MONTECARLO

is the first single chosen to introduce Papik’s brand new project in partnership with South-African singer, model and performer Nicole Magolie. This track comes ahead of the upcoming album “Montecarlo Diamonds” that will be released shortly after summer 2023. Co-wrote by those two artists, “Montecarlo” is a groovy, fresh song with a catchy refrain in a renewed “disco” style, one of these songs that make you feel like tapping your foot or -even better- to jump up and dance...and chill out. Starting on May 25th the song will air on every radio station and will be available from every digital store, even in spatial audio (Dolby Atmos) on suitable platforms. On the same day there will be the release of its own video clip, written and directed by Simone Pirazzoli, shot in a luxury location right in the City of the Principality of Monaco. The collaboration between the two artists will form the album’s ten original tracks, that range from Hip Hop, to Soul, Jazz, Dance and R ‘n’ B flavors. An album that delivers an ever-changing, yet always captivating listening experience, with Nicole’s voice and Papik’s unique style.

NICOLE MAGOLIE

South African model and singer, native English speaker, originally from South Africa, Nicole Magolie is best known in Italy through her presence on the main television networks.  She has taken part in many TV programs on the RAI networks (most recently in the cast of the RAI 2 program “Voice Anatomy” conducted by Pino Insegno).  She appears in numerous national commercials as a protagonist, including that of the last European Football Championships and is currently testimonial of Matera European Capital of Culture.

She is one of the main attractions of the Hotel de Paris in Montecarlo and she has an intense live activity throughout Italy.  She has also taken part in international productions such as "Dream Girl Hollywood".  She participated in numerous music projects as a soloist, collaborating with No-Lounge, Take B and New Project Orchestra. She released in 2022 her first album "Don't Ever Go" dedicated to Jazz Standards with the extraordinary participation of some of the most important soloists of the Italian and international jazz scene (Fabrizio Bosso, Javier Girotto, Max Ionata and Fiorenzo Zeni).

More than 100 years have passed since Kansas City gave birth to Charlie Parker: it was August 29th, 1920.

Parker was the leading character and forerunner of one of the most important and influential revolutions that rocked the Jazz world: Bebop. Whereas Bird was the star,  Dizzy Gillespie was the great communicator and promoter and Thelonious Monk the genius architect: an unrepeatable triumvirate. Up to nowadays they are still considered the bards and prophets of the bop language, with whom generations of musicians confront. 

In 2020 Parker would have been 100, a century of Bird: but, to follow in the damned artist's tradition, almost every centennial celebration was cancelled due to the pandemic that forced humanity to pause every possible running activity.

New Project Orchestra couldn't miss those celebrations and had set up a vast special program for Charlie Parker and his musical universe, coordinated and lead by arranger and guitarist Roberto Spadoni, with whom they had already crafted various orchestral works in the previous decade: Spadoni had shaped almost every arrangement, and had also come up with two original compositions in Parker's style (Fuga di notizie and Times have changed). The repertoire, the revisited bebop language, the sound of Bird as gravitational still points around which to develop the orchestral loom and the soloist's contributions, a heartfelt and must tribute to this great Musician. Obviously, everything stood still in March 2020...

Eventually now, back on track, the orchestra reunited and the whole Bird lives again! project has been recorded at the Collettivo Mood studio, brand new recording space in Bolzano that has opened its doors right on this work. 

Segment, Mouse the mooche, Ornitology, Scrapple from the apple, Au privave, My little suede shoes, Confirmation, here are a few of the included track, masterpieces that warm every jazz lovers's heart. In the New Project Orchestra lineup - beside long-time soloists Paolo Trettel, Stefano Menato, Fiorenzo Zeni (also author of three of the arrangements), Gigi Grata, Stefano Colpi - three special guests have been welcomed: Francesco Fratini trumpet, Achille Succi alto sax and clarinet, Mauro Beggio on the drums.

The concert is enriched by the narrating voice of Roberto Spadoni, always captivating and enthralling the audience sharing stories and trivia on the personal, historical, artistic and social context during which Charlie Parker's shooting star enlightened the world of Jazz and of Music of the Twentieth Century. BIRD LIVES AGAIN!

Cose Sonore (Alman Music) presents the first project from the trio of Francesco Marziani (piano), Antonio Napolitano (double-bass) and Massimo Del Pezzo (drum). The three Neapolitan musicians, life- and music companions since their early youth, showcase a language that, even if rooted in the afro-american tradition, constantly seeks for contamination through the musical and cultural background of the Parthenopean territory. To Naples itself and to the figure of Troisi in specific the trio dedicates this first album, born from the shared urgency of giving artistic shape to a stream of ideas developed through the years. An album that wishes to be the forerunner of a project that puts sound and spontaneous expression in the first place, marked by improvisation and the choice of relying on analog tape recording technique. Eight tracks among which, alongside great compositions by Miles Davis, Stevie Wonder, Fats Waller and others great figures, three original Marziani numbers find place: "Little Child", "Young Pretty Lady" and, of course, "Troisi".

Ghosts and rats haunt “Ghosts”, the debut single by Qvintessence, by which the Bolognese rock band wants to exorcise the "skeletons in the closet" and the "ghosts" that we carry inside.

They speak of infamous people, those who have marked us through small gestures and have obtained a place of dishonor in our soul.

Rock music through its communicative energy becomes a vehicle and catharsis of the most intimate essence of the band, which has its musical roots in the Seattle grunge of the early 90s.

The videoclip, out next 20th March, has the signature of director Simone Casadio Pirazzoli who, after directing the video of “Our new world” by Dream Theater, returns to deal with distorted guitars and heavy drums.

Everything were shot at the Ex Psychiatric Hospital of the Osservanza hospital in Imola, a place that brings to mind one of the darkest pages of our recent history, but makes a fundamental contribution to the video clip, underlining the anxieties that the song tells. .

