Musicus Concentus presents
Firenze Jazz Festival 2023
AREA OPEN PROJECT
Friday, September 15, 2023
Piazza del Carmine, h. 22:30
Patrizio Fariselli // piano, keyboards and musical direction
Claudia Tellini // voice
Marco Micheli // electric bass
Walter Paoli // drums
Stefano Fariselli // soprano sax, flute and bass clarinet
On 6 April this year, Patrizio Fariselli and the Area Open Project performed Area’s first album Arbeit Macht Frei on the fiftieth anniversary of its 1973 release. The national premiere was held at the Teatro Lirico-Giorgio Gaber in Milan as part of a CRAMPS Records and Gianni Sassi commemorative concert. Founded by Demetrio Stratos, Giulio Capiozzo, Eddy Busnello, Patrizio Fariselli, Paolo Tofani and Patrick Djivas, Area made and played complex and moving songs from 1972 until the beginning of 1974. After Busnello and Djivas’ departure and Ares Tavolazzi’s arrival, the group dedicated itself to the new material in Caution Radiation Area, abandoning its previous repertoire and much of its primordial sound.
This is a journey to rediscover musical gems. In fact, the only song still performed by the Area Open Project (and the subject of covers and rearrangements by countless other musicians) is “Luglio, agosto, settembre (nero)”. No one has heard in concert “Consapevolezza”, “240km from Smyrna”, “The lips of time”, “Arbeit Macht Frei” or “The shooting down of the Zeppelin” since the ‘70s.
In a careful stitchwork, Patrizio Fariselli has not only taken care of the arrangement and orchestration of the pieces in Arbeit Macht Frei, but he has recovered unpublished sections, tracks and sounds that the group performed in concert and never released in the recording.
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Firenze Jazz Festival
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