Fripp & Eno,Hendrix, Adrian Belew, Hans Reichel, Can, Faust, Beefheart, Andy Moor, noise, punk, Steve Reich, King Crimson, Radiohead, Keith Rowe, Steve Hillage/Gong, the environment, North Indian classical music & luck.
is a free improvising electronic guitarist. Using an artillery of pedal effects, found objects, samplers, external sound sources and ever shifting guitar tunings he constructs multi-layered soundscapes using a hands-on approach which enables him to fluctuate between diverse and colourful soundworlds.
In Spring 07 Alfredo relocated to Amsterdam where he absorbed himself into the free improvisation scene as well as becoming an active member of Magpie Music/Dance Company.
His versatility as a sonic improviser has seen him contribute to a diversity of art forms; He has worked within theatre (www.albassamtheatre.com), dance (Katie Duck), television (ie: ’Inside Clouds’/BBC2 doc, ’Urban Improviser’ /Channel 4 portrait), film, animation, performance art installations (ie; live performance in Peter Coffin’s greenhouse for ’Beating About The Bush’, South London Galllery) & educational workshops as well as doing his own live solo performances. Comissioned to compose a 45 minute work entitled ’North Sea’ for the Resonance FM Radio Orchestra. Also ’Space Soon’: The Resonance Radio Orchestra, under the conduction of Alfredo Genovesi, provide an audio backdrop to an interview between Lembit Opik MP (chairman of the Joint Parliamentary Committee for Near earth Collision & Cheeky Girl shagger) & Nick Spall (see photo album).
Reviews:
"Really outrageous stuff...The range of (his) work is awesome."John Zorn
"Genovesi’s interaction is a revelation. He’s a distinctive and imaginative player to keep an ear out for".Avant (New Music Journal)
"(He) conjures steel pans, trance loops, Stockhausen’s ’Zyklus’, Herbie Hancock and The Surfaris." Ben Watson (The Wire)
“Thanks to Alfredo Genovesi’s live ambient electronic score, the dream-like state is maintained”. Ian Johns (The Times)
"eddying currents of guitar overridden and rearranged by a culmative welter of modifications..loaded like detritus into the drift". David Stubbs (The Wire)
One year ago, Philippe Baudouin (aka Monsieur Tympan - phonographer) and Alexandre Manzanares (photographer) have produced a sound and photographic documentary about rural world, available on CD, called "Sous les pieds, la terre" (which means "Under the feet, the land"). To realize this project, they have collected sounds and pictures of people and landscapes they've met on the road: old country people, kids in garden, sounds of agricultural tools, beauty of mountains... In September 2008, Philippe decided to put online 30 samples of the sounds he recorded and to collaborate with Headphonica to release on their netlabel. With this sound samples, everyone was invented to make his own remix! The idea was to propose people to appropriate these field-recordings and to make a subjective remix. Even if these different sounds come from a very little part of the world (Vaucluse, France), the 80 remixes we've received show us the universality of these ones. Here is the result sent by people from all over the world! Enjoy yourself!
One of the highlights of the Vortex London Jazz Festival – TIME OUT
Featuring Fyfe Dangerfield (from Guillemots), Gannets posit an alternative jazz history in which 30's swing developed straight into a combined form of the free jazz and fusion movements, without any of the intervening decades.
Fyfe Dangerfield - keyboards + electronics
Alex J Ward - clarinet
Christopher Cundy - bass clarinet
Dominic Lash - double bass
Steve Noble - drums
CLUB INTEGRAL PRESENTS - HEXA / BENJAMIN BRUNEL / THE NOBODIES/THE BOYCOTT COCA-COLA EXPERIENCE
Club Integral present two concerts featuring Hexa from Manhattan, NYC on 20th and 22nd February at The Canterbury Arms in Brixton and Cafe Oto in Dalston
20th February: Club Integral 8:30 PM Friday 20th February 2009 Featuring irrepressible, adrenalized garage-band paeans from New York's finest - Hexa; mournful ballads about relationship breakup, with laughs, from the Nobodies; and agit-prop blues from Boycott Coca-Cola Experience. Entry: £5 before 9pm and £7 after 9pm. Canterbury Arms, Canterbury Crescent, Brixton, London SW9 7QD. (two minutes from Brixton tube)
22nd February: Club Integral @ Cafe Oto 8:00 PM Sunday 22nd February 2009 Hexa play an acoustic set. Singer/composer Benjamin Brunel plays a piano set of his caustic and original songs. Arch miserablists The Nobodies perform tragic cheap tavern songs about love. Entry £5 before 9.00 PM £7 after. Cafe Oto, 18-22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London E8
CLUB INTEGRAL on Friday 30th January 2009 - 8.00 PM until late. At THE CANTERBURY ARMS, Canterbury Crescent, Brixton SW9 - two minutes from Brixton tube station.
Entry: £5 before 9.00 PM, £7.00 after.
Featuring music from: Trumpet and beats duo LOOP ELLINGTON Avant-garde wayfarers KOBAYASHI Australian folk chansonniers THE DOOMED BIRD OF PROVIDENCE. + a special guest to be announced.
With projections from JAIME RORY LUCY of RUCKSACK CINEMA DJs CHRIS CORNETTO and KARINA TOWSEND (Chalkwell Ladies).
The 2nd release on NeedleSoup is out now! Kufr EP is by our long-time favourite The Rebel. Masterminded by Ben Wallers of the Country Teasers it's gem of ingenious, irreverent, song-writing originality. In keeping with Needlesoup's ethos of treating every release as a work of art, the sleeves are handprinted on watercolour paper & as special as the music itself. To order/for more info see our website:
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