The new project of Live Tropical Fish is born from the fusion of three complementary and symbiotic creative minds: the successful encounter of the original founders Fabrizio “Doc Bix” Poli and Antonio “Lurpak” Fernè with the eclectic guitarist-composer Salvo Pignanelli: what was born out of it was a new creative push along with the unconsciousness of jumping into an enterprise that only brave visionaries of music would do.
This is how the last years of artistic maturation have grown, all the stratification of influences and listenings and cross-references generated a style that is clear and full of identity, but at the same time, in a kaleidoscopic way, it is also prismatic and multy-faceted: unusual connections that come from personal preferences but that are all rejoined on the primal land of “black music” (from soul to r&b, from funk to jazz, from latin to afrobeat).
An artistic collaboration that has consolidated and increased with the joining of the jazzy and classy pianist Pino De Fazio and the return of reliable drummer Mirco Zagnoli.
The “Fernè, Pignanelli and Poli” trio started a production that soon appeared to be timeless: with a general crisis of record industry going on the goal was to create something that would go against the flow, a “handmade” album by craftsmen-musicians, exactly like it was done in the 70’s, without the harassment of marketing logics or the frenzy of disposable music.
If we look at the marketing facts this sounds like a suicidal tendency: but how can passion be stopped by calculus of consequences? Shouldn’t instinct be free to dare all possible solutions?
With this starting point what came out is a multi-stratified product, with many different possible readings, packed with influences and musical quotations: an album that speaks sincerely to the fans of groove all around the world, where anyone can find its own level of listening and absorption.
Each track of the new project is like a menu from which everyone can choose what to taste, what to unwrap, what to discard, a history that can be taken by itself or whole, depending on what you are focusing on: whether it’s melody, the story that’s being told, the refrain or the idea behind it.
Everything makes sense regardless of the rest and gains new meanings thanks to it.
Each song has several different souls, but the final result is bigger than the sum of the single parts.
Due to a profound musical concept every guest artist present in the album has been chosen for personal respect, intrinsic value, interpretative originality or just pure congeniality.
Thanks to the simple yet extraordinary laws of social networks, everything came together, a choice of independent production, “glocal” yet open to the world, and thanks to the web, necessarily cross-breed.
For these reasons the album, although 100% “Made In Italy”, has received acknowledgements and has been recognized by many afro-american artists, well before going under a more “official” exposure, as a genuine and sincere tribute to black music without compromises.
The compositional experience has been atypical, it always starts from rhythmics – percussions, bass, guitar and drums – and rises to more sophisticated arrangements, never tamed by commercial requirements, even though every song has been taken to pieces and put back together many times in the last two years. A musical basis in which melody has been added later as a member of the whole piece – primus inter pares (first among equals) – never as the main element.
The lyrics are biting, burning, felt and disenchanted, speaking to the heart and mind, to the stomach and to the soul: written on our own or with fellow artists brothers and sisters (starting from Deborah Jordan, to Laurnea, from Alison Crockett to Nick Rolfe, from Maya Azucena to australian author Cole Velik).
This is how the Tropical Fish album came to life, by an alchemic process of transformation, combining, assembling, feeding, but with the capability of giving shape to a precise and personal stylistic identity.
The primordial power of the rhythmic bases has unavoidably influenced the horns’ arrangements created by Adriano Pancaldi, that result at times edgy at times symphonic, always capable of complex and articulated support to melody, at times substituting the tune, at times making it richer.
From afrobeat we borrowed the feeling of a fully played and hard-won music, perfectly identifiable, instrument by instrument, note by note, without ever taking short-cuts, that looks back to what the masters of black music have always done: play live.
After all, the name Live Tropical Fish contains the intention itself, live music has always been the core target of the project: a music that finds in live playing its highest expressive capability, of comunicating and sharing emotions.
Discover more on www.livetropicalfish.it
Management & booking:
Maurizio Della Fortuna (Live Music Band)
Email: maurizio@livemusicband.net
Mobile: 3286231588; Phone: +44 7984124851
Address: 95, Hopton Road - London, United Kingdom SW16 2EL
Skype: maurizio della fortuna
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