Fone Records - LP055 - 180 Gram Virgin Vinyl - 8012871005512 

Pure Analogue Recording , Mastering & Cutting

Club 496 - Only 496 Copies Numbered Limited Edition - Pressed in Germany

 

He who has seen a record cover in Italy to read up on the "Renzo Swing" "who knows immediately who is meant is back and buys the plate. In this country, things look a bit different, unfortunately, because Renzo Arbore is not nearly so well known and popular as in his home country with us. Because this plate but really worth to buy, it should be much change. Renzo Arbore, born in 1937, is a real jack of all trades: He began his career in the 60s as a radio presenter. With scharfzüngigem wit and a penchant for satire, which already took almost surreal, he quickly conquered the hearts of his audience, and it was not long until he was discovered by the television itself. From there we went to the movie, where he celebrated as a director, screenwriter and actor success. But his secret love was always music. The amateur clarinetist, founded in 1991, the Orchestra Italiana, an instrumental ensemble that specialized in traditional Neapolitan music.

 

For some of his publications, the inimitable folk, jazz and chanson mixed, you already compared him with his famous compatriot Paolo Conte. For his latest album, "Tonite! ! Renzo Swing "urges, at least in the German speaking another comparison: what Renzo Arbore and his extra for this record compiled Big Band" make Swing Maniacs "here, this could be the Italian version of Max Raabe and his Palast Orchester. A nostalgic tone is struck here, the overused buzzword "Retro" urges once again on. As Max Raabe dedicated to Renzo Arbore also the music of a bygone era, the Italian Swing of the 40s. As in Germany, the development of swing and jazz was exposed by fascism a severe test in Italy - but after 1945 in Italy there was a considerable amount of composers and lyricists, in the midst of post-war depression and destruction with a defiant on "Yet!" the smiling lips continued to play elegant and carefree humorous swing. Among the names that the American style of music with southern warmth and snazzy Italian texts combined, include Alberto Rabagliati, Natalino Otto, Ernesto Bonino or Domenico Modugno. Arbore and his Swing Maniacs - all young jazz talents of the "Roman School" - go to this music with rousing , unakademischer joy and full of sense of humor.

 

Arbore sings and plays the piano, the effective on-simplistic horns make immediate desire to dance, and when the whole band singing along as men's chorus in songs like the witty "Bongo Bongo Bongo", or "Non sparate Sul Pianista" ("Dont Shoot The Piano Player ") banjo and tuba call to Dixie groove, it is clear that here a few jazz fans had a lot of fun in the studio. There is no endless virtuoso solos battles, no hyped-harmonic and textural experiments, but light and nonchalant swing who wants nothing but joy and fun to prepare. And he does, and how! Presented is one of the fun in absolute audiophile sound quality, as you'd expect from fone. In particular, the rhythm section of drums, bass, piano and guitar was captured here with a warm, velvety and incredibly accurate sound, providing an enjoyable base for a soft, natural and extremely realistic brass sound.

 

As always with Fone there is this plate limited to 496 piece edition. And everyone who secures one of these 496 specimens, can count themselves lucky. Because this witty, entertaining and really well made ​​plate you can listen to again and again - which is never boring.

Printed in Germany Pure Analogue Recording Pure Analogue Cutting Cutting Machine One-Stage Pressing Process 33 rpm ​​180 g Heavy Quality Sleeves

 

The story of fonè

 

In the context of classical and jazz music market, fonè proposes three decades of recordings using advanced techniques, aimed at the recovery of the original musical atmospheres.

Each new recording is the result of a passionate encounter between art and the art of execution and aims to recreate and reproduce the same spirit with which the works of the past have been performed. One basic feature that makes the difference between fonè and others, is the recording of musical works in natural places and original, constant production that leads to choose from time to time historically more space? Suitable for: church, theater, villa, living room ...

 

All this is done by retrieving a simple incision that does not do violence to the music: all the equipment is in high definition. Using pairs of valves Neumann microphones in the years 1947 and 1949 (U47, U48 and M49) using techniques very natural timbre bimicrofoniche field effect. These microphones have an important story: they are the microphones used to record the Beatles at Abbey Road Studio and RCA for the "Living Stereo."

 

No use is made of electronic manipulation of the signal, nor any artificial correction that if they make a sound easier to carve, it is true that distort so unacceptable. With this method you get to transfer the music information on the standard analog for the production of virgin vinyl 180g &  200g

 

fonè uses for the standard analog Nagra 4S, Studer C37 and J37 and Ampex ATR 102, the standard for digital, in collaboration with Philips the DSD (Direct Stream Digital) technology that has opened the doors to the SACD. For all subsequent stages of processing and control, in which it must be a playback of the sound reproduction systems are used very sophisticated.

 

After the pressing demands of the enthusiast market and after a long series of investigations to ensure the best possible support, the virgin vinyl 180/200 grams, fonè now makes available its most prestigious titles in the LP format. 

strong opposition to current trends in the multinational market, tending to offer a product that is increasingly homogenized and devoid of content. 

 

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