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Marco Colonna / Edoardo Marraffa / Fabrizio Spera / Marco Zanotti: Red Planet
by John Sharpe
Red Planet is the first public performance of an ad hoc quartet convened by Area Sismica, an arts initiative in Forli, northern Italy, dedicated to allowing tradition and innovation to coexist. The band brings together four stalwarts of the Italian scene, reedmen Marco Colonna and Edoardo Marraffa plus two drummers Fabrizio Spera and Marco Zanotti. For everyone involved it was their first concert following the long initial Covid lockdown and the communal vibe is palpable. In a near hour-long set, ...
Continue ReadingRoots Magic Sextet: Long Old Road
by Mark Corroto
The poet Jayne Cortez once wrote “I'm taking the blues back to where / the blues stealers won't go / I'm talking the blues back home." For Roots Magic, back home isn't the crossroads where Robert Johnson made that infamous deal with the devil, but the peninsula in Southern Europe we call Italy. Long Old Road is the band's fourth release on Clean Feed Records and it follows Take Root Among The Stars (2020), Last Kind Words (2017), and Hoodoo ...
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