DESCRIPTION:
RUST AND BLUE
Ivan Valentini - sax and composition
Luca Perciballi - guitar and live electronics
Luca Cotti - electric bass
Riccardo La Foresta - drums

The group proposes compositions of Ivan Valentini, a polychrome scene with shades of jazz, funk, European music of the last century, rock, free improvisation. The musical structures space from more familiar forms to more open forms, always looking for the maximum interplay between the musicians.

Extracts from recording session at Bombanella Studio (MO) Davide Cristiani engineer

www.ivanvalentini.it
ivava@libero.it

Ivan Valentini Bio
After searching for the most suitable way of expression, he devoted himself to music attending seminars and getting diplomas in Saxophone and Jazz Music.
Since the early 90s he has been leading figure within music groups comfortably moving from improvised music to other forms of art, always proposing his own compositions.
He reinforces his musical activities by devoting time to Zen phylosophy.
He performed with Henry Threadgill, Mathias Ruegg and Bruno Tommaso’s orchestras.He played also with: Franco D’Andrea Steve Bernstein, Enrico Rava, Roberto Dani, Tito Mangialajo, Giancarlo Bianchetti, Achille Succi, Lorena Fontana, Attilio Zanchi, Simone Guiducci, Marco Detto, Massimo Manzi, Enrico Merlin, Paolo Botti, Alberto Capelli ... and others...
Since 1987 he has been regularly performed in music and poetry in collaboration with the poets Alberto Bertoni, Enrico Trebbi, Gaspare Bernardi, occasionally with Maurizio Cucchi, Giovanni Giudici, Gianni D’Elia, Giancarlo Sissa, Giovanni Lindo Ferretti, Laura Betti, Mauro Macario, Emilio Rentocchini.
In the first 90ties he used to played with the Italian song writer Vinicio Capossela.
For almost ten years he’s been collaborating with American dancer and choreographer, Teri Weikel, creating music for “Il Maestro e Margherita” (with Antonello Salis), “Atomi”, “Le città invisibili”, “Le ali dei sassi” and realizing many improvised performances for solo sax and dance.
In 1996 his composition “Paz” was selected to be part of “Andrea Pazienza unlimited anthology” CDRom, which includes the whole artist’s production.
In April 2008 he presented his compositions included in CD "Light and Darkness" in a concert at the Peking University Hall.
Nowadays he plays with Franco D’Andrea’s group called “Eleven”, with “Orchestra Spaziale”, “Cantodiscanto” and his own band Ivan Valentini Rust & Blue
Among all the festivals he took part: Jazz at the Rock, Imola - Termoli Jazz - Festival Musica ‘900, Trento - Sagra Musicale Malatestiana - Itinerari Jazz, Trento - Romapoesia in Campidoglio, Roma – Rovereto Jazz - Merano Jazz - Di Nuovo Musica, Reggio Emilia - Le Vie del suono, Modena - Metastasio Jazz, Prato - Radicondoli Estate - Crossroads, Emilia Romagna - Carpino Folk Festival - Isole che parlano,Sardegna - Folkfest, Spilimbergo – Musica per Roma, Roma – Angelica Festival, Bologna.