Acqua Fragile su RADIO 3

Acqua Fragile su Radio 3

Sei gradi del 11/09/2017 - Da Mahavishnu Orchestra a Kronos Quartet & Ron Carter

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SCALETTA DEL PROGRAMMA CONDOTTO DA PAOLA DE ANGELIS

Mahavishnu Orchestra

Be Happy

Sister Sledge

Lost in Music

Acqua Fragile

Comic Strips

Lourdes Rebels

Rimini Rimini Rimini!

Frédéric Chopin

Polonaise in A major, Op. 40, No. 1

David Bowie

Beauty and the Beast

Kronos Quartet & Ron Carter

Rhythm-a-ning

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Sei Gradi è un racconto musicale in sei passaggi (gradi) di 45 minuti che va costruito utilizzando 7 brani di stile musicale diverso: jazz, classica, rock, blues, soul, world music, reggae, canzone italiana,  che siano collegati attraverso contatti di diverso genere: cronologici ( es. musicisti che hanno inciso o fatto concerti lo stesso anno), collaborazioni, partecipazioni a progetti comuni, assonanze, titoli identici, luoghi, colonne sonore comuni, ecc. Collegamenti, quindi, che giustifichino non in modo casuale i passaggi. Le musiche devono rientrare nello stile di Radio3, quindi non commerciali o prive di storia, e scelte anche con una misura che non faccia sforare i 45 minuti totali in cui però va compreso anche lo spazio per il conduttore.

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Acqua Fragile's new album: Bernardo Lanzetti telling us... 2° PART

Esoteric Antenna & Cherry Red Records are very pleased to announce the release of the new album by Italian Progressive Rock legends Acqua Fragile.

A New Chant features original members Piero Canavera, Franz Dondi and Bernardo Lanzetti, who have reunited after forty-four years to record brand new material.

The project is also notable for the presence of some very special guests, including Pete Sinfield, Nick Clabburn, Tango Spleen and Grammy Award winning drummer Jonathan Mover. 

Acqua Fragile - A New Chant is released on Esoteric Antenna on October 14^th 2017

Acqua Fragile # 3

History

In the previous episode...

Second episode

Bernardo telling us:

Ok! We had no dedicated hands on keyboards but we could have strings, piano and intriguing bandoneon from Tango Spleen!

Some minor health issue would, temporarily, keep Piero away from his kit?

Well, Alessandro Mori could drum along!

Alessandro Sgobbio, formerly with “Acqua Fragile Project” (an experiment carried on by Franz Dondi where young musicians would live perform A F music, around 2005) and now jazz pianist and composer for “Charm”,  “Pericopes+1” e “Debra’s Dream”, popped in at Elfo Studio to do a flashy synth solo.

Michelangelo Ferilli, also from “A F P ”, left some guitar arpeggios!

I had been quite busy in the last two years so I thought I could get some help with lyrics.

The idea came up after working around a nice short poem by Pete Sinfield turning it into a touchy song. Mr.Sinfield loved it so I moved on along getting friend Nick Clabburn...

John Hackett’s lyricist, to put words on another track. Italian friend Andrea Anzaldi, after being a musician in the US for ten years, had been chosen to work on A F oldest numberas my original lyrics got lost over the years.

As special guest, we were lucky to have US drummer Jonathan Mover), (Joe Satriani, GTR) on the trickiest piece of the album succeeding in making a quite complicated composition sound simple.

Though some additional actions were taken in centre Italy and Costa del Sol in Spain...

... main recordings took place at Elfo Studio...

... in Tavernago (PC) Italy where sound man Alberto Callegari was sharp and patient enough to produce it.

For the album cover, we could pull out an original 1973 drawing by Alberto Baroni (Acqua Fragile #1) and Gigi Cavalli Cocchi), previously recording with CCLR and on stage for VOX 40 as a drummer, did all the art work.

Acqua Fragile's new album: Bernardo Lanzetti telling us... 1° PART

Esoteric Antenna & Cherry Red Records are very pleased to announce the release of the new album by Italian Progressive Rock legends Acqua Fragile.

A New Chant features original members Piero Canavera, Franz Dondi and Bernardo Lanzetti, who have reunited after forty-four years to record brand new material.

The project is also notable for the presence of some very special guests, including Pete Sinfield, Nick Clabburn, Tango Spleen and Grammy Award winning drummer Jonathan Mover. 

