We are very proud to present the new album from one of the best bass players around: Giovanni Maier.

Also, check The Tamarrow Session, the new “Sketch of Impro” from a forthcoming project by Piero Bittolo Bon and a fantastic band featuring the amazing bass player Jamaaladeen Tacuma.

As some of you may have noticed, we’ve just released two new albums. These productions are in collaboration with our friends: Amirani Records and Wallace Records.

The first is “KC”, the third album by The Shipwreck Bag Show, a really unusual duo: in these 11 new tracks they walk away from experimental avant-rock and join the primitive blues vein into “songs”.

The second one is “Reciprocal Uncles”, again a duo, but this one looks in another direction: contemporary istant compositions signed by the elegant and intense touch on piano by Gianni Lenoci and the morphing sound statement of the soprano saxophone of Gianni Mimmo.

We hope you’ll enjoy these new efforts!

Longsong Records vi invita a partecipare alla serata di presentazione del disco “JAZZ WITH THE MEGAPHONE?” dei TONGS.
Il concerto si terrà Venerdì 27 Novembre presso la Casa di Alex (Alex Extea) in via Moncalieri 5, Milano (zona Niguarda) - ore 22.00.

• Carlo Garof: drums&percussion, objects, sinori (thunder sheet), megaphone, live electronics
• Antonio Bertoni: double bass, electric bass, effect, sampler
• Luca Serrapiglio: baritone sax, tenor sax, bass clarinet, lo-fi electronics

Sosteniamo la buona musica! Vi aspettiamo numerosi.

A presto

Long Song is proud to present two new mind blowing releases…

These CD’s feature some of the best performers from the italian avant impro scene, in a setting which emphasizes the abilities of the single artist and of the collective.

We invite you not to READ but to LISTEN to the samples on this site. Words are never enough.

So sit back, relax and prepare to explode with…

Jusi In The Winehouse

and

Porno Jazz

Through an explosive debut album, a trio composed of young men, already expert musicians, set the tone for a mature record, powerful and clear in its intentions, with a precise and articulated vision of how to mix jazz and rock with strength and character in an instrumental work.

The coherence and the depth of the compositions come together with melodic developments and explorations overflowing with ideas and variations which are stunning without becoming over-thought or pretentious.

Carlo, Luca and Antonio approach all of the instruments available to them, including electronic, with a freshness, skill and curiosity. They pursue tonal developments and experimentations while never losing their way, always resulting in a direct and precise objective that is above all, full of feeling.

“Jazz with the megaphone?” brings together the exhilaration of a typical jazz trio (without harmonic, acrobatic and throbbing instruments) and a disruptive attack of tried-and-true rock formations, compensating for the lack of a “voice” with all of their articulated “voices”.

Here it must be discussed the importance of the recording studio as an “added instrument”, also found in the best rock music, which is manipulated as such that all of the songs are executed in a rich, personalized style that transcends a more limited live, one-day recording.

The music lends itself to multiple listening sessions, each time revealing more details and nuances to thrill the listener.

It would be a shame to loose ourselves here in a list of musical influences, which are numerous and varied (free jazz? Jazzcore? Punk? Avant Rock? Etno? and so forth). We like to think that the Tongs have produced an album that is brusque, vital, beautiful, emotional, appeals to mind and body, with a marked identity that both evolved lovers of rock and non-purist jazzphiles can like.

“Jazz with the Megaphone” has in fact all ready received praise from some of the best musicians and personalities in the world of jazz such as: John Zorn, Chris Cutler, Massimo Pupillo (ZU), Gino Robair, Xabier Iriondo, and Gianni Mimmo.

The Tongs much prefer playing live, where their musical and theatrical creativity is liberated, giving them a chance to astonish their audience as an “assault trio”, as they like to call themselves.

