{"id":13048,"date":"2020-05-07T13:33:38","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T13:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/?p=13048"},"modified":"2020-05-07T13:33:41","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T13:33:41","slug":"italian-jazz-guitarist-rocco-zifarelli-releases-new-album-music-unites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2020\/05\/07\/italian-jazz-guitarist-rocco-zifarelli-releases-new-album-music-unites\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian Jazz Guitarist Rocco Zifarelli Releases New Album \u201cMusic Unites\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cMusic Unites\u201d is the new CD by Italian guitarist Rocco Zifarelli, for more than 20 years alongside the famous movie music composer Ennio Morricone with whom he has recorded many award winning scores (Academy Award, Golden Globe, Bafta etc) and performed in many tours around the world. Published 20 years after the acclaimed \u201cLyndon\u201d (Via VenetoJazz-Universal) this CD continues on the same musical concept, that concerns instrumental electric jazz and jazz-rock in general, with 10 tracks describing a series of experiences of musical life in Rome, New York and especially in Paris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For \u201cMusic Unites\u201d Rocco brought together a number of great musicians with whom he collaborated in the last years, primarily Paco Sery (Ivory Coast) on drums and Linley Marthe (Mauritius Island) on bass, the rhythm section of Joe Zawinul Syndicate, then italian bass stars Dario Deidda and Pippo Matino, Russian trumpeter Alex Sipiagin and two DJ\u2019s and sound designers Freddy Jay (Paris) and Yassin Africancuts (Brussels), and many others. A lot of musical variety, original and non-original compositions, including two revisited Morricone’s themes \u201cThe Untouchables\u201d and \u201cLe clan des siciliens,\u201d in a dynamic succession of electric and acoustic moods combined with samples and electronic loop, well conducted by Rocco’s eclectic guitar. A CD that put together people, cultures, sounds, musical life and experiences\u2026because \u201cMusic Unites\u201d! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Says Rocco, \u201cThis record is the story of my musical and private life, through the ten tracks, like the chapters of an autobiographical book. It\u2019s also a journey, a long journey in all senses, was conceived from the point of view of the compositional ideas many years ago, shortly after the release of my first and only album ‘Lyndon’ but had a very long gestation, due to many factors both external and personal, changes of human and artistic life mainly influenced by the massive events that have affected the whole world in the last twenty years. During this time I traveled a lot, for tours and concerts, and lived in some world great musical cities. Expecially my three years in Paris, after joining the Defunkt, where I met many African artists who were able to express depths of their native cultures. Even now Paris absorbs these important influences and, in musical terms, trains generations of extraordinary esteemed all over the world. All that already happened in New York since forever, but not with African born artists, really hard to arrive in the US\u2026 it is not a coincidence that Joe Zawinul has taken so many musicians of the last Syndicate in Paris, even if they were not originally from France.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rocco Zifarelli’s \u201cMusic Unites\u201d showcases the energy and power of Rock, the expressiveness of Blues, the improvisation, the harmonies and the interplay of the Jazz of Miles and Coltrane, the groove of Funk and Black Music, the timbres and the colors of Mediterranean acoustic music and the synthesis of Electronic music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the meantime, thanks also to his friend Marco Massimi, he managed to create Rocco’s recording studio in Rome, the \u201cZETA STUDIO,\u201d where \u201cMusic Unites\u201d was almost entirely recorded; it is Rocco’s \u201crefuge,\u201d a kind of laboratory where he can experiment with music ideas with his friends, and a comfortable place to record guitar tracks for various external works. The need to manage, protect and produce the best ideas has led Rocco to develop the concept of his own music production company, \u201cZETA STUDIO PRODUCTIONS,\u201d which will report to some divisions such as the record label \u201cZETA RECORDS,\u201d of which this CD is the first product, publisher with which his guitar methods and other types of productions will come out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s what’s being said about Rocco Zifarelli:<\/strong>
\u201cRocco has been working with me for more than 20 years now… his use of electric guitar, sounds and the way he performs and interprets my writing makes him one of my first choice musicians, both for recordings and for concerts made all over the world. This record fully expresses my thoughts.\u201d –\u00a0ENNIO MORRICONE
\u201cImagine the Pat Metheny Group\u2019s embracing of jazzy world music with a groovy hip-hop type sound beloved of musicians such as Miles Davis and (especially) saxophonist Branford Marsalis\u2019 project, Buckshot Le Fonque, and you\u2019re on your way… Beautifully sublime!\u201d – GUITAR TECHNIQUE
\u201c…it is a journey not only introspective, in which life experiences become the matter of the story. A musical journey supported by electronics and the sounds of the surroundings, which transforms the listener into Rocco Zifarelli’s travel companion.\u201d – Radio Vostok.com, Carlo Pecoraro
\u201cThe electric and acoustic sounds are inspired by fusion music that, thanks to truly stratospheric rhythms, contemporary sounds, voices, and various ‘very cool’ inserts, becomes very contemporary and, in some moments, even prospective for a new path on which to continue to do research…\u201d – JAZZITALIA\u00a0<\/em>
Along with promoting his new album, Rocco is busy with many other musical related activities. Says Rocco, \u201cAfter 22 years of recording and touring with Maestro Ennio Morricone, he has retired some months ago, we\u2019re still doing some concerts and recording sessions, but now I\u2019m totally involved in my projects and teaching. I teach Pop-Rock and Jazz Guitar at the State Conservatories of Milano and Cuneo, but it allows me to have plenty of time to dedicate to my artistic activity, to my recording studio and\u00a0 label, lots of live concerts with different bands, mostly electric and acoustic jazz, and many recording sessions in different styles. I’m preparing a new album, mostly swingin’ acoustic jazz, that’s still my main source of inspiration and study, and not so elaborate as ‘Music Unites.’ I’ve just finished a collaboration with the UK magazine ‘Guitar Techniques,’ with a series of six video-workshops issued now, in which I’ve improvised some solos on backing tracks they provided to me, and then I explain my style and my phrasing ideas for each song.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To purchase Rocco Zifarelli’s \u201cMusic Unites\u201d:<\/strong>https:\/\/www.jazzos.com\/detail0.php?prod=ZRP001<\/a>https:\/\/music.apple.com\/us\/album\/music-unites\/1456428870<\/a>www.amazon.it\/Music-Unites-Explicit-Rocco-Zifarelli\/dp\/B07PPJN1K4\/ref=sr_1_1<\/a>

Spotify:<\/strong>https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/0ivcv1QukbHAgOo3jy4sKW?si=svNwszlYQRmi4OfZdYid3w&fbclid=IwAR3xV-Rrjv5YS3s6POTEDbkTevuol830pb3580rhlwebgOVhaPp1a1anz70<\/a>

For more information:<\/strong>Website:\u00a0www.roccozifarelli.com<\/a>
F.B. artist page:\u00a0\u00a0www.facebook.com\/Rocco-Zifarelli-Guitarist-143486242343992\/<\/a>
Instagram:\u00a0\u00a0www.instagram.com\/roccozifarelli\/?hl=it<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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