Giovanni Tommaso is the greatest Italian Jazz bassist and founder and member of the most important ever Italian Jazz Rock ensembles, the Perigeo band.

He composed "INDEFINITIVE ATMOSPHERE" at the end of 1969, released a few months after in 1970 on Sermi label, and recorded it at Rca studios in Rome. "INDEFINITIVE ATMOSPHERE" represents a special album for him and for us as well, since it was his first album released as a sole composer/artist. The Maestro digged in personal archive for us and finally found a copy of the original master tape containing part of the recordings. Besides the misspelled title "Indefinitive" instead of "Indefinite", that became part of the legend here, this album was incredibly ahead of his time, with the young Maestro Tommaso playing electric bass and contrabass a in studio ensemble composed of 3/4 elements plus the strings section, with plenty of stunning Jazz-Funk, Jazz-Rock and Free Jazz tracks. The session is also known for including the legendary American Jazz soprano sax Steve Lacy on the track called "Steve", where he plays a sax solo.

We entirely restored the full session from the original tapes found, and digitally remastered the sound for a greater sound experience, chasing the original analog source.

INDEFINITIVE ATMOSPHERE

Giovanni Tommaso - INDEFINITIVE ATMOSPHERE

Banji Kaicho 131

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00:14 / Kazufumi Kodama / Quiet Dub
05:15 / 小玉和文 / IN THE BEGINNING～MIDNIGHT STREET
09:40 / Miki Hirayama / 電子レンジ
13:22 / izumi kobayashi / Lazy Love
17:38 / Yuki Okazaki / Jamaican Affair (2013 Remaster)
21:35 / CHIEKO BEAUTY / This Time I'll Be Sweeter (Dub Be Sweeter)
26:03 / Pianica Maeda, Chieko Beauty / Orange Iro No Koi Act 2 Version
30:15 / Dreamlets / Gone Away
34:05 / Little Tempo / FROSTIE
39:50 / Mute Beat / Jazz Man
44:39 / Ryuichi Sakamoto & The Kakutougi Session / Time Trip
48:46 / Ryojiro Furusawa / Moonlight Slumber
57:43 / 久保田麻琴と夕焼け楽団 / Shanhai gaeri Dub Version - Made in Island (2020 Remaster)
1:04:55 / Pecker / Militant Sniff
1:08:55 / asuka ando / ATSUI YORU NO UTA
1:14:09 / Sandii With Roots Radics / 花
1:17:42 / NOKKO / あくびとUFO
1:22:00 / UA / Sigh
1:26:54 / IRIA / The World Is Blurred
1:30:35 / Pizzicato Five / Lover's Rock (Mad Professor's Remix)
[swapped for Two Sleepy People (Authentic Stylee)]
1:35:18 / Takayoshi Matsunaga / Two-Step
1:41:43 / Fishmans / In The Flight
1:48:30 / Kazufumi Kodama / End Of The World
1:53:26 / Dub Master X / Sentimental Dub (Bananachips Dub)

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ドレッドビートの帰り [J-Reggae, Dub, Lovers Rock]

Far Out Recordings proudly presents the new album from Brazilian guitarist and composer Fabiano do Nascimento: Mundo Solo.

Recorded at his home studio in Los Angeles (2020) the album is fundamentally the sound of a man alone with his instruments.

Utilizing a variety of guitars, including 6, 7 and 10 strings, Oktav guitar and electric baritone guitar, alongside a host of pedals and synthesizers, Fabiano tracked imagined landscapes with expressive, expansive improvisations, which tend toward the more ambient and atmospheric reaches of his recent output.

Adopting Hermeto Pascoal’s concept of Universal Music, a rejection of nationalistic tendencies in order to express all of one’s musical influences all at once, Fabiano avoided leaning too heavily on any particular musical language, without denying his own musical roots.

After studying classical piano as a child, the Rio de Janeiro native discovered the guitar aged 10. Studying under his late uncle, Lucio Nascimento, he eventually left Brazil for LA, where he soon became an in-demand player for his distinct and authentic sound. He has since released seven albums under his own name and collaborated with renowned Brazilian artists including Arthur Verocai and Airto Moreira, as well as experimental US saxophonist Sam Gendel.

Mundo Solo (Do Nascimento’s eighth), was recorded in one take per track, with occasional overdubs and a few appearances from collaborators and friends Julien Canthelm (drums on Etude 1), Ajurinã Zwarg, (percussion on CPMV) and Gabe Noel (Bass on Curumim).