Long Song Records proudly presents a new album: Vignes by Acoustic Guitar Trio formed by Nels Cline, Jim McAuley and the late Rod Poole. This is an unreleased live album, recorded in 2003 and shows the brilliant work of these three wonderful musicians. Here’s what Nels Cline says about:

Sometime in the late 1990s, I finally heard Rod Poole play solo acoustic guitar. I think it was at The Smell, an all-ages oasis for underground music in downtown Los Angeles. He was playing his just-intonated Martin guitar, fighting the very resonant leakage from the jukebox in the Latino tranny bar next door, its patrons being showered with blasts of Norteno that threatened a sonic incursion on the intimate, crystalline purity of Mr. Poole’s performance. But nothing could sully this moment for me. Many had told me that I should check Rod’s music out. He had only been in Los Angeles a few years, transplanted from his native England. He had been playing solo concerts here and there, as well as performing his music for an ensemble of bowed, open-tuned acoustic guitars. He had recorded a bit at the now-defunct recording studio and underground music haven in Los Angeles called Poop Alley, and I think that Poop Alley empresario Tom Grimley may have been the first person to tell me about Rod. But on that evening at The Smell, I was not only dazzled by the beauty of Rod’s music and by his concentration, I also wondered how I could find an avenue that would lead me closer to his art, to a possible collaboration of sorts.

Eventually, it came to me. I had known guitarist Jim McAuley since the late 1970s. He had played numerous times in the 90s at a concert series I once booked, performing on mostly acoustic guitars in various states of preparation, different tunings, etc. And I have long felt that Jim, always bubbling under the radar after years and years of creative endeavor, was under-appreciated. Like Rod (and unlike me), he possessed serious fingerstyle technique. Like me, he had a non-systematic love and understanding of salient aspects of microtonal music, which was Rod Poole’s obsession (well, one of many, it turned out). So I came up with the idea of an improvising, microtonal acoustic guitar trio. When I approached these gentlemen with the idea, they were enthusiastic, which was a bit surprising, especially in Rod’s case, because outwardly he had a sort of British reserve, and also because I had heard and felt that he was one serious fellow! Jim had apparently not heard Rod’s music, but it was no surprise that when he finally did that he loved it as much as I did. The year was 1999. The Acoustic Guitar Trio, as it would generically be called, was born; a group which I formed but one I did not lead. Our work was purely collaborative.

Rod Poole was also a tireless documenter of the local improvising and new music scene. He could often be seen in a corner, in headphones, with his DAT-loaded mini-rack and luggage cart. As such, every bang, scrape, and chime of the Acoustic Guitar Trio was recorded by Rod. Lucky us! The release of this document, “Vignes” is, of all the ‘live’ recordings Rod made, the only one that was subject to Trio scrutiny that lead to unanimous agreement on content. We really hoped that someone would release it, in spite of the car noises and whatnot, because we all liked these pieces. Rod could be quite a stickler, and it was his ear for severe editing that shaved two sets of improvising at the Downtown Playhouse (on Vignes Street) in Los Angeles to the three pieces heard on this record. Rest assured there is a lot of other good material waiting in the wings, but this was what we hoped could be the follow-up to the eponymously-named studio recording that Derek Bailey had released on Incus. Time and circumstances beyond our control prevented this. Until now.

Sometime around 2003, Rod announced to Jim and myself that he wanted to cease performing ‘live’ completely. Given his headstrong qualities and seeing what a battle it is to play music of such uncompromising delicacy and subtlety, I really couldn’t blame him. This, along with my burgeoning tour schedule with Wilco and numerous other groups coupled with Jim’s family responsibilities, caused us to all drift apart, a drift I felt was surely temporary. Unfortunately, Rod Poole was murdered not far from his and his wife Lisa’s apartment in Hollywood, the details of which I do not care to go into here. Suffice to say that it was a pointless act of the most heinous type, and we who loved Rod Poole and his music are forever wounded by it.

For now, enjoy “Vignes”, a concentrated sampling of three microtonal improvising acoustic guitars. Our methodology was quite simple: make up a tuning on the spot for each improvisation, look around at each other to find the nods and grins of agreement that meant that a promising tuning combination had been arrived at, and GO. For Jim McAuley and me, it was challenging yes, but more like breathing; natural, nurturing. We hope you like the music. All love and respect to Rod Poole, and thanks to Fabrizio Perissinotto for bringing it to the world on Long Song.

