Virginia Genta (saxophones) and David Vanzan (drums) have been bringing their intense and mesmerizing music all over the world since 2003 (about five-hundred concerts in Europe, USA and Russia) and captivating any kind of audience. The duo's work is a totally personal research that has been described as the most powerful expression in “free music” nowadays, transcending every kind of definition and going straight to the source of energy.
“Boss Italian woodwinds/drum duo who skronk the big bulb of freedom as hard as anyone.” - Byron Coley, THE WIRE
The two musicians have been moving consciously and organically from their “classic” duo roots, to more psychedelic, ethnic, and droney atmospheres (like in their expanded groups Neokarma Jooklo Trio, Golden Jooklo Age, etc.) and to totally wild and abstract free music (such as their recent trio work with guitarist Bill Nace).
Last but not least, the duo has mixed its sound with that of artists as Hartmut Geerken, Famodou Don Moye (Art Ensemble of Chicago), Makoto Kawabata, Sabu Toyozumi, Takehisa Kosugi (Taj Mahal Travellers), John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin), Chris Corsano, Paul Flaherty, C. Spencer Yeh, John Blum (...and many others!). The pair has also been working with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, performing for “Nearly Ninety” in Madrid (April 2009, Teatro del Canal), and in London (October 2010 at the Barbican Centre).
“It is like the roaring energy of punk meeting the possibilities of improve or like watching someone microwave jazz until it explodes all over the window in a yellow paste.” - Was Ist Das
Gelba is an improv project founded in 2011 by Michele Mazzani (tape loops, guitar, keyboards) and Matteo Poggi (guitar, fx, tapes). The duo performs an intense set based on visionary field recordings caught on high mountain ridges, complex guitar solutions, and arcane tape loops reprocessed to infinity, creating a wall of sounds that alternate with more evocative and dreamy parts. Gelba is pure magma for your ears.
London based free improv duo of Daniel Kordik (synthesizers) and Edward Lucas (trombone). Daniel Kordik is a musician and performer, born in Slovakia and currently based in London. Weaving a thread around electronic and improvised music, Kordik works mainly as an improviser, music collaborator, field recordist and a regular member of the duo Jamka and Urbsounds Collective. "The juicy sounds of the Vostok Synth wiggle with squelchy non-classical balls of trombone fluff"- (Next Festival 2012, Bratislava)
