TEB's Gonzo Multimedia titles disappeared from the web site.

The drastic changes of the global record market forced Gonzo Multimedia to limit the production of physical albums, selling just digital editions of the records.

For this simple reason, Gonzo Multimedia's owner Rob Ayling recently explained to me that "we are now selling digital versions - the demand for physical copies drops off after the first pressing."

So this is the reason why all the TEB's catalogue (apart from some few last copies of "Spirits") is not available anymore with the original physical CD editions.

However, even though this is now established, I don't like the digital edition of an album, and I still prefer to have a traditional CD with a physical disc, case and paper booklet...

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TEB new CDs update.

Dear TEB  compulsive listeners,

I have to inform you the announced TEB CDs ("Spirits" and "Brain Waves" reissue) will be available next year: "Spirits" release date is January 27th, 2017.
Gonzo Multimedia's Captain Rob Ayling wrote me it past week - the decision is due the amount of records scheduled by the label (expecially Rick Wakeman's old and new ones).

I'm sorry, but we have to wait for it...

Anyway I'm proud to tell  Carolyn Looker and me are editing the first collection of poems, writings, drawings by Glen Sweeney. It will be published next year, I hope until Summer.

Yours,

Luca Chino Ferrari

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"Mosaic", Roberto Musci's tribute to the Third Ear Band. A short review.

Out on June 17th, 2016, published by Rob Ayling's Gonzo Multimedia, is now available Roberto Musci's tribute to the Third Ear Band. Titled "Mosaic", it consists of twelve tracks composed by Musci and played by himself using various kind of instruments as Plunderphonics, tibetan bells, flute, guitar, synth, hand drums, percussion, organ.

At a very first listening, the album is an amazing surprise because, albeit these are new compositions, the listener 'feel' the old fascinating mood of the band, even if totally renewed and rivisited.

Musci adopted for the album John Oswald's technique of composition and recording based on Plunderphonics, "using samples from their cds, filtered with effects and with “cut and paste technique", I created some songs" (from an interview with Musci).

And thus we have old TEB' tunes reborn at a new life: it's really amazing and beautiful listening to legendary tracks as "Ghetto Raga", "Mosaic", "Air", "Druid One", "Egyptian Book of the Dead" or "The Beach" dressed with a new suit.

The grafts of original TEB single sequences of sound work perfectly in this new texture because they seem rightly coherent and natural in this new soundscape. Not a simply juxtaposition of quotations of music, but as for a film editing  we have here sequences of old and new music totally integrated.
Some compositions are very astonishing: my favourite one is "The Beach", a 5 minutes of sinister, disquieting tune with a funeral cadence after an opening debussyan atmosphere...

Believe me, through the years I've listened to many attempts to tribute and/or compose (music inspired by) the glorious, unique sound of the TEB, but this is the real first time we have an album where Sweeney, Minns, Coff and Smith seem to come back for playing their awesome music again!

ROBERTO MUSCI WEB REFERENCES:
A sampler of the album ("Ghetto Raga") at  https://soundcloud.com/roberto-musci
Musci's personal Web site: http://www.rmusci.com/

OTHER STUFF ABOUT ROBERTO MUSCI IN GHETTORAGA ARCHIVE:
An interview with  Roberto on the Third Ear Band is at http://ghettoraga.blogspot.it/2015/09/italian-composer-roberto-musci-talks.html
A file where Roberto explains his project is at http://ghettoraga.blogspot.it/2015/11/italian-avant-garde-composer-roberto.html

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Italian avant-garde composer Roberto Musci makes a tribute to the Third Ear Band.

Italian musician and composer Roberto Musci composed and recorded a tribute to the Third Ear Band based on original samplers of the band. 

Titled "Mosaic" it's actually a 'mosaic' of tracks build on various excerpts from original tracks of the Thirds, pieces as "Ghetto Raga", "Mosaic", "Air", "Druid One"..., treated with an original, innovative technique called "Plunderphonics".

Roberto explains the thing in this way: "This project is a musical tribute to the Third Ear Band ; it is not  a cover of their music  (it would be impossible, unnecessary and ridiculous), but music closely related and inspired by their art.
In recent years I have worked with Chris Cuttler in a project of Plunderphonics (ie: to sample music of a group to create new songs very close to the original music but different) . I have collaborated on a CD publishing by Recommended Records UK, dedicated to the music of Art Bears ("The Art Box" double and quadruple with the original music of the group and plunderphonics. In the CDs there are also songs made by Jon Rose, Otomo Yoshide, John Oswald, The Residents, Fred Frith). With this technique I’d like to create my own personal tribute to the Third Ear Band and using samples from their cds, filtered with effects and with “cut and paste technique", I created some songs".

 

Considering the interest of Rob Ayling for the project, Roberto has asked Gonzo Multimedia to realise a record from it. We will see what will happen. 
I have had the honour to listen to it and I think it's one of the best reworking of the Third Ear Band's ouvre...

CONTACTS
"To absent friends, lost loves and old gods" (blog): http://robertomusci.tumblr.com/

Roberto Musci Web site:

http://www.rmusci.com/
Soundcloud:  
https://soundcloud.com/roberto-musci

Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Musci 

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"New Forecasts from the Third Ear Almanac" CD out on July 6th, 2015!

The second brand new TEB's CD titled "New Forecasts from the Third Ear Alamanc", edited by Rob Ayling and Luca Ferrari, will be out on July 6th, 2015 at £ 9.99.

Gonzo Multimedia's boss Rob Ayling announces it in the Web site at http://www.gonzomultimedia.co.uk/product_details/15841/Third_Ear_Band-New_Forecasts_from_the_Third_Ear_Almanac.html
where you can do a pre-order.

 
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"New forecasts from the Third Ear Almanac" ready in a couple of months...

After having checked the proofs of the booklet that will be included in the second Gonzo Multimedia's CD, where I've written some things about the first Italian TEB's tours, Rob Ayling confirms the second brand new TEB's album - with a digital rendition of "New forecasts from the Third Ear Almanac" - will be ready in a couple of months.

Here's the original front and back covers:

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New TEB albums out on Spring 2015.

New TEB albums will be distributed by Gonzo Multimedia next Spring. Gonzo's boss Rob Ayling confirmed it just yesterday writing me this simple note:

"Hey Luca,

good to hear from you. "Our" releases are moving ahead just fine - thank you, expect them spring of next year...". 

So all the TEB's fans are advised.

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Rob Ayling, project co-ordinator about the Holland Festival CDs...

Pushed by curiosity of some TEB fans, I've asked Rob Ayling, project co-ordinator of the Holland Festival 3CDs for Gonzo Multimedia, if he knows there are TEB recordings left and why he has decided to exclude them from the albums...

Rob with Roger Hodgson (on right) in 2011.

His reply is net and don't admit any doubts: "There are not recordings that I know of... If we had them they would be in. I like the TEB so no reason to exclude them".

So unfortunately no TEB recordings from that festival...

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