01	Valzer per Domani						02:16
	02	Mirafiori						06:00
	03	Saper Sentire						04:44
	04	Nove Lune Prima						00:53
	05	Da Nord a Sud						05:17
	06	Nove Lune Dopo						01:08
	07	Mescal						02:01
	08	Mescalero						00:37
	09	Dimensione Terra						01:34
	10	Aria Pesante						03:57
	11	Consapevolezza Parte 1						03:25
	12	Sagra						03:06
	13	Consapevolezza Parte 2						01:15
	14	Rinuncia						02:51
	15	Marilyn						02:45
	16	Terminal						02:23

CD reissue 1994, King Record

Arti E Mestieri [Italy]

Tilt (74), Giro di valzer per domani (75), Quinto Stato (79), Acquario (83), Children's Blues (85), Live (90)

A fusion band featuring the an exceptional drummer in Furio Chirico. Chirico is so dazzling that you may end up only listening to him if you buy these. Drummers must own these since I have never heard Bruford, Moerlen, or Pip Pyle as impressive as this guy. He literally riffs all the way through these and are worth the money alone for the drumming although the music complements him very well. The names - Tilt and Giro di valzer per domani. A posthumous live release is also available.
Ripping jazz-rock from Italy, powered by the amazing drumming of Furio Chirico. Two studio albums Tilt and Giro di valzer per domani have both been reissued on CD, as well as a live set, which is OK but not as intense as the studio stuff. They are a six piece on Tilt (Drums, Guitar, Bass, Keys, Soprano Sax, Violin and Vocals) and add a full time lead vocalist on Giro. Very energetic, tight changes, colorful melodies, and excellent playing by all.
This jazz-rock band played in some gigs with Area (big friends) PFM and Gentle Giant. The first album is interesting and is very similar to the Mahavishnu Orchestra. Their best LP is Tilt and the last LPs are jazz-fusiony sounding.
All the Rush-heads who insist that Neil Peart is the best thing since the flush toilet should give a good listen to the drummer of this band. We're talking non-stop action; rolls, fills, and rythyms complex enough to be called "melodies" for drums. Killer stuff. On tour the dude must have taken oxygen between songs because I don't see how he could keep up the speed for as long as he does. This seven piece Italian progressive jazz outfit offers good, fast, busy fusion styled prog rock with occasional vocals but the drummer really sets them apart. Not quite as sharp as say... National Health, but busy nonetheless. I like the Giro di Valzer offering a bit better than their other CD, Tilt, and I'd say its worth picking up just for the drumming.
Much ink has been spilled about the drumming of Furio Chirico and for good reason: the guy is phenomenal. He is all over the place using all available musical space yet is never bombastic or overbearing. The music on Tilt and Giro di valzer per domani is generally pretty similar, though there are some differences. For the most part, I'm reminded of Ponty-era Mahavishnu Orchestra with violin and guitar trading licks against the non-stop riffing of Chirico. The guitar player, Gigi Venegoni, shows some nice McLaughlin influences with fiery guitar runs burning up the tune while the soaring violin adds more fuel to the flame. Add in some saxophone to round out the sound, the style perhaps a bit reminiscent of Elton Dean's playing with Soft Machine or Wayne Shorter from Miles Davis and Weather Report. Tilt has a slightly more symphonic edge, though still very much fusion, because the keyboard work is featured a bit more. The keys lean toward the lush end of the spectrum, hence the symphonic edge. Vocals are found on a few songs on each album; though a full-time singer is found on Giro..., he can be heard only on approximately one-third of the songs. Highly recommended to all fusion fans. -- Mike Taylor
Tilt is an undisputed classic of the fusion-prog subgenre. Highly influenced by the Mahavishnu Orchestra, the band uses guitar, violin and saxophone as lead instruments, and the sounds blend very well. Gigi Venegoni is one of the best Italian guitarists. Beppe Crovella adds a critical symphonic element to the sound with mellotron, organ and synths, while Furio Chirico is one of the fastest, most accurate drummers ever. Yet he knows when to lay back, the first half of "Positivo/Negativo" and the slower parts of "Articolazioni" are good examples. Highly recommended. Giro di Valzer jettisons the symphonic element, so is slightly disappointing in the face of Tilt, yet is still a good album on its own. Not unlike Isotope, Hatfield and The North, or other Canterbury fusion groups, fans of the aforementioned will enjoy this. Quinto Stato, without Venegoni, Crovella or violinist Giovanni Vigliar, is a good deal more disappointing. Still not bad, but the rather bland straight jazz approach doesn't work nearly as well as the previous styles did. It's hampered further by the presence of Rudy Passuello on vocals on four tracks; he's one of the most grating, gravelly vocalists I have ever heard. -- Mike Ohman

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Tilt was their first album on Cramps, an important indipendent italian label, after their debut at Parco Lambro's festival, the italian Woodstock.


