- Fri Feb 20, 2015 3:55 am
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GRUPPO DI IMPROVVISAZIONE NUOVA CONSONANZE
Despite its glorious rediscovery in the 1990s, maestro Ennio Morricone's seminal band of like-minded, avant-garde musicians, Gruppo de Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza, or simply the Group, remains an underexplored field of intersecting sonic experimentation. In many ways, they represent the missing link between avant-garde trailblazers such as John Cage and Pierre Henry, and the machine-like grooves of CAN at the height of their powers. Consisting of spiraling electronic digressions, scrunching horns, pounding pianos motifs, funky drums, and evocative tape experiments, Eroina presents a highly unique and most exciting, psychedelic enterprise: a series of 12 improvisations, each inspired by the effects of a different drug. Only the masterfully skilled musicians of Gruppo can convincingly pull off such juvenile concept, and this 1971 release, filled with adventurous musical innovation and joyous experimentalism, presents yet another key moment of their sheer improvisational brilliance. Here's to hoping that we continue to see a steady stream of rereleases mining this creative group's eclectic, yet always rigorous musical achievements! Don't overthink this one: it's limited to 350 copies only
