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Play Me My Song

by Gazzara Plays Genesis

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It was November the 4th, 1969, when Genesis played their first-ever concert as a semi-professional band, at the Brunel University, London,
Middlesex. A historical and pivotal date, considering the future career of such a productive and successful progressive rock act.
45 years later, in a rather symbolic date, a double orchestral album (digipack cd and gatefold vinyl formats on IRMA Records label) gets released, titled "Play Me My Song" (Gazzara Plays Genesis) and celebrating the famous group with a number of revisitations for piano and chamber orchestra arranged by Italian pianist and composer Francesco Gazzara (GAZZARA, Hammond Express, The Piano Room).
It all started 12 months earlier with a Bösendorfer Gran Coda and a 36
hours long session at the Assunta Hall, inside Vatican City, when Gazzara selected 19 classic Genesis tracks (1970-1980 era) and made his dream come true recording them in such a magnificent studio hall, which hosted many soundtracks and symphonic sessions for the Vatican Radio since the 1950s (Even Maestro Ennio Morricone recorded in there).
But once his piano-only transcriptions were all tracked, Francesco's task was far from complete. As in the most complex roman mosaics, where all tiles (or "tesserae") have to fit perfectly to create a whole vision, he decided to write further arrangements for a small chamber orchestra - plus Hammond organ and Mellotron - integrating his earlier recordings.
Moving away from the usual "Genesis for piano" formula, the project now included a strings trio (violin, viola, cello) and a winds/horns trio (flute, soprano sax, bass clarinet), building a sort of imaginary soundtrack where so many details of the original masterpieces - even some of the hidden ones, hard to hear without a pair of decent headphones - have been painstakingly brought up on the surface and assigned to other unusual instruments.

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released November 4, 2020

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