ADRIANO LANZI & OMAR SODANO



Adriano Lanzi and Omar Sodano were both born in Rome in the beginning of the Seventies. They had been knowing each other for a long time while playing - separately - in a number of bands active in the rock underground of their hometown, later being involved in live and studio sessions for singer-songwriters and west-african griots, sound engineering, audio-video postproduction, live music to silent movies and installations. Around 1997 they began to shape a project together, recording improvisations with different guest musicians, and making their own experiments with electronics. In 1999 the two fields (electronics and improvised music) were mixed in Emancipazione, a CD-r collage which displayed a variety of musical landscapes, somehow in the Faust Tapes vein. Faust keyboard-player (and Klangbad label boss) Hans Joachim Irmler's appreciation of that 50 minutes audio cut-up led up, in time, to their contribution to the Faust-remix album Freispiel, (2002) with the dismembering and rebuilding of Carousel II. And more recently to their debut album La Vita Perfetta, where they played all the instruments except the winds, performed by three friends from the folk and free jazz scenes of Rome: Renato Ciunfrini, Ersilia Prosperi and Federico Fabrizzi. In their present live-set they are often helped by Anadi Mishra, who puts his hands on a vast collection of percussion instruments from all around the world.

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