Jean de La Jovenc, aka Giovanni Dal Monte(www.myspace.com/giovannidalmonte)
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Influences
....oh no!!! what can i say? from billie Holiday to Bjork? From Stockhausen to Gorecki?
from Hendrix to Matmos? from Mingus to Lachenmann? ethnic,pop,classical...Gnawa, ragas, sufi ? Please.....
Eno, scott,reich, ligeti,britten,varese?...handel, haydn, strauss's lieders, mozart...??? did they influence my music or should i say they first have feed my mind?
i don't know.
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and I would also say..lately silence is my preferred sound.
Everykind of music can bother me, mine first!
I think there are not only musical influences, but life experiences, culture context, literature, inclinations..which contribute to create an artistic dimension.
The way to perceive and use memories, love, hate, our fears..
and especially limits, they gave us the form (shape?)..and as we suppose, form is substance.
How could we get the meaning of Picasso or Reich for example, without contemplate first their visible form?
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And then paintings, colors..perfumes...relationships..
However, La Jovenc's music it's experimental, electronic, sometime jazzy and sometime concrete music, but warm, ritual and apocryphal.
It cames from somewhere in the past, it's here and now for a while and i don't know where it will goes.
A new video by La Jovenc: "Sicilian yell for Ayaan Hirsi Ali" from the album "Superanima".Director Piergiorgio De Pinto.Dedicated to all the women, men, gays, lesbians, to all who have different politic opinions who are persecuted all over the world by laws, dictature, religions and corrupted states. From north to south, from east to west
Here is the video of Devis Venturelli for the song "Going Home"
Sounds Like
nobody else
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you can see some extracts from La Jovenc live set on Storung festival in barcelona , may 2007 --
from "several sad saxophones":
from"going home":
from "dedicated to H.L.":
from "not in a baths mood":
some links:
http://www.discogs.com/artist/La+Jovenc
http://www.lastfm.it/music/La+Jovenc
http://www.lastfm.it/music/jeandelajovenc
http://virb.com/search/all/la+jovenc/1
http://LaJovenc.blogspot.com
http://www.youtube.com/user/JeanDeLaJovenc
sorry, i know it's too much like a CV..ridiculous maybe, but easy and clear..and, i have no idea to create , in english, a novel! so...
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***---april2009: Trepok label, Zurich-based, released CHRONIK 1, a compilation with a wonderful choice of underground electronica...La Jovenc is included with a song from LO-FI APOCRYPHA album, "Nothing is changed" ***---dec2008:SUPERANIMA! a new album by La Jovenc...a blend of electronica , jazz... featuring DEEP SONG by Billie Holiday, Free From the Men of God, a soul sermon for stubborn believers, at least in Italy, the Iran of the west...and much more.....the IRIS Dance Company has a new piece: "Eros", with music by La Jovenc ***---Oct2008:La Jovenc on the airwaves.
Battiti, the premiere italian national radio show for eclectic, quality and avant-garde music, broadcast "Going home" by La Jovenc from the soundtrack of OTTO OR UP WITH DEAD PEOPLE by Bruce Labruce, on 28 oct***---sept2008 Norwegian Planet Origo, related with label Origo Sound, will distributes and sells phisically and for downloading my first two albums: "Sulla natura delle cose" (2002) and "Lo-Fi Apocrypha" (2003)***---jun2008 Berlin-based Crippled Dick Hot Wax will releases in september the official soundtrack of OTTO...La Jovenc included!!***---dec 2007 CULT MOVIE'S DIRECTOR BRUCE LA BRUCE HAS CHOOSEN "GOING HOME" FOR HIS FORTHCOMING FILM "OTTO"OR UP WITH DEAD PEOPLE, soon on Sundance and Berlin Festival!!! i agree, it's a beautiful song! :-)
***---nov 2007, one of the five winners of LiveIxem07, italian national live set call ***---august 2007 with kwisp,gogher and balaustrade ensemble -ixmae soundscape festival SAN FRANCISCO-POLENG CLUB***---may 2007:partecipation at the STORUNG Festival in BARCELONA, with Scanner, Murcof, Kangding Ray, Aspherico and others*** 2006:CD's "The Opposite of Orange" ..
and "Birds make love with electric ladybugs" ..
on ITunes for WLM Records.
