Amirani Records
a m i r a n i r e c o r d s lends an ear to what rings true in the production of sound and art, whether experimental or not. Attention to tales from within, to narration torn from vividly chequered imprecision, to fragments of pure air, snatches of urgency, tentative dirges, and to bright traces, silences and depths, that together enable a mapping both published and unpublished creativity.a m i r a n i r e c o r d s awakens curiosity, reveals the light in fragments and observes the richness of mingling. Its collection of exchanges and risky juxtapositions will catalogue, and like little flags on a map, clarify the emergence of underlying intentions. A network that vibrates in twists and turns. An acute listening that first pinpoints the elements and then understands the whole. a m i r a n i r e c o r d s intent is to create a series of connections between artistic endeavour in Italy and the world at large, both domains that are often constrained by rigid boundaries.The production plan for Year 1 consists 4 or 5 projects which will circle outwards from a common centre. As they seek to increase opportunities for collaboration, the projects will ascertain intentions, with a premium on sincerity and creative innovation. a m i r a n i r e c o r d s wants to reinvest its proceeds in new projects – a self-perpetuating cycle of unearthing and releasing unpublished materials from musicians and artists whose personal quests are unique in both method and objective. Interaction between languages, deeper relations between text and music, images and sound-art and telluric instrumental and vocal improvisations. Each production will be treated with due and utmost attention to detail: sound quality, graphics, conceptual truth. The production is a concept of the artist’s journey, a document of his time. a m i r a n i r e c o r d s wants to retail itself through reciprocal arrangements with other production units. State of the art retailing would of course be very welcome, but the primary feature of networks that we initiate or create is that they will be closely knit.
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ElectroAcousticSilence | Flatime
“Here is an awesome sound investigation, with lyrical flights in a contemporary atmosphere and sudden perspective changes in depth, space, drama and warmth.”
Gianni Lenoci, Gianni Mimmo | Reciprocal Uncles
Great contemporary instant compositions from a challenging duo signed by the elegant and intense touch on piano by Gianni Lenoci and the morphing sound statement of the soprano saxophone of Gianni Mimmo.
Five Rooms | No Room For Doubt
Gianni Mimmo, Angelo Contini, John Russell, Jean Michel van Schouwburg, Andrea Serrapiglio, Paolo Falascone
Thollem Mc Donas & Nicola Guazzaloca | Noble Art
Outstanding live performance: two piano players dancing the self-discovering music, the self-revealing touch, the self-delivering art.
EAR & NOW | Eclipse
EAR&NOW delivers a perfected work where it is easier to feel the harshness of lives moving there, like sharpnesses of a tide, darkened by a lunar Eclipse. Eclipse is each one’s other side.
Cristiano Calcagnile and Monica Demuru | Blastula | Scarnoduo
Cristiano Calcagnile, percussions | Monica Demuru, voice
“SCARNODUO” is a beautiful, pure, neo narrative, dramatic work- performance by Monica Demuru, voice and Cristiano Calcagnile on percussions.
A compelling, dialogic force, crossing intimate and universal depths, with a huge re-combinatory possibility. Words are sounds coming from ancestral tales and future lines. Sounds are words going to [...]
Gianni Lenoci | Carlos Zingaro | Marcello Magliocchi | Serendipity
Edition number sixteen of Amirani records is SERENDIPITY
Recorded live at 2007 Bari jazz festival here is an excellent and vivid performance. The free violin legend Carlos Zingaro along with the subtleness of Gianni Lenoci ‘s touch on and in the piano and the colourful energetic percussion of Marcello Magliocchi deliver a fresh, [...]
EA Silence | Cono di Ombra e Luce
Whispering shadows gently flowing in the hidden dark space of an ancient synagogue. A morphing thunder pushed by acoustical swords, generating long distance waves and slow, inexorable tides. A stunning contemporary work deeply conceived to get perfect sounding ideas, dancing with the space around.
Anthony Braxton Quartet | Standards (Brussels) 2006
Anthony Braxton’s periodical incursions in standards repertory are always a new way to think classical structures.
reFLEXible | REALGAR
The Antwerp & Brussels-based Collectief reFLEXible – Joachim Devillé (trumpet, flugelhorn), Thomas Olbrechts (alto saxophone), Stefan Prins (piano, objects and live-electronics) – focuses on free improvised music (or instant composed music) often combined with other media as dance, performance, video and film.
Karmel & Xabier Iriondo | Gianni Mimmo | Cristiano Calcagnile’s Nibiru Ensemble | Airchamber 3+4 | Claudio Fasoli & Mario Zara | Pierfrancesco Mucari | Angelo Contini & Federico Cumar | Francesco Cusa & Shirin Demma | NovoTono | ON WAR
War is here seen in its several aspects. Today wars are clearly without exits and seem to be self-mantaining issues. Cosmic, national, international, personal, civil, cold, holy, theatre of, nerves, to the knive W A R .
Airchamber 3 | Crumble
“Tracks are excerpts of various improvised sessions, there’s no overdub and most of material has not been processed, re-arranged or layered…”
Gianni Mimmo, Xabier Iriondo | Your Very Eyes
Performance recorded early on a sunny dawn, June the 24th, 2007, in an ancient 10th century cave-church in a magic stone town named Matera, South of Italy.
Esther Lamneck, Eugenio Sanna | Intentions
Intentions is an inprovised cycle of brief pieces creating a narrative journey of evocative sound images and landscapes. Esther Lamneck: clarinet, tárogató | Eugenio Sanna: amplified guitar
NovoTono | Wanderung
N o v o T o n o / w a n d e r u n g | Adalberto Ferrari: clarinet, bass clarinet, contrabass clarinet, soprano sax | Andrea Ferrari: clarinet, alto clarinet, baritone sax | Federico Cumar: trombone on isles & lives | Luca Serrapiglio: soprano sax on isles & lives
Gianni Mimmo | Andrea Serrapiglio | Francesco Cusa | A Watched Pot (Never Boils)
Three crea(c)tive musicians coming from different and sometimes distant areas meeting in a magical recording session. Unpredictable and intriguing music, never obvious, crossing avant-jazz, concrete, romantic, ever passionate and surprising.
Holmberg, Serrapiglio, Guazzaloca | Samsingen
Archaic Swedish songs sublimated with a contemporary attitude in an intense performance…
Gianni Mimmo, Lorenzo Dal Ri | Bespoken
Finally on CD this magical collaboration started on winter 2002 and still alive and well! Elegant sound concept and electro-acoustical statement, BESPOKEN…
Gianni Mimmo, Angelo Contini | Two’s Days / Tuesdays
The duo is translucent and light formula, first communication nucleus, distance to live, exploration of a moment-built spaces.
Gianni Mimmo | One Way Ticket
A concept of transit, of movement, of the nomadism of thoughts, of the impossibility of settling, and of our belonging to a journey.
























