“The search for a personal sound is the main engine. Improvisation is the base of my thinking Music”
… “Whether new or revisited, it doesn’t matter if they are always the same for the ‘dead’… Banality is a colossal oversight.”
Chamber Trips: Arranged Improvised Extemporaneous Compositions
To express a concept of “simple” and “poor,” I recorded all the material from and in my room (the Album title). Each composition is born from a spontaneous solo improvisation and later arranged.
“I used the following instruments and related musicians:”
Marco Pieri: Electric Guitars / Slide / Acoustic / Nylon / Guitarsynth / Glockenspiel / Bass / Tres / Percussion / Snare / Cello / Piano / Synth and Electronics.
Guest Musicians:
(Most electronic sounds are generated by synths built by the engineer G. Grossi in the 70s and played by Grossi himself and myself in impromptu home sessions, then arrange later as per procedure).
Martin Horvat: Cello
Simone Gagliardi: Snare drum
Paolo Badiini: Bass / Double Bass / Strings
Pietro Triolo: French Bagpipe 16 pp / Catalan Tarota / Chinese Flute
Carlo Giussani: Harmonica
Luca Ceribelli: soprano Sax / Efx
Gianpietro Grossi (Elettro): VCSG3 / ElettroMicrosynth / Korg-sq10
Alfredo Devincentiis: Drums
Tracks infos:
Barefoot
4.17
Marco Pieri: Classical Guitar / Improvisation Arr: Classical Guitar / Glockenspiel / Electronic / Synth
Gap
3.52
Ambient sound taken from my windows of wind and leaves, improvisation Paolo Badiini (double bass)
Arrangement: Marco Pieri Nylon Guitars, Mandolin, tres, Cello.
Migrants
5.42
Environment: “rustle” generated by water flowing in a pipe. (When my neighbors water the garden, the flowing water creates a very audible rustle in my room, as the water pipe runs right over my head.) The voluntary and involuntary noises taken
during the recording of the environment are part of it.
Marco Pieri: Acoustic Guitar / Synth Guitar / Slide Guitar / Bass / Glockenspiel / Cellos / Electronics
The Submerged
4.32
Martin Horvat: Cello improvisation
Marco Pieri: Piano / Organ / GuitarSynth / Electronics
Poor People
4.06
Marco Pieri: Classical guitar and voice / Improvisation / arr. : Chit.Tres / Percussion
Pietro Triolo: Chinese flute
Ambience: passage of cars recorded from the windows of my room, then filtered by electronic effects.
As percussion I used: a small glass jar with a metal cap. (that of legumes ..), iron nail files, hand rubbed on the sweater.
Sooner or later
4.05
Ambient Sound: Recorded from my two windows during a rainy night, the roar of water in the gutter pipe generates a constant pitched sound (D) on which I improvised with the cello.
arrangement: Celli and Glockenspiel
The land of fires (Pietro)
4.08
Pietro Triolo: French Bagpipe 16 pp / Catalan Tarota / Improvisation
Marco Pieri: Celli / Acoustic / Electronic Guitars
Sleepless
1.57
I improvised with the guitar while from the window I heard the tolling of the bell of the adjacent church, making a kind of “counterpoint” ..
Marco Pieri: Acoustic Guitar / Improvisation Arr: Glockenspiel / Electronics
Chamber Trips (Humanity)
4.07
Elettro / MarcoP. : VCSG3 / ElettroMicrosynth / Korg-sq10 / Improvisation
Chamber Trips (Humanity)
4.07
Elettro / MarcoP. : VCSG3 / ElettroMicrosynth / Korg-sq10 / Improvisation
Marco Pieri: Bass / Acoustic Guitar / Synth Guitar / Snare / Electronics
Martin Horvat: Cello
1 + 1 = 11
4.10
Paolo Badiini: Fretless Bass / Improvisation
Marco Pieri: Acoustic Guitar / Synth Guitar / Snare / Glockenspiel / Electronics
Open Mind
3.14
Elettro / MarcoP. : VCSG3 / ElettroMicrosynth / Korg-sq10 / Improvisation
Alfredo Devincentiis: Drums
Marco Pieri: Acoustic Guitar / Synth Guitar / Bass / Glockenspiel / Snare
Impermanence
3.20
Ambience: I recorded in the room while I was making a “cigarette” to the rhythm of the alarm, and I gave myself 3 odd minutes to finish.
Improvisation for 4 Acoustic guitars.
Evolution
4.16
Elettro / MarcoP. : VCSG3 / ElettroMicrosynth / Korg-sq10 / improvisation
Simone Gagliardi: Snare drum
Marco Pieri: Bass / Guitar Synth / Electronics
March of the Desperate
3.50
Elettro / MarcoP. : VCSG3 / ElettroMicrosynth / Korg-sq10 / Improvisation
Simone Gagliardi: Snare drum
Marco Pieri: Bass / Guitar Synth / Electronics
Paolo Badiini: Strings
Multiverse (Part I & II)
6.48
Multiverse (Part III & IV)
6.38
Simone Gagliardi: Improvisation drum and Noise
Marco Pieri: Acoustic Piano /Efx Piano / Acoustic and Nylon Guitar / Bass
Luca Ceribell: Sax / Efx
Little things
3.14
Marco Pieri: Cello / Improvisation / Arr: Acoustic Guitars / Glockenspiel / Cello
Carlo Giussani: Harmonica