The lp attracted immediately theattention of critics and public and was published in japan, on Pioner.
The original line up was; Furio Chiricoon drums, Beppe Crovella on keyboards, Marco Gallesi on bass, GigiVenegoni on guitars, Giovanni Vigliar on violin and Arturo Vitale on saxes, clarinet and vibes.


Giro di Valzer per domani was the second Lp, following two italian tourswith PFM and Gentle Giant.
Their style was intact with influences from post Davis jazz rock,
In the album Eugenio Finardi is singin' in one song and just towards the end of the album arrived Gianfranco Gaza





ARTI & MESTIERI



1974:
Gigi Venegoni (guitar, synth)
Beppe Crovella (keyboards)
Giovanni Vigliar (violin, vocals, percussion)
Arturo Vitale (sax, clarinet, vibes)
Marco Gallesi (bass)
Furio Chirico (drums, percussion)

1975:
Gianfranco Gaza (vocals) added



One of the bands from the Cramps label, Arti & Mestieri from Turin were formed by ex-Trip drummer Furio Chirico with musicians from various jazz groups.
Often playing with Area, they shared with them the same interest in fusing jazz-rock with prog elements, and their first album, Tilt, is a good result, even if the limited vocal parts were their weakest point. The album includes only two vocal tracks, and the rest is mainly instrumental.

The group had a good live activity, supporting the likes of PFM and even Gentle Giant. On the second album, 1975's Giro di valzer per domani, a singer was added, Gianfranco Gaza from Procession, and the album has a much better sound and production than the previous one, always in a jazzy-prog style. Two of the album's best cuts, Valzer per domani and the vocal Saper sentire were also released as a single.

In 1979 another Arti & Mestieri album was released, Quarto Stato, always led by Chirico but with a different line-up and more in a mainstream jazz-rock vein, while subsequent releases veered towards fusion.

Guitarist Venegoni also released two solo albums on Cramps as Venegoni & Co., always in the same jazz-rock style as later Arti & Mestieri.
Drummer Furio Chirico has continued playing and teaching his instrument, also releasing solo albums and some drum playing tutorials. He's the first italian drummer ever playing at the Modern Drummer Festival in USA (2002 edition).
Keyboardist Crovella has played and produced on new prog bands' albums such as Romantic Warriors, Tower, Mosaic.

A revived Arti & Mestieri with original members Venegoni, Crovella, Gallesi and Chirico aided by Marco Cimino (from Errata Corrige, that had joined the band on Quarto Stato) and violinist Corrado Trabuio has released a new CD Murales in 2001 on the small Electromantic label. Mostly instrumental and somehow influenced by world music, the CD also includes reworkings of a couple of tracks from the early albums, Gravita 9,81 and Nove lune prima.
Another CD release from 2001, called Articollezione is a compilation of unreleased tracks from their first period, more in a progressive style and will appeal to the fans who appreciated their first two albums.





LP
Tilt Cramps (CRSLP 5501) 1974 single cover with lyric insert
Akarma (AK 1024) 2001 single cover with lyric insert
Giro di valzer per domani Cramps (5205 502) 1975 gatefold cover with lyric insert
Akarma (AK 1025) 2001 gatefold cover with lyric insert - reissue contains 2 bonus tracks
Quinto stato Cramps (5205 505) 1979 gatefold laminated cover with lyric insert
Acquario Augusta (SMS 1002) 1983
Children's blues Augusta (MS 1009) 1985
CD reissues: Tilt on Vinyl Magic (VM 004-now deleted), Cramps and now on Akarma (AK 1024), Giro di valzer per domani on Vinyl Magic (VM 005) and on Akarma (AK 1025), Quinto stato on Cramps (300 045-2) and EMI (8574332)

SINGLES (with picture cover)

Valzer per domani
Saper sentire Cramps (CRSNP 1901) 1975 two tracks from the second album

CD (relevant issues)

Live Vinyl Magic (VM 018) 1990 deleted
Murales Electromantic (ART 401) 2000
Articollezione Electromantic (ART 403) 2002 compilation of unreleased recordings



Rather easy to find Arti & Mestieri albums have not been reissued before the recent Akarma reprinting. Like most Cramps releases the albums contain a black & white inner with typed lyrics and pictures.

A japanese issue exists of Tilt (Warner-Pioneer P-10303C). No counterfeits.

