34. * Happy Holidays *

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All the best wishes for a wonderful Christmas and a 2009 much beyond your wildest dreams form Beppe and all Electromantic Music artists.

All the best wishes to your family and your friends as well,

Beppe
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Beppeとエレクトロマンティック・ミュージックのアーティストたちは、あなたの最もワイルドな夢を超える素晴らしいクリスマスと2009年を望みます。

そして、あなたの家族と友達の幸運を願います。

Beppe

33. RANDONE IN JAPAN

Dear Japanese friends

I'm happy to announce you that NICOLA RANDONE, leader of the band with the same name, "RANDONE" is comin' to Japan and joining CASTELLO DI ATLANTE to their Japanese tour.

It's Electromantic Music's 4th artist that comes to Japan this year.

Randone is an Italian prog artist that comes from Sicily and in his works for Electromantic Music he shows his passion and musical drama that make his "Sicilian prog" style.

His albums for ELECTROMANTIC MUSIC, in the PRGO ITALIANO Sub-label are "Ricordo", "Nuvole di ieri" and "Hybla". His latest work is "HYBLA BAROCK OPERA" A DVD that's available in some weeks in the new edition.

The first report from Castello's first day is enthusiastic because of
...an enthusiastic audience!!!

Stay Happy,

Beppe

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日本のみんなへ、

RANDONEというバンドのリーダーであるNicola RandoneがCASTELLO DI ALANTEの日本ツアーに参加することになったよ。

今年、Electromantic Musicレーベルから日本へ行くアーティストは、彼で４番目だ。

Randoneは、シチリア島から来たイタリアのプログ・アーティストで、Electromantic Musicレーベルでの彼の作品は、彼の情熱とシチリア・プログ・スタイル風のミュージカル・ドラマだね。

彼のElectromantic Musicからのアルバムは、サブ・レーベルPRGO ITALIANOからで、「Ricordo」、「Nuvole di Ieri」、「Hybla」がある。彼の最近の作品はDVD「Hybla Barock Opera」が数週間で発売なるよ。

さて、Castelloの初日ライブレポートが届いた。「熱狂的！」だって、熱狂的な観客だからね！！

それでは、ハッピーでね。

Beppe

32. I HAD A DREAM: OBAMA FOR PRESIDENT!

Dear Japanese friends,

We all know that November 4, 2008, is a very important day, not just for USA, but, in some ways, for the whole world!

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Imagine all the people
Living for today (John Lennon)

Imagine if Martin Luther King hadn't been killed.
Imagine if John F. Kennedy and Bob Kennedy hadn't been killed

...Imagine if John Lennon hadn't been killed!

Imagine all the people
Living life in peace (John Lennon)

Imagine if Al Gore had won the election 8 years ago!
...less wars.. more "future" chances to the planet..

Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world (John Lennon)

Imagine if Hendrix was alive
and next yeas, 40 years after Woodstock
..how he would play, there, "God Bless America!"
with Obama as President!

Imagine if Obama would really become USA's President!!!!

You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one (John Lennon)

BEPPE

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日本のみんなへ、

１１月４日は、アメリカだけでななく、ある点で、世界中にとって大切な日であることはみんながわかっている。


想像してごらん、すべての人たちが
今日のために生きているって（ジョン・レノン：イマジン）

想像してごらん、もしマーティン・ルーサー・キングが殺されていなかったら。
想像してごらん、もしジョン・F・ケネディとボブ・ケネディが殺されていなかったら。

想像してごらん、もしジョン・レノンが殺されていなかったなら・・・！

想像してごらん、すべての人たちが
平和の中で暮らしているって（ジョン・レノン：イマジン）

想像してごらん、もしアル・ゴアが８年前に大統領選挙に勝っていたなら！
・・・より少ない戦争、惑星へのより多くの将来性があったことを・・・

想像してごらん、すべての人たちが
全世界を分かち合っていることを（ジョン・レノン：イマジン）

想像してごらん、もしジミー・ヘンドリックスが生きていたら
ウッドストック４０年後
彼がそこで「ガッド・ブレス・アメリカ」どう演奏することだろうか！
オバマが大統領になったところで

想像してごらん、もし本当にオバマがアメリカ合衆国の大統領になったときのことを！！！

僕を夢想家だって言うかもしれない
でも、僕だけじゃないんだ
君もいつか僕らに加わってくれるといいな
そしたら世界は１つになるんだ（ジョン・レノン：イマジン）

Beppe

31. IL CASTELLO DI ATLANTE presents THEIR NEW CD for their “JAPAN TOUR 2008”

Dear Japanese friend,

Today my friends Paolo Ferrarotti will introduce Il Castello di Atlante’s new CD that will be presented together with Castello’s most known compositions, during their first Japanese tour, an extraordinary event, as for the first time ... In this century an Italian prog band is doing a 5 days Japan tour and ..it’s an Electromantic Music’s band!!!

