My new trio record UNLOCKED is available now on the label Ropeadope Digital.
Unlocked:Joe Hunt and Justin Purtill.
Animal Religions:Joe Hunt and Justin Purtill.
Mega tsunami: Leo .
Just one of those things:Leo.
words:Dan Blake(sax),Leo(keys),John Lockwood(bass), Bob Gullotti(drums).melory for demian:leo(melodium).
other current projects:
Planet Safety: with Bob Gullotti and Dave Zinno.
Sewer rats: with Nat Mugavero and John Lockwood.
Haikus II: Demian Cabaud, Francisco Mela, Nathan Blehar & Phil Grenadier.
The Chromatic Gauchos: Bob Gullotti, Dan Blake & John Lockwood.
Influences
Herbie Hancock,Bud Powell,Chimay, Kenny Kirkland, Cuchi Leguizamon,Delirium tremends,Planet Earth,Brad Mehldau, The Fringe,Ruben Rada, Luis Alberto Spinetta,Suarez Roble, Mc Coy, Dewey Redman,Coltrane, Manseado en Paris,Chick Corea, NAT MUGAVERO(Zoneing Deep)Jaki Byard,Kusturika,Bernard Peiffer, newspaper GEOGRAFLY(available around Inman square),Indian temple of the rats, yogi tea(detox),punjabi daba(saag paneer is the answer).
homemade babaganoush.Peace.Hope.Cheese.
Music. No Music.
Playing.Non Playing.
Listening.No Listening.
Yeah...the other side, less explored by humans.Most of us live according only one side of the thing.There is another side, a darker one,Where once you enter there is not guarantee you'lll make it out. Here is where you don't play, you don't listen, you don't talk,you don't everything, you just believe what you don't do is also beauty, and you may feel the sparkling effect of the spirit.
It's about sacrificing the "YOU" for "IT".
There is another taste of joyce in sacrifice..that's one of the paths into the other side.
Sounds Like
I would like to sound as far away from the human conception of rhythm, melody and harmony as possible...I'm doing my homework...working on it.
where the music and knowledge in general stops is where I'm focused the most;
the" I don't know" part of the playing and It's relation with the spiritual world.
let it came honestly from the your soul,not from your brain, and realize once more, as it's been said in the holy bible:..."no laws for the ones guided by the spirit..."
this how ratology sounds like.....love, not music, not analitical shit, no words about art and creation are involved in this area we are touching now......... so if you are interested, and not scared of traveling into zones you can't usually get, parts of the planet where humans won't even survive the plagues,scared of bats guano, or new breeds not yet discovered by us.Keep going down, and you'll find a short video of the rats on action or check out in youtube.com under nat mugavero, president and accounter of the ratology anonimate assosiation (R.A.A)
that's the sound that's still not been played, the future...that's where we, the rats ,are heading towards/
Born and raised in Venado Tuerto, Argentina, Leo had an early musical influence through his mother who played classical piano. It must be in the genes; Leo soon found himself behind the keys, studying classical piano at the National University of Rosario. It wouldn't be until 2001 when the native-Argentinian would make his way to Berklee College of Music in Boston, Mass. where he studied with Danilo Perez, Joanne Brackeen, Frank Carlberg and Ed Tomassi.
Two years later, Genovese would graduate as a Professional Music Major and begin his career of performing, recording, writing and just about anything that involved music. He released his first solo record, Haikus II, in 2004 and will enter the Ropeadope family with his new record Unlocked which will feature not only Genovese but Joe Hunt and Justin Purtill (aka the Chromatic Guachos).
But what separates Leo's style of piano from what's already been done? Simple: his desire and ambition to achieve the zen (read: total consciousness) of music. You can hear it in Genovese's chromaticism-fueled compositions, that pull no punches. Eerie dissonant tones flirt with traditional jazz style creating something that only Genovese's mind could cook up.
"What's the difference between dissonance and consonance?" Genovese asked. "There is no difference for me. It's all the same. It's all beauty. It's all life. Titles, names, categories, definitions, rules and theories are mankind inventions. Those belong to the human world. I try to stay away from that and just keep moving forward. I believe in chromaticism."
It's clear that Genovese would rather have his music speak for itself; using those man-made conventions (which would include the words you're reading right now) would simply tarnish the musical/existential experience that Genovese has virtually perfected. Sit back, stop thinking and enter into Genovese's world, where the music can truly speak for itself.
This next one is by NiCo MANzi( el poeta)
I
Leo Genovese hace música. Él inventa una filiación con John Cage. Le comento que César Aira, admira a John Cage, en el texto “La nueva escritura”.
http://todoelresto.blogspot.com/2008/10/la-nueva-escritura-por-csar-aira.html
En ese texto Aira cita la famosa frase de Lautréamont, "La poesía debe ser hecha por todos, no por uno". A los pies de esta frase yace todo el arte contemporáneo, el compromiso es entonces llevar su interpretación hasta las últimas consecuencias.
Agrega Aira: “Me parece que es erróneo interpretar esta frase en un sentido puramente cuantitativo democrático, o de buenas intenciones utópicas. Quizá sea al revés: cuando la poesía sea algo que puedan hacer todos, entonces el poeta podrá ser un hombre como todos, quedará liberado de toda esa miseria psicológica que hemos llamado talento, estilo, misión, trabajo, y demás torturas. Ya no necesitará ser un maldito, ni sufrir, ni esclavizarse a una labor que la sociedad aprecia cada vez menos […] Que "la poesía sea hecha por todos, no por uno", significa también que ese "uno", cuando se ponga en acción, hará todas las artes, no una”.
II
Creo que la música de Leo va sobre dos ruedas, como dos vías que confluyen en una misma puerta. Una es una búsqueda ancestral: primitivista por vocación, todo el tiempo se propone un regreso a un estado anterior, al minimalismo instrumental, al orden previo de las convenciones musicales, cuando la música era música y no registro. Ahí sonaba la música en vivo, actualizándose en el presente; entonces el contenido de la música era el acto mismo de crearla, de sonarla.
La otra vía es su necesidad de contar, contar historias. La música no solamente es lenguaje, sino literatura misma. No es un cuento que hay que descifrar, está ahí mismo, sólo nos pide que sostengamos ese tejido para que comprobemos que es real, que no se deshace. Y esa historia nunca se cuenta dos veces de la misma manera, y por eso le llaman jazz. Para contar una historia se necesita una cosa que no se compra, y por eso algunos le llaman talento. Para mi simplemente es saber contar.
La puerta está ahí, unlocked. Ahora debe ser atravesada. Es un viaje infinito el pasaje por ese umbral, interminable, que puede durar toda la vida.
III
Leo hace música. Sus melodías son pintura. Cuando compone se nutre de literatura. Que se sepa, nunca ha dejado de danzar.
hola Leito querido!!!!perdon que no respondi al toque!!!como estas ?te cuento que para cuando nos volvamos a ver tengo una parrillita muy linda!!!jejeje,y porsupuesto esperando alguna oportunidad para que la musica nos junte en algun momento jeje!!!,bueno LEITO todo lo mas hermoso para vos y tu mujer!!!! Abrazo enorme y bendiciones!!!!
Que increibles estuvieron ustedes, el grupo de Esperanza Spalding, el sabado pasado en el Hollywood Bowl!!!! YOU are AWESOME!!! Me gusto mucho tu piano en el jazz tango (el de la intro con el "bow").
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