Artist: Picchio dal Pozzo
Album: In Camporella
Genre: Jazz Rock, Art Rock
Release Date: 2023
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 48 kHz
Duration: 40:42
Total Tracks: 4
Total Size: 486 MB

Tracklist:

1-01. Picchio dal Pozzo – Adagio con fuoco (09:28)
1-02. Picchio dal Pozzo – Cottura lenta (14:33)
1-03. Picchio dal Pozzo – Zanzare al pesto (09:14)
1-04. Picchio dal Pozzo – Pugni chiusi (07:26)

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A few months before the COVID-19 2020 lockdown, I received a CD labelled ‘Valdapozzo 05/30/2004’, from an unknown sender. Thinking it over, it came to me… yes! On that day we had performed a unique gig at Valdapozzo, the location where we had recorded the CD ‘Pic_nic@Valdapozzo’ just two years before.

My first impression had been that of a great performance, though, actually, it sounded like a total mess.

The rules of engagement for this gig were total improvisation based on the audio samples of Demetrio Stratos’ voice and some sequences of the album.

For musicians, and not only for them, two years of lockdown meant the smoke of hundreds of cigarettes blown inside empty pockets.

So, instead of playing Tetris, I resolved to edit the sound of the stereo tracks by fragmenting them into frequency bands, and remixing the whole lot to a new sound.

This is the result, perhaps not a masterpiece, but passionately reworked.