// Denovali Swingfest 2013

Hi guys!

Denovali Swingfest 2013 has been announced and what a lineup it has this year.

Piano Interrupted (UK), Biosphere (NO), Deaf Centre (NO), Tim Hecker (CAN), Witxes (FR), Poppy Ackroyd (UK), Nils Frahm (GER), Field Rotation (GER) and my friend, Saffronkeira (IT) will be performing his new collaboration tracks along with Trumpeter Mario Massa (IT).

If you can get to Essen in early October this year, this is gonna be some great nights of music and should be checked out.

Link: http://www.sonofmarketing.it/eventi-essen-denovali-swingfest/

// SaffronKeira "Tourette" (Italian)

Well, here we are. About a half year after the superb "A New Life" double disc release from SaffronKeira on the Denovali Label we have a brand new album. "Tourette" follows the same overall soundscape of the debut release but pushes it in a new direction. When I first heard the works from SaffronKeira (Eugenio Caria), I was reminded of the artists who inspired me to write my own music. Eugenio manages to wrap all these various artists styles and production techniques up in own way, add in some of his own ideas, throw them up in the air and see what lands. Its an incredible emotional journey through quite a familiar yet also slightly disturbing soundscape that moves you.

With the debut release Eugenio wanted to tell of the story of life, from the beginnings to the end from the joys of new life to the sadness of loss. With this new release, SaffronKeira instead takes you into the mind. As its name suggests, "Tourette" talks about mental disabilities and the difficulties of coming to terms with what this means. Also like the disease itself, the music can have spontaneous outbursts where it changes direction and hits you with something digital and harsh the next moment it could hit you with something very emotional. The best track that shows this is the frankly superb "1859-1904". 

There are many highlights on this album that must be heard to fully appreciate. If you are looking for a taster of these tracks, you can find videos on youtube.com. These are as follows:

Link 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhS7NITDyCA - "1859-1905"
Link 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHyguJZFXcI - "The Hope"
Link 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgYAO29369A - "The Disease"

This new album is a natural progression for SaffronKeira and its great to see that Eugenio Caria is kicking out new material at a great rate. For those who love music by Max Richter or the Mexican genius that is Murcof, this and his debut release are must buys.

Buy from:
Link 4: http://denovali.com/saffronkeira/

SaffronKeira will be performing at Störung Festival 8 on 17th April at TMB, Metro Universitat, 19:00h, and also on the 19th April at La Farinera del Clot, 20:00h.

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// SaffronKeira (Italian)

As you may remember, I did a review of SaffronKeira's debut double album, A New Life. Half a year later and he's back with a brand new album, Tourette. The link at the end of this post will take you to SaffronKeira at Denovali records. It is well worth having a listen to the two sample tracks available on there, "1859-1904" and "The Hope". I look forward to doing a more in depth review at some point in the future, as it is only available for pre-order at the moment. 

It sounds as if SaffronKeira is back with interesting new soundscapes. Definitely one to watch out for with his future releases.

Link 1: http://denovali.com/saffronkeira/

// Denovali Swingfest 2012

A quick post about the upcoming Denovali Swingfest which will take place October 5-7 2012 at the Weststadthalle in Essen, Germany.

The list of artists that will be involved at the Festival is near endless so I wont list them here, but if you take a trip to Link 1 below, you will be able to get a rough picture of who will be there and also be able to download a 30 track festival sampler for FREE.

Visit Link 1: http://denovali.com/swingfest/