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Buio in Sala (extract)
Press Release
Prodotto nella collana Controvento dall’etichetta Dodicilune, distribuito in Italia e all’estero da IRD e nei migliori store on line da Believe, martedì 1 febbraio esce “Buio in sala” di Massimiliano Cignitti. Il bassista romano propone dieci composizioni originali, immaginate come ipotetiche colonne sonore dedicate e ispirate a personaggi della storia del cinema, e due brani dell’indimenticabile Nino Rota (“O Venezia, Venegia, Venusia” dal film “Il Casanova di Federico Fellini”) e del compositore, pianista ed etnomusicologo ungherese Bela Bartok (“Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta”, tema utilizzato dal regista Stanley Kubrick per il film cult “Shining”).
Track List
1 – O Venezia venusia venaga
2 – Nostalgia del presente
3 – Un’eclisse
4 – Tanguedia 2020
5 – Shaft is back
6 – Buio in sala
7 – Ennio’s dream
8 – Choro for Glauber
9 – JLG
10 – Snaporaz
11 – Theme from 2 movement of Music
for strings, celesta and percussion
12 – Sentimento del tempo
Compositions and lyrics (6) by Massimiliano Cignitti (Dodicilune edizioni) except 1 by Nino Rota, 11 by Bela Bartok, 12 by Mauro Scardini. Arrangements by Mauro Scardini and Massimiliano Cignitti (except 1), by Nguyên Lê (except 6, 8, 10, 12), by Paolo Alimonti (6, 7). Strings Quartet arrangements (7) by Nguyên Lê.
Personnel
Massimiliano Cignitti – electric & fretless bass
Mauro Scardini – piano & keyboards
Giancarlo Ciminelli – trumpet & flugelhorn
Marco Guidolotti – saxophones, flute
Marco Rovinelli – drums
featuring
Nguyên Lê – guitar
Grégoire Maret – harmonica (4, 9)
Edmar Castaneda – harp (7, 12)
Mark Colenburg – drums (6, 11)
with
Paolo Alimonti – guitar (6)
Roberto Schiano – trombone (10)
Valentina Petrossi – vocals (6)
Federica Zavaleta – vocals (7)
Susanna Stivali – vocals (8)
Diego Matthey – 1st violin (7)
Aurianne Philippe – 2nd violin (7)
Claire HÉlÈne Rignol – viola (7)
ThÉmis Bandini – cello (7)
Nguyên Lê appears courtesy of ACT Records
Recording Data
TIMING 60:24 STEREO DDD CTV161
2022 CONTROVENTO, A DODICILUNE LABEL
(p)+(c) DODICILUNE, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
8033309691619
Produced by Massimiliano Cignitti and Maurizio Bizzochetti, Dodicilune, Italy • Artistic production by Massimiliano Cignitti, Mauro Scardini, Nguyên Lê • Recordings: electric bass, keyboards, vocals by Mauro Scardini, Scardini Home Studio, Guidonia (Rm); fretless bass by Vittorio Marchetti, SecondChance Studio, Villa Adriana (Rm); trumpet, trombone by Roberto Schiano, Home Studio, Frascati (Rm); harmonica by Francis Jacob, Studio Margarita, Brooklyn (Nyc); drums by Marco Rovinelli, Granito Studio, Rome; guitars, strings by Nguyên Lê, Big Rock Studio, Lyon; harp by Edmar Castaneda, Home Studio, Nyc; guitar by Paolo Alimonti, Arte e parte Studio, Tivoli (Rm) • Mixed June 2021 by Nguyên Lê at Big Rock Studio, Lyon • Mastered August 2021 by Bruno Gruel at Elektra Mastering, Bess, France • Cover Photo (c) Yorkx3008 • Photos by Nejron Photo, Roberto Cifarelli, Cesar Vasquez, Ivano Piterà, Ramy Elkot, Giorgia Corti, Massimiliano Cignitti, Christophe Charpenel • Contact: mass.cignitti@libero.it