Here and Now 1
A 14 track tv soundtracks album (38m 35s) — released June 1st 2015 on Schema
"Music especially created for films, television, radio, publicity and
industrial use". The disclaimer coming with these two records - Here
And Now 1 & 2 - puts a smile on our lips and brings us back to more
culturally innocent and naive times. A quick listen is enough to realize
that this is top quality material (even if often hidden behind weird and
mysterious titles), which can't be compared to anything released in
recent times.
Paolo Renosto, the person behind the moniker Lesiman and the author
of these two albums, was a composer, an experimenter, a music
teacher and a piano player - an artist with the amazing skill of mixing
together pop(ular) atmospheres and learned quotes. Born in Florence
in 1935 (he died in Reggio Calabria in 1988), Renosto studied with
Luigi Dallapiccola and Bruno Maderna; he also was a member of the
Associazione Nuova Consonanza of Roma. He obviously joined, for
some time, the renowned Gruppo d'Improvvisazione, with Franco
Evangelisti and Domenico Guaccero.
When he started collaborating with RAI, he began working in the field
of sound dubbing - which he contributed to radically change, mixing
different influences such as jazz and orchestral music to create music
for tv shows. His long artistic career developed around many
partnerships, following different paths, always in complete freedom:
Renosto worked for theatre, but also wrote - with his friend and
colleague Ennio Morricone - wonderful movie soundtracks. Like the
one used for the cult horror movie Un angelo per Satana (directed by
Camillo Mastrocinque in 1966) or that of Irene, Irene (directed by Peter
Del Monte); but he also worked - almost anonymously - on many
western and "poliziotteschi" movies.
Then, and we're talking about the two amazing albums you're holding
in your hands right now, Renosto/Lesiman created many high profile
sound dubbings which are now very rare collector items. Besides the
Here And Now series, devoted to funk and criminal-jazz, Lesiman
recorded other gems deserving to be rediscovered, like High Tension
(another series) for the iconic Vedette label.
It's hard to choose one of these two reissued volumes: they create
some kind of unique body of work and they're best enjoyed as a whole.
In volume one you can find one of the most famous tracks of his career
in sound dubbing - the hypnotic and contemporary sounding Moto
centripeto - but also other brilliant compositions such as Bagliori, Via
nell'autunno, Le regole del gioco and Segni cromatici.
Volume two, on the other hand, features the famous Playcar - which
was sampled by rapper Fabri Fibra - with its swing and lounge mood;
but also Permanenza, Controcorrente, Ciclo interrotto and Cristalli.
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