Marco Testoni
Marco Testoni
Marco Testoni is an extraordinary percussionist, keyboard player and composer, whose latest album Impatiens featured the collaboration of Billy Cobham, the father of modern drumming. With the striking and suggestive sound of his set of Caisa drums (new generation metallophones belonging to the same family of the more famous Caribbean steel drums) Marco Testoni has once again brought out the capacity of percussion to fully express the “lyricism of rhythm”, which represents the artistic essence and the manifesto of his
style of music.
Compositore e percussionista. Marco Testoni
è una particolarissima figura di artista poliedrico. Al suo
album "Impatiens" hanno collaborato artisti quali Billy Cobham,
il padre del drumming moderno, Nicola Alesini, Michele Ascolese
e l'ensemble percussionistico Hang Camera. Con il suono
suggestivo del suo set di caisa drum (metallofoni di nuova
generazione simili ai più noti steel drum caraibici) la musica
di Marco Testoni esprime compiutamente la ricerca del "lirismo
del ritmo" che rappresenta l'essenza artistica del suo stile.
Marco Testoni website
www.marcotestoni.com
Pollock Project website
www.pollockproject.com
Hang Camera website
www.hangcamera.net
YouTube channel
Albums
IMPATIENS
Marco Testoni & Hang Camera
feat. Billy Cobham
An album of 11 tracks around the sound of the Caisa and Hang Drum. Sweeping from ambient
music to nu-jazz; from the polyrhythmic suggestions of traditional popular music to a touch of minimalism.
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OFF ENSEMBLE
Marco Testoni & Marco De Angelis
Off Ensemble was formed by Marco Testoni and Marco De Angelis in 1999, in collaboration with Mike Applebaum, Alessandro Gwis
and Guido Benigni. Nu-Jazz and traditional Mediterranean music combined with Electronica and Drum'n'Bass. The result, enriched by lyrics drawn from poetry or inspired by the visual arts, is a compelling and unusual sound: a wide-ranging union of musical styles and artistic experience.
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SOUNDS & FLOWERS
A Musical Tribute to Dr Bach
Marco Testoni / Marco De
Angelis / Mats Hedberg / Federico Mosconi
A collection of original instrumental music inspired by the Dr. Bach's flowers. The Cd contains 9 tracks of relaxing music dedicated to 7 basic negative states of mind discovered by Dr. Bach.
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OBLIQUA VOL.00
Various Artists
An
oblique world-music collection from all over the world by Stefanie Ringes & Michele Ascolese, Elisabeth Cutler, Peppe Sannino, Turkish Café,
Loveth IPC Okoro, Miriam Netti, Yemayà, E102, Marco Testoni &
Hang Camera feat. Billy Cobham.
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New Release
January 2012
POLLOCK PROJECT
(2012 - Tre Lune Records)
Marco Testoni, Nicola Alesini, Max Di Loreto
Visionary art-jazz
for free spirits. A musical project born from the encounter between Marco Testoni and Nicola Alesini. The evocative and visionary aspects of their own personal approaches to music brought them together in an unprecedented artistic collaboration, and this has now been enriched by the magic of wind instruments and the physicality of percussion, combined in a captivating and enthralling way. These two musicians are artistically non-aligned, but they are united by the same need for complete artistic autonomy, free from any classifications and genres, which has led them to collaborate with artists travelling, like them upon unusual musical paths (such as David Sylvian, Billy Cobham and Roger Eno). Always navigating without fear or formalism, in the atmospheres of world music and jazz improvisation with hints of ambient, minimalism and art-rock to create a marvellous magically evocative mix, with the Pollock project Testoni & Alesini have now enhanced their musical palette with some intense new Surrealist colours. Completing the trio is Max Di Loreto (Drums & Percussions), a very versatile instrumentalist who adds an infinite range of timbres and tones to the performances of the trio with his extensive set of percussion.
more info
related artists
Hang Camera
Pollock Project
Luis Salinas
Nicola Alesini
Billy Cobham
Mats Hedberg
Michele Ascolese
E102
Arturo Stalteri
COMPILATIONS