COMPLETELY IMPROVISED ..AND EXTREMELY INSPIRED BY VINX AND JUNGLE FUNK.  UNBRIDLED AND UNPLANNED CREATIONS IN THE MOMENT. ..A JAZZ DEXTERITY WITH A CLASSIC ROCK vocabulary.       rock/pop/soul
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Completely improvised, without a plan and without any discussion..THIS was our first rehearsal with Giulio, casually recorded with 4 mics into CuBase and later mixed by Francesco D'Oronzo.  ABSOLUTELY NO OVERDUBS!
This 'first track' was subsequently given the title "HERE COMES THE PAIN" and essentially kicked off with lyrics from Tracy Chapman's 'For My Lover' ..or rather it sprung from there.

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TARTUFO DOGS Trk.1 HERE COMES THE PAIN

Basically, a fresh and unexpected look at Thunder Roads and Spirits In The Night that even veered off somewhere Down into the Boondocks!

My guys, being "Itralian"  ...didn't even KNOW what i was singin'
and hadn't ever even heard of any of the songs mentioned here.

TARTUFO DOGS Trk.2  THUNDEROUS ROADS etc.

Continuing our 'trip' ...nothing spoken, nothing planned, yet many times Francesco D'Oronzo would play off of or imply certain "sacri mostri" musically to me...and i would just float where i wanted to accordingly. 

THIS one eventually became graced with the name "Something Gently Weeps"..for the obvious reasons.

TARTUFO DOGS Trk.3  SOMETHING GENTLY WEEPING

O'Superman morphs into and mingles with Major Tom in this intuitive and attentive forray into outer space.  ...with the pretty cool aid of a vintage Boss Octave pedal occasionally adding a little depth to my singing.   Again...NO OVERDUBS.... just a documentation of our first tryouts with Giulio.    very cool.

TARTUFO DOGS Trk.4  O SUPERMAN'S ODYSSEY

Hey!...Remember that RAIN MAN movie. Cute Tom Cruise and a nutritional dose of influenced (did somebody say Vinx?) scatting and fooling around and enjoying Drummer Francesco Speziali's smiling backround interjections. HEY! YO!!  hey NOW HEY  now!! ..and oh yeah!, There was also that song in San Remo that year which couldn't stay outta there as well!   Sarà Vero??

TARTUFO DOGS Trk.5  IKO IKO PAPA NERO

Continuing that first session to try out "The Young Lion"..Giulio and Francesco piloted this jam into territory that somehow spit me out in the sixties somewhere upstate.  

I like this one a lot!... "Stardust and Golden" indeed!

smoke and mirrors baby..... smoke and mirrors.

TARTUFO DOGS Trk.6  REFLECTIONS ON WOODSTOCK

RECORDINGS WERE COMPLETELY LiVE and there were NO OVERDUBS.  As a bonus track to this collection.. Track 7 is a LiVE recording from the opening night of the "AltroCioccolato" festival in Gubbio Italy. That particular outdoor concert presented Tartufo Dogs as a 'trio'  with F.Speziali on drums, D'Oronzo on elec. gtr. and Caris on bass by running his Stratocaster thru a Boss Octave pedal. 

My friend Muzz recorded this on his MacBook..and darned if it didn't sound and come out pretty good!     but Damn! THIS ONE HURT!!

i.e."..I don't want to fade away

LIVE  BELL BOTTOM TARTUFO

TARTUFO DOGS
Improvisations from another zone.. Vol.1
COMPLETELY IMPROVISED ..AND EXTREMELY INSPIRED BY VINX AND JUNGLE FUNK.  UNLEASHED, UNBRIDLED AND UNPLANNED CREATIONS IN THE MOMENT. ..A JAZZ DEXTERITY WITH A CLASSIC ROCK vocabulary.       rock/pop/soul

eZECHIEL "caris arkin"  VOCALS
FRANCESCO SPEZIALI:  DRUMS
FRANCESCO D'ORONZO: GUITAR
GIULIO CATARINELLI:  BASS

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