a m i r a n i r e c o r d s
lends an ear to what rings true in the production of sound and art, whether experimental or not. Attention to tales from within, to narration torn from vividly chequered imprecision, to fragments of pure air, snatches of urgency, tentative dirges, and to bright traces, silences and depths, that together enable a mapping both published and unpublished creativity.

a m i r a n i r e c o r d s
awakens curiosity, reveals the light in fragments and observes the richness of mingling.
Its collection of exchanges and risky juxtapositions will catalogue, and like little flags on a map, clarify the emergence of underlying intentions.
A network that vibrates in twists and turns. An acute listening that first pinpoints the elements and then understands the whole.

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a m i r a n i r e c o r d s
l’intento è creare una serie di connessioni fra le realtà artistiche italiane e internazionali, troppo spesso confinate in rigidi recinti.
La produzione prevede una serie di 4 o 5 progetti ( annunciati nelle news del sito web) per il primo anno di vita, procedendo per cerchi concentrici verso l’esterno. Cercando di ampliare le possibilità di collaborazione, verificando la le intenzioni con particolare attenzione alla freschezza creativa.

a m i r a n i r e c o r d s
vuole reinvestire i proventi in nuova progettualità, indagando i materiali non pubblicati di musicisti ed artisti che perseguono, per modalità e fine, una loro personale ricerca.
Interazione fra i linguaggi, relazione approfondita fra testo e musica, immagini e sound-art, telluriche improvvisazioni strumentali e vocali.Ogni produzione vuole essere curata con la necessaria e completa attenzione al dettaglio: qualità del suono, veste grafica, verità concettuale. Il prodotto è concept da tragitto dell’artista, documento del suo momento.

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Gianni Mimmo
One Way Ticket

amirani records’ first release is a solo by Gianni Mimmo.
One Way Ticket is far from being a collection of tracks, it is a concept of transit, of movement, of the nomadism of thoughts, of the impossibility of settling, and of our belonging to a journey.

b e s p ok e n
third edition by Amirani records is Bespoken

Finally on cd this magical collaboration started on winter 2002 and still alive and well!
Elegant sound concept and elettro-acoustical statement, BESPOKEN is a project performed by
Lorenzo Dal Ri (sound treatments, live electronics & field recording) and
Gianni Mimmo (soprano & bass saxes, piano & prepared piano).

So I am crazy, and enthusiastic. After having bought the "Trio X - 2006 US Tour", a 7-CD box, the mailman yesterday brought me the double LP "Live In Vilnius", also recorded in 2006, and issued in 500 numbered copies only (I got number 15, so I guess there must be some more copies available). Vilnius is the capital of Lithuania, one of the Baltic states in Europe, and one of the first releases by this brand-new jazz label, that also released two Mats Gustafsson albums so far, and that's it. Quality over quantity, an excellent choice I would say, but I guess they must be a little crazy too, and probably even more enthusiastic.

Barry Guy & Mats Gustafsson - Sinners, Rather Than Saints (NoBusiness, 2009)

British bassist Barry Guy and Swedish saxophonist Mats Gustafsson have played together numerous times and released albums ranging from duets ("Frogging"), trios (with Raymond strid), quartet (with Strid and Marilyn Crispell) and in Guy's big band. Although Guy clearly comes from a more classical oriented approach to new music and free improv, and Gustafsson has a jazz background, they meet in the common region where instrumental skills and artistic vision meet to create unheard sounds, not as just an experimental gimmick but to tell deep and true musical stories, full of agony, intimacy, distress and friendship. This wonderful vinyl LP, which covers a performance of both musicians at St. Catherine’s Church in Vilnius, Lithuania in January of this year, is a brilliant testimony of how avant-garde can open new worlds of sound that evoke real deepfelt human emotions, that go back to primeval times while being entirely modern at the same time. The album starts with a short and soft, hesitating dialogue between sax and bass, then Gustafsson blows some of the most heart-piercing wails I've heard in a long time, crying his heart out, in full agony, only to calm down again to play some beautiful sweet tones as a wonderful contrast of different emotions all folded into one.

David S. Ware
Live in Vilnius
No Business
2009

The year 2009 could be a rather big year for tenor saxophonist and improvising composer David S. Ware, and that's saying a lot. After all, Ware has long been one of the most celebrated figures in free jazz, owing not only to his work with artists like pianist Cecil Taylor and percussionists Andrew Cyrille and Beaver Harris, but also his longstanding quartet, which was founded in 1989 with pianist Matthew Shipp, bassist William Parker and percussionist Marc Edwards. Through drummer and label changes, Ware's quartet did imbue the avant-garde with an almost populist sensibility, a sonic imprint that was respected through numerous festival appearances and a short-lived contract with Columbia Records, where Ware's playing and the cohesiveness of his group had impressed A&R man Branford Marsalis.