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GALLO GARY LUCAS & THE ROOSTERS +
"The Exploding Notes Theory
(El Gallo Rojo Records, 2009)
to BLOW UP, October 2009, DISC OF THE MONTH.
of Enrico Bettinelli (vote 8)
http://www.romamusica.it/recensionegallo.htm
of Marina Conti
"The Exploding Notes Theory
(El Gallo Rojo Records, 2009)
to BLOW UP, October 2009, DISC OF THE MONTH. of Enrico Bettinelli (vote 8)
Tornano Gallo & The Roosters, the creature more 'wild and free range of the "chicken coop" El Gallo Rojo.
For this second record are choosing a travel companion that seems designed for that purpose, that Gary Lucas from Captain Beefheart to Jeff Buckley has always used the guitar as a weapon of mass creation.
E 'Lucas to bring his quartet in the theory "beefheartiana" of the "note that explodes," that attitude that is' to play every note as if it had no connection with what precedes and what follows,
with consequent explosion. And it 's always Lucas happy to wallow in the muddy mix of the band,
that opposes the torque bass clarinet / trombone (the excellent Achille Succi and Gerhard Gschloessl) to the bass / drums leader Danilo Gallo and drummer Zeno de Rossi. Funeral Band and that 'stop for a drink with Tom Waits on the dusty courtyard of a bar in the suburbs, body knows how to be playful and popular (the beautiful reread Jamaica Farewell ), but also twist and obsessive, like an electrical short circuit in a motel ( Hushpukena ) gang of outlaws affecting poems on the bark of burned trees
(the beautiful tribute to goalkeeper Ivano Bordon signed by de Rossi), material and melancholy ( Laura ) Gallo & The Roosters dance once again with the spirits more 'inspired and if the song - beautiful - that closes the album and' dedicated to Ed Wood is not 'it a coincidence, sharing with the bizarre alienating a director (but made with undoubted talent ) worldview.
The Exploding Notes Theory looks so 'to a small circus tent stitched from the blues, a circus in which more 'unruly animals that trainers are able to change his fur to make themselves elusive. (8)
Enrico Bettinelli _ _ BLOW UP in October 2009
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For this second record are choosing a travel companion that seems designed for that purpose, that Gary Lucas from Captain Beefheart to Jeff Buckley has always used the guitar as a weapon of mass creation.
E 'Lucas to bring his quartet in the theory "beefheartiana" of the "note that explodes," that attitude that is' to play every note as if it had no connection with what precedes and what follows,
with consequent explosion. And it 's always Lucas happy to wallow in the muddy mix of the band,
that opposes the torque bass clarinet / trombone (the excellent Achille Succi and Gerhard Gschloessl) to the bass / drums leader Danilo Gallo and drummer Zeno de Rossi. Funeral Band and that 'stop for a drink with Tom Waits on the dusty courtyard of a bar in the suburbs, body knows how to be playful and popular (the beautiful reread Jamaica Farewell ), but also twist and obsessive, like an electrical short circuit in a motel ( Hushpukena ) gang of outlaws affecting poems on the bark of burned trees
(the beautiful tribute to goalkeeper Ivano Bordon signed by de Rossi), material and melancholy ( Laura ) Gallo & The Roosters dance once again with the spirits more 'inspired and if the song - beautiful - that closes the album and' dedicated to Ed Wood is not 'it a coincidence, sharing with the bizarre alienating a director (but made with undoubted talent ) worldview.
The Exploding Notes Theory looks so 'to a small circus tent stitched from the blues, a circus in which more 'unruly animals that trainers are able to change his fur to make themselves elusive. (8)
Enrico Bettinelli _ _ BLOW UP in October 2009
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http://www.romamusica.it/recensionegallo.htm
The musical harmony to which our ears are accustomed normally falls apart at the first listen of this CD. It seems suddenly plunged into the maze of primordial chaos more value: grinding sounds while trying to make room for themselves overwhelmingly in total independence from each other.
a contagious madness is the leitmotif running through the entire album: "Gallo & The Roosters + Gary Lucas - The Exploding Notes Theory, and suddenly something comes to mind that looks like the same devastating schizophrenia and violent sound of Don Van Vliet, known to many as Captain Beefheart (in the 60s a spokesman for avant-garde music that broke with profound alienation any melodic, rhythmic and tonal then groped to reassemble them at random, between the free jazz of Ornette Coleman and the abstract paintings of Jackson Pollock). not unexpected after all the reference to Mr. Van Vliet, as the album opens with the quote of his American guitarist Gary Lucas (present here for having played the guitars on all tracks the album) just to Captain and his theory of the notes exploded: "That 's the" Exploding Notes Theory "by Captain Beefheart: the music has to be done as if every note had no relationship to its predecessor and the next. The relationship between notes in music must be comparable to a series of bomb explosions in the air. " Lucas made it part of the band Captain Beef Heart and His Magic Band at the time of the album "Ice Cream For Crow (Virgin, 1982), and it is clear the influence exerted by him in thanks to the unique hard strokes of his guitars and psychedelic western restive, going to add more madness to the already saturated atmosphere brilliant sound. Among the eleven tracks, ten more than the original review of "Jamaica Farewell" Erving written by Lord Burgess and brought to success in the '50s by Harry Belafonte, is curious then the choice of Gallo between the opening credits and closing the album: "Bela Lugosi" and "Ed Wood." A clear homage to the friendship between the director and actor of horror films and SF Wood and actor Bela Lugosi (now famous for playing the movie "Dracula")?
a contagious madness is the leitmotif running through the entire album: "Gallo & The Roosters + Gary Lucas - The Exploding Notes Theory, and suddenly something comes to mind that looks like the same devastating schizophrenia and violent sound of Don Van Vliet, known to many as Captain Beefheart (in the 60s a spokesman for avant-garde music that broke with profound alienation any melodic, rhythmic and tonal then groped to reassemble them at random, between the free jazz of Ornette Coleman and the abstract paintings of Jackson Pollock). not unexpected after all the reference to Mr. Van Vliet, as the album opens with the quote of his American guitarist Gary Lucas (present here for having played the guitars on all tracks the album) just to Captain and his theory of the notes exploded: "That 's the" Exploding Notes Theory "by Captain Beefheart: the music has to be done as if every note had no relationship to its predecessor and the next. The relationship between notes in music must be comparable to a series of bomb explosions in the air. " Lucas made it part of the band Captain Beef Heart and His Magic Band at the time of the album "Ice Cream For Crow (Virgin, 1982), and it is clear the influence exerted by him in thanks to the unique hard strokes of his guitars and psychedelic western restive, going to add more madness to the already saturated atmosphere brilliant sound. Among the eleven tracks, ten more than the original review of "Jamaica Farewell" Erving written by Lord Burgess and brought to success in the '50s by Harry Belafonte, is curious then the choice of Gallo between the opening credits and closing the album: "Bela Lugosi" and "Ed Wood." A clear homage to the friendship between the director and actor of horror films and SF Wood and actor Bela Lugosi (now famous for playing the movie "Dracula")?
Danilo Gallo (bass player and multi-instrumentalist and creator and producer of the project), gathers around him his "cock" between solo instruments surreal different take tangential to each other but with the same common denominator: sounds like anarchists Loose Cannons ready for the final grand slam .. . In the noisy din of a bully regurgitation was imploded yet to collective liberation.
