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About Andrea's new CD

Beyond the Blue

To order in USA and Canada please visit  Art of Life Records

 To order in Japan please visit  55Records

available in Europa with BHM Productions.
To listen to Real Audio samples from "Beyond the Blue", please click.

Andrea's  compositions   "Orange Green" and "Summer Nights"  are  included in "The European Real Book" and "The Digital Real Book part two" by www.shermusic.com 


Art Of Life Records USA/55 Records Japan
BHM Music, Rest of the world

I always agreed with the thought that one of the basic facts in life is to dig beyond appearance until the real meaning is found. This is also the sense of "Beyond the Blue".  My new album, long overdue, is autobiographic. Music sometimes reveals the truth better than words. Often during the session I explained to the musicians what the composition meant to me. For example the track "Meaning of the Family" is about the long voyage to form a family and the strong determination to keep it. "Distances" is again written for the people who we love, too often far away, while "Between Poles" was inspired by the feeling of beeing attracted by different roads at the same time and "Retirantes" is dedicated to the many people who left their home to find a new one in another country.

Of course in our lives we always find the time for serenity and celebration like on "Summer Nights", "Orange Green" and "Welcome", this last one dedicated to my new born son Paul. Other tunes are descriptive like "Herbst", which in german means autumn, and the more abstract paintings "Emotions", "Still" and "Fragments".

There is no need to introduce the musicians involved in this project:
Bob Mintzer, Mike Stern, Mitchel Forman and Eddie Gomez. Their great talent has been celebrated for many years. I already had the privilege to collaborate with them in different occasions and I am particularly grateful to them for their commitment and sensitivity to
dig and bring out the deepest meaning of the music.

"Beyond the Blue" is about intensity, but most of all it is about the sincerity to express and describe, through music, our inner world. Hopefully, one more time through the arts, we can affirm how precious and unreplaceable human life always is.

I hope you enjoy the music.

Andrea


 

Composed, arranged & produced by A. Marcelli

Music published by Silent Will Music/BMI

Executive producers:  Paul G. Kohler & A. Marcelli

Recorded on October 2nd 2004, in New York.   Mastered by Jan Erik Kongshaug at the Rainbow Studio, Oslo


  • Andrea Marcelli - drums, clarinet, additional synthesizers & percussion
  • Mitchel Forman - piano
  • Eddie Gomez - acoustic bass
  • Bob Mintzer - tenor saxophone
  • Mike Stern - guitar
EDDIE DANIELS : "I really enjoyed listening to your CD and your clarinet playing is beautiful "

 by Bill Milkowski on Jazz Times (Nov. 2005, drum beat article)  "...Marcelli is a natural swinger with a light touch and an accomplished composer to boot...."

 by John Kelman at allaboutjazz.com "...Marcelli's compositions transend simple melody, transporting the listener to places known and unknown, eliciting hidden emotions..."

by Vangelis Aragiannis on Apopsy  "...Marcelli not only stands equivalent to his noble  guests but also proves that he is doing well in composing and he is adept in clarinet too.(...) In short "Beyond the Blue" is an album of high quality stuff and immaculate performances by top level players."

Included on "Taking the Reins" department of Modern Drummer's issue June 05

by Eiji Kitahara from Jazz Life (translated from Japanese) "Andrea Marcelli is very cosmopolitan. His drumming is very imaginative and is remind of Peter Erskine.  Andrea's compositions resembles images of paitings. The most interesting tunes on the CD is ORANGE GREEN, where Stern's solo guitar is fantastic. It would be worth listening to the CD even just for this tune. Also Mintzer is highly impressing. It is great how producer Andrea Marcelli was able to mix all these components together.

New Reviews for Japanese magazines not translated yet:  Ad Lib, Tower Records' Intoxicate, Swing Journal, interview: Jazz Today Tokyo, up coming Interviews for Ad Lib, Jazz Life, FM Radio Cocolo Osaka/Kobe/Kyoto.

 


MARCH 2006 English tour press:

From Manchester Evening News The Manchester-Berlin connection is celebrated at the Lowry Museum by cornet-player/composer Chadwick and legendary Italian/American drummer Andrea Marcelli, who moved to Berlin in 2001.-  At the Crown Inn, Llay, Wrexham: A cracking band...- At Zeffirelli's in Ambleside: Fantastic band featuring Andrea Marcelli...From Manchester Lite Guide: Intercontinental superjazz....

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REVIEW ON Jazzdimensions.de By Christian Salentinig to view

Andrea Marcelli - "Beyond The Blue"
Andrea Marcelli zeigt mit seinem Album "Beyond The Blue", wie elegant mit verschiedensten Stilrichtungen jongliert werden kann, ohne jemals den Boden unter den Füßen zu verlieren. Nicht jedem wird sein Name auf die Schnelle etwas sagen. Zu Unrecht eigentlich. Der 1962 in Rom geborene und derzeit in Berlin lebende Schlagzeuger, Perkussionist und Klarinettist hat bereits mit seinen beiden Vorgängeralben ("Silent Will" und "Oneness") aufhorchen lassen und Kritiker wie Fans begeistert...


Andrea Marcelli - "Beyond The Blue"

Für sein neues Album, Beyond The Blue, hat Marcelli eine illustre Schar erstklassiger Musiker (Mitchel Forman am Piano, Eddie Gomez am Bass, Bob Mintzer am Saxophon und Mike Stern an der Gitarre) um sich versammelt, die mit ihm ein intimes und individuelles Album eingespielt haben.

Im ersten Track "Between The Poles" beeindrucken Stern und Mintzer mit solistischen Einlagen, ohne jemals den balladesken, fast romantischen Stil des Stückes zu stören. In "Summer Nights" zeigt Marcelli sein Interesse am Bossa-Nova auf hohem Niveau, hier wäre aber vielleicht mehr drinnen gewesen, das Arrangement könnte durchaus weniger glatt sein. Mit Herbst ("Autumn") oder "Beyond The Blue" beweist Marcelli aber eindrucksvoll, wo seine Stärken liegen: in vielschichtigen Kompositionen, die Raum für behutsame Soli lassen und die vor allem durch ruhige, elegische Akzente überzeugen können.

In "Orange Blue" glaubt man fast Pat Metheny spielen zu hören, Stern kopiert aber Metheny nicht bloß, sondern eröffnet durch seine Spielweise der Nummer genügend Raum zu einer wunderschönen lyrischen Ballade. Mit "Fragments und Emotions" streut Marcelli orchestrale Stücke ein, die etwas an Filmmusik erinnern und ihn solistisch an der Klarinette brillieren lassen. In "Welcome" kombiniert er die unterschiedlichen Stile auf diesem Album und kratzt dennoch gekonnt die Kurve. Da werden Synthesizer einer Klarinette und dem Piano gegenübergestellt, was spannend und groovig klingt.

Alles in Allem ein Album, das die Vielschichtigkeit von Marcelli aufzeigt, das Raum für mehrmaliges Hören lässt und das hoffen lässt, dass die Abstände zwischen den Alben des Herrn Marcelli deutlich kürzer werden. Denn eigentlich wurde "Beyond The Blue bereits" 2004 in Japan veröffentlicht – weltweit jedoch erst 2009...

Christian Salentinig


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