NOV 8 - TOKYO / CLUB 251 (WITH BARAKA)
NOV 9 - TOKYO / MISSIONS (WITH KBB)
NOV 10 - TOKYO / MISSIONS (WITH TRUTH AND REALITY)
NOV 11 - NAGOYA / MUJICA (WITH TBC)
NOV 12 - KYOTO / “OH-LA-LA” (with AIN SOPH)

IL CASTELLO DI ATLANTE will be recording a live video and audio on 24 tracks for a future DVD on Electromantic Music.

"TRA LE ANTICHE MURA" is our 7th CDs. It's out from "ELECTROMANTIC MUSIC" on the "PROG ITALIANO " sub-label.

We've been approaching the tunes as they were real books, each one with its own world, linked to each other by the reader's intention.
“Our reader” listens and feels the music that’s on the album, while he's reading the books.
He's imagining the music in the same way a reader imagine the scene that's suggesting the book he's reading.
Like "Pictures at an exhibition" we find a main theme that portraits the "Promenade" of the reader, while he's looking for the next book.

The tunes

TRA LE ANTICHE MURA
(into the old walls)

Into our "virtual castle” we get back to our ideal space, ... the kingdom of our serenity and fulfillment, where we can open our hearts and free our minds.

MALEBOLGE

the way we see Dante's Inferno (Dante Alighieri is the main Italian poet, who wrote the immortal "La Divina Commedia" that's considered the central epic poem of Italian literature, and it is seen as a masterpiece of world literature. It's about the poem's imaginative and allegorical vision of the Christian afterlife: Malebolge is the eighth circle of Hell).
Another Electromantic’s band, "Risonanza Magnetica" is out soon with an entire CD dedicated to Dante Alighieri’s literature: "Andante".
(http://www.myspace.com/risonanzamagnetica – web site available soon)

ANCORA SUONARE ANCORA INSIEME
(Playing together, again and again!)

After 10 years, Dino, the original bass player, comes back in the band.
As the band is a group of great, great friends, from the 70's it was a natural thing, to celebrate the event with a new song

LEGGI ED ASCOLTA
(Read and listen)

When you compose a new song, a "new type" of emotion are reaching us and we wanted to share with our audience these fresh new vibrations we get when we put together a new tune!

L’UOMO SOLO
(The lonely man)

The solitude and desperation that's reaching your soul after your "greatest love" has gone. Inspired by another great Italian writer, Pirandello.

PREFAZIONE/EPILOGO
(PREFACE/ENDING)

Portraying the start and the ending of the adventure into a book, or into a new place, in imagination or in reality.

Electromantic Music and Il Castello di Atlante thanks HIROSHI MASUDA for his great help. His great love towards our productions and his unlimited love for progressive music.

http://www.ilcastellodiatlante.com/
http://www.myspace.com/ilcastellodiatlante

On WIKIPEDIA (Italy)
Il Castello di Atlante

All the best,
BEPPE

30. IL CASTELLO DI ATLANTE -JAPAN TOUR 2008

My dear Japanese friends,

I've a very interesting surprise for you: in November "Il Castello di Atlante" will play in Japan for their Japan Tour.

It's many years that an Italian group hasn't had this extraordinary opportunity of doing 5 consecutive dates in your country, Wow!

"Il Castello di Atlante" is really "unique" in the sense that the band was formed in 1974 with Paolo Ferrarotti on drums, Aldo Bergamini, on guitars, Massimo Di Lauro, on violin and Dino Fiore on bass. Roberto Giordano on keyboards joined the band in 1982. (Paolo, Aldo, Roberto are lead singers as well)

They will come to Japan with THEIR ORIGINAL LINE-UP!!!

It sounds quite incredible as many 70's bands (including arti & mestieri) normally have 1, 2 original members, but IL CASTELLO has THE ORIGINAL LINE-UP!!!

In recent years Dino left the band for a while but now he's back, Great!!!

Il Castello di Atlante's style is authentic 100% pure Italian prog.

