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UNFOLK - ALESSANDRO MONTI
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Location: Venezia
Country: Italy Italy
Last Login: Mar 27, 2008 (156 days back)
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About Me
Welcome to the International UNFOLK MySpace (English language): unorthodox folk music shifting from acoustic to metal, from raga to dark electronic waves into pure noise, an unknown trad. music... in other words: SECULAR KOSMISCHE FOLK /// Here’s the Unfolk Collective: master guitarist Alex Masi (friend from childhood), brilliant violin/flute wizard Marco Giaccaria, rhythm alchemist Bebo Baldan (Tantratribe), multi-instrumentalist Adriano Clera (one of Robert Fripp’s alumni), Gigi Masin (electronics and computer work), Camomatic (computer work, acoustic, el. & slide gtrs) with Ricky De Zorzi (creative engineering & sonic ideas) /// Currently busy mixing pt.2 of the project with more musical friends: Franco Moruzzi (drums), Paolo Vianello (drums), Halo XVI (electronics & gtr), Madriema (gtrs, loops & keyboards), R.S. Duane (psychedelic gtr solos), KAR (electronics & feedbacks), Juri (cello). Approx release date SPRING/SUMMER 2008... stay tuned! ///SPECIAL THANKS TO KIMBER FOR STARTING IT ALL!

DISTRIBUTION INFO (please copy & paste)

UNFOLK - ALESSANDRO MONTI (Ltd. edition CD - gatefold cover with insert) is available from:

CD BABY (CD or MP3)

at: cdbaby.com/cd/alessandromonti

(The MP3 audio files are very high quality, about 200kbps VBR, encoded using the “LAME” MP3 encoder on its audiophile settings. Your MP3s will play on any hardware).

CD UNIVERSE

at: http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=7318888

DEMOS distribution

at: www.demosrecords.it

stella*nera

at: stella_nera@tin.it

PayPlay.FM

at: payplay.fm/alessandromonti (regular MP3 files: no software to install!)

MUSIC IS HERE

at: http://musicishere.com/artists/Alessandro_Monti/unfolk

Apple iTunes

at: phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playLis tId=208092667

AND MANY MORE (PLEASE SEE CD BABY FOR FURTHER DETAILS).

SELECTED REVIEWS

"Beautifully produced music that brings a refreshing new angle to the folk/world/electro discourse. Monti seamlessly brings cultures and sounds together in a very personal universe. Inventiveness and high-level musicianship deliver an emotionally charged journey through time and space" (Daniel Biro, musician)

"...between electronics and ethno-folk suggestions (...) file this album in your shelf just close to steve tibbetts’ releases" (Marco Pandin - stella*nera website)

"...Most tracks are based upon beautiful instrument combinations with mandoline, in a way like Led Zeppelin’s “Gallows Pole” was built. Melodically and in sound the mandoline layer sounds beautiful with acoustic and electric guitars, tabla, tonal keyboards and a few other string instruments... A very enjoyable, soft-hypnotic, mostly acoustic album, with a certain progressive vision" (G. Van Waes - Psych-folk & acid-folk reviews)

"Based around mandolin,violin,and hand drums the songs seamlessly weave hints of Celtic, East Indian, western folk, and rock throughout the disc, but beyond that, it defies being labelled as a specific genre. It’s a breath of musical fresh air that flows effortlessly and easily without ever becoming boring or predictable" (M.Cleveland from CD BABY)

"The sound’s crystal clear, but the vibe’s through a glass darkly: the mandolin is in the room, right here; the electric violin is down the hall unseen (where the mysteries live); the dist.el.gtr. rattles the windows like there’s a hurricane coming; and are those tablas really being struck by shadows? So anyway, like I was saying, sounds pretty good to me (...), Monti’s got this unfolk thing nailed" (Steve from CD BABY).

"…Unfolk è un folk come lo si vorrebbe nel mondo dei sogni, uno dei tanti modi possibili di intenderlo; uno dei più fascinosi e meno battuti nella sua essenza trasparente. Possiede spigoli smussati e superfici piane ed assolate. Vitale di urgenza espressiva vera e non semplice esigenza di mercato, è un dire qualcosa che spezzi il silenzio; ponderato ed attento. Un folk inattuale perché senza tempo. Perché non conosce e si riconosce in mode e movimenti, cane sciolto che prende boccata d’aria con la lingua a penzoloni; indeciso se confondersi con l’orizzonte o tornare sui propri passi (…) E la meraviglia ci accende gli occhi ed il cuore; difficile trattenersi. Fricke Out in compagnia di Masin si dedica logicamente allo scomparso Florian e poi in conclusione Fine Dell’Infanzia / Oscura Profezia lascia la porta socchiusa sul futuro; un girotondo del solo Alessandro che si squarcia sul suo gemello elettrico angolare. Si scorge in lontananza aria di tempesta. Il naturale contraltare; l’arrivo dell’uragano elettrico. Metal Machine Music che zampilla furiosa in libero flusso. Un’indicazione futura? Per me; semplicemente qualcosa da amare. Della stessa pasta di cui sono fatte le stelle… Le più belle…" (Marco Carcasi, Sands-Zine - TOP ONE, feb. 2007)


Cover detail from "Concerto" by Alberto Martini (1920), courtesy of (per gentile concessione del) Dott. Giorgio Anderloni


"THIS COMPUTER KILLS FASCISTS"

(Todd Rundgren from "Liars", with thanks to Woody!)


