Arti & Mestieri was an Italian jazz-rock band that released the 1974/75 albums Tilt (Immagini per un Orecchio) and Giro di Valzer per Domani. After a four-year pause, they issued three further albums between 1979 and 1985. Along with Area and Perigeo, they were Italy’s most prominent jazz-rock band of the 1970s. Drummer Furio Chirico […]
Tilt – Immagini Per Un Orecchio is the 1974 debut album by the Italian jazz-rock sextet Arti & Mestieri. From the synth-walled/violin-strewn metric shuffles of “Gravità 9,81” to the guitar/vibraphone filigree of the exceedingly brisk “Positivo/Negativo,” Furio Chirico bombards the proceedings with tome/snare spray of unparalleled speed. Across the epic proportions of “Articolazioni,” the frenzied […]
Giro di Valzer per Domani is the second album by Italian symphonic/jazz-rock collective Arti & Mestieri, released in 1975 on Cramps. A1. “Valzer per Domani” (2:12) (Waltz for Tomorrow) Crovella’s piano sets a light triple-meter figure while Chirico rolls gently across toms and cymbals. Vigliar’s violin and Vitale’s clarinet enter together, trading the same rising […]
