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HOSTSONATEN: SPRINGSONG RESTYLED

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FABIO ZUFFANTI: FIRST SOLO ALBUM

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HOSTSONATEN
Seasoncycle suite part IV: SPRINGSONG (restyled version)

THE RESTYLING

Springsong' is the 4st and final chapter of Hostsonaten's 'Seasoncycle Suite' and has been originally published by Sublime Label in 2001.
The original Cd is out of print by a few years and now AMS records have decided not only to re-print it but to do a brand new album only in little part based on the old version.

Starting by the 'exterior' aspect we find a wonderful new graphyc work completely different form the previous one, in line with the 'Seasons project' and with excellent paintings by Davide Guidoni. All in a gatefold LP-replica box with a deluxe booklet with new credists, informations, images and details.

Musically the 2001 work has been completely changed. The album has been remixed in high definition quality, every single track has been cleaned and re-equalized to give a new and strong dinamic to the music, more powerful and trenchant.

Fabio Zuffanti and Robbo Vigo, the authors of this restyling, have also gave light to a great number of new musical details and, most important thing, have played a lot of new musical parts absent in the old version.

In particoular:

- New mellotron parts played with a real mellotron (the old parts were played with samplers)

- New bass in the whole album

- New moog, bass pedals and percussion parts

There's also a 13 minutes bonus track (Suite bretonne), acoustic suite that is the embryo from wich Springsong is born.

IN A FEW WORD: A COMPLETELY NEW ALBUM TOTALLY RENEWED AND BORN AGAIN TO A NEW LIFE!

The CD will be out on March 21 on AMS-VM2000/BTF ( http://www.btf.it/ - www.btf.it )

SPRINGSONG, PART IV OF 'SEASONCYCLE SUITE'

Springsong" is dedicated to and it is inspired by the intimate legacy between man and nature. The music of "Springsong" looks back to the time when human beings lived according to natural rhythms and it has the colours of Renaissance masterpieces.

There are no studio tricks, no playing machines, but only the touch, imagination and sensibility of real artists.

If you love such works as Genesis' "Trespass" or Anthony Phillips's "The Geese And The Ghost", you will certainly welcome enthusiastically this album.

Even if you like acclaimed bands such as Clannad, Nightnoise and Moving Hearts, bands who usually play on the edge of several musical worlds, you will find the good vibrations you need. But you will feel at home also if you are searching for jazzy and traditional echoes from other European latitudes.

For this adventurous trip, Fabio Zuffanti trooped some Former Finisterre members (Stefano Marelli, Agostino Macor, Boris Valle, Francesca Biagini) as well as some very talented musicians who normally approach rock music in a different way (Sergio Caputo, Federico Foglia, Edmondo Romano, ex Eris Pluvia and Ancient Veil).

The result is a special mixture of powerful modern sounds and exotic and unusual voices of ancient instruments (woodwinds, pianos, strings, guitars and so on) that give "Springsong" a very unique and original flavour.

With "Springsong" Fabio Zuffanti offers us his most painstaking recording, a work which shows the maturity he has reached and which goes beyond the fences that sometimes enclose the progressive rock world.

"Springsong"

1 - In the open fields

2 - Kemper / Springtheme

3 - Living stone and 1st reprise

4 - She sat writing letters on the riverbank

5 - The underwater and 2nd reprise

6 - Lowtide

7 - The wood is alive with the smell of the rain

8 - Evocation of Spring in a fastdance

9 - Toward the sea:

i. blackmountains (including la route pour finistère) / ii. 3rd reprise / iii. seasoncycle's end / iv. grand finale / springland

10. Bonus Track: Suite Bretonne (parts1-2-3)

FABIO ZUFFANTI: AFTER YEARS OF WORKS ON A LOT OF DIFFERENT BANDS AND PROJECTS COMES OUT THE FIRST SOLO ALBUM OF THE ITALIAN MUSICIAN AND COMPOSER, LEADER OF FINISTERRE.

FABIO ZUFFANTI

Fabio Zuffanti is born in Genova (Italy) and is musically active from 1994.

In these years he has worked, mainly as bass player and composer, in a great number of groups and projects such as Finisterre, Rohmer, laZona, Hostsonaten, la Maschera Di Cera, Aries...He as composed music that heve been spaced form postrock to progrock, from folk to pop, electronic and experimentation.

He has worked with imporant italian producers such as Roberto Colombo (Battiato, De Andrè, Matia Bazar...) and Franz Di Cioccio (PFM, De andrè, Battisti...) and his work has been publishd by a lot of different labels.

With his groups Fabio have been played live in concert in a lot of countries: Italy, France, Spain, Swiss, Belgium, Portugal, USA, Mexico...

Above his works on the projects Fabio attends to composition, production and recordings in the "Zerodieci" and "Marina" studios in Genova, work as composer for Warner Chappel Music and his music has been used for a lot of TV spot, soundtracks, dance performances, etc...

He have also wrote the rock opera "Merlin" played with success in Italy and France in 2000-2001 and published in a double CD in 2000.

THE SOLO PATH

In 2007 Fabio began to build a solo path under his name and he made, in the newx 2 years, a series of issues: a cd-ep (Pioggia e Luce) and a lot of songs in various compilations.

In 2008 he works with the italian writers collective Wu Ming for the soundtrack of their book 'Manituana' and, at the same time, he gave life, togheter with the italian writer Tommaso Labranca, to a reading entitled ‘Appelsina'.

Zuffanti solo's music is a mix of electronica, songwriter, post-rock, psychedelia and lot of other things. He love artist such as Robert Wyatt, Lucio Battisti, Franco Battiato, Thom Yorke and many others…

Zuffanti's music is in search of a certain mood ceased between dream and reality, inluenced by a lot of non-musical factors such as the snow, the asphalt, the rain, the mud, the wardrobes, the fallen leaves, the stones, the strange novels and the soul earthquakes...

THE FIRST SOLO ALBUM

In march 2009 the first solo album by Fabio Zuffanti comes out.

Tha cd, entitled 'Fabio Zuffanti', is published by italian label Ams-Vm2000/BTF and contains the following songs:

- E' probabile
- Le piante sott'acqua
- Dormono
- Cuoci bene
- Andiamo avanti (per il film)
- Ottobre
- Sentieri nel ghiaccio
- Domeniche senza tramonto
- Così a fondo...

The lyrics of the song 'Domeniche senza tramonto' are written by italian writer Tommaso Labranca.

The deluxe cover album (gatefold Lp-replica with deluxe booklet) is done by Davide Guidoni with photos by Claudio Castellini.

Zuffanti's solo album is SOLO in the real sense of the word: Fabio has composed, arranged, played, recorded and produced the whole cd. Only the mixing works have been done at Zerodieci studio.

If you go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pUFgeAvCDs - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pUFgeAvCDs you'll see 'Cuoci bene' videoclip, directed by italian director Paolo Pompetta.

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Carlo Carnevali
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