Luca Chino Ferrari (born April 6, 1963) is an Italian music writer and lyricist.
11-566: Magic Music may refer to: Magic Music , 1980 album by Third Ear Band "Magic Music" (song) , song by Kaela Kimura, 2006 "Magic Music" song by Williams, Welch, Palmer recorded by Donald Peers 1961, Gogi Grant 1962 See also [ edit ] 40 Years in the Making: The Magic Music Movie Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
22-544: A British musical group formed in London during the mid-1960s. Their line-up initially consisted of violin, cello, oboe and percussion. Most of their performances were instrumental and partly improvised. Their records for the Harvest label, Alchemy and Third Ear Band , achieved some popularity, after which they found some success creating soundtrack music for films. Dave Tomlin , who had initiated free-form jazz sessions at
33-703: Is one of the few books on the subject ever published in Italy. With the consent of the band's heirs and musicians, in 2009 he conceived Ghettoraga , the official archive of the Third Ear Band, of which he is the online editor at [1] In 2015 he published for Gonzo Multimedia Out of Nowhere , the first biography on English jazz piano player Mike Taylor . In the following years for Gonzo Multimedia and Cherry Red Records / Esoteric Recordings he edited booklets for CDs by Captain Beefheart and Third Ear Band, included
44-603: The Blind Faith Free Concert at Hyde Park on 5 July 1969, and played at the Isle of Wight Festival the next month. Luca Ferrari (writer) He has written books about folk and rock musicians such as Third Ear Band , Pink Floyd , Robyn Hitchcock , Captain Beefheart , Tim Buckley , Syd Barrett , and articles and reviews for Italian magazines such as Ciao 2001 , Vinile , Buscadero , and Rockerilla . He met Syd Barrett in 1986, and contributed to
55-735: The London Free School , began similar sessions at the UFO Club by assembling members of the audience, usually at 4 am, into a free-form group playing for the, by then, exhausted dancers. The drummer, Glen Sweeney, was sometimes so carried away he had to be told that the rest of the group had finished. They became known as The Giant Sun Trolley. Members came from The Giant Sun Trolley and The People Band to create an improvised music drawing on Eastern raga forms, European folk , experimental and medieval influences. They recorded their first session in 1968 for Ron Geesin , which
66-676: The CD box titled Mosaics with all the remastered original E.M.I.-Harvest catalogue. In 2020 November Books published his book Glen Sweeney's Book of Alchemies about the story of the Third Ear Band. In 2021 he formed with avant-garde musician and composer Francesco Paolo Paladino the band His Majesty The Baby, which in 2022 released its first album Hope For Madness (Silentes), with all the lyrics written by him. In 2022 with Paladino and singer Dorothy Moskowitz (once of late-60s band The United States of America ), he formed Dorothy Moskowitz & The United States Of Alchemy, which in early 2023 released
77-682: The inclusion of one track on the Harvest sampler album Picnic – A Breath of Fresh Air . They recorded two soundtracks , the first in 1970 for an animated film by Herbert Fuchs of Abelard and Heloise (which first saw release as part of Luca Ferrari 's Necromancers of the Drifting West Sonic Book in 1997) and then in 1971 for Roman Polanski 's film of Macbeth . After various later incarnations and albums they finally disbanded in 1993, owing to leader and percussionist Glen Sweeney's ongoing health problems. They also opened
88-539: The reunion of the Third Ear Band during the 1980s. Having run Italian fanzines about Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett since 1979, he worked together with Ivor Trueman (who was running the fanzines The Amazing Pudding and Opel ) on a petition to release the album Opel . His book Tatuato sul Muro: L'enigma di Syd Barrett (Tattooed on the Wall: The Syd Barret Enygma), published in January 1986,
99-477: The title Magic Music . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Magic_Music&oldid=1187473743 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Third Ear Band Third Ear Band were
110-569: Was released under the pseudonym of The National-Balkan Ensemble on one side of a Standard Music Library disc. Their first album, Alchemy , was released on the EMI Harvest label in 1969, and featured John Peel , the BBC disc jockey who did much to publicise the group, playing Jew's harp on one track. This was followed by an eponymous second album containing four tracks, "Air", "Earth", "Fire" and "Water", which reached wider attention due to
121-545: Was the first biography of Syd Barrett. In 1993 he contributed an essay to the Captain Beefheeart (Don Van Vliet) exhibition catalogue Stand up to be Discontinued: The Art of Don Van Vliet ( Hatje Cantz Verlag ) and in 2011 he gave an expertise advice to a book titled Barrett (Essential Works Limited, London 2012), edited by Russell Beecher and Will Shutes. His book about Italian folk music titled Folk Geneticamente Modificato (Genetically Modified Folk) (2003)
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