LIDJIENKO SMILE - Salvagnini, Birro

LIDJIENKO SMILE (CVLD311)

01 - Do You know What It Means to Miss New Orleans? (De lange, Alter) 3:21
02 - Soft Bone (Salvagnini) 3:52
03 - Happy New Reed (Salvagnini) 1:54
04 - Santa Claus Is Coming to Town (Coots, Gillespie) 5:01
05 - Change of Ghost (Salvagnini) 4:15
06 - I Don’t Like These New Flowers (Salvagnini) 3:25
07 - I Hope You’ll Change (Salvagnini) 5:34
08 - Only Afternoon (Salvagnini) 4:09
09 - Closed Eyes (Salvagnini) 6:06
10 - Lidjienko’s Way (Salvagnini) 2:49
11 - I Can’t Get Started (Duke, I.Gershwin) 2:26
12 - A Pit Is Not a Grave (Salvagnini) 4:41
13 - Worms at Work (Salvagnini) 4:18
14 - Empty Suit (Salvagnini) 3:47
15 - Funny Corpse (Salvagnini) 7:52
16 - He’s Funny That Way (Whiting, Moret 4:58
17 - I Remember You (Mercer, Schwertzinger) 2:17
Total Time: 72:27

Original compositions by Massimo Salvagnini and American Standards

Massimo Salvagnini, saxophone

Paolo Birro, piano

24bit/88.2kHz re-mastering from original analog tapes using ADC Prism Sound AD2 Dream and analog console Neve 88, made at Velut Luna Studios, Casalserugo, Italy on November, 8, 2018

Production: VELUT LUNA
Musical producers: Massimo Salvagnini, Paolo Birro
Recording engineer: Marco Lincetto
Re-mastering engineer: Marco Lincetto
Cover painting: Massimo Salvagnini
Inside photos: Marco Lincetto, Massimo Salvagnini

The duo album, partly recorded in private homes and partly in a large empty auditorium, offers a unique timbral opening to the music with its reverberation and testifies to the extraordinary result of the meeting of the two musicians, between jazz atmospheres and brilliant improvisations in a romantic, but not gloomy, atmosphere. Velut Luna's debut work, dedicated to the Romanian philosopher and writer Radu Lidijenko.

Tracks 1 - 8:
recorded in a little rehearsal room at Paolo Birro’s home in Montagnana, Italy, on February, 21, 1995 using a Yamaha C3 Piano and analog recording set up: Revox PR99 with Maxell UD Master Tape 1/4” 38cm/sec - O.T.L. 2ch Mic Preamp 1, custom built for Velut Luna by Riccardo Ceolin - AKG C535B microphones, XY stereo pair
Tracks 9 - 17:
recorded at Auditorium Pollini, Padova, Italy, on March, 21, 1995, using a Steinway & Sons D274 Concert Grandpiano and analog recording set up: Revox PR99 with Maxell UD Master Tape 1/4” 38cm/sec - Millennia Media HV-3C, 2ch mic preamp - Sennheiser MKH-20 microphones, A-B stereo pair.

Lidjienko Smile is very similar to Scrooge McDuck's legendary "Number One"...
A precious, fundamental, essential album and an authentic icon of Velut Luna. Just as over the years Massimo Salvagnini has become the quintessential symbolic artist of my Velut Luna. With this remastering work, absolutely respectful of the unprecedented original analog recordings, I intend to shed new light on these musical pieces, which were released in 1995 based on the digital recordings then made in the simple 16bit/44.1kHz format of the Tascam DA20 DAT used for parallel recording with the analog Revox recorder.