released May 30, 2020

Gianni Gebbia - Bb soprano & Eb baritone saxophones - bombarde - cornettophone - electronics

All music by Gianni Gebbia, all rights reserved

Recorded in Palermo Italy from February to May during the first lockdown
and Apausalipse in October 2020.

Cover art graphics by Gianni Gebbia

Painting: Retrato milagroso de San Francisco De Paula
by Lucas De Valdes (1661-1724)
Museo des Bellas Artes de Sevilla Spain

Booklet included in the download
Gianni Gebbia plays JLV ligatures

NOTES


MY MISTRESS IS PRETTY by Charles Mouton (1617 - before 1699)
was a French lutist and court composer.

SAN SEBASTIAN: the protector from plagues and epidemics.

LA QUINTE ESTAMPIE REALE ( Anon XII Century)
from "Estampies et Danses Royales. " published by Pierre Aubry

BRANLE GAY
A branle (/ˈbrænəl/ or /ˈbrɑːl/; French pronunciation: ​[bʁɑ̃l])—also bransle, brangle, brawl, brawle, brall(e), braul(e), brando (Italy), bran (Spain), or brantle (Scotland)—is a type of French dance popular from the early 16th century to the present, danced by couples in either a line or a circle. The term also refers to the music and the characteristic step of the dance.
In Italy the branle became the brando, and in Spain the bran .
Igors Stravinsky included a Branle Gay in his composition "Agon "(1957).

SALTARELLO H
The saltarello is a musical dance originally from Italy. The first mention of it is in Add MS 29987, a late-fourteenth- or early fifteenth-century manuscript of Tuscan origin, now in the British Library. It was usually played in a fast triple meter and is named for its peculiar leaping step, after the Italian verb saltare ("to jump"). This characteristic is also the basis of the German name Hoppertanz or Hupfertanz ("hopping dance"); other names include the French pas de Brabant and the Spanish alta or alta danza.The saltarello enjoyed great popularity in the courts of medieval Europe.
During the 15th century, the word saltarello became the name of a particular dance step (a double with a hop on the final or initial upbeat), and the name of a meter of music (a fast triple), both of which appear in many choreographed dances. Entire dances consisting of only the saltarello step and meter are described as being improvised dances in 15th-century Italian dance manuals.
The principal source for the medieval Italian saltarello is the Tuscan manuscript Add MS 29987, dating from the late 14th or early 15th century and now in the British Library. The musical form of these four early saltarelli is the same as the estampie.However, they are in different metres: two are transcribed in 6/8, one in 3/4, and one in 4/4.


LUCIANI'S DREAM
Dedicated to Antonino Riccardo Luciani (1931-2020 ) composer born in my hometown Palermo he composed many soundtracks and also same fake ancient music and one of those pieces entitled Chanson Balladeè I quote on the background of this piece on baritone sax . The Chanson Balladeè was used as a soundtrack for " L'Almanacco del giorno dopo " by the Rai Italian television, a quite famous. broadcast. So this piece became really known in Italy for 30 years during this everyday broadcast. The Chanson Balladèe must not be confused with the homonymous piece by Guillaume De Machaut and is a perfect example of imaginary early music as well as this album.


REVIEWS

"We already mentioned Italian saxophonist and sound artist Gianni Gebbia's "Dance Macabre" performances with musicians from across the world. Now he's on his own, reflecting on ancient medieval and folk music with the use of various instruments: Bb soprano & Eb baritone saxophones, bombarde - cornettophone - electronics. The result is unusual, fresh, fascinating and varied. Worth looking for. "

Stef Gijssels

From Dancing in the time of Plagues The Corona Diaries III
in Free jazz blog.org November 2020

" At a certain point of his career Gianni Gebbia has left jazz, free improvised and ethnical discoveries in order to create an updated balance point of his personal musical constructions. In this chapter is digging and deepening how the saxophone could coexist with the changes of centuries and their different qualities and how we can recognize an evolution process in all this. His musical ideas are uniques and hig as well as his will to create a transmissible narrative able to be deeply contemporary, tense to the future and abandoning the excesses of techniques..."

Ettore Garzia -Percorsi Musicali Feb. 2021