I've produced all their albums, starting in the 90's with their first ones when I was producing prog with my friend Massimo Buffa (Vinyl Magic and later BTF) that shared the same passion for the progressive world that was "returning" and you can find those albums at his site, www.btf.it

And now, in this tour IL CASTELLO DI ATLANTE will present their 7th album: "TRA LE ANTICHE MURA" confirming the continuing path of Italian prog

It appears on "Prog Italiano" Electromantic Music's sub label that handles Italian prog.

Electromantic music and the artists thanks deeply HIROSHI MASUDA, who's great passion has helped help and allowed to make this long time dream the band had, to come true!!!

Stay happy and enjoy music everyday, everyone!

Beppe

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日本の皆さんへ、

日本のみんなに、とっても興味のある驚くニュースがあるよ！それはね、１１月に「Il Castello di Atlante」が来日することだよ！

日本で、イタリアのグループが、５日間のコンサートをするこの特別な機会があるのは何年ぶりだろう！スゴイ！

Il Castello di Atlanteは、とても「ユニーク」なグループだ。
ドラムにPaolo Ferraotti, ギターにAldo Bergamini, バイオリンにMassimo Di Lauro, ベースにDino Floreを率いて1974年に結成。1982年に、Roberto Giordanoがキーボードとして参加した。Paoloと、Aldo, Robertoは、リード・シンガーでもあるんだ。

彼らは、このオリジナル・ラインナップで日本へ行くよ！

７０年代のバンドは、arti&mestieri含めて、普通一人や二人のメンバーが変わるものだけど、Il Castelloは、まさにオリジナルのメンバー！！！

Dinoがバンドをしばらく辞めていたが、彼は戻ってきたんだ。サイコーだね！！

Il Castello di Atranteのスタイルは、１００パーセント純粋なイタリア・プログだよ。

僕は、プログ友達のMassimo Buffa（Vinyl MagicレーベルからBTFに移動）と彼らのアルバムをすべてプロデュースしたんだ。そのアルバムは、BTFのウェブサイトに載っているよ。www.btf.it

それから、この日本ツアーにかけて、７枚目のアルバム「TRA LE ANTICHE MURA」をリリースするよ。イタリア・プログの道を歩み続けるという確認の意味でね。

彼らについては、Electromantic Musicのサブ・レーベル、「Prog Italiano」で見つけられるよ。

Electromantic MusicとIl Castello di Atlamteのアーティスト達は、この長年の夢を叶えてくれたマスダ　ヒロシさんに深く感謝しています。

それではハッピーで、毎日音楽を楽しんで！

Beppe

29. DAVID JACKSON AT ELECTROMANTIC SYNERGY STUDIO

My Dear Japanese friends

I'm happy to talk with you about David Jackson who recorded in my studio a few days ago.

He's the talented musician that all of you know and he's a special person as well.

In Italy he's still quite known since the 70's (Van Der Graaf Generator were quite known in Italy at that time: in 1972's Hit Parade they were the only artist to have 3 albums in top places and I'm talking of "Pawn Hearts", "The Least We Can Do is Wave to Each Other" and "68/71".

And you know that 1972 was a very rich year, as far as "classic albums" are concerned and they reached top places with 3 albums, in the "beautiful Italian 1972"!

..."those were the days!!!:

In that year Pink Floyd had 2 LPs in Hit Parade, , "Obscured by Clouds" and "Meddle"
- Jethro Tull had "Thick as A Brick" and "Living In The Past!"
- ELP had "Trilogy" and "Pictures at an Exhibition" and it was the year of:

John Lennon's "Imagine", Deep Purple's "Machine Head", Led Zeppelin's "IV", Elton John "Honky Chateau", The Stones' "Exile on Main Street", “Clockwork Orange”, PM's "Storia di un minuto", Orme's "un Uomo di Pezza". "The Godfather" and without talkin' of Italian top artist like Mina, Celentano, De Andre', Battisti... but only Vand Der Graa, in all that rich year had 3 LPs on Hit Parade, great!

So, going "back" to these days David recorded in my Electromantic Synergy Studio for..... I like to leave you ... in a mystery for a while... but I can just tell you that there will be another "big" surprise on the same project.

He's done some very interesting performances that will be ..on an
Electromantic Music Production ... soon!

And at the night of that beautiful ... another special event, which made
"that completed the day": with David we attended at Vittorio De Scalzi's concert in acoustic trio in an old church, in the wood, quite beautiful atmosphere and it was a great gig really by Vittorio and his trio!

