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LIONNI / CORBINI / FRANCESCHINI ~ ACTIONREACTION 2 SLAM 2118 (Barcode: 5052442029946) ~ ITALY ~ Free Jazz / Improvised Music Recorded: 2017 - 2024 Released: 2025 This is an album by American (resident in Italy) painter / abstract Art activist Pippo LionniFind albums by this artist and Italian musicians: pianist Sergio CorbiniFind albums by this artist and saxophonist Stefano FranceschiniFind albums by this artist. It presents a collaboration between a Visual Artist and Jazz musicians, which consists of events, where an Artists is creating Art (painting for example), while he is accompanied by musicians improvising alongside his work. This is not actually that rare, especially in Europe, but such events are rarely recorded, so this album is a tangible document, recorded during several live and studio sessions. The 2CD album presents twelve tracks, which were recorded over a period on several years between 2017 and 2024, with a full performance captured on CD1 and other recordings on CD2. The music is of course spontaneously improvised. Despite the fact that these multimedia events are obviously intended to be attended and experienced by a live audience, which is exposed to all the elements of the event, in this case visual and aural, the “soundtrack” of these events presented on this album is also a viable, although only partial, document of the proceedings. The music, although performed by the two musicians, with some percussive effects created by Lionni using his tools, and on one track only by the bassist Silvia BolognesiFind albums by this artist, is very expressive, constantly changing and developing and altogether quite fascinating. Like all Improvised Music, it has a limited appeal to the general audience, but connoisseurs of this particular genre should find it delightful, especially since it offers many melodic elements, which makes it more digestible than extreme Free Jazz recordings. Overall, this is a very interesting document of an Artistic multimedia genus, which offers demanding, but not extremely out worldly music, which can be truly enjoyed. Well, these Artists are Italians (or of Italian descent), so melody is in their genes ;) Side Note The small independent label called SlamFind albums on this label Records, which was founded and operated by British saxophonist George HaslamFind albums by this artist in 1989, released some of the most fascinating Avant-Garde music recorded on the British Isles by local and international Artists. The label released some 250 albums and in 2021 Haslam announced his retirement. However, in 2023, 34 years after the label was founded, it was announced that the ownership and running of the label has been taken over by Jon GriffithsFind albums by this artist, the owner of My Only DesireFind albums on this label Records, who continues to release new albums.

Updated: 11/04/2026Posted: 11/04/2026

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