Banda Sonora (remastered 2020)

by Battista Lena

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1.	Banda 8 05:10	buy track
2.	Il Grande Cocomero 07:01	buy track
3.	Stabat Mom 04:18	buy track
4.	Roma Ovest 643 06:54	buy track
5.	Il Valzer del Povero 03:51	buy track
6.	Ferie D'Agosto 05:18	buy track
7.	Mermaid 02:32	buy track
8.	Valzers 04:55	buy track
9.	Tema di Pietro e Ghisola 02:23	buy track

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Originally published in 1997 by the French label “Label Bleu” Banda Sonora has become a cult album worldwide selling more than 10.000 copies (a lot for a jazz album) and winning several awards like “Choc de la Musique” and “4 Clefs” of Telerama.
This album testifies the long work of Battista Lena with the Bonaventura Somma band of Chianciano Terme conducted by Paolo Scatena and an "All Stars" quintet featuring Jazz legend Enrico Rava,
Gianni Coscia, Gabriele Mirabassi, Enzo Pietropaoli, Marcello Di Leonardo and Lena himself. All sound like they are all having tremendous fun.

Battista Lena has taken this delightfully ragged wind orchestra and put together a programme of attractive marches and waltzes for his star soloists to play with. The material owes more to Nino Rota than Rossini .The disc opens with Banda 8, a dizzy circus theme that introduces the whirling orchestra in its full glory before Enrico Rava embarks on his first scrabbled trumpet solo. Gabriele Mirabassi follows with a few bars of squalling clarinet before the orchestra gear up and with all the subtlety of a stampeding elephant conclude the theme. Much of the material follows a similar form, often using a simple theme which is programmed through a number of changes of tempo and by adding some delicious harmonies. All the soloists have their moments, Lena himself contributing some well placed arpeggios on Stabat Mom. Perhaps the most compelling track of all though is Valzers a superb waltz in which the soloists seem to dance in partnership with the band.
This experience was filmed by Francesca Archibugi in the movie “La Strana storia di Banda Sonora” that won the Unesco Price “Jean Rouch” at the 54e Mostra del Cinema di Venezia.
The project Banda Sonora is still active 23 years after its debut.

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released March 15, 2020

Battista Lena: Composition, arrangements and guitar
Enrico Rava: Trumpet
Gabriele Mirabassi: Clarinet
Gianni Coscia: Accordion
Enzo Pietropaoli: Doublebass
Marcello Di Leonardo Drums
and
Banda Bonaventura Somma di Chianciano Terme:

Conductor: Paolo Scatena

Piccolo flute: Alberto Terrosi
Flutes:
Cristina Della Giovanpaola
Valentina Giometti
Francesca Labbrini
Emanuela Cioli
Ettore Marroni

Clarinets:
Romano Trabalzini
Sara Trabalzini
Lucilla Angeli
Ugo Boncompagni
Giacomo Ciacci
Alessandro Cioli
Angela Cirillo
Renato Cencetti
Eugenio Fallarino
Linda Maglioni
Leonardo Marroni
Linda Mirabissi
Luca Morgantini
Andrea Paolessi
Vasco Scaccini

Flugelhorns:
Gianluca Andreucci
Marco Canestrelli
Fabio Brachi

Saxes:
Igor Cappelli
Mario Cirillo
Thomas Weithman
Dante DellaLena
Renato Vecchio
Davide Biancolini
Attilio Pinzi
Rossano Emili

Horns:
Emanuele Pellegrini
Francesco Del Buono

Trumpets:
Damiano Falchi
Massimo Pellegrini
Emanuele Maglioni
Fabrizio Massai
Cristiano Sanchini

Trombones:
Massimiliano Romiti
Andrea Canapini
Vinicio Palazzi
Giancarlo Svetoni

Tuba bass:
Franco Morviducci

Percussions:
Rolando Morviducci
Andrea Cirillo
Massimo Rossi
Giordano Mencarelli

Recorded in Teatro Poliziano of Montepulciano Nov.30 - Dec.1 1996
Sound engineer: Vincenzo Vanni
Mixed by Gianrico La Rosa
Mastered by Tita Lonzi (2020)
Artwork by Angelica Lena

Produced by Battista Lena

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