***---2006 Music for the installation K491-KV421, composed entirely with W.A.Mozart's samples, Convento di Modigliana ***---2006 Music for the exhibition "Arco Temporale" at Il Cubo Gallery-Milan ***---2006 Nomination (CD Opposite of Orange) for the best proposal of italian avantgarde music (PAI - premio avanguardia italiana) at MEI (meeting of independent labels)
***---2005 Soundtrack for silent movie "Lulù-Das Buchse der Pandora" by G.W.Pabst performed live ***---2005 CD "The opposite of orange" ***---2005 Musical score for the theatre production "Ultima chiamata" by J.Giraldi
***---2004 CD "Birds make love with electric Ladybugs" a tale for ensemble of birds and insects ***---music for Mushi-Micromondi's exhibition ***---2004 Music for the exhibition "Ionosfera", by F.Stanghellini and O.Lalli: Archivolto Gallery-Milan, Zauli Museum-Faenza.
***---2003 CD "Lo-Fi Apocrypha"
***---2002 CD "Sulla natura delle cose" music for exhibition at MIC(International Ceramic Museum)-Faenza
***---2001 Music for "Cuori all'assalto" by B.Bigoni for italian television
***---2000 Soundrack for "Tizca e gli uccelli dipinti del Caucaso" by L.Pretolani-M.Valli nominated for the Sundance Festival
***---1998 Soundratck for the silent movie "Nosferatu" by F.W.Murnau performed live
***---1994/1998...a big nervous breakdown?
***---1984/1994 several experiences on alternative music as musician
Wishing you an incredible day my good friend. I hope you have the most
awesome of times with your family and friends. May your day be filled
with lots of good health, laughter and happiness. Your friend...Ralphy
always very good to read from you haaa u must love your instincts and thats good. i appreciate ur work. bit-tuner plays with black dice soon they remind me of u a lot http://www.myspace.com/blackdicemyspace
Pending the new release "Melotonine" (release date coming soon), i decided to offer you a part of my best recent works in a free EP, "Cupboard Replacement", downloadable in all numeric formats with special graphic art works by Flint on Music AutOmatiK's Website :
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i'm doing well, thanks!! i just finished for the day. i have a lot of work to do but aside from that, college is alright. i wish i had time to take a vacation.. let me tell you gio, it's very much needed. (-;
se ti va vieni alla festa del combo sab 28 a cà vaina, costa 5 euro entrare per il rinfresco, ci saranno varie cose di jazz e sperimentazione anche più radicale..ti manderò una mail.
Recorded: live on March 16, 2003 at the Beta Lounge in San Francisco
In 1967, San Francisco’s Fifty Foot Hose were certainly one of the
innovators of a sound that took Psychedelia to new heights and was
captured on the band’s one record, Cauldron. They are a totally
unique hybrid—on one hand pulsating bay area acid rock, on the other,
fractured electronic freakery, becoming one whole cohesive being. The
sci-fi-ish video game-like artwork hinted at the sounds within, as did
the Limelight label’s pedigree for truly progressive sounds. Band
leader, Cork Marcheschi, used homemade electronic devices to create
crude and experimental soundscapes and instrumental compositions that
were sprinkled throughout the album.
Often starting shows with a swelling rumble that exploded into the
first song, they soon developed a rabid following on the SF scene,
though there was the occasional totally wrong gig, like when a
very-pregnant Nancy had to perform at a Catholic Girls’ school! Still,
the group wowed the crowds, performing with greats like Chuck Berry and
Fairport Convention.
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