Chamber Trips

Album info:

“The search for a personal sound is the main engine. Improvisation is the base of my thinking Music”

… “Whether new or revisited, it doesn’t matter if they are always the same for the ‘dead’… Banality is a colossal oversight.” MP-experience

Chamber Trips: Arranged Improvised Extemporaneous Compositions

“To express a concept of “simple” and “poor,” I recorded all the material from and in my room (the Album title). Each composition is born from a spontaneous solo improvisation and later arranged.”

Instruments played and related musicians:

Marco Pieri: Electric Guitars / Slide / Acoustic / Nylon / Guitarsynth / Glockenspiel / Bass / Tres / Percussion / Snare / Cello / Piano / Synth and Electronics.

Guest Musicians:

(Most electronic sounds are generated by synths built by the engineer G. Grossi in the 70s and played by Grossi himself and myself in impromptu home sessions, then arrange later as per procedure).

• Martin Horvat: Cello
• Simone Gagliardi: Snare drum
• Paolo Badini: Bass / Double Bass / Strings
• Pietro Triolo: French Bagpipe 16 pp / Catalan Tarota / Chinese Flute
• Carlo Giussani: Harmonica
• Luca Ceribelli: soprano Sax / Efx
• Gianpietro Grossi (Elettro): VCSG3 / ElettroMicrosynth / Korg-sq10
• Alfredo De Vincentiis: Drums

Tracks info:

• Barefoot
  4.17
  Marco Pieri: Classical Guitar / Improvisation Arr: Classical Guitar / Glockenspiel / Electronic / Synth
• Gap
  3.52
  Ambient sound taken from my windows of wind and leaves, improvisation Paolo Badiini (double bass)
  Arrangement: Marco Pieri Nylon Guitars, Mandolin, tres, Cello.
• Migrants
  5.42
  Environment: “rustle” generated by water flowing in a pipe. (When my neighbors water the garden, the flowing water creates a very audible rustle in my room, as the water pipe runs right over my head.) The voluntary and involuntary noises taken during the recording of the environment are part of it.
  Marco Pieri: Acoustic Guitar / Synth Guitar / Slide Guitar / Bass / Glockenspiel / Cellos / Electronics
• The Submerged
  4.32
  Martin Horvat: Cello improvisation
  Marco Pieri: Piano / Organ / GuitarSynth / Electronics
• Poor People
  4.06
  Marco Pieri: Classical guitar and voice / Improvisation / arr. : Chit.Tres / Percussion
  Pietro Triolo: Chinese flute
  Ambience: passage of cars recorded from the windows of my room, then filtered by electronic effects.
  As percussion I used: a small glass jar with a metal cap. (that of legumes ..), iron nail files, hand rubbed on the sweater.
• Sooner or later
  4.05
  Ambient Sound: Recorded from my two windows during a rainy night, the roar of water in the gutter pipe generates a constant pitched sound (D) on which I improvised with the cello.
  arrangement: Celli and Glockenspiel
• The land of fires (Pietro)
  4.08
  Pietro Triolo: French Bagpipe 16 pp / Catalan Tarota / Improvisation
  Marco Pieri: Celli / Acoustic / Electronic Guitars
• Sleepless
  1.57
  I improvised with the guitar while from the window I heard the tolling of the bell of the adjacent church, making a kind of “counterpoint” ..
  Marco Pieri: Acoustic Guitar / Improvisation Arr: Glockenspiel / Electronics
• Chamber Trips (Humanity)
  4.07
  Elettro / MarcoP. : VCSG3 / ElettroMicrosynth / Korg-sq10 / Improvisation
  Marco Pieri: Bass / Acoustic Guitar / Synth Guitar / Snare / Electronics
  Martin Horvat: Cello
• 1 + 1 = 11
  4.10
  Paolo Badiini: Fretless Bass / Improvisation
  Marco Pieri: Acoustic Guitar / Synth Guitar / Snare / Glockenspiel / Electronics
• Open Mind
  3.14
  Elettro / MarcoP. : VCSG3 / ElettroMicrosynth / Korg-sq10 / Improvisation
  Alfredo Devincentiis: Drums
  Marco Pieri: Acoustic Guitar / Synth Guitar / Bass / Glockenspiel / Snare
• Impermanence
  3.20
  Ambience: I recorded in the room while I was making a “cigarette” to the rhythm of the alarm, and I gave myself 3 odd minutes to finish.
  Improvisation for 4 Acoustic guitars.
• Evolution
  4.16
  Elettro / MarcoP. : VCSG3 / ElettroMicrosynth / Korg-sq10 / improvisation
  Simone Gagliardi: Snare drum
  Marco Pieri: Bass / Guitar Synth / Electronics
• March of the Desperate
  3.50
  Elettro / MarcoP. : VCSG3 / ElettroMicrosynth / Korg-sq10 / Improvisation
  Simone Gagliardi: Snare drum
  Marco Pieri: Bass / Guitar Synth / Electronics
  Paolo Badiini: Strings
• Multiverse (Part I & II)
  6.48
• Multiverse (Part III & IV)
  6.38
  Simone Gagliardi: Improvisation drum and Noise
  Marco Pieri: Acoustic Piano /Efx Piano / Acoustic and Nylon Guitar / Bass
  Luca Ceribell: Sax / Efx
• Little things
  3.14
  Marco Pieri: Cello / Improvisation / Arr: Acoustic Guitars / Glockenspiel / Cello
  Carlo Giussani: Harmonica