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