Danilo Gallo - Musician and composer

Rollerball is the first human combustion engine and consists of five simple pistons, all manufactured in various Italian regions. This is its remarkable strength. World unique, Rollerball is a device that produces loud, rolling, blurred sounds. Its unusual 'five points' shape has often stressed his stellar and esoteric character, although it's more often associated to the explosion of plastic micro-charges because of its remarkable physical resemblance with detonations. The lack of a cooling air system forces the engine to be cooled with liquid exclusively derived from the fermentation (total or partial) of grapes. This makes Rollerball most easy to keep in motion than any other engine and has the advantage of increasing its resistance to the aerodinamic noise flow coming from outside.
If supercharged, after the passage of fuel in the compressor or in the turbine of the instruments which it consists of, Rollerball can give rise to uncontrollable sound explosions. Watch Rollerball working is an unknown and obscure experience from which you may not come back.

Reinvent jazz from new aestethics is not an issue anymore. The music of the new millennium is more than ever connected to the retrieval and creative arrangement of suggestions coming from the musicians' own experiences. Materials come from the most disparate fields, often eradicated from a cinematography that features dazzling and uncompromised sonic devices. Musicians as biological databases, subtle consciences that give their own memories a new employment. Those memories are redeemed from the tyranny of their original purposes and nostalgic reminiscence. Musicians as liberating - and rescued - souls.
Danilo Gallo and Max Sorrentini's God Fried Finger is a bright manifesto of this finding poetics, an assertion of re-compositional wisdom that ends up bringing the common instrumental functions into question. Blonde Zeros are a bass and a drumset that generate carrier structures, making themselves a story that doesn't depend on further musical layers. Layers that, nevertheless, are there, and valuable: Giorgio Pacorig's visionary keyboards, Piero Bittolo Bon's urgent alto sax, Maria Vicentini's excellent strings, Laura Copiello's voice, Danilo Gallo's poly-instrumentalism.
Recorded by Blaž Celarec in the snow of Ljubljana, this music shines brightly in Enrico Terragnoli's wonderful mix and post-production.

BOOKING & MANAGEMENT : ZERO ZERO JAZZ http://www.zerozerojazz.it 

A truly remarkable quintet, Mickey Finn, embellished by Cuong Vu's trumpet: electric sounds - echoes of Miles Davis in the Seventies and English rock, posterities from Chicago and some funk - spreading in dreamlike and restless landscapes, haunted by low-fi ghosts.
Excellent performance by Giorgio Pacorig on keyboards and Enrico Terragnoli on guitar, backed by a sulphurous Danilo Gallo on bass and by Zeno De Rossi on drums, while Cuong Vu, as usual, paints his poignant and lysergic lines.

The album pays tribute to Soviet aviator and cosmonaut Jurij Alekseevič Gagarin, the first man in space.


BOOKING: ZEROZEROJAZZ www.zerozerojazz.it 

BOOKING: www.cycpromotions.com

www.guanopadano.com

This project began on a misty november morning, from a recording of completely improvised music without any preconceived destination. It was only the red "record" light that gave these five musicians the "green light" to begin their telepathic interplay.
This freat sense of freedom on the part of musicians involved pushed the music into familiar and new territory, towards moving horizons.
I dedicate this work to the musicians of the world that, through their continual creation and pursuit for depth in music, create and mantein a circular motion in life.
Enzo Carpentieri

The project stems from the book titled “Os caminhos de Garibaldi na America”, found by Enzo Favata in a Rio de Janeiro’s library during one of his South American tours in 2008. The subsequent idea of telling Garibaldi’s life in an unusual way – between oral storytelling and jazz improvisation – gave birth to the project “Os caminhos de Garibaldi”, a production involving seven musicians, one storyteller and video projection with historical iconography about the legendary hero. 

The story begins with Giuseppe Garibaldi’s last days in the island of Caprera, when the memories of youth became more vivid and present within him, particularly those related to the years spent in South America fighting against dictatorships. That period was crucial for the development of the future general and it also enriched his life with the discovery of love, friendship and feeling for nature, enhanced by Latin American boundless landscape.

Music composers Enzo Favata and Alfonso Santimone have worked on different sound materials. By reinterpreting some opera arias and nineteenth century folk music and mixing them with contemporary sounds, they managed to create a musical blend echoing Brazilian candombe and maracatù’s rhythms as well as those of Southern Italy and of Italian islands’ music traditions.

 This results in a joyful outburst of colours and showcases the interpretative freedom of the complex musical pieces, composed and arranged by Enzo Favata and Alfonso Santimone. By playing with such a musical structure the band’s performances manage to evoke the best of both the Liberation Orchestra and the Sun Ra Orchestra, and in some moments they recall Ellington’s extraordinary music. This highlights the great creativity and interplay of the musicians, coming from different Italian regions, different generations and different music cultures, and it also renders a beautiful and colourful idea of the Italian Unification. 

The band is original both in sound and in the ensemble, being composed by some of the best representatives of Italian creative jazz.

The general timbre is characterised by an intense propulsive energy, featuring an unusual combination of band music and jazz interpretative freedom, that in some moments reveals an extraordinary tenderness.

“We could define the band as a proper Garibaldi’s ensemble, where music naturally flows with the energy of the revolutionary fighters and pursues the story of the hero and icon of freedom, Giuseppe Garibaldi. It continues with several flashbacks and different paths, blending together themes of the Resurgence, ancient Brazilian tunes, candombe rhythms and vigorous marches. And in this intertwining of sounds some authentic thematic masterpieces emerge, such as “Va’ pensiero” or the theme of Anita’s ballad and the band’s final piece playing the famous Sardinian traditional melody Corsicana”. (Enzo Favata)