WD-41: WILLIE OTERI (guitar, live loops) - DAVE LACZKO (trumpet, effects)

Following their critically acclaimed and well received 2009 release, WD-41, the duo of Willie Oteri and Dave Laczko, have teamed with the talents of beat jockey and multi-instrumentalist Dino J.A. Deane (John Zorn, Jon Hassell, Bill Frisell) and drummer Scott Amendola (Nels Cline, Charlie Hunter) for an extension of their exploratory sonic trip.

The readers of All About Jazz, the largest and most quoted Jazz publication in the world, voted WD-41 to the number 24 spot in the “Top 50 Most Recommended Reviews of 2009.”   WD-41 also has reached 55 and climbing in the “Top 100 Most Recommended Reviews of All Time,”  also at AAJ. 

The new release, Temi Per Cinema, brings us another exciting, totally improvised, exploratory journey based on live loops by Willie Oteri with live trumpet and effects created by Dave Laczko.   It will be released digitally on July 13, 2010 with the CD release following on August 24, 2010.  Temi Per Cinema was recorded direct to two tracks in Oteri’s home with Deane and Amendola’s improvised tracks added later while still retaining that “live vibe.”  Editing is kept to a minimum, a fade in here, a fade out there, leaving a raw energy and excitement that can only happen in an improvised setting.

Glenn Astarita at All About Jazz wrote about WD-41;   “…a spacey trip; chock full of loops, streaming synth noises, and fractured sojourns into the cosmic void. The musicians fuse maniacal psychedelia with free-form improvisation. Oteri makes his guitar weep in concert with otherworldly implementations…”

Temi Per Cinema promises to take the listener even farther on this journey.

Willie Oteri’s musical versatility and talent has propelled him to collaborations and performances with J. A. Deane, Scott Amendola,  Tony Levin (Peter Gabriel, King Crimson, John Lennon), Pat Mastelotto (King Crimson, XTC), Mike Keneally (Frank Zappa), Jerry Marotta (Peter Gabriel), Stu Hamm (Joe Satriani, SteveVai) Ronan Chris Murphy (producer/mixer), Brannen Temple (Sheena Easton, Robben Ford, Eric Johnson), Chris Maresh (Eric Johnson, Abra Moore, Mitch Watkins), Mike Malone (Jimmy Smith) and Ephraim Owens (Erika Badu).  In recent years, it is Oteri's role as an improviser, composer and band leader which has garnered him increasing notoriety, coupled with his notable unique style on guitar.

WD-41 and WD-41+2 Temi Per Cinema are available at  CDBaby,  iTunes, Discipline Global Mobile (DGM), and Abstract Logix.                 

http://www.reverbnation.com/wd41

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ENRICO CONIGLIO

Guitarist, environmental sound recordist and sound artist, Enrico Coniglio (1975) is a musician with an interest in the aesthetic aspects of the landscape. Starting from his curiosity in experimenting within tonal variations of ambient and atmosphere music, with a particular referral to the soundscape of the Venetian lagoon, his music aims at investigating the loss of identity of places and the uncertainty on the evolution of the territory. Enrico Coniglio is member of AIPS and FKL.

Over the last years he has released music trough labels such as Glacial Movements, Silentes, Touch and Cronica electronica and he has collaborated with artists such as Nicola Alesini, Joachim Roedelius, Arve Henriksen, Rena Jones, Oophoi, Janek Schaefer and many others.

