The Antonio Iorio's First Album (20th of July 2014)

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In the middle of his early artistic experiences, Antonio interposes the starting of a parallel Opera,"An Overture from The Earth", and at the age of 18 years, He publishes his first album in the United States Of America.

He is the Producer, Director, Composer, Main Artist and the entire album's artistic director.

In addition of being his first project (all meant, conceived, designed, recorded, directed, produced, mixed and mastered by himself), It started when he was 12 and ended with the Official publication at the age of 17 and has got many original songs, accompanied by the revision also of some music’s classics in an innovative way of playing and a very subjective sound, what Mr. Iorio defines "Speculative Music".

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In particular, in the history of jazz, He is the first bassist who played and re-arranged in a very articulate, introspective and innovative way (as a soloist) songs like "Something" written by George Harrison and "Sunday Morning" by Lou Reed...

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He recorded the two songs in a contemporary style where all musical genres are melted together, from Classical to Jazz-Fusion, Funky and Rock music, surrounded by the groove and his personal bass sound inspired by Jaco Pastorius, his primary source of inspiration since He was 6 years old.

About the covers included in the album, Antonio Iorio has always been focused on reproducing "Something" and "Sunday Morning", imagining and portraying them in the same way Jaco Pastorius would have 

recorded those two incredible masterpieces of Music.

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He definitely conceived his instrumental covers exactly like if He is directing an orchestra with very emphasizing rhythmic sections hidden, surrounded and melted with the harmony of his Fretless Fender Jazz Bass Jaco Pastorius Custom Shop Edition, that sings a "symphony", like a voice or a soprano sax.

 

In the other tracks there is always a rhythmic basic structure created by playing his Alembic bass that surrounds all the composite part of the grooves and all the dynamic parts in which is prevalent his "Slapping and Tapping" technique.

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The first 3 tracks (Chameleon, Birdland and The Chicken), are part of an incredible live recording session, dating back to March 2011, with the special featuring of Julian Oliver Mazzariello on Piano, Roberto Martinelli on Sax and Giampiero Virtuoso on Drums.

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Obviously Antonio made a Tribute to Jaco Pastorius, The Beatles, The Velvet Underground, The Weather Report, Joe Zawinul, Stanley Clarke, Michael Jackson, James Brown, Herbie Hancock and to every other artist who has always inspired him.

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In his compositions the concept to “emphasize” the role and the impacts of our life is synthesized also at the end of his compositions “ Having a Party " or "Yes It Is", in fact it's properly a personal choice to “Lift On” the sound intensity and to “Turn up” the volume intentionally, also in order to state and represent this principle through an effective Crescendo: ” It’s Time To Move, People Around The World, We must look beyond “The Watchtower ”, otherwise We will be just “All Along The Watchtower”.

His Message is that The Watchtower will never have need to exist anymore, if we have that kind of consciousness and awareness.

In fact his Hope and moralistic principles are a truth’s key and a deep example of an effective overcome's seek beyond a fair, just and right way of purposing of not the basic means and the reasonability of limiting the exercise of basic rights into the premise of overruling and underlining the mandatory necessity of improving our social, economic and political systems.

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This Album constitutes the Basic-Structure in one of the most important periods of his life, with much of his inspirations, thoughts and very young music experiences to be intended as a moral choice and acknowledge with the mere intention to attribute to the Jazz the structure of his assertion by adopting a “Moral & Cognitive Way” founded of an Universal language and emphasizing the role of all the key principles (also) shown in form of "Universal" Hashtags on the album’s cover and booklet:

" #Life, #Liberty, #Happiness, #Peace, #Good, #Wellness, #Equity, #SocialJustice, #MoralAbstraction, #MeltingPot, #AporeticDoubt "

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- His message is addressed in order to invite the People of the World to reach a fair Universal breaking point, to be conceived in an effective melting-pot (just like Jazz), constituted by the pure awareness of the limit’s presence, paradoxically conferrable to the nature of our illusory and targeted “common vision” and attribution in the limits of life, to be revisited through our intellective method of reasoning …

So, It has a deep reference in his own Philosophy and way of thinking, at the point to define it "The First Jazz Analytic Philosophic Opera in the Music's History of All Times”, where every single composed note is part of the author's cognition into a progressive and a free vision, considering the whole speculative prospectiv and the consequential human approach to Music and in particular Jazz.

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“ Jazz is therefore a language of Freedom for excellence and so, it provides that appositive evidence above the limitations of our existence ”… A I

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- It’s a true message, addressed to the whole Universal community, thought in order to be a perspective of Peace, Progress, Awareness and of a resolute outlook and review above the apparent limitations of our reality, for own Wellness and for The Highest Good forward the Future generations;

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- The “ Proemio ” (Introduction) of his first "Moral-Cognitive” album begins with: “ I wanna dedicate my first Opera to John F. Kennedy, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr. and to three musicians: Jaco Pastorius, Louis Armstrong and to Michael Jackson, all of them main source of inspiration and object of thought in the course of my life".

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Features of “An Overture From The Earth”

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Antonio likes also to define his way and his style of playing in: “ On The Road ”, in the same way as the “Jazz” poet Jack Kerouac improvises through his magical verses on Mexico City Blues, singing and “blowing a long blues in the afternoon jam session on Sunday ”... 

 

 

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