- Nels Cline

Glendale, CA

March 11th, 2009

We are glad to announce a new co-production between us and Wallace Records. Xabier Iriondo and Roberto Bertacchini are together again after two years spent developing a sound that now is much more than the sum of two styles. The Shipwreck Bag Show is a live performing band and with this album presents twelve new tracks that we can easily call “songs”. This duo sings the blues: drunk and lopsided songs, cripple, evocative and primal blues.

Feb. 27th on Battiti, radio broadcast on Radio3 at 0.10 AM simone massaron & marc ribot duo, july 17th 2008 live recording. Info at http://www.radio.rai.it/radio3/battiti/index.cfm

This past year was very satisfying in terms of great reviews and appearances on many important music magazines or websites. Long Song is just a small label that struggles to produce interesting and different music, and we’re glad that our efforts are more and more noticed by the international and Italian press. Thanks first of all to all the amazing artists that recorded and worked with us.
These are the most remarkable achievements we got, in no particular order (you can find most of them under the individual CD’s pages on the site):

• “Dandelions on Fire” gathered more or less 15 fantastic reviews on most of the best Italian rock magazines and websites (including Rolling Stone, il Mucchio Selvaggio, Buscadero, Rockerilla..) and on some of the most prestigious international ones (The Wire, Signal to Noise…). Some critics included it in their personal 2008 top ten.
• Nicola Cipani’s “The Ill-tempered Piano” was welcomed by many magazines as one of the most clever and totally intriguing debuts of the year. The words spent about it are probably the best ever said about a Long Song release. Some journalists included it among their personal 2008 top ten.
• Downtown Music Gallery guru and owner Bruce Lee Gallanter included “Technicolor” and “Rings Of Fire” among his “best 101 records of 2008” list
• Technicolor was another massive critical success, appearing on both rock and jazz magazines and confirming that we are doing a great job in moving between these two our favourite styles of ours.
• “Craig Green + David King” cover was chosen, in a limited group of 5 titles, by All About Jazz New York for best artwork. Elena Raffa did it. Elena is an amazing graphic designer and has done or contributed to many Long Song covers so far: Dandeions, Technicolor, Rings of Fire.
• We entered the Downbeat critics poll!! Incredible to say, but Plays Monk, without almost any concert or promotional events during 2008, ranked at number 10 out of 12 in the acoustic group rising star section. This is really something!

We hope 2009 will be even better. Thaks to everybody for the support.

A nice new friend of ours, mr. Bert Shapiro, sent us an amazing new DVD titled “Elliott Sharp: doing the Don’t” he assembled about our great pal Elliott Sharp.

The DVD is an incredible overview of his whole career and biography of Elliott, and it’s a pleasure to watch from the beginning to the end.

Elliott is a master and has explored so many styles and works on so many levels: he’s a blues player, an improviser, an avant garde artist, a saxophonist and clarinet player, a composer and arranger, and so much more. Elliott himself said to me last year he’s working and concentrating more and more in order to become an “author” and composer more than “just” a musician, and this DVD is a beautiful trip through all of this, concentrating a lot on his recent years in various contexts. Lots of live footage as well as contributions of friends anc collaborators make this DVD a precious document for any Elliott fan, and it’s highly recommended.

Who loves Elliott knows what he can do and how much unpredictable he can be. The man is clever as few I’ve ever met, and this DVD proves it all.

Thanks to Bert for this great work and thanks to Elliott for his never-ending music trip.

The DVD lasts 2 hours and 15 minutes and also contains 80 minutes of unreleased music. Further details and purchase info here.

“Rings Of Fire”, the new cd by Tononi and Cavallanti, is now available.

Special guest: acclaimed violin player Jenny Scheinman, and the best from the Italian jazz/avant scene: Giovanni Maier, Achille Succi, Emanuele Parrini and others.

Two long suites. 80 minutes of adventurous and creative music.

