Økapi & Aldo Kapi Orchestra

Opera Riparata - Tribute to Bruno Munari

Offset records - Officina TodoModo (italian CD)
Illegal-Art (International CD - Soon…)

Opera Riparata (Fixed Opera) is a tribute to Bruno Munari and to his Broken Opera (created with Davide Mosconi).
Starting from the original text written in 1989 by Munari and Mosconi, the musician Økapi and the visual artist Infidel de-structure and re-compose 40 famous Operas, following the contemporary framework of digital remix (cutting, breaking down, juxtaposing and overlapping).
While Munari and Mosconi’s monumental game/engine forecasted several performers and the whole scenic equipment, the Fixed Opera re-handles the same elements of the Opera language using only digital audio and visual instruments.
The possibility of digitalizing amongst every kind of cultural product, and the easiness of their retrieval turns that “availability of the whole music history” described in the original project into something which today is more real than ever, and brings Munari’s words into a new level, more
prophetic than visionary as well. The Fixed Opera implies two different parts: studio session and live performance. In the first step, ÿkapi and Infidel work on parallel paths mashing up the 40 Operas in short audio/visual portions of 1′11” time length each. The strictness of the writing mode is controverted in the latter part, when these rational and individual means meet, crash and melt, following the logic and the spontaneity of contemporary improv modules.
Just like in a child’s play, the Fixed Opera, though following strict principles and methods of academic composition, at the same time thrives on keeping itself close to the aim of staying free from ties and rules. It therefore suggests curiosity as a way of knowledge and creation but also as a transgression from primary forms to reach an unexpected result.

Tracklist:

1 Act - Preludes:
01 - Mozart - Cosi fan tutte-01 - Act 1 Ouverture - 1′11″
02 - Beethoven - Obertura Fidelio y Sinfonica Eroica - Obertura - 1′11″
03 - Wagner - Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg - Prelude Act 3 - 1′11″
04 - Rossini - Guglielmo Tell -  Sinfonia - 1′11″
05 - Verdi - I Vespri Siciliani - Overture - 1′11″
06 - Mikhail Glinka - Ruslan and ludmila - Overture - 1′11″
07 - Weber - Oberon - Ouverture - 1′11″
08 - Bellini - Norma - Prelude - 1′11″
09 - Bedrich Smetana - La sposa venduta - Overture - 1′11″
10 - Bizet - Carmen - Overture - 1′11″
11 - Strauss - Zwischenspiel aus “Capriccio” - Interlude - 1′11″
12 - Puccini - Manon Lescaut - Preludio atto°1 - 1′11″

2 Act - Duels:
13 - A. Lombard - Faust - Faust v/s Valentin - 1′11″
14 - Bellini - I Capuletti e i Montecchi - Romeo v/s Tebaldo - 1′11″
15 - Wagner - Lohengrin - Lohengrin v/s Telramund - 1′11″
16 - Strauss - Il Cavaliere della rosa - Octavian v/s Von Ochs - 1′11″
17 - Monteverdi - Combatimento - Tancredi v/s Clorinda - 1′11″
18 - Verdi - La forza del destino - Don Alvaro v/s Don Carlo - 1′11″
19 - Verdi - Il Trovatore - Conte di Luna v/s Manrico - 1′11″

3 Act - Dances:
20 - Moussorgsky - Boris Godunov - I do not believe in your passion - 1′11″
21 - Offenbach - Orphee aux enfers - N¯ 25 - Galop - 1′11″
22 - Wagner - Tannhauser - Naht euch dem Strande - 1′11″
23 - Ponchielli - Gioconda - Act 3 - Scene 2 - Prodigio! Icanto! La danza delle ore - 1′11″
24 - Gluck - Alceste - Act Two - Splendido Sorge Il Di - 1′11″
25 - Gluck - Orfeo & euridice - Dance of the furies - 1′11″
26 - Meyerbeer - Hughenots - Atto Secondo - Egli Vien, Egli Vien! - 1′11″
27 - Purcell - Dido and Aeneas - Act 2 -  Echo Dance of the Furies - 1′11″
28 - Verdi - Traviata -Di Madride noi siam mattadori - 1′11″
29 - Strauss - Salome - Tanz Der Sieben Schleier - 1′11″
30 - Verdi - Aida - Act 2, scene 1, Chi mai fra gl’inni e i plausi - 1′11″
31 - Borodin - Prince Igor - Polovtsian Dances - 1′11″