“Ghosts” comes out on DeepOut Records and anticipates the homonymous album Qvintessence, which will be available from the end of May on CD, vinyl and on all digital platforms.

Nicole Magolie meets NO-LOUNGE | From Friday 4th June RED MOONLIGHT in all digital stores!

Eight years ago No-Lounge released the album "NAPOLI" destined to become a "cult" in Nu-Jazz / Lounge-Music. Even the South African performer Nicole Magolie was bewitched by the sounds of the great melodies of the Neapolitan Song through the arrangements of this album.

“I perfectly remember that evening in Naples when I listened to the No-Lounge version of Luna Rossa for the first time: what a wonderful alchemy.  Stunned, I found myself spontaneously singing the same refrain in English.  I was in the company of some friends and among them my inseparable artistique partner Gabriele Gentile who immediately picked up the phone and asked me to repeat once more to record a vocal note.  I don't know exactly which route it took when  he made that recording, but it ended up being listened to by No-Lounge and Alman Music too and I magically found myself shortly after in Imola to record their version of “Red Moonlight”… Thanks!”

INFO | PREVIEW | DOWNLOAD

NO MORE BLUES - Available from May the 28 the new album by LILY DIOR

Notoriously one of the most extraordinary vocalists coming from Australia, with countless performances held everywhere from New York to New Zealand, from Japan to Singapore, from London to Hong Kong, Lily Dior releases her first album made entirely in Italy.

For the occasion, the eclectic jazz, soul, funk interpreter revisits some of the greatest international jazz standards chosen from the repertoires of Gershwin, Hamilton, Porter, Marks, Garner, up to Jobim with the track "Chega de Saudade" named "No More Blues" by Dizzy Gillespie which inspired the title of the album.

The project was made possible thanks to Marco Marzola and his quartet. MM the band leader and double bass player is an Italian native speaker, permanently based in London. He acted as a bridge between the singer and Italy, the “ Bel Paese “

The MMQ line Up: Marco Marzola on bass with Michele Vignali on saxophone, Nico Menci on piano, Lele Barbieri on drums. Recorded for the Cose Sonore / Alman Music label last year at the "Ritmo & Blue Studio" in Brescia by Stefano Castagna and mixed by Alberto Mantovani at the "ExCantine Studio" in Imola (BO), the album will be officially presented again in Italy on June 24th on the occasion of the 34th edition of the Deltablues Festival in Rovigo.

INFO | PREVIEW | DOWNLOAD

Manrico Seghi Trio - FOOD HOUSE - Next Friday in all digital stores!

The encounter between organist Manrico Seghi and "Drum Hero" Byron Landham marks the birth of this project, then completed by Davide Palladin's guitar. From the trio's love, for music of course but also for irony and for good cooking, comes the album "Food House", which goliardically recalls the famous West Montgomery tune "Full House". Among the full "Organ Trio" mood, spacing from the sounds of West Montgomery himself, to those of Larry Young, Herbie Hancock, Duke Person and many other giants, we also discover the original "Dai dai". Eight tracks between swing and blues focusing on groove and irony, which become highlight and leading elements.

INFO | DOWNLOAD | STREAMING

It's called Waiting for Christmas and it's the album with which we are proud to welcome Evi Mair and Michele Giro in the Cose Sonore / Alman Music catalog. Today in all digital stores!

The eclectic singer Evi Mair, steadily on the brink between rock and jazz music, says that she's "always been in love for Christmas and its Music that provides the soundtrack for this special season, so full of lights and hope". Definitely dominant is the jazz character in this "Waiting for Christmas", thought and crafted together with pianist Michele Giro. The album contains thirteen songs, the most representative of the German and American legacy, revisited and played through the arrangements of both artists. Also featuring beside Evi Mair and Michele Giro, Marco Stagni on the bass, Roman Hinteregger on the drums and the extraordinary presence of vibraphonist Georg Malfertheiner.

1) A Child Is Born
2) Oh Tannenbaum
3)  Sleigh Ride
4) Rudolph / Frosty 
5) Santa Baby
6) I’ll Be Home for Christmas
7) Am Weihnachtsbaume
8) Stille Nacht
9) Jingle Bells
10) The Christmas Song
11) Winter Wonderland
12) Driving Home for Christmas
13) The First Noel

INFO | PREVIEW | DOWNLOAD

NOW AND EVERMORE - Out today in every digital store the single hit by DHANY feat. NEW PROJECT ORCHESTRA and JAVIER GIROTTO

Last year Alman Music released WE WISH YOU A JAZZY CHRISTMAS, the much acclaimed album by NEW PROJECT ORCHESTRA, which featured new arrangements of timeless Christmas classics, along with four new songs specifically composed for the release. Beside the eighteen musicians of the big band, that project involved various guests, friends, talented artists that with their voices or instruments shaped and enriched, as soloists, the atmosphere of each of the fifteen tracks.

Wishing to keep on celebrating Christmas along with the musical magic that was born from those collaborations, Alman Music has decided to introduce every year a different single extracted from that album. Exactly one month before Christmas 2020, here comes the first one, NOW AND EVERMORE, with the voice of DHANY and the precious alto sax solo by JAVIER GIROTTO. Intimate and dreamy original ballad (music by Luca Merlini and lyrics by Luca Peterle), "Now and Evermore" is a song about melancholy and loss, but at the same time pointing towards hope and peace; therefore it has been chosen as first single, given the hard year we are experiencing. Dhany (Daniela Galli) is a multi-talented artist, vastly known to the audience thanks to her great career in the electro-music field. For this occasion she is showcasing her audience a more tender and intimate character.

INFO | PREVIEW | DOWNLOAD