Play the Music of Bill Frisell Vol.1 & 2

by Unscientific Italians

supported by

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

€18 EUR or more
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
2 compact discs coming in a deluxe 3 page digifile case with drawings by Bill Frisell and lettering by Francesco Chiacchio.

Includes unlimited streaming of Play the Music of Bill Frisell Vol.1 & 2 via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

ships out within 2 days

€20 EUR or more

1.	Before We Were Born - Vol.1 01:11	buy track
2.	Probability Cloud - Vol.1 12:02	buy track
3.	Unsung Heroes - Vol.1 08:56	buy track
4.	Hangdog - Vol.1 04:51	buy track
5.	Rob Roy - Vol.1 07:10	buy track
6.	Twenty Years - Vol.1 07:09	buy track
7.	Verona - Vol.1 02:55	buy track
8.	Freddy's Step - Vol.2 03:38	buy track
9.	Love Motel - Vol.2 08:00	buy track
10.	Pip, Squeak - Vol.2 06:48	buy track
11.	Goodbye - Vol.2 03:19	buy track
12.	Throughout - Vol.2 10:26	buy track
13.	Unscientific Americans - Vol.2 03:29	buy track
14.	Egg Radio - Vol.2 08:38	buy track

about

HORA Records is pleased to annouce the release of Unscientific Italians Play The Music of Bill Frisell – Volume 2 on November 25th 2022. This new chapter follows the acclaimed Volume 1, which was released in 2021 and received praise world-wide both from music critics and the community of Frisell Fans, leading the band to be awarded as ‘Band of the Year 2021’ by Italian jazz critics pool ‘Top Jazz’.

The ensemble Unscientific Italians, led by pianist, arranger and composer Alfonso Santimone, features some of the most gifted performers and bandleaders on the Italian scene: Fulvio Sigurtà and Mirco Rubegni on trumpet and flughelhorn, Filippo Vignato and Federico Pierantoni on trombone, Cristiano Arcelli, Piero Bittolo Bon, Francesco Bigoni, Rossano Emilli on reeds, Danilo Gallo on bass and Zeno De Rossi on drums.

The new volume will be published on vinyl, digitally, and in a special LTD edition Double CD together with the Vol.1 with the blessing of Bill Frisell himself, who generously offered some of his sketches for the covers artwork.

Bill Frisell is undoubtedly one of the most influential masters in today’s jazz landscape. However, his compositions remain unexplored, perhaps because of a lack of critical distance, perhaps because their apparent simplicity hides impenetrable folds to those who lack the right perspective.

Musically speaking, Unscientific Italians is not a tribute or an orchestral rendition of Frisell’s music, but rather an idiosyncratic rewriting and orchestration that borrows his compositional and instrumental language.

The first four tunes are a reinterpretation of the entire ‘Some Song and Dance’ suite from 1989 Frisell masterpiece album ‘Before We Were Born’

The album continues with Frisell classic ‘Throughout’ (known as well with the title ‘Steady Girl’ - with lyrics by Arto Lindsay), goes on with the song responsible for the band’s name ‘Unscientific Americans’ and ends with ‘Egg Radio'.

credits

released November 25, 2022

Mirco Rubegni trumpet, flugelhorn, french horn
Fulvio Sigurtà trumpet, flugelhorn
Filippo Vignato trombone
Federico Pierantoni trombone (All tracks except 8,11,14)
Lorenzo Manfredini (Tracks 8,11,14)
Cristiano Arcelli alto sax, soprano sax, bass clarinet
Piero Bittolo Bon alto sax, clarinet, bass clarinet
Francesco Bigoni tenor sax, clarinet, live electronics on brass
Rossano Emili baritone sax, bass clarinet (All tracks except 8,11,14)
Beppe Scardino baritone sax, bass clarinet (Tracks 8,11,14)
Alfonso Santimone piano, live electronics on clarinets
Danilo Gallo double bass
Zeno De Rossi drums

All compositions by Bill Frisell (Friz-Tone Music BMI)
Arranged and conducted by Alfonso Santimone

Produced by Unscientific Italians and Hora Records

Recorded October 22-23, 2019 (All tracks except 8,11,14) and May 24, 2021 (Tracks 8,11,14) at Teatro Asioli, Correggio (RE), Italy

Recording Engineer: Diego Bergamini
Mixed by Alfonso Santimone @ blackHole unLTD
Mastered by Giovanni Versari at La Maestà, Tredozio (FC), Italy

Cover Drawings by Bill Frisell

Artwork and design by Francesco Chiacchio

Thanks to: Alessandro Pelli and Teatro Asioli Correggio, Stefano Merighi and Centro d’Arte Padova, Francesco Bettini, Eleonora Sole Travagli and Jazz Club Ferrara, Hans Wendl, Paolo Vignato, Francesco Chiacchio, Petra Haden, StefanoDallaporta, Irene Bregola and to all the past members of the band.

Special thanks to Bill Frisell.

Piero Bittolo Bon plays Rampone & Cazzani saxophones and SYOS mouthpieces.
Francesco Bigoni plays SYOS mouthpieces.
Alfonso Santimone uses OLLO Audio headphones model S4R for recording and model S4X for mixing (olloaudio.com)

HORA RECORDS ©+℗ Hora Records 2022 All rights reserved. 007-2211

license

about

Unscientific Italians Italy

11-piece band featuring some of the most gifted performers and bandleaders on the Italian scene.

contact / help

Contact Unscientific Italians

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like Unscientific Italians , you may also like:

Work (Complete, Volumes 1-6)
by Miles Okazaki

supported by 5 fans who also own “Play the Music of Bill Frisell Vol.1 & 2”

Okazaki is an ARTIST. He's skilled and thoughtful and an absolute pleasure to listen to. Joseph Voth
go to album
Artlessly Falling
by Mary Halvorson's Code Girl

supported by 5 fans who also own “Play the Music of Bill Frisell Vol.1 & 2”

Mary Halvorson is a genius composer and guitarist who has developed her own musical language, and with Code Girl she has incorporated poetry into that language. Incredible compositions and lyricism (each track is a different kind of poem). Halvorson's playing is as great as usual, and all the other members of the band sound great. Robert Wyatt's singing in particular works extremely well in the tracks he's featured. Highly, highly recommend. rat
go to album
Cloudward
by Mary Halvorson

supported by 4 fans who also own “Play the Music of Bill Frisell Vol.1 & 2”

I am a huge fan of everything Mary does. Maybe too big a fan. :( sadbob
go to album
DEVOTION
by Muriel Grossmann

featured on Bandcamp Radio Dec 5, 2023
go to album
UNION
by Muriel Grossmann

featured on Bandcamp Radio Nov 2, 2021
go to album
QUIET EARTH
by Muriel Grossmann

featured on Bandcamp Radio Dec 8, 2020
go to album
Kaleidoscope Of Rainbows: Live '75
by Neil Ardley

supported by 4 fans who also own “Play the Music of Bill Frisell Vol.1 & 2”

Love love love 🙃😂♥️♥️♥️🙏💯🙏👋🌟👍 albertwyattcarleo
go to album