The Project:

Tenor/baritone/composer Daniele Cavallanti and drummer/percussionist/composer Tiziano Tononi, from Milano, Italy, have been playing together for the last thirty years. Since 1980 have been co-leading the band Nexus. Considered an historical avant garde Italian band, Nexus has been voted a number of times best band by critics in the annual jazz magazine Musica Jazz “Top Jazz Referendum”. They are also founding members of the celebrated Italian Instabile Orchestra. Both with Nexus and the Italian Instabile Orchestra, Cavallanti and Tononi performed all over Europe, United States, Canada and Japan and during their career they have been playing and recording with some of the most representative Italian jazz musicians such as: Enrico Rava, Gianluigi Trovesi, Giancarlo Schiaffini, Giorgio Gaslini and with a number of international jazz masters such as: Raphael Garrett, Radu Malfatti, Barre Phillips, Oliver Lake, Leroy Jenkins, Glenn Ferris, Mark Dresser, Herb Robertson, Steve Lacy,  Dave Liebman, Stuart Copeland, Andrew Cyrille, Maggie Nicols, Dewey Redman, Muhal Richard Abrahms, Cecil Taylor, Anthony Braxton, Roswell Rudd, Nels Cline, Elliot Sharp, William Parker, Hamid Drake, Willem Breuker, Wolter Wierbos, Jerry Granelli, Evan Parker, Paul Lytton, Jean-Jacques Avenel, Oliver Johnson, Michel Godard.

On this brand new CD, produced by Fabrizio Perissinotto, who originally conceived and commissioned the project to the two musicians, Cavallanti and Tononi present two long and ambitious suites (”Faces” by Daniele Cavallanti and “Phases” by Tiziano Tononi) for an extraordinary high level octet that features American violin rising star Jenny Scheinman, Emanuele Parrini on viola, Achille Succi on alto saxophone and bass clarinet, Massimo Mariani on guitar, Giovanni Maier on double and electric bass and Pacho on percussion.

FROM FABRIZIO PERISSINOTTO, PRODUCER:
I’ve always appreciated in the past the works by Daniele and Tiziano with extended ensembles, but at the same time I had my own precise concepts about how I would eventually organize one of theirs on my label. So one day this idea came to me of an octet with two horns, two violins (I’ve always wanted to collaborate with the lovely Jenny Scheinman, and this was the perfect chance) and two guitars plus a rhythm section. Then one guitar would be substituted by a percussion set and the focus would be more on the interplay possibilities between the two violins and the two horns, which surely are infinite. The starting point was to first build a mix of strongly composed and arranged material, with lots of harmonisations and “symphonic” elements where all the eventual solos and improvisations would  always be anchored to this base and be a part of the whole instead of  dominating it. Tiziano and Daniele were “challenged” by my exact suggestions on how to create something that had to be full of lyrical tension, drama, power but at the same time always under control. Like a gigantic, fascinating, almost frightening, steam train running fast but always well placed on its rails. In the end we got two long, complex and adventurous suites , displaying many of Cavallanti and Tononi musical influences and proving once more their great ability to write beautiful music and get the best out of the musicians they play with, who were all fabulous during the sessions.

The final result went way beyond my expectations and I’m very proud to have produced and released this music, that embodies a lot of this label’s visions

Fabrizio Perissinotto, July 2008

FROM TIZIANO TONONI:

Phases/Faces is Tiziano Tononi at his core-composing…extended forms or suites have always been a trademark in his production, and date back to his work for his historical group Nexus as well as for his celebrated and prize-winning solo projects (dedicated to giants of Black Music, are meant to be a reflection on the past to become the future of the present day…), on top of all of them “Awake Nu - A tribute to Don Cherry” and “We Dit It, We Did It (Rahsaan and the None)” dedicated to Rahsaan Roland Kirk. His music embraces many different elements - folk music (jazz), minimalism, 20th Century western contemporary tradition (quoting Ornette “music that guys can read…”), post-rock - all blended together by his view of music as one, a mysterious big alchemic/sonic picture that contains it all…have fun.

FROM DANIELE CAVALLANTI:

About “Faces”: more than any particular musical reference, besides the ones that, in general, have always been inspiring in his composing and playing (Trane, Ornette, Charlie Haden’s Liberation Orchestra, Keith Jarret’s American quartet and many more) Daniele Cavallanti says that the music and movements of this work have mainly been inspired by certain movies atmospheres and directors, whose names are clearly indicated as title tracks.

