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Big Hell On Air

by Piero Bittolo Bon

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Paper Toilet 07:00

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Piero Bittolo Bon’ Bread & Fox in a quiet swirl of sounds on the new album “Big Hell On Air”. A search for a rough, direct sound, and a spotlight on authenticity and fantasy

With the intention of bringing back the sound as it is, with no polish, and actually collecting and carrying the fine dust that formed on the way, Piero Bittolo Bon’s new project focuses on thorough authenticity. Big Hell On Air, his new album out in Fall 2016 under Auand Records and co-produced by El Gallo Rojo, features the Italian musician’s band Bread & Fox: besides Bittolo Bon on alto sax, flute and clarinets, the group includes Filippo Vignato on trombone, Glauco Benedetti on tuba and euphonium, Alfonso Santimone on piano and Andrea Grillini on drums. Their approach «with no foundation cream», as the leader describes it, is the result of the band’s traits, such as «the trust they instill each other – Bittolo Bon says – when dealing with the scores with detachment, as if they were limits. And they are!»

All 9 tracks are composed by him, except for Henry Threadgill’s Paper Toilet («a wonderful tune» he adds) and the tracklist follows this path from the very beginning: the dark and brief #b2de10, a sort of harbinger for the bursting lava of sounds that starts expanding in Spice Girls From Arrakis. Here, a hypnotic melody blending wind instruments and rhythm section swells and grows, becoming either ironic or grandiose and impressive. «Nevertheless, I keep searching for new lines – Bittolo Bon says – that are still catchy, or at least able to dig a small hole in the mind of the listener.» Which is true for some sparkling tunes, as well as for essential compositions, such as Everything Works, that develops through long music brush strokes in a gradual and slow bind od timbers.

At the core of all is an innate and sometimes wild interplay: the spotlight is on the team, rather than on one improviser. As Bittolo Bon puts it, they are «amazing musicians, awesome human beings, radar-like ears with a sixth sense for exploration, dowsers of structures, strikers of improvisation. With each of them, the duty of being a leader is really relative.»

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released September 30, 2016

Piero Bittolo Bon - alto sax, flute (#1), Bb and bass clarinet (#7)
Filippo Vignato - trombone
Glauco Benedetti - tuba, baritone horn (#7)
Alfonso Santimone - piano
Andrea Grillini - drums


Produced by Piero Bittolo Bon
Executive Producer: Marco Valente
Recording: Duna Studio, Russi (RA) – Italy
Engineer: Andrea Scardovi and Ivano Giovedì
Cover Photo: Sandra Lazzarini

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Auand Bisceglie, Italy

Auand Records is an Italian independent label dedicated to genre-defying music, providing a home for artists who push the boundaries of improvised music.

Founded in 2001 by Marco Valente, it has quickly become a seal of warranty for the next big artists who shape the sound of the future, often introducing their music to an international audience.
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