"Padded with power here they come
international loan sharks backed by the guns
of market hungry military profiteers
whose word is a swamp and whose brow is smeared
with the blood of the poor

who rob life of its quality
who render rage a necessity
by turning countries into labour camps
modern slavers in drag as champions of freedom

sinister cynical instrument
who makes the gun into a sacrament --
the only response to the deification
of tyranny by so-called "developed" nations’
idolatry of ideology

north south east west
kill the best and buy the rest
it’s just spend a buck to make a buck
you don’t really give a flying fuck
about the people in misery" (...)

(Bruce Cockburn "Call It Democracy")

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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/6/2007
Band Website: unfolkam.it
Band Members: The Unfolk Collective in the added recordings (please use your headphones or good speakers if possible...):

IL SOGNO DI DEVI (DEVI’S DREAM):

Marco Giaccaria - electric violin // Ricky De Zorzi - acoustic guitar // A.M. - mandolin, bass guitar, electric guitar, sequencer // Recorded at Bienixarte, VE

ALMANACCO DEL GIORNO PRIMA (vocal):

Marco Giaccaria - fiddle // Bebo Baldan - drums // A.M. - mandolin, acoustic & slide guitar, voice // Recorded at Exit studio & Bienixarte-VE // alternate English version taken from the "unfolk" sessions, original title: DAYS (unreleased)

FINE DELL’INFANZIA/OSCURA PROFEZIA (CHILDHOOD’S END/DARK PROPHECY):

A.M. - mandolins, bass guitar, digital tampoura, distorted guitar // Recorded at Bienixarte, VE

THE BASS CLEF:

A.M. - bass guitar solo // Recorded at Exit studio, VE // taken from the demo "title" (unreleased)

PIOGGIA PERDUTA E RITROVATA (LOST AND FOUND RAIN):

A.M. - electric mandolin, bass guitar, organ // Ricky De Zorzi - acoustic guitar // Franco Moruzzi - drums // R.S. Duane - guitar solo // ROUGH MIX from UNFOLK2 - scheduled for Spring/Summer 2008 // Recorded at Exit studio, VE

POSITIVE SWITCH:

Paolo Sisto & Anonymous - gtr + mandolin loops // Silvia Donaggio - voice // Bebo Baldan - grooves // Micromix - sonic assistant // A.M. - bass, synth, organs, effects & arrangement // Recorded at Exit studio, VE // taken from the 1999 demo "title" (unreleased)


Influences: JOHN PAUL JONES' mandolin work with Led Zep, ROBIN WILLIAMSON, MIKE HERON, CLIVE PALMER individually & collectively (Incredible String Band), DAVE SWARBRICK's violin style, FAIRPORT CONVENTION, C.O.B., JOHN RENBOURN, BERT JANSCH & PENTANGLE, FOTHERINGAY, STRAWBS, STEELEYE SPAN, COMUS, THIRD EAR BAND, ALAN STIVELL, DAN AR BRAS, MALICORNE, LYONESSE, SHIRLEY COLLINS, DAVID MUNROW, NCCP, Early & Renaissance Music, JORDI SAVALL, MOONDOG (LOUIS T. HARDIN), Indian classical music (U.SRINIVAS-mandolin, ALI AKBAR KHAN-sarod, USTAD SULTAN KHAN-sarangi, RAVI SHANKAR, NIKHIL BANERJEE, NARANDRA BATAJU-sitar, USTAD BISMILLAH KHAN-shenai, PANDIT BHIMSEN JOSHI-voice, USTAD ALLA RAKHA, ZAKIR HUSSAIN-tabla etc.), MAJAWAR ABBAS (mandolin & gtr with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan), SALAMAT ALI KHAN, MUZSIKAS, VOIX BULGAIRES, Greek folk music, MASTER MUSICIANS OF JOUJOUKA with & without BRIAN JONES, THE BEATLES, JOHN LENNON & PLASTIC ONO BAND, GEORGE HARRISON, NEIL YOUNG, JOHN MARTYN, NICK DRAKE, 666 by APHRODITE'S CHILD, FRIPP & ENO, METAL MACHINE MUSIC Lp & Concert version by LOU REED & ZEITKRATZER, JOHN CALE, VU, SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES, JOY DIVISION, COMSAT ANGELS, SEX PISTOLS, PIL, TODD RUNDGREN, PAVLOV'S DOG, 80's SYNTH POP, KRAUTROCK, POPOL VUH, JOCELYN POOK, TERJE RYPDAL, DEREK BAILEY, JAMES BLOOD ULMER, STEVE TIBBETTS, LA MONTE YOUNG, TERRY RILEY, early PHILIP GLASS, STEVE REICH, NEW ELECTRONICA... Uhmmm... please view all "My Friends" for more personal favourites!


Sounds Like: Secular Kosmische Folk
Record Label: diplodisc - stella*nera
Type of Label: Indie

My Background and Lifestyle
Occupation: Music Artist (Folk Rock / Electroacoustic / Other)

My Friends
UNFOLK MYTH & related works, a quiet season..., ALEX MASI, Gigi Masin, theAlchemist BEBO best BALDAN, BienixArte, Madriema, HaloXVI, Alessandro Pizzin, Bob Brian, ludovikwolf, micromix, Romy, Meleia, Jeff Florreich, Dale Miller, Linda Arroz, mono-drone, ARECNAMES, mika pontecorvo (mikasf), Rym, LinDsaY, DULCIMERHEAD, Strawbs, Judy Dyble, Steve Scorfina, Kevin Hewick, Bruce Cockburn, Neil Young, Pegi Young, Lucinda Williams, Lou Reed, John Cale, Todd Rundgren, Utopia, Glitchdoctor, Marcello Capra, Randy Davidson, Vicky Emerson, Terri_inutopia, ~Karen~, FIRE (Official MySpace), armando petrini, TRANCEALEX, Meri-em, Chiara de Nardis, Christine

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