Here’s our autumn gift for all of you:
Craig Creen + David King: Eclectic, experienced and creative guitar player Craig Green plus celebrated and critically acclaimed drummer David King (from the Bad Plus and Happy Apple) will release in some months an excting and vibrant duo collaboration on Long Song Records. Totally improvised music in an odd setting (with piano from time to time, played by D.King), electric and also acoustic, working in many moods ranges. sketches of inventiveness and freshness all over. groovey and spacey, physical and ethereal, gentle and stinging. Music coming out of their hands and mind with an almost telepathic empathy, that gives life to true little “compositions”, as if written in advance.

Nicola Cipani “The Illl-Tempered Piano”: Nicola Cipani’s “Ill-Tempered Piano” is a suprising and playful album of solo improvisations played on broken and untuned pianos. Cipani’s accomplished melodic and rhythmic approach and his responsiveness to each instrument’s raw potential set this project apart. The recordings were made over the span of two years in different New York City warehouses, on several keyboard instruments (among the pianos you hear also a clavichord), some of which are so damaged as to be hardly recognizable — but each piece takes the peculiarities of its instrument as a starting point, not as a limitation. What results is a collection of fresh, clever and fully-realized sound experiments performed on the strange landscape of each piano. The album is unpredictable and captivating — one to be heard and re-heard.

Hi to everybody, thanks to those hardcore fans who keep on following us and take a look at the site from time. Carrying on with this label is quite hard, especially supporting the kind of music we support. It’s a huge labour of love. It’s a job I can do during my free time. But I keep on keeping on. I try to follow my vision and release just what I think can fit this label. Many critics from Jazz and Rock are following us with interest and try to give us their best support. I have my own idea about the music I like and move on. What do we have coming after the summer? Many new projects: the main and most important one (a HUGE production!) is an amazing octet work (”Rings of Fire”) by Daniele Cavallanti (saxophone) & Tiziano Tononi (drums and percussion), featuring violin star Jenny Scheinman and other amazing Italian players (details coming soon). See the cover here. And then we lately recorded three almost purely improvised sessions, featuring some of the best players from the Italian rock/avant/jazz scene (Craig David was the special guest in one of these) . Also: we are releasing at the beginning of September the new fabulous work by Craig Green and David King (see details in the “upcoming” section) and the surprising Nicola Cipani (always “upcoming section”). Two disc we are absolutely proud of. And beyond all this………Is there still a reason to release a cd? shops are closing…or the traditional ones are going to resist while the big ones close? is it better to release vynil? and download? let’s go digital?? it’s so HARD to find and get some exposure for this music! Still, I resist. Actually I do it for the love of music. Too strong! In any case the debate is open for the future about how to release stuff. “Rings of Fire”, “Craig+David” and “The Ill-Tempered piano” will be released on cd….and the improvised projects…..don’t know. Let us have your opinion, every suggestion or idea is very welcome. We’ll talk soon again. Ciao. Ah. also the new “Sketches of Impro will be finally on line soon.

Guitar aces and label friends Jim Campilongo jammed together in San Francisco on the 7th of July . The Jim Campilongo Trio and The Scott Amendola Band (with Nels) were sharing the gig that night. Why are we writing about this? Because Long Song has had the idea and has been trying for a while to put together a quartet session with Jim and Nels plus rhythm section (Scott A. on drums). The guys are all very interested into doing this but Nels’ commitment to touring with Wilco always postpones the idea. In any case this should have been the very first time they finally played together, and Jim was so kind to send use this picture[/lang_

Simone Massaron + Marc Ribot Duo: www.ortosonico.com

July, 17 - Ortosonico Pavia h.10pm.

Live performance with Simone Massaron and Marc Ribot. For further informations please visit

The music-related site mescalina.it features on his #33 homepage a tribute to Dandelions On Fire, the new album by Simone Massaron feat. Carla Bozulich. The related press review is avaiable clicking above on “Press”.

Dandelions On Fire is now avaiable as album download on iTunes Music Store.

Check out this link!

Dandelions On Fire @ iTunes

Dandelions On Fire, by Simone Massaron and featuring Carla Bozulich has just been released, and we have already gathered some great reviews coming from some of the major magazines. here they are. More on the way soon.

