★Materiali Sonori
Sonatas And Interludes For Prepared Piano
**2022 stock** Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano, a cycle of 20 short pieces for prepared piano (a piano modified by inserting nuts and bolts and other objects between the piano strings in order to produce percussive and otherworldly sound effects) by American composer John Cage. Created in 1946–48 after the composer had been introduced to Indian visual and performing arts, the cycle was intended to represent the so-called permanent emotions—the heroic, the erotic, the wondrous, the comi…
CoolAugustMoon
**2021 stock** Italian pianist Arturo Stàlteri's Cool August Moon is an album based on Brian Eno's music. Stàlteri (helped by Arlo Bigazzi on some tracks) rearranged Eno's compositions to make a work of his own. The Italian musician imposed his conception of the music over Eno's original pieces. For this project, he played accompanied by a chamber orchestra, putting aside most electric instruments appearing on Eno's pieces. And, although the tunes he covers are from different albums, Cool August…
Syriarise
**2021 stock** With Materiali Sonori Arturo Stalteri released the CD “Syriarise," a work combining two different artistic approaches: an electronic suite with minimalist and ethnic influences and a section dedicated to the piano. This was the first in a long series of projects with the Tuscan record label, which considers Stalteri as one of its most representative artists.
Adaptation
**Original 1983 pressing, sealed copies. Few available** In the late 1970s, Steve Piccolo was a founding member of the seminal No Wave jazz band Lounge Lizards along with John Lurie, his brother Evan Lurie and Arto Lindsay. He’d studied music at Bard and NYU and was doing performances, art and sound installations at night while during the day maintaining a job as a Wall Street computer analyst. This is his second solo LP, again a minimalist and radical rethinking of song, mixing a post-punk/DIY…
Opal
**Random color edition** A cornerstone in European experimental and popular modern composition. Formed around the core of jazz vibrafonist Christian Burchard and drummer Dieter Serfas, the band started their career in Munich in 1969. 40 years later, more than 300 musicians have passed thru' their ranks, from their colleagues of Amon Duül II (Lother Meid, Chris Karrer, Jimmy Jackson), Xhol (Hansi Fischer), Between (Roberto Detree, Peter Hamel) to renowned jazzmen (Charlie Mariano, Mal Waldron) or…
Live Ghosts
With this album , the return of the Third Ear Band became reality mostly though the realization of an italian producer and label owner of Materiali Sonori and longtime fan. Two of the four original members regrouped and added Mick Carter on guitar which was to remain for many years to come and Alan Samuel on Violin but the fourth member will often change for future albums . But the music has not change after a 15 year stop, and we are right away plunged through the usual and quasi dronal music T…