Italian
NANA VASCONCELOS
ANTONELLO SALIS
PEPPE CONSOLMAGNO
Nana Vasconcelos - percussion, voice
Antonello Salis - piano, accordion, voice
Peppe Consolmagno - percussion, voice, live sample
Photo by repertory
Photo by repertory
Photo by Toni Luca
From CD: VASCONCELOS - SALIS CONSOLMAGNO
Recorded live direct two tracks at Fandango Jazz Festival La Palma -2004
Cajù Records, new realise 2005
1. Caribbean Dreams (A.Salis) - MP3 1.014 kb
2. Nogales (A.Salis) - MP3 890 kb
3. Loro (E.Gismonti) - MP3 954 kb
4. Lester (A.Salis) - MP3 1.138 kb
5. Lion Heart (G.Consolmagno) - MP3 1.134 kb
* Altre info sul Cd
PRESS HERE to read the article published in Drum Club Magazine, Dec 2004
Nana Vasconcelos and Antonello Salis had already played together, twenty years ago: a meeting
that resulted in “Lester”, the album that came out in 1988 under Soul Note. Cut in 1985 but still up
to date, it is one of the most significant records published by the two famous musicians which, at the
same time, includes, even today, the happy addition of Peppe Consolmagno in the line up. The trio
Vasconcelos, Salis and Consolmagno is based on pliability, the ability to invent melodies and on the
simplicity with which they build new forms of musical experience. A particularly fascinating
musical encounter between compostition and improvisation, tradition and modernity.
It’s hard to describe in few words
the intensity that Nana
Vasconcelos can bring to a
concert. When he comes on the
stage, the music starts to become
something magical. Nana is not
only popular, he is also an
innovator, who has amplified the
concept of percussion extending
it to everything that emits sound:
nature, electronics and human
bodies are the fields where Nana
have made his experiments,
always bearing in mind the
Brazilian musical tradition. If
you assist to a concert by Nana,
you will see a one man band
playing the strangest instruments
and the audience transformed
into an instrument too. Antonello
Salis is an extrovert and creative
musician, a real force of nature
and also a poet. Versatile,
unforeseeable, simple and
innovative; a complete musician,
he can pass from playing the
piano to the accordion with the
same fantastic style – he lives for
music with extreme passion, a
daydream to share with
musicians and spectators alike.
Thanks to his great sense of
rhythm that permits him a
remarkable self sufficiency, he
generally prefers to collaborate
with percussionists and
drummers. Peppe Consolmagno,
who is considered the Italian
Alter-ego of Nana Vasconcelos,
is very concerned with the search
for new sounds, overriding the
classical language of percussions
in order to create sound track.
Unlike Nana, Peppe seems to
draw closer to the noises of our
urban civilization, dissecting the
complex reflections that are born
from the contrast between the
desire to meditate and the
frenetic pace of the twenty first
century man. He builds
instruments for himself and for
Nana too, he is a surrealist artist,
a sort of De Chirico of the music
world, who transforms the stage
into a workshop of dreams.
Photo by Victoria Lourdes Baltodano
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PRESS HERE to download in PDF
format, the Trio's Technical Rider.
Ask for informative material.
Members: N. 5 (3 musicians, 1 tour manager, 1 engineer)
For further information, contact:
(Giuseppe) PEPPE CONSOLMAGNO Strada Serre, 7 - 61010 Tavullia (PU) Italia
Tel/Fax: 0039 0721 476230 e-mail: [email protected]
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