“4 stars” - “il Venerdì”, La Repubblica paper weekly magazine

“Destined to be one of the more interesting CDs of 2008″ - “Il Mucchio Selvaggio”

“Massaron is a versatile player and a great author. 7/8 ” - “Blow Up”

“A disc of overwhelming beauty” - “www.rocklab.it”

“The Massaron-Bozulich couple is a wonder. 9 ” - “Rockerilla”

the cd will be soon available in all the main Italian records shops. Distributed by Audioglobe (www.audioglobe.it). Buy it also on www.amazon.com or here

At the beginning of May we’ll be releasing the beautiful album “Dandelions On Fire”, an unexpected and surprising collaboration born from the remarkable talents of the awesome guitar player Simone Massaron (a great musician at ease with different genres), who wrote the music to the songs and arranged almost everything, and Carla Bozulich, renowned cult artist , who is an amazing lyricist and singer.
Blues, ballads, folk music, improvised moments…all to create a compelling collection of songs and haunting melodies.
The band supporting Simone and Carla is a special one too: Zeno De Rossi on drums is one of the most gifted players emerging out of the new jazz and improvised music scene in Italy. Andrea Viti and Xabier Iriondo have a glorious past as their background with the famous and acclaimed band Afterhours and now move between classic rock and experimental music independently.
Other great musicians also took part to the recording session.
Listen and enjoy

Our works are getting wider recognition from some of the most important music magazines. For instance “DownBeat”, considered by many the most important jazz magazine worldwide, did nice and very nice reviews of our works (Plays Monk, Breaking News and Smoke inside). And the beautiful and intriguing SignalToNoise, really an amazing favourite of us here, contained two beautiful reviews of Plays Monk and Duo Milano.
You can find all of these reviews (or almost all, in case we still had to put them there) in our Press Section.

We have just finished a three day session work. The music produced was daring and in some moments mind blowing.
A mix of thoughtful and creative composed material and explosive improvisation, this project consists of two very long suites. The leaders were Daniele Cavallanti and Tiziano Tononi (one suite each). We had also the amazing and sweet Jenny Scheinman on violin on board.
The band line up was
Tiziano Tononi: drums, percussions
Daniele Cavallanti: tenor and baritone sax
Pacho: percussions
Jenny Scheinman: violin
Emanuele Parrini: viola
Massimo Mariani: guitar
Giovanni Maier: electric and acoustic bass
Achille Succi: alto sax

Stay tuned for more upcoming news

Giovanni Maier, the amazing bass player and leader of our latest “Giovanni Maier Technicolor” project, just emerged in the prestigious Musica Jazz Italian music magazine year’s end poll (Top Jazz 2007) as the best bass player.
This is an incredible achievement for Giovanni and a well deserved reward for his always moving forward career.
And we are absolutely proud to have just released “Technicolor”, his very first compelling and challenging totally electric project, which will open new horizons for his music and attract new fans of his playing.
Bravo Giovanni!!!

“Plays Monk” was listed #2 best jazz cd of the year by KQED radio, an important North California radio. Read here.
And it’s not over: the prestigious All About New York Magazine voted “Plays Monk” best tributal recording of 2007!

This amazing band is constantly getting wider attention from everywhere.

Eclectic, experienced and creative guitar player Craig Green plus celebrated and critically acclaimed drummer David King (from the Bad Plus and Happy Apple) will release in some months an excting and vibrant duo collaboration on Long Song Records. Totally improvised music in an odd setting (with piano from time to time, played by D.King), electric and also acoustic, working in many moods ranges. sketches of inventiveness and freshness all over. groovey and spacey, physical and ethereal, gentle and stinging. Music coming out of their hands and mind with an almost telepathic empathy, that gives life to true little “compositions”, as if written in advance.
Stay tuned for future news.

This is the very nice opinion of Marc Ribot about Simone Massaron after they met to record the latest session of Giovanni Maier Technicolor:
“simone massaron is an inventive improviser and highly skilled guitarist, is a unique voice among a new generation of musicians literate in both the improvising traditions of derek bailey/fred frith and rock/free jazz, working towards a new language of the guitar”
You’ll listen to their joined forces soon on the coming release by Giovanni Maier.

