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CD/DVD Releases: Fabio Zuffanti Presents: L'Ombra Della Sera

Posted on Monday, March 12 @ 13:00:00 UTC by nightowl

Maurizio Di Tollo, Agostino Macor and Fabio Zuffanti are three musicians who have been active for some years - respectively in the role of drummer, keyboardist and bassist - in the Italian prog band La Maschera Di Cera. This group, active since 2001, has produced four studio albums and has rapidly become one of the most qualified and followed Italian bands of the new school of progressive rock. Maurizio, Agostino and Fabio are versatile musicians active in various other musical projects ranging from prog to jazz, pop and songwriting.

In 2011 the three musicians decided to create a project based on re-proposition of the soundtracks of some of the dark and mysterious Italian TV fictions of the seventies made by masters like Simonetti, Ortolani or Pisano. To do this they closed themselves in the studio and chose to use only original and vintage instruments, such as Mellotron, Minimoog, Hammond, Theremin, Fender Rhodes...

The result is the album L'ombra Della Sera (which gave also the name of the project), published in February 2012 by AMS/BTF label.

To make this work, the three musicians have used the collaboration of two other components of La Maschera Di Cera (Alessandro Corvaglia on vocals and Andrea Monetti on flute), plus Paul Furio Marrasso on double bass, Roberto Calcagno and Francesco Nappi Mascardi on trumpet and sax).

Everything was recorded and artistically co-produced by Rox Villa at Hilary Studios in Genoa.

The sound of the record goes back to the dark and gothic school of Van Der Graaf Generator, to some experimental pages of King Crimson, and mixes chamber music, psychedelic and funky flavours with the modern taste and originality, of which the three musicians are equipped, which has allowed them to make these musics very personal. As if they had composed them.

L'ombra Della Sera comes out in a paper sleeve vinyl replica gatefold CD and limited edition LP (scheduled for March) and contains:

01. Gamma (Enrico Simonetti) (11:12)
02. Ritratto Di Donna Velata (Riz Ortolani) (3:51)
03. La Traccia Verde (Berto Pisano) (6:35)
04. Il Segno Del Comando (Cento Campane) (Romeo Grano) (5:03)
05. Ho Incontrato Un'ombra (A Blue Shadow) (Berto Pisano) (17:51)

www.zuffantiprojects.com/l'ombra%20della%20sera/index.htm

[Source: Zuffanti Projects]

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