4 Act - Storms:
32 - Rossini - Il Barbiere di Siviglia - Act 2 - Temporale - 1′11″
33 - Wagner - Walkirie - Vorspiel - 1′11″
34 - Glinka - Una vita per lo zar -Act 4 - 01 - Entr’acte - 1′11″
35 - Verdi - Otello - Verdi, Otello Act I - 01 Una vela!  Una vela!  - 1′11″
36 - Rameau - Indes galantes - Les Fleurs - Air pour Borée et la Rose - 1′11″
37 - Berlioz - Les troyens - Acte V - Vallon sonore - 1′11″
38 - Verdi - Rigoletto - V’ho ingannato, colpevole fui - 1′11″
39 - Wagner - Olandese volante - Johohoe! Johohoe! Hoe! Hoe! - 1′11″
40 - Cherubini - Medea - Taci, Giason - 1′11″

Samples:
31 - Borodin - Prince Igor - Polovtsian Dances by Økapi
30 - Verdi - Aida - Act 2, scene 1, Chi mai fra gl’inni e i plausi by Økapi
40 - Cherubini - Medea - Taci, Giason by Økapi
Reviews:
Blow-up Music mag. (italian)
Rumore Music Mag (italian)
SentireAscoltare (italian)

Tracklist:

01 - M.Tympan-Sur le pont - 1:32
02 - Spoonbill-Bunkerfunk - 5:21
03 - G-Swing feat. Jimi Bazzooka - Cement Mixer 3:08
04 - Tipper - Tit For Tat - 4:02
05 - The Mollusk - Nana Yari-s - 4:42
06 - De De Mouse - starry mice parade - 5:00
07 - Impossible Nothing - Lover Man - 3:10
08 - Le Fou du Roi - Dites à Carla - 3:18
09 - Enoch Light - Born Free - 3:25
10 - Groovejuice - Café Prague (Original Mix) - 6:32
11 - Spoonbill - Woodenspoon - 4:58
12 - Der Dritte Raum - Random Rag (Random Excess Mix) - 7:08
13 - Alpha Channel - Arabian Nights - 5:59
14 - VibeSquaD - the FIRE man ft ill Gates - 4:37
15 - Corporal Blossom - White Christmas - 3:21

Download single tracks at:
http://www.okapi.it/xmas-selecta.zip

Økapi & Aldo Kapi Orchestra - Love-him!

2 Vinyls (180gr)

Kml Recordings - Sonic Belligeranza

or Digital (CD)