It was a tribute to Franco Vassia's wife who died 2 years ago and every year there's a concert (Last year it was Roberto Cacciapaglia), and it's organized by Franco himself. Franco is publishing "Nobody's Land" an appreciated Italian magazine/fanzine and he has written the book "I campi della memoria" with interviews to top progressive musicians, for "Electromantic Music".

In this summer, David has been several times in Italy, performing with "Osanna"!

A great day with David, an unexpected night with David and Vittorio and...more news soon about the "mystery", on this blog, soon!

in the meantime,

Stay happy,

Beppe

28. NOCTURNE MUSIC & ELECTROMANTIC NIGHT

My dear Japanese friends,

Today's chapter is dedicated to Nocturne Music and to the nocturne compilation, by Electromantic Music, featuring mostly artists of the Turin Jazz Rock School: "Electromantic Nights".
8trailer on You Tube - http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=ppA3B83ZUoY.

In classical music we find the word "nocturne" and sometimes its Italian equivalent, "notturno", in pieces of music, mostly in a single movement, sometimes evocative of the night, or simply sometimes pieces that had to be performed at night (and this intentions are the same that are behind the CD that I'm introducing to you)

Probably the most famous classical "nocturne" piece is Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata.

In the fifties we had "nocturne D.J:" like the famous Wolfman's Jack that appeared in "American Graffiti" (it was really interpreting...himself
...getting for its participation a "small percentage" that ... gave him financial "certainty", due to the big success the film has had.

In the eighties we had "The Nightfly"

"The Nightfly" is the title track and it is appropriate - This song is about DJ Lester, Jazz and Conversation. The album is about - a combination of jazz oriented music and conversation themes (love, war and the bomb, what the future will be).

"The Nightfly" in a certain way is a concept album. In the CD's liner notes, Fagen says that the songs on this album "represent certain fantasies that might of been entertained by a young man growing up in the remote suburbs of a northeastern city during the late fifties and early sixties".
... in the night.

This album, one of the best in... music history, in my opinion, has been a big influence on defining "nocturne" Radio Shows all over the world, and also contributed a lot to the birth of a certain kind of "nocturne" music, relaxed, but full of emotion at the same time, mostly Slow, but intense, calm but often sensual, refined, elegant, sometimes melancholic.

I like to play, perform and compose in the night, and it’s the time, before goin' to bed, while I'm listening to the radio.
I like to listen to that "moody" music, with some talks, stories between songs. In Italy we have RAI, Notturno Italiano (RAI INTERNATIONAL), Radio Montecarlo, Radio capital.

So I have found in Electromantic Music's catalog, what could represent "night feelings and this variety of precise moods) and I've liked to find specifically a right succession between songs, like a concept album ... with a precise path for the listener, like moving ... in the night.

On the album we find mostly artists from the "Turin Jazz Rock Catalog" and other artists from Electromantic productions, like Aldo Tagliapietra's "il mio canto libero" or Slep "Take it as it comes" that are perfect in the mood, as well as Morera, that's been produced by Romeo Ferrero, arti & mestieri's producer in the eighties (Acquario and Children's Blues). At the same time we have the pleasure of listening to special guests like Dave Liebman, Alex Acuna, Steve Gadd and Flavio Boltro.

Track List

1 L'albero del Pane (Venegoni & co)
2 Sun (arti & mestieri)
3 It's 4 you! (Beppe Crovella)
4 Il mIo canto libero (Aldo Tagliapietra's Il Nostro Canto libero)
5 La Corazza e Le rose (Furio Chirico & friends)
(composed by original arti & mestieri's Arturo Vitale)
6 Besasme Mucho (Marco Gallesi)
7 For You (Blue Indigo)
8 A Song For The Viados (Freelance)
9 Emozioni (Beppe Crovella)
10 Maya (Esagono)
11Capiozzo (Chirico Camarca projest)
12 Pastorale (Paolo Ricca)
13 Venus (Cresci - Tattara)
14 Quarto Di Luna (arti & mestieri)
15 Solo PAra Ti (Morera)
16 Bibuscka (Venegoni)
17 Orizzonte (Furio Chirico & Friends)
composed by actual arti & mestieri's Marco Roagna
18 Take It As It Comes (Slep & The Red House)
19 Rain On Chet (Beppe Crovella)

I invite you to see the relative video on YouTube - http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=ppA3B83ZUoY, with extracts form each tune:


Stay happy

Beppe