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Bandorkestra.55
Marco Castelli Small Ensemble
Marco Castelli Mambo & Swing Band
Music Dance Architecture
MARCO CASTELLI QUARTET
Marco Castelli _saxErmanno Signorelli _guitar
Raffaello Pareti _double bass
Mauro Beggio _drums
The Marco Castelli Quartet explores a creative space between jazz and popular music, european influences, intimate Mediterranean reflections and acoustic fusion of melodies flowing across cultural boundaries.
The repertory of the band includes original compositions and new arrangements of songs from Italian authors such as Luigi Tenco but also from international artists such as Dulce Pontes, Goran Bregovic, Dollar Brand and others.
A sophisticated yet energetic musical voyage is the expression of
Marco Castelli's innovative compositional imagery, a vibrant
fusion of cultures and genres distilled with warmth and spirit by
one of the most eclectic and creative Italian musicians.
In the new CD of Marco Castelli Quartet 'Patois', released
by the label Blue Serge and distributed by Egea, there are echoes
of north African songs, aquatic and descriptive guitar solos, exquisitely
Mediterranean and eastern European atmospheres.
The euro- mediterrenean jazz Esperanto of this band represents the new language spoken by Italian jazz today.
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Marco Castelli sax & eletronics
Alfonso Santimone keyboards & electronics
Edu Hebling bass
Mauro Beggio drums
The group ,fouded from Marco Castelli in 1995, is progressively imposed in prestigious festivals as Montreal Jazz Festival (Canada), St. Sebastian Jazz Festival (Spain), Cervantino International Music Festival (Mexico), Ocho Rios Jazz Festival (Jamaica), to the Curaçao Jazz Festival (Dutch Antilles), Jazzkaar Tallin (Estonia), Cervantes en todas partes and Merida Music Festival (Mexico), Downtown Toronto Jazz Festival and Atlantic Jazz Festival Halifax (Canada), Corinthos Jazz Festival (Greece), Gostenhofer Jazztages Norimberga (Germany), to the Half Notes Athens (Greece), Kaunas Jazz Festival (Lithuania) and also in Venezuela, Argentina, Perù, Uruguay, Switzerland, Slovenia and Croazia.
In the last years a completely renewed formation has produced new sonorities, a particularly contaminated sound and open to new experiences compositive, able for instance to welcome poetic and literary recognitions .
For other information on the history of the group and for the downloads visited the official site: www.dmaurbanjazzfunk.com
Bandorkestra.55
conducted by Marco Castelli
Tommaso Bisjak-flt
Alessandro Ceschia-sax
Carlo Marchi-tp
Sandro Vilevich-tp
Sergio Tonello-sax
Piero Pieri-sax
Stefano Giust-sax
Cristina Gerin-sax
Barbara Toso-sax
Donato Riccesi-sax
Giuseppe Orselli-trombone
Emanuele Laterza-guitar
Giovanni Vianelli-piano
Stefano Lesini -bass
Marco Vattovani-drums
Massimo Leonzini-percussion
The basic assumption driving the BandOrkestra.55 project is to make a permanent music laboratory, with changeable members and sound, and a dynamic work in progress .
The BandOrkestra.55 is not an usual Jazz Big Band, but a gathering of musicians playing a repertoire that moves freely between latin, swing, boogie, ska and ethnic music. The Band plays both original compositions and standards.
The BandOrkestra.55 is a kind of modern Band, offering varied, energizing, entertaining performances.
The bandleader and conductor, the saxophonist Marco Castelli, drives the orchestra between arranged music and "controlled collective improvisations".
The BandaOrkestra.55 has been created in 2002 and resides in the "Casa della Musica" in Trieste - Italy.
Marco Castelli
Small Ensemble
Marco Castelli alternates since many years jazz concerts and recordings with an activity of composer and performer of music for theatre, ballet, video, sound environment and multimedia performances.
The Marco Castelli Small Ensemble is the group used for such performances. It can range from solo sax and live electronics to trio with piano and drums, up to a 20 saxophones orchestra. It performs original music, always composed for specific occasions or on commission.
The Ensemble often jointly performs with the ballet company "Il Posto" led by Wanda Moretti, choreographer (www.ilposto.org ). Their most recent joint project is "Proteus - architectures in movement".
The project is dedicated to Proteus and originates from the idea of transformation. Consequently, space and choreographic structure as well as music and acoustical events blend with the performance site.
www.myspace.com/danzaverticaleAmong other projects in this area, Marco Castelli has composed music for videos and for theatre and he has collaborated with Alda Merini, poet, Paolo Puppa, playwright, Alessandro Baricco, Vitaliano Trevisan, writers.
MARCO CASTELLI
Mambo & Swing Band
Audio
downloads:
Tea
for Two
Over
The Rainbow
Marco
Castelli sax
Paolo Vianello piano
Edu Hebling double-bass
Mauro Beggio drums
Marco Castelli skillfully leads a quartet of hot musicians.
Lovers of Swing, Cha-cha and Mambo, virtuosos with a
penchant for entertainment and dance, they bring back the atmosphere and
the excitement of the great parties of the 20s.
Their repertoire is ranging from Swing to Boogie and Boogaloo, from Ska, Reggae and Afro, to Latin orchestra sound.
The group enlivens parties at Cipriani's "Harry's Bar" and elsewhere
since many years, with a driving sound, featuring
music by Duke Ellington, Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Henry Mancini,
Perez Prado, Louis Prima and others.
PROTEO TRANSFORMACTION
Music Dance Architecture
Il Posto + Marco Castelli Small & Large Ensemble
concept and choreography by Wanda Moretti
music for saxophone and live electronics by Marco Castelli
It is a vertical dance performance, a concert, a unique event that is enhancing the potential of the surrounding Space. The live music of Marco Castelli accompanies the performance with saxophone and live electronics. It is a project of integration of Dance, Music and Architecture.
The Project is dedicated to Proteo and was born on the idea of transformation. The Choreographic and Spatial Structure as well as the live music are becoming one with the place of the Performance.The Space becomes the only possible site for the representation.
Like the mythical Figure of Proteo it is evanescent because perpetually mutating. Only the one that do not fear his numerous mutations can catch is originally shape and receive his prophecy.
Info: www.ilposto.org