TRACKS: 16
LENGTH: 40’27’’
YEAR: 1971
FORMAT LP
PRICE: EUR 24,50
Consonanza’ was a collective of noted and noteworthy composers who
challenged the very structure and performance of music itself. Today the
most renowned of its members would be film-scoring genius Ennio
Morricone (indeed “Il Gruppo…” performed on many celebrated Morricone
scores of the 1960s and 1970s) but each contributor has an intriguing
history in Italian music. The collective improvised live (according to strict
exercises) and in the studio (recording for RCA, Deutsche Grammaphon,
General Music and others). Come 1970 “Il Gruppo…’ (as ‘The Group’)
recorded “The Feed-back” (for RCA Italy), an insane amalgam of avant-
improvisation and motorik krautrock beats that, understandably, has
become one of the most collectable LPs ever issued.
In 1971 ‘Il Gruppo’ returned to the studio to record a sequel. This is that
record. For reasons unknown “Niente” was never originally issued but one
listen will convince that not only is it the sequel to one of the most sought
after LPs of all time, but it is also by far its superior. Brain melting jams
collide with unhinged intensity in a hothouse of Italian avant-improv.
You have been warned.
NIENTE
Gruppo d’Improvvisazione NUOVA CONSONANZA: SIR006LP
