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Alberto Braida - piano, objects
Massimo Falascone - saxophones, ipad, crackle box, live electronics
Filippo Monico - drums, percussions, objects
Three among the most representative musicians of italian improvised music, with international collaborations and long dated experience. Years of mutual attendances, encounters, concerts, recordings, publishings, travelling, projects, passions, ideas, common friends, diversities, beliefs, fantasies. . .
. . .when they play music together, an open, generous, radical and exciting music, for no reason would they give up the pleasure of being mutually caught by surprise.
Massimo Falascone (Milano, Italia) - saxophones, other phones, electronics
Bob Marsh (San Francisco, California) - strings, voice, electronics
Massimo and Bob expresses a mutual desire to play together live and Massimo said that he hoped that it would be in "un giorno non troppo lontano". Bob then decided to meet with Massimo in Milano in October of 2008 and create a small cd release tour.
While in Milano they recorded this duo in (home) Studio Mumacs. Finally, dopo de multi giorni lontani, it was released on the EH? label.
They have continued their long distance collaborations with Bob's NINE, a series of graphic compositions sent out as before, and now in the Massimo's upcoming work VARIAZIONI MUMACS, a composition of electroacoustic and improvised music, consisting of a sequence of 32 tracks built on the structure of Bach's Goldberg Variations.
Massimo and Bob met in Paris in May of 2010 for a series of concerts and recently decided to call themselves Falamar.
Massimo Falascone, alto & baritone saxophones
Giancarlo Locatelli, clarinets
Alberto Braida, piano
Silvia Bolognesi, double bass
Filippo Monico, drums
The band is formed by five major figures of jazz of invention and improvisation, by five historical characters of the European and Italian scenario.
Dr. Penkwe was set up in 2012, a mix of old and new encounters, a sort of re-union, consolidation and reinforcement of deep - not only musical - friendships as well as of long-lasting collaborations.
The lives, the stories, the often similar musical growth and experience of the individual members can explain the music Dr. Penkwe intends to offer. Musicians closely connected with European improvisation but also with writing, organization and form.
This project thus wants to re-establish an original, consistent and personal balance between improvisation and composition. The resulting music is what jazz is meant to be and is today for Dr. Penkwe.
The repertoire mainly includes original compositions along with the in depth study of some of the classical authors of jazz literature (Thelonious Monk, Steve Lacy, Duke Ellington).
"The jazz of invention is the jazz i am interested in" (Steve Lacy)
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