Fabiano Do Nascimento’s consummate mastery of his instrument has afforded him a freedom of expression few can claim. Blending the emotional with the elemental, Mundo Solo is a stunning snapshot of solitude and the beauty which can blossom within it.

Mundo Solo will be released on vinyl LP, CD and digitally on the 24th November, via Far Out Recordings.

Fabiano Do Nascimento - Etude 1

MOE FURUYA - 10.10.23

Sonor Music Editions proudly presents "A TEMPO DI JAZZ" by Maestro Piero Umiliani. This lost gem captures the formative years of Modern Jazz in late 1950s Italy - alongside the legendary Basso-Valdambrini recordings in the early 1960s, as well as the early years of Piero Umiliani's long and prolific career as a composer with over 190 soundtracks, 40 library albums, and 35 TV title themes recorded.

A TEMPO DI JAZZ includes seven original compositions by Piero Umiliani recorded in 1959. Here, at the age of 33, he lays a perfect ground with himself as a pianist, accompanied by some of the best Italian soloists at the time: Marcello Boschi on alto saxophone and flute, Ivan Vandor on tenor saxophone, Peppe Carta on bass, and the American trombonist Bill Gilmore. With plenty of room for improvisation, the sextet fuses Big Band moods with West Coast experimentation of Latin American rhythms and Modern Jazz ballads that sit perfectly between his soundtracks for the films "I Soliti Ignoti" (Big Deal on Madonna Street) from the same year that attained him international recognition, and his masterpiece "Smog" (featuring Chet Baker and Helen Merrill) from 1962.

Five compositions are outtakes from Piero Umiliani's mega-rarity "Tempo Jazz", released on RCA Custom in 1960, while 'Tema In Blues' has been published on the two - impossible to obtain - 45 releases "Moderato Swing" (RCA Camden 45CP 112) and "Tema In Blues" (RCA Custom 45 R3) from 1960 as well as the previously unreleased track 'Mezza Cottura.'

The music has been transferred and remastered from the original master tapes and lacquer cut in MONO, preserving the original sound of the recordings.

A TEMPO DI JAZZ

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KOSHINONE: SANCHE - 02.04.24

The outstanding Rino De Filippi's "ASPETTI SOCIALI" under his famed moniker 'Awake', on the very elusive Vroommm label.

A record that never surfaced around in the last years, like many from Vroommm, and which is a perfect proof of Maestro' De Filippi distinctive style, with also the uncredited participation of Giuliano Sorgini. A stunning work featuring many beautiful compositions on the same line of his best albums of the period like “Vacanze”, “Nel Mondo Del Lavoro”, “Meccanizzazione”, “Giardino Dei Miei Desideri” and “Tema Amore”. The crazy sleeve design reproduces image cuts of clashes and social unrest in Italy during 1970s.

Enjoy the stunning Bossa Lounge theme “RIPRESA INDUSTRIALE” with its mind-blowing melodies and up-tempo bouncy rhythms. The killer hypnotic beats from “METROPOLI NEVROTICA”, the breezy harmonic Bossa on “ESCURSIONI TURISTICHE”, the moody baroque funky “GIOVENTU’ SCALPITANTE” and the unbelievable open drum breaks of “PALAZZO DEI CONGRESSI”. Stellar album!


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OVERGROUND

Sandro Brugnolini - OVERGROUND

Harry Hosono And The Magic Band

Originally released in 1974 on Costanza Records CO 10010 (library series)

Music by GIANCARLO GAZZANI, SANDRO BRUGNOLINI, STEFANO TOROSSI - composed and directed by Giancarlo Giazzani.

An extraordinary Italian Library recording originally released on the lauded series “Musica Per Commenti Sonori” with a mispressed catalogue number. The unveiled twin session of Stefano Torossi’s legendary FEELINGS, this album features the same line-up, and same composers, with music and direction by Giancarlo Gazzani and compositions made by Sandro Brugnolini and Stefano Torossi himself.

Upon its release, the label realized its mistake, and the album was immediately withdrawn. It is one of the most obscure Italian Library albums as a result. The music is similar to FEELINGS,  ranging from jazz-funk to orchestral to experimental.  This album has been repressed on 180gr. wax, and was remastered from the original master tapes. Edition of 400 copies.

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