Illegal Art

Director

Økapi

Orchestra

John Adams – Alfredtoc - Askak Maboul – Assdroids - Les Baxter – Han Bennink - Jean-Michel Bernard – Hakim Bey - Biota - Carla Bley – Boswell Sisters - Lester Bowie - Cifariello Ciardi – John Clark - Ray Conniff – Conventum - Dick Dale - Yves Daoust – Deework – DevNull – Dim-Dim – Don Augusto - Dopecoara - Dr Nojoke - Dean Elliot - De-Fazz - Free Design - Die Form - Les Frères Jacques - Wolfgang Fuchs - France Galle - Gangpol & mit - Gianni Gebbia – Genjini – Giant dervish underwear - John Greaves - David Green (Infrabass) - Ferde Grofé – Hellfish – Shelley Hirsch - Joe Hisaishi - Lars Hollmer - Ryoji Ikeda - Tetsu Inoue – Isobrown - Leroy Jenkins – Kadash - Bert Kaempfert – Henry Kaiser – Georg Katzer - Mari Kimura - Eartha Kitt – Knifehandchop - Peter Kowald – Dan Lander – Hugues Le Bars - Michel Legrand – Ferner Liefen - Enoch Light – Paul Litton - Alan Lomax – Paul Lovens - Fay Lovsky – Michael Lowenstern - Paul deMarinis - Massacre – Nathan Michel - Christof Migone – Mills Brothers - Phil Minton - Mats/Morgan – Ikue Mori - Mon Oncle (J.Tati) - Music from Japan - No Safety - No secret in the Family – Matthew Ostrowski - Bob Osterdag - Outkast – Frank Pahl - Paola & Chiara – Evan Parker – Zeena Parkins - People like us - André Popp – Puls - Ptose – Radium -Rambo Amadeus - Ensemble Rayé – Hans Reichel - Ernst Reijseger - Renaldo & the Loaf - Henri René - Sam Rivers - Roger Roger – Jon Rose - François de Roubaix - Salle Gaveau – Satanicpornocultshop – Alain Savouret - David Shea - Alexander von Schlippenbach - Arnold Schönberg - Louis Sclavis - Günter Sommer - Yoshinori Sunahara – Tape Beatles – Temptations - Tep - John Tejada – Thiazsch - The Tiptons - Isao Tomita - U-totem – Mark Trayle - Richard Trythall – Roxanne Turcotte - Edgar Varese – Vicnet - Gregory Whitehead - Brian Woodbury - Otomo Yoshihide - Universe Zero - Zos Kia.

“Trofeo Insound”, created in 2007 by the monthly music, instruments and musicians INSOUND, rewards the best Italian musicians, divided into 16 different categories. This award is not a ranking, but only one way to enhance and reward the talent and professionalism of the many musicians active every year in Italy.

http://trofeoinsound.it/index.php?default

to listen…

Økapi (that’s me!)
http://www.myspace.com/aukapi

the other two nominations

Francesco Giomi
http://www.myspace.com/francescogiomi

Massimiliano Viel
http://www.myspace.com/massimilianoviel

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Price is 10€ postage paid worldwide.
We send you the mp3 for each order!

TRACKLIST:

01 – Fadt Fanfare - 4000 flips
France / http://myspace.com/fadtfanfare

02 – Okapi - Indigest dinner music
Italy / http://www.myspace.com/aukapi /
http://www.slap-press.com

03 – amnésie – Lapin numéro un
France / http://myspace.com/amnesie

04 – Nouveau Pratique Gratuit - Offre spéciale
France / http://www.myspace.com/nouveaupratiquegratuit

05 – Bacalao - Ai’Ayao
Switzerland / http://www.bacalao.ch

06 – Retrigger - Rotoblues from outer space
Brazil / http://www.retrigger.net

07 – Debmaster feat. Kaigen - Yaaaah!
France vs Japan / http://myspace.com/debmaster / http://myspace.com/curseovthekaigen

08 – Oligarch – 999
Russia / http://myspace.com/0ligarch

09 – Allemand Berger Allemand – TouchePasMonPins
France /http://myspace.com/allemandbergerallemand

10 – Taxi Nouveau – Woo-woo noise !
Canada / http://myspace.com/taxinouveau

11 – Silencide - Ce n’est pas ça
France / http://silencide.free.fr

12 – Yvan&Lendl – Mafarazzo
Switzerland / http://www.yvanlendl.ch

13 – Niwouinwouin - Passé versus futur
France / http://www.niwouinwouin.com

14 – Vladimir Vlechnivsky’s Team – Dirty dirty
France / http://myspace.com/vladimirvlechnivsky

15 – Vernon Lenoir - Yogg Sototh wears pink socks
Germany / http://myspace.com/vernonlenoir

16 – The Discoghosts – Straight but gayish
Allemagne / http://myspace.com/thediscoghosts

