![]() ![]() Stefano and I had a long history of touring and playing concerts together and one of the features of our concerts was always an arrangement of a vocal raga for bass, voice and tamboura. These were magical times for me to also imbibe the resonances of the history of the Basilica and its organ as I composed. I was given a few days prior to the concert to rehearse and compose ideas on the ancient organ. ![]() “I arrived in Bologna with no idea of what I would play, only thinking that I would make this concert a reflection on our deep association, friendship, and music adventures together. The organ was built in 1968 based on a design by Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini, with a total of approximately 5000 pipes divided into 60 registers – incidentally, this is the same instrument used four years later in 2017 by Francesco Filidei in his duet with Roscoe Mitchell, documented on the record Splatter (IDA 040), and in 2019 by Hermann Nitsch on the record Orgelkonzert (IDA 045).Īs Riley himself explains in the liner notes: The venue selected for the concert was the Basilica of Santa Maria dei Servi, hence Riley decided to use its historic Tamburini opus 544 pipe organ for the concert paying homage to the memory of Stefano. Organum for Stefano, the third record that i dischi di angelica dedicates to the work of Terry Riley, represents a significant example of “coming full circle”: indeed, in 1997 AngelicA Festival organised a concert in Bologna for Terry Riley and Stefano Scodanibbio – it was their first tour together, and the beginning of a collaboration that would last for years, promoting their first album Lazy Afternoon Among the Crocodiles (AIAI 008), recorded in the Shri Moonshine studio in Riley’s home between 19.Īfter his magnificent piano solo at the 2000 edition, AngelicA invited Riley back in 2013 to dedicate a special tribute-portrait to him, presenting his music in a series of concerts held in three different cities (Bologna, Modena, and Lugo), with different line-ups: The 3 Generations Trio (with Tracy Silverman and Gyan Riley, documented on the record IDA 034) the ARTE saxophone quartet from Switzerland and indeed a concert, commissioned as a world premiere, dedicated to Stefano Scodanibbio who had passed away the year before, in January 2012. I was amazed when I entered the gallery to find Stefano all alone playing his bass. In the distance I could hear the sounds of french horns, trombones, strings and brass all mixing in a beautiful modal ensemble, and at the time I thought that Stefano must be playing his bass with a chamber group. I arrived late and the concert was in progress, I was walking down a series of concrete halls to reach the galley chamber where the music was taking place. "I was invited to an art gallery in Los Angeles to hear a solo String Bass recital by Stefano. Photos by Marco Caselli Nirmal, Massimo Golfieri, Roberto Masotti Mixed and Mastered by Bob Drake at Studio Midi-Pyrènèes, November 2021 and February 2022, La Borde Basse, Caudeval, France Recorded by BH Audio at Basilica di Santa Maria dei Servi, Bologna, Italy, May 7th, 2013, during AngelicA | Festival Internazionale di Musica, twenty-third year in 2013 ![]()
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