Recently he has performed at festivals and art events, most notably at

FLLF (Italy), Planet Love (Ireland), the Big Chill (UK) and Hydrophonia festival

(Spain).

www.enricoconiglio.com

www.myspace.com/enricoconiglio

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RAINER STRASCHILL

Rainer Straschill is a somewhat professionally trained multi-instrumentalist and electronics geek from München, Bayern. He has released several albums in different genres, and appeared headlining various music festivals for the slightly bizzare. He has done several nerd things, among them early internet realtime music collaborations and transmitting music/video performances from a moving car. Consequently, his "Nerdville 2.0" appearance at Firenze will include lots of small electronic devices (four of them providing loops) and various small keyboards, ranging from vintage to tasteless.

http://moinlabs.de

MICHAEL PETERS (guitar, laptop)

Michael's main instrument is the guitar - he studied with renowned guitarist, Robert Fripp and also is influenced by guitarists David Torn, Eivind Aarset, and Fred Frith. He extends the guitar using electronic effects, midi, and livelooping techniques. He has played in avant rock and open improvisational groups.

He also has experimented with sampling and cutting up random FM radio broadcasts to use as elements in live improvisation.

By the same token, he has become more and more fascinated by using more stuctured compositions, using the computer as a musical instrument.

For anyone with open ears, the world of sound outside of regular music is also full of wonder. Michael loves to record interesting environmental sounds (field recording) and then recontextualize and sculpt them using digital tools such as granular synthesis, incorporating the results into musical compositions and soundscapes.

Michael is a member of Looper's Delight, a very active international community of people who use looping technology for their music making. He also is a seminal and pivotal member of the Chain Tape Collective, a group of dozens of electronic and electro-acoustic composers whose musicians create collaborative music projects together.

From time to time, Michael Peters has also been active as a programmer and visual artist in the field of abstract computer graphics. He is an avid photographer and has designed his own websites as well as the one for the Chain Tape Collective.

In the year 2000, he started an ambitious project called MY2K where he created an all original 10 second piece of music for every single day of the year.

In 2008, he hosted the 1st International Livelooping Festival in Cologne, featuring ten livelooping soloists from Germany, Italy, Belgium, Austria, and USA. In 2009, he performed at livelooping festivals in Belgium, Italy, and California.

Michael Peters lives in a small village east of Cologne, Germany. He loves to sit on a bench outside, listening ...

-  www.michaelpeters.de

GIOVANNI LAMI

Giovanni Lami (Ravenna, Italy, 1978) is an artist who works with images and music. He took a degree in Food Science and Technologies and one in photography in Rome. Formerly a photographer he did lots of exhibitions (among others in Ravenna, Modena, Genova, Roma, Acireale, San Sebastian - Spagna, Dhaka - Bangladesh), a couple of artistic residence (Basque Country and Norway) and he published man books, collaborating with several realities (from UNESCO in Ethiopia to Dead Meat, a concept clothes label, to a photo agency in Rome).

He approaches sounds in the same way of photography, working a lot on field recordings and real time signals processing; the infinite universe of sounds we've every day all aroud us and their manipulation is now the base of his modus operandi. He uses mainly Ableton Live and Max/Msp as DAW in live sets, continuing to make his own contact microphones for the study of resonat surfaces he uses a lot during recording sessions.

In 2009 he found alineH that one year later released their first album "Looking for pleasure destroyed my life" on Palustre records and one year after he started collaborating with Simone Marzocchi for the Gray Whale project.

In 2010 he also joined Filippo Aldovini (Error Broadcast, Node festival) in Zymogen label, and one year later he started his solo project as RFaS and Lemures, a quadraphonics field recording based duo with Enrico Coniglio.

With his projects he plays in several venues including: Conservatorio B.Maderna (Cesena), DalVerme (Roma), Clandestino (Faenza), Mu.Vi.Ment.S. Festival 2010 (Itri), Miagalleria (Faenza), XM24 (Bologna), Fondazione Giorgio Cini (Venezia), Festival C/off (Faenza), Kernel Festival (Desio), Tagofest VI (Massa), Florence Live Looping Festival (Firenze).

