, at Tony Gazzosa's "lair", a perfect shelter from the stifling heat of that summer.
The net-album contains a musical tribute by Thomas Graber, a big absent unfortunately in that occasion, but who wanted to leave a sign by giving a sequence made on purpose for that performance, where he works out again an old recording of Carlo Natali's voice.

This is only an excerpt. The whole album is downloadable from http://www.orastrana.it/ under the 'Audio' section.

[ora003] L'Orastrana - Camerino, 2006-07-21 (w.i.p. 6.5) [EXCERPT]

"Robertsbridge Drums Metro" comes from "Martì' EP", a kind of solo debut by Carlo Natali aka Cnat from Orastrana. The EP contains two totally different tracks about one theme: the landscape.
"Martì' EP" is enriched with a specially designed artwork by a great artist, the unimpeachable [NooZ].

You can download the whole EP for free and legally at http://www.orastrana.it/ under the 'Audio' section.


[ora005] 01 Cnat - Robertsbridge Drums Metro

L'Orastrana è un collettivo fluido e instabile che nasce nel 1993 come laboratorio di musica e poesia ad opera di Carlo Natali e Marco Corsetti con l'intento di dedicarsi all'approfondimento dell'interazione tra la musica e la poesia attraverso l'improvvisazione.


L'Orastrana is a fluid and unstable collective that started its activity in 1993 from the mind of Carlo Natali (Cnat) and Marco Corsetti, which main goal it's the dedication to poetry and to improvvisation music.

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