Drummer Furio Chirico has his own website at www.furiochirico.com

Info and MP samples from latest Arti & Mestieri releases can be found on Electromantic Music's website at www.electromantic.com










Arti E Mestieri - Giro Di Valzer Per Domani

Released: 2001
Label: Akarma (180 Gram vinyl LP)
Cat. No.:
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Reviewed by: Keith "Muzikman" Hannaleck, December 2001
The seventies were a period of intense creativity for the formulation of jazz-rock fusion. Groups like Return To Forever and Mahavishnu Orchestra were the most influential of them all, spurring on further development of the complex sounds that branched off of contemporary jazz while creating new inroads into the genre. The music spread quickly and groups were popping up all over the globe. Arti E Mesteri was one of those groups that embraced this new jazz formula. On their LP Giro Di Valzer Per Domani they typified the seventies sound that was reverberating throughout the jazz fusion genre. Most of this recording is made up of instrumentals. There are a few songs with vocals in Italian, although the instrumentals are much more appreciated by this listener.

The Akarma record label is based out of Italy and they have access to music that nobody else in the world does, consequently music lovers that have never had the opportunity to hear excellent music from abroad now do. I, for one, have completely enjoyed discovering groups that I have never heard of before, particularly in the realm of jazz-rock fusion. It doesn't matter how long ago the music was created, I can still appreciate the music and artistry that was involved in the crafting of the music. Personally I think resissues and remastered copies of music that have been pumped into brick and mortar stores and the Internet have opened up an entirely different avenue of listening and discovery for music lovers of all ages. Labels like Akarma are being recognized as major contributors to the continuing popularization of vinyl collecting and the exposing of groups that were otherwise never given any coverage on any level. This is a fine recording that will be greatly appreciated by anyone that has an interest in jazz-rock fusion.

More about Giro Di Valzer Per Domani:

Track Listing: Side One: Valzer Per Domani / Mirafioro / Saper Sentire / Nove Lune Dopo / Mescal / Nove Lune Dopo / Bonus Track: Arti

Side Two: Dimensione Terra / Aria Pesante / Consapevolezza Parte 1 / Rinuncia / Marilyn / Terminal / Bonus Track: Sui Tetti


Discography

Tilt (1974/2001)
Giro Di Valzer Per Domani (1975/2001)
Quinto Stato (1979)
Acquario (1983)
Children's Blues (1985)
Live (1990) (OOP)
Murales (2001)
Articollezione (2001)






Arti E Mestieri


Furio Chirico - ударные, перкуссия

Gigi Venegoni - гитара

Arturo Vitale - кларнет, сопрано-саксофон

Beppe Crovella - клавишные, синтезатор

Giovanni Vigliar - скрипка, гитара, синтезатор

Marco Gallesi - бас-гитара



Основанный бывшим барабанщиком THE TRIP (из которого он ушел по причине "музыкальных разногласий") Фурио Кирико этот выдающийся итальянский коллектив сосредоточился на одном из перспективных путей развития не отягченного обработкой классики прогрессива середины семидесятых, а именно - его синтеза с джаз-роком.

"Представьте себе все великолепие MAHAVISHNU ORCHESTRA, украшенное изящными партиями меллотрона", - писали о группе в своей книге "Storia Di Un Minuto" историки итальянского прогрессива.

Успеху первого лонг-плея Тilt, ставшего вехой в истории прогрессивного рока Аппенинского полуострова, способствовал талант лидера группы, потрясающего скрипача Джованни Вильяра (Giovanni Vigliar) и феноменально талантливого барабанщика Фурио Кирико. За исключением двух жемчужин с вокалом ("Strips" и "Articolazioni") полностью инструментальная пластинка позволяет оценить всю мощь и энергию ансамбля, находившегося на пике творческой формы. "Музыка для музыкантов ?" - вопрошали критики, сравнивая его с RETURN TO FOREVER, WEATHER REPORT и скрипачом Жаном-Люком Понти (Jean-Luc Ponty).

Группа часто выступала на концертах вместе со своими друзьями - AREA и P.F.M. Записанный в 1974 г. концертник, содержавший по большой части материал с диска Tilt, вышел почти два десятилетия спустя в виде компакт-диска.

С приходом нового участника - бывшего музыканта PROCESSION певца Джанфранко Газа (Gianfranco Gaza) - группа изменила прежним идеалам, "опустившись" до традиционного, богатого инструментальными партиями и впечатляющими соло джаз-рока.



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Дискография:



1. Tilt - Immagini per un orecchio (LP) - 1974 (Cramps - Italy); (CD) - (Vinyl Magic - Italy)
2. Giro di valzer per domani (LP) - 1975 (Cramps/Barclay); (CD) - (Vinyl Magic - Italy)
3. Quinto Stato (LP) - 1979
4. Arti E Mestieri Live (Live CD) - 1990 (Vinyl Magic - Italy) (Recorded 1974)