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geografie del suono #7
EMBRYO (Germania)
assieme a Mimmo Fusco, Daniele Sepe, Marcello Vitale (Italia)
All’Ex Asilo Filangieri il settimo appuntamento con Geografie del suono: una storica formazione tedesca (attiva dal 1969) che ha fatto dell’incontro e dello scambio con musicisti di tutto il mondo una sua caratteristica peculiare.
EMBRYO è un collettivo di musicisti originario di Monaco di Baviera attivo dal 1969, benché la sua storia risalga alla metà degli anni 50, quando il polistrumentista Christian Burchard e il sassofonista Dieter Serfas si incontrarono per la prima volta all’età di 10 anni. E’ stata una delle più importanti band jazz-rock tedesche ed è considerata come la più eclettica formazione del cosiddetto Krautrock. Più di 400 musicisti hanno collaborato con gli Embryo: tra questi Charlie Mariano, Trilok Gurtu, Ramesh Shotham, Marty Cook, Yuri Parfenov, Allan Praskin, X.Nie, Nick McCarthy, Monty Waters and Mal Waldron. Nella loro sterminata discografia appaiono molti album nati in tour dagli incontri con altri musicisti.
EMBRYO
Gregor Platzer: gembri, percussioni, basso
Valentin Altenberger: oud, chitarra, percussioni
Carlo Mascolo: trombone, percussioni
Marja Burchard: marimba, tastiere, tromba, percussioni, voce
Mik Quantius: voce
Lothar Stahl: marimba, percussioni
Christian Burchard: santour, vibrafono, percussioni
ascolta:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX1lQANvhN8
https://www.youtube.com/user/2000embryo/videos
Embryo incontra
Mimmo Fusco: chitarra elettrica
Daniele Sepe: sax
Marcello Vitale: mandolino elettrico
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One of the most original and innovative Krautrock bands, Embryo fused traditional ethnic music with their own jazzy space rock style. Over their 30-year existence, during which Christian Burchard has been the only consistent member, the group has traveled the world, playing with hundreds of different musicians and releasing over 20 records.
Originally a jazzy space rock group, Embryo was formed in 1969 in Munich, Germany, by former R&B and jazz organist Christian Burchard (vibraphone, hammer dulcimer, percussion, marimba), Edgar Hofmann (saxophone), Luther Meid (bass), Jimmy Jackson (organ), Dieter Serfas (drums, percussion), Wolfgang Paap (drums), Ingo Schmidt (saxophone), and John Kelly (guitar). However, the lineup was already different by the time of the sessions for their debut album. The resulting record, Opal (1970), is considered the band’s masterpiece of their early, more psychedelic sound. By the time of Embryo’s Rache (1971), the group was already adding ethnic touches to their music.
We Keep On In 1972, the same year they played at the Olympic Games in Munich, Embryo was invited by the Goethe Institute to tour Northern Africa and Portugal. In Morocco, the band was fascinated by the different tonal scales used by Moroccan musicians, profoundly shaping the group’s music to come. In 1973, the band was joined by saxophonist Charlie Mariano and guitarist Roman Bunka, who were both influential in moving Embryo towards their genre-blending mixture of space rock with ethnic sounds. We Keep On, released in 1973, was the most successful album in the group’s career. However, after Surfin’ (1974) and Bad Heads and Bad Cats (1975), Burchard decided the band was moving in too commercial a direction and led them on an eight-month excursion to India, where they met local musicians. Shoba Gurtu, an Indian singer the band met during their travels, would later record an album with them, 1979’s Apo Calypso. Embryo also set up their own record label, Schneeball, with the rock band Checkpoint Charlie during this time. The band then took off on a two-year journey through the Middle East, India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, during which the band’s bus broke down in Tehran in the middle of a civil war in 1981. The double album Embryo Reise (1981) captured this musical expedition as did the documentary film Vagabunden-Karawane. After touring Asia, the Middle East, and Egypt during the early ’80s, Embryo released their first studio album in seven years, Zack Gluck, in 1984. The band then toured Africa and became involved with Nigeria’s Yoruba Dun Dun Ensemble. However, after internal conflicts, Embryo split up. Burchard then continued under the name of Embryo with new musicians while a new group, Embryos Dissidenten, was formed. The band released 2001 Live: Vol. 1. (allmusic.com)
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NEL POMERIGGIO (ore 16-20) si terrà il LABORATORIO MUSICALE a cura di Christian Burchard e Carlo Mascolo: L’IMPROVVISAZIONE E LA MUSICA MEDIO-ORIENTALE.
Per info:
https://www.facebook.com/events/278709998954188/?source=1
GEOGRAFIE DEL SUONO è un progetto prodotto dall’Ex Asilo Filangieri che mira a favorire e promuovere gli incontri all’insegna dell’improvvisazione tra musicisti di varie aree geografiche e stilistiche.
Ciò avviene in un contesto che fa dello scambio, dell’interazione e del coworking tra artisti una delle sue fondanti idee guida.
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All’Ex Asilo Filangieri i concerti, gli spettacoli, le proiezioni, gli incontri sono ad ingresso libero. E’ gradito un contributo a piacere che serve ad abbattere delle spese minime e a dotare gli spazi dell’Ex Asilo Filangieri dei mezzi di produzione necessari ai lavoratori dello spettacolo e dell’immateriale per produrre arte e cultura.
Si raccomanda la puntualità, perché la musica termina tassativamente alle ore 24