We finished mixing the tracks by Giovanni Maier Techcnicolor with Marc Ribot.
The sound is powerful and straight. Drums and bass have  a no reverb aggressive cutting edge, and the guitars are raw and bordering with noise. “pure” Long Song sound.

Our CD’s are now distributed by the nice AUDIOGLOBE (www.audioglobe.it).
Please contact them in case you are interested in selling our CD’s wherev er you want!

In June legendary guitar master Marc Ribot will record a session with Giovanni Maier and his technicolor band. Simone Massaron will join the project too. Expect amazing music to be released later this year. Technicolor part. 1 recorded in december is on its way to be finished. Hard grooving and trippy powerful music.

The great singer and songwriter Carla Bozulich, goddess of the alternative scene, and well rooted in many music styles, will record a cd with guitar ace Simone Massaron in June. Simone is writing nice music and they’ll join forces for the lyrics. Stay tuned for more news about this Long Song Records event, that has a singer for a full length project for the first time.

Acclaimed West Coast players Scott Amendola (drums), Ben Goldberg (clarinet) and Devin Hoff (bass) pay a tribute to greatest jazz composer ever, Thelonious Monk. Their renditions of his classic, without harmonical instruments, is fresh and exciting. “Plays Monk” is the way Long Song Records gets Monk music into his catalogue, and it’s fantastic.

“Duo Milano” will be released at the end of May. Part acoustic, part electric, is a totally improvised work. Daring, powerful, aggressive music from two modern guitar masters, that deeply respect each other and enjoy playing together a lot. For the first time on a full length cd in this kind of setting.

Giovanni Maier and his Technicolor band have recorded together with producer Fabrizio (that’s me writing) the first part of this electric project. The studio we used was the prestigious ArtEsuono in Udine, where the recording engineer Stefano Amerio is often acclaimed for his high quality results. Joining Giovanni were Zeno De Rossi (drummer with the famous Italian songwriter Vinicio Capossela) and Alfonso Santinone (Keyboards) from the exciting musicians project “El Gallo Rojo Records” and Giorgio Pacorig (Keyboards too). The music was fresh and unpredictable, with the unusual line-up of two keyboards plus rhythm section. You’ll hear something soon. A second session will be recorded in June with guitar aces Marc Ribot (!!!) and Simone Massaron. The feeling will be different, looser and more guitar-oriented.

Long Song Records now on myspace. No much time to spend on it, but spread the word and add us please to your myspace section. Fabrizio

The new incredible record by Daniele Cavallanti Electric Unit with Nels Cline is on sale here. “Smoke Inside” released!! A burning session to remember. Play it loud! This record celebrates the meeting of the best pre-fusion electric jazz with the vibes of the best instrumental rock. Daniele Cavallanti, veteran sax player from the critically acclaimed groups “Nexus” and “Italian Instabile Orchestra” joins forces with his old friend Nels Cline (a guitar master, both in jazz and indipendent rock) and some great italian jazzmen to create daring music, classical and modern and fresh at the same time. You get long original compositions dominated by a strong and pulsating rhytmic feel, no-nonsense melodies and extended and soaring solos.

Long Song Records proudly announces his first new project of 2007: a record by Giovanni Maier, one of the best (if not the best) jazz bass players in Italy. It will be recorded in February. Go under the page “artists” to check Giovanni’s bio. Featuring: Zeno De Rossi (Zeno played with many great artists, take a look here) on drums, Giorgio Pacorig and Alfonso Santinone (www.elgallorojorecords.com/autori/) on various Keyboards and effects. This project will be a mix of strong riff oriented stuff with lots of dynamics and improvisations and written tunes as well.

Long Song Records proudly announces his first new project of 2007: a record by Giovanni Maier, one of the best (if not the best) jazz bass players in Italy. It will be recorded in February. Go under the page “artists” to check Giovanni’s bio. Featuring: Zeno De Rossi (Zeno played with many great artists, take a look here) on drums, Giorgio Pacorig and Alfonso Santinone (more info) on various Keyboards and effects. This project will be a mix of strong riff oriented stuff with lots of dynamics and improvisations and written tunes as well.

Daniele Cavallanti and Tiziano Tononi in the States for an amazing series of shows!! Watch the “concerts” page for more details.