Acqua Fragile - A New Chant is released on Esoteric Antenna on October 14^th 2017

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Acqua Fragile # 3

History

first episode

Bernardo telling us:

In may 2013, I did celebrate my forty years in music with a unique event called “VOX 40” .

Welcomed by an exhibition of my artwork, the audience attended a concert where up to twenty seven musicians gathered to play tracks off the different bands Bernardo Lanzettihad done vocals for, over the years.

On that occasion, all five original members of Acqua Fragile happened to meet...

... after a long while and Piero Canavera on drums plus Franz Dondi on bass, even got a chance to play a couple of tracks off “Acqua Fragile” and “Mass Media Stars” along with Tango Spleen, a smart modern classical ensemble.

The idea of working on a new album took form quite naturally even though Gino Campanini (guitar and vocals) and Maurizio Mori (keyboards) confessed could not join in. Quite nice though, Alessandro Mori, Maurizio’s son - a talented young drummer previously with Glenn Hughes and Bobby Kimball - right after that show, suggested he could be guest on one of the brand new tracks.

The start off was not that easy. The band wanted to keep A F vocal harmonies but we were missing one voice and we had no key man!

A few subjects, hanging around the band, enthusiastically, were giving suggestions and advices resulting in slowing down the whole project.

Several keyboardists and guitarists showed up and quit but we had a bit more of luck with Alessandro Giallombardo on guitar, backing vocals and keys too.

Even though he wouldn’t join the band, Piero, Franz and Bernardo could get enough energy to carry on the project.

To be continued in the next days...

La copertina del prossimo album degli Acqua Fragile. "A New Chant".

Finalmente arriva la copertina del nuovo album degli Acqua Fragile, “A New Chant”.

Bernardo Lanzetti racconta qualcosa al proposito:

“La cover è stata realizzata a china e tempera da Alberto Baroni, artista che già celebrava la primissima copertina del 1973. 

La grafica è dell'amico e compagno di avventure Gigi Cavalli Cocchi. Il tutto simboleggia "Invito a un concerto".

The cover of the upcoming Acqua Fragile album, "A New Chant".

Finally, the cover of the new album of Acqua Fragile, "A New Chant", is know.

Bernardo Lanzetti  tells something about this:

"The cover was made in indian ink and tempera by Alberto Baroni, an artist who already dsigned the first cover in the 1973.

My friend Gigi Cavalli Cocchi has made the graphics".

Acqua Fragile – A New Chant: gli ospiti italiani

Prosegue e termina la rassegna degli ospiti di “A New Chant”, prossima uscita discografica degli Acqua Fragile.

Dopo aver scritto degli “stranieri”, Pete Sinfield, Jonathan Mover e Nick Clabburn, si è passato agli italiani Tango Spleen.

Terminiamo con gli ultimi ospiti “di casa nostra”.

Curiosamente, a uno dei testi in inglese, ha collaborato Andrea Anzaldi, bassista chitarrista che, dopo vari anni passati negli USA è anche attivo come lyricist e già ha partecipato con Bernardo a altre produzioni.

Dall’esperienza del 2005, Acqua Fragile Project - una band assemblata da Franz Dondi per riproporre live i primi due album di Acqua Fragile – sono intervenuti il chitarrista Michelangelo Ferilli e il tastierista Alessandro Sgobbio.

Alessandro Sgobbio

Il primo ha registrato alcuni preziosi arpeggi di chitarra acustica e il secondo, attualmente attivo nel campo del Jazz con i gruppi “Charm”,  “Pericopes +1” e “Debra’s Dream”, ha fatto fuochi d’artificio con un assolo di synth.

Il chitarrista Alessandro Giallombardo, già ospite di Bernardo nell’album “Eclecticlanz” (Cd) e vocalist nel concerto-evento “VOX 40”(Cd+DVD), ha suonato anche le tastiere.

Pur non avendo collaborato a tutti i brani dell’album, importante è stato il suo lavoro a tutto campo, compresi alcuni arrangiamenti e pre-produzioni.

Alessandro Giallombardo

Infine, ospite alla batteria in uno dei pezzi più travolgenti, abbiamo Alessandro Mori. Intervenuto al concerto del VOX 40 con il padre Maurizio, storico tastierista dell’Acqua Fragile; Alessandro in questi ultimi anni ha collaborato con artisti internazionali quali Glenn Hughes, Steve Lukather e Bobby Kimball.

Alessandro Mori