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Interpretazione del brano “La rondine” di Pino Mango.
Versione arrangiata da Giuseppe di Bari.

La Rondine - Mango (Acoustic Cover)

Almas Traum,
commissioned by the EUREGIO Center for the Arts in Toblach/Dobbiaco, Italy for the concert series Young Composers and Gustav Mahler in Toblach of the Research Center Gustav Mahler in Innsbruck, Austria.
flute: Camilla Hoitenga
accordion: Stefanie Mirwald
saxophone: Dario Balzan
mezzosoprano: Frances Pappas
percussion: Ivan Mancinelli
conductor: Clemens Heil

Audio & Video engineer: SImon Lanz

The compositional project is inspired by the music of Gustav Mahler from which it draws musical and literary suggestions that are reworked and reinterpreted to give life to a musical performance divided into three moments: 
I. Menschheit, 00:00
II. αποχαιρετισμός, 08:45
III. Man. 13:45
The composition is conceived as a musical action whose protagonist is Alma, voice and scenic interpreter, who acts by penetrating the sound scenography built by the instrumental ensemble. The choice of the name is not accidental and allows for the creation of a mix between the personal experience of the Bohemian composer and his artistic production. The name Alma, in fact, brings to mind the woman to whom Mahler linked his life.
Almas Traum tells in music a (possible) dream of Alma Mahler Schindler.
The itinerary followed by the protagonist on the scene becomes an emblem of the possibilities offered to Humanity.

Almas Traum, for flute, accordion, saxophone, percussion and mezzosoprano

stellagile cosmetica

Recorded live in Burlingame (San Francisco Bay Area), on 11 July 2009

Thanks to Carmelo and Mike Rosado for inviting us to be a part of your event


featuring:
David Baron Stevens, alto sax
Mark Levine, Nord keyboard
John Wiitala, double bass
Paul van Wageningen, drums 

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this recent upload in 2025 is in honor of both Mark Levine and Paul VW, and the band in general, including John Wiitala. 

Thanks for coming down to my level and allowing me to play my music with you. It was an honor I'll never forget, especially when Paul said he wanted to try out my tune. 

In fact, this tune was partly written for him! and I'm happy to say I had the opportunity to relay this to him over dinner, about how I'd met him and Maestro Wayne Wallace at the Stanford Jazz Workshop, and I heard him do a sick hybrid Latin funk with a strong backbeat but a clear cascara. the way the montuno fell into this funk made me want to play the saxophone like a rapper. 

eventually i started working out the harmonies, from Kenny Garrett and Kenny Kirkland's classic "Sing a Song of Song" and that's when I heard the Latin funk with that chord progression. 

(it is in this way that the song is inspired, equally, by not only Kenny Garrett and Kenny Kirkland (especially), but even more so by Paul VW and his sick Latin funk back 20 years ago)

some noodling later gave me a melody, which reminded me of the neck of the Emu (I probably was smoking at the time, heh heh), and "The Evil Emu" was born, already originally produced in honor of a departed master and those left to continue on. 

Why is the Emu "Evil"? 

Honestly, i have NO IDEA why it's evil. maybe its just default settings with conscious beings. That could be why a good person is to be so treasured. 

Thanks to:

Paul VW 
Mark Levine
John Wiitala
Carmelo Rosado
Mike Rosado
Bay Area Musicians
Wayne Wallace

The Evil Emu (feat. Mark Levine) *original composition

La pallina di yanx con una bella spinta di sax

LA PALLINA KAWAII

yt channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4iTP3e7NLX7XNBNz3e1P6g#
ig: edoardo_ivan_lopez 

Teacher and Composer

Born in Palermo in 1983, Giuseppe Gammino attended at the Conservatory of Music “V. Bellini” of Palermo, where got a bachelor degree in violin. He attended at the University of Palermo, where he  got his master degree (laurea magistrale) in musicology under the guidance of Massimo Privitera. He played in a lots of orchestras, he collaborates with the press area of the Massimo Theatre of Palermo and the press area of “Musicheria Magazine On-Line”. He attended at the music composition degree course at the Conservatory of Music “C. Monteverdi” of Bolzano, under the guidance of Heinrich Unterhofer. In 2013 his composition Quasi un divertimento for violin and flute, received several praises and positive remarks, at the musical contest Un “divertimento” per la convivenza, organized by the Collegium Musicum of Bolzano. His composition per aspera Ad Astra (2013) for bass clarinet, viola and live electronics, was performed at the Museion, Museum of modern and contemporary art of Bolzano; while the piece Connection failed was performed in November 2014 at the 40th Contemporary Music Festival. In 2016 he was selected among the best three composers as part of the "Residence for Composers" project, organized by the Municipality of Salorno and the "C. Monteverdi ”in Bolzano at the“ Sculpture garden ”of Pochi di Salorno. In July 2016, the piece Siddhartha I was ranked second from the competition organized by the Südtiroler Künstlerbund (SKB) in the context of “Settimane Mahleriane di Dobbiaco”. In 2019 the contemporary music festival of Bolzano commissioned him a piece, Pelle II, performed by the percussionist quartet conTakt on 11/13/2019.

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