Continente Nero, by Piero Umiliani

Continente Nero

by Piero Umiliani

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1.	Rivoluzionari 03:19	buy track
2.	Nel Villaggio 02:32	buy track
3.	Nuove Realta' 02:50	buy track
4.	Antiche Tradizioni 02:50	buy track
5.	Nuovi Fermenti 01:46	buy track
6.	Sole Percussioni 02:49	buy track
7.	Piffero Africano 01:47	buy track
8.	Continente Nero 01:50	buy track
9.	Riscossa 03:08	buy track
10.	Ultimo Stregone 02:20	buy track
11.	Continente Nero 02:16	buy track
12.	Preparativi 02:44	buy track
13.	Oasi 02:41	buy track
14.	Tribalismo 02:33	buy track
15.	Giorno Di Mercato 03:53	buy track
16.	Flauto Africano 01:29	buy track

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PIERO UMILIANI LEGACY - TAKEN FROM THE ORIGINAL MASTER TAPES

Released in 1975, “Continente Nero” is the perfect flip side of “Africa” (1972), an album that significantly expanded Piero Umiliani’s music perspectives, incorporating partially explored rhythmic variations already used in “Percussioni ed Effetti Speciali” and “To-Day’s Sound”. It does so by taking inspiration from a tradition that starts from the divine Fela Kuti and reaches the amateur and field recordings by musicologists such as David Toop, but also from the Afro-American jazz history of Art Ensemble of Chicago, John Coltrane, Max Roach and hundreds of others.

CONTINENTE NERO (1975)
Released via the Omicron label in 1975, three years after Africa, Continente Nero is the perfect flip side of an album that significantly expanded Piero Umiliani’s music perspectives, incorporating partially explored rhythmic variations already used in records such as Percussioni ed Effetti Speciali and To-Day’s Sound or experimenting new solutions that drew from a musical heritage little known at the time such as the African one.
Without bothering with the usual alias M. Zalla, Umiliani reveal his birth name and surname for a second foray into a territory that pays homage to an entire continent. And it does so by taking inspiration not only from a tradition that starts from the divine Fela Kuti and reaches the amateur and field recordings by musicologists such as David Toop, invaluable documents of an artistic heritage still today almost impossible to map in its complexity, but also from the Afro-American jazz history by Art Ensemble of Chicago, John Coltrane, Max Roach and hundreds of others.
It sounds clear in tracks such as Nuovi Fermenti, Rivoluzionari, Riscossa or Ultimo Stregone that show Umiliani’s extraordinary ability to grab a distant tradition essential traits and put them effortlessly into a personal imaginary world, as much exciting as the original one.

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released October 8, 2021

Music by Piero Umiliani
Sound by Sound Workshop
Sound Engineer: Claudio Budassi
Sound Recorder: Francesco Melloni

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