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Of Strings and Bridges

by MU

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    Original 2016 CD with booklet & jewel case. New but not shrink wrapped.

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1.
Cicero Pro Domo Sua 05:04
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2.
Il Primissimo Kiwi 03:22
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3.
Dobbs 06:29
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4.
The Return of the Transparent Giant Space Squid from the Sixth Dimension 03:47
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5.
Giochi Ritmici Contro I Tipi Da Spiaggia 04:45
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6.
The Fall of the House of Usher 02:01
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7.
Usanza Continentale 03:13
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8.
Baby Blue 02:36
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9.
Poliedri 04:51
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10.
Medusa 02:03
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11.
Love in Outer Space 05:50
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about

The duo MU - guitarist Adriano Lanzi and cellist Federica Vecchio - was started to explore the interaction of cello and guitar in 2015, keeping the instruments in their most naked and purely acoustic dimension.

A very minimal use of electronics became part of the game along the way. Their music is equally shaped by free improvisation and by compositional process (the latter in various degrees of strictness and openness), so they draw from their different musical idioms and backgrounds and revisit them with a freshness and freedom that would not be possible otherwise.

Adriano Lanzi has been playing with the rockjazz quartet El Topo, with the electroacoustic trio K-Mundi, with "rock in opposition" veteran Geoff Leigh, and with west african griot Siriman Kanoutè, among others. Perugia Conservatory graduate Federica Vecchio has been a member of Symphonica Nova Ars orchestra; she took part in movie soundtrack recordings with the Orchestra Italiana del Cinema, and has performed with Musicomici trio, the post rock band ET//AL and the Sharareh String Quartet.

Adriano Lanzi: amplified acoustic guitar, effects
Federica Vecchio: cello

“The album is an interesting blend of composition and free improv and adding these alternate musical planes to their diverse processes brings a welcome sparkle to the mix. Some electronics have been stirred in but fairly minimally, never to interfere with the notion of the acoustic elements. Neither this nor any other aspect of the music interrupts the flow of this investigative dialogue and their new discoveries take the duo forward to an acute integration of their dissimilar languages.” - Ken Cheetham, Jazz Views

“The duo MU consists of Adriano Lanzi on amplified acoustic guitar and "effects" along with Federica Vecchi playing the cello for a collection of free thinking compositions and improvisations. Lanzi does most of the composing, with some bowed stings and guitar picking creating some pastoral moods on "Cicero Pro Doma Sua" while the strings muse together on "Poliedri." The four improvisations range from the melancholy "Dobbs" to chiming strings on "The Fall of the House of Usher" while the read of Sun Ra’s " Love In Outer Space" begs for more from his songbook. Intrepid interplay.” - George W. Harris, Jazz Weekly

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released September 23, 2016

Recorded, mixed and mastered in KiwiStudio, Rome, spring 2015 to spring 2016, by Adriano Lanzi.

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