17 – Edmond Leprince – Tout
France / http://myspace.com/edmondleprince

18 – GNG – Press start
France / http://myspace.com/gngmusic

19 – DJ NESTOR – Ocarina 3000
France / http://gwenn.labarta.free.fr/

20 – Qebrus – BadiBabida
France /http://myspace.com/qebrus

21 – Ipaghost - Fallopian faux pas
USA / http://myspace.com/ipaghost

22 – [guÿôm] – Charlotte est stone
France / http://myspace.com/guyoml

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23 – Flexion flûte -
Flexion monster
France / http://myspace.com/gregaldur
http://myspace.com/alicedourlen

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We send you the mp3 for each order!

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Aldo Kapi (Kyzyl-Suu 12 September 1896 - Cholpon-Ata 11 May 1952) Kyrgyz composer. Son of Iranian industrialist Agha Mirza Kapi and the Italian Elena Bottero, Kapi was initially destined for a career as a schoolteacher, and completed his studies in the Orthodox abbey of Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan.

“I dreamt I drowned in the lake”: Kapi scribbled that early vision on a piece of paper at the age of 19. Unknowingly, he was describing his eventual fate, the life he would lead in Central Asia, and also his attempted suicide in Issyk-Kul.

Kapi was unable to realize his dream of becoming a great pianist, owing to the unwise experiments he undertook to perfect his technique during the winter of 1910-11, which caused the loss of the use of his right ring-finger. He decided to dedicate himself, instead, to composition. Introverse but often extravagant, his first works were an attempt to break away from formal traditions and classical structures that he considered too restrictive.

During the decade spent in Bishkek, Kapi produced his first noteworthy compositions, such as Sguadrezzi da pe’ (1914) and Pignottimi d’approsi (1917). In 1920 Kapi passed the examination for the post of organist at the Holy Trinity Church of Karakol, Kyrgyzstan, and decided to perfect his art among the Tajiks of the Pamir, under the guidance of the Ismailist leader Aga Khan III, the maestro of Taimur Zulfikarov. This period saw his first meeting with Yvette Labrousse, (Miss France 1930), Salah Eddine Ahmed Bokassa (emperor of the future Central African Empire ), his 17 wives and Ruhollah Khaleghi (the first Persian sound-designer, from Kerman, Iran) as well as written works, such as the three great Messe tragicomiche and Kapi’s first proto-plunder-orchestral pieces.

In 1923 he was nominated Professor of Harmony, Vako Orchestron and Optigan at the conservatory of Dushanbe in Tajikistan. However, while he attracted a large body of devoted students, in Dushanbe he also faced hostility from Morteza Hannaneh (founder of the Tehran Symphony Orchestra and the Afghan king Mohammad Nadir Shah (then France’s ambassador in Afghanistan). Their opposition culminated in the poor reception given to his Terza Sinfonia Pooch-poem in 1926, after which Kapi returned to Kyrgyzstan.

Recognition came only later, after a long period of patient revision of his work. In 1928 he was awarded a university chair and his Fourth Romantic Symphony (Death of Henry II) and Fifth Symphony (Love him) were finally performed in Dushanbe. He then went on to “conquer” Samarcand (Uzbekistan) and the American poet and critic Ezra Weston Loomis Pound, who lavished praise on his Bud-Dub. After reconcilitation with Mohammad Nadir Shah, the University of Kabul awarded Kapi a doctorate honoris causa.

In the early 1950s, despite pleasant vacations in Oubangui-Chari (now the Central African Republic) along with the writer and Nobel Prize winner André Gide (guests of the future dictator Bokassa), the symptoms of his mental instability, evident in the past, worsened. He was forced to resign his post and attempted suicide. Confined in the Kurort Jergalan asylum at Karakol, he lived for only a further two years, with only occasional flashes of lucidity.

While composing his sixth symphony, Kapi’s condition worsened. He worked on feverishly in a state of visionary delirium, and died while revising a draft of Finale (”…the next!”) in 1952.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldo_Kapi