www.giovannilami.it

http://soundcloud.com/rfas

GARETH WHITTOCK

Coming from a background of composing music for films, TV, radio, animation, dance and theatre, Gareth Whittock has been plying his musical trade as far afield as Japan, North America, Switzerland, Germany, Austria and the Ukraine as well as all over the UK. The music echoes the spirituality of classic Goa trance and Psybient styles integrating digeridoo, ethnic chants via his custom designed guitar synthesizer and "Om Guitar" - a cross between an electric six string and hawaiian lap guitar, (and sounding like neither). Sounds are processed by a laptop giving access to previously only imagined sonic landscapes. Live performances are frequently coupled with synchronised video pojections pulsating along with trance-inducing beats. By turns tribal, groovy, ambient and psychedelic.
By day he lectures in Music Technology in Swansea Metropolitan University, Wales and Bath, England.
Gareths latest venture involves teaming up with DJ Ambient Shane exploring and interchanging textures and grooves informed by the desire to achieve almost totally horizontal integration.

http://soundcloud.com/garethwhittock

FABIO ANILE

Classical trained pianist and keyboardist, Fabio Anile’s music reflects his fascination for the cinematic dimension of music and for a realtime compositional approach, as it clearly appears in his works as well in his musical collaborations.

His solo works (“Liquid Days”, 2007, “Weightless”, 2011), can be defined minimal, ambient, experimental and ranges from atmospheric film style soundtracks to a dark-glitchy ambient music, involving here and then fields recordings manipulation.

It's not a pure 'wallpaper', neither a "focused listening" type ambient, rather Fabio's music bridges this gap neatly, allowing the listener the choice to be either transported or remain grounded depending on the mood of the day.

Fabio works with many ensembles and artists with whom realized various audio-video performances ("Fucktory", "Artificialia","Il Sesto Continente") or film soundtracks ("Facoltà di Sguardo", "Risvegli" "First call from the Moon", "La Pelosa", Wreckages).  He's also involved in many collaborative musical projects from the Chain Tape Collective, ("Great Speeches", 2006 "Generative”, 2009), as well with other like-minded artists ("Unexpected", 2010 with sweedish musician Per Boysen; “Materia e Memoria, 2010, with Salvatore Lazzara)

As a soloist, exhibited as headliner or featured performer in many international festivals between Europe (Zurich, Kholn, Berlin, Antwerp) and USA (Santa Cruz, San JosÈ, Oakland). In 2009 produced the First International Live Looping Festival "in Rome".

www.eterogeneo.com

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LELE BASSI

LELE BASSI

myspace.com/lelebassi)

MASSIMO LIVERANI (iPhone interludes)

n 90's founded MbH productions (www.mbh.it) and started to play with many people and musicians Like Michele Gianni, Marco Misuri, Mario Fani etc on works based on specific sound projects such as "Distant Noise" and ’"Noise Theoria".

In 2000's with others musician like Luigi Guarnieri founded OFFICINE C.R.O.M.A cultural association (www.officinecroma.it), that still now manages events, shows and performances.

He is interested in many aspects involving sound and acoustics such as: environmental music, installations, soundtracks, performance and happenings, cinema, literature, paintings and poetry for those he has always composed music.

In 2001 with Percussionist Marco Canaccini, Guitarist Massimo Fantoni and Fabio Capanni co-founded the KOAN LOOP ENSEMBLE, an open group based on interactive improvisation and Live looping (www.myspace.com/koanloopensemble).

In 2002 he Joined F.K.L association (www.klanglandschaft.org) dealing with acoustic ecology and soundscape.

In 2003 he met Rick Walker, organized the First Italian Live Looping Fest and Joined the Live Looping community.

In 2009 organized the florence's gig of the first European Live Looping Fest with Fabio Anile and other musicians.

Lately he has played in some experimental music productions involved by his friend the guitarist Enrico Coniglio as: ZAUM project (psichonavigation records), SEA CATHEDRALS (Silentes).

In 2010 organized the second Florence Live Looping Fest with Italian musicians.

He also writes articles on music, psicoacustics, sound and connected topics that are published by specialized magazines.