N.A.D.M.A. – Uno Zingaro Di Atlante Con Un Fiore A New York – LP

Die Schachtel presents the first vinyl reissue N.A.D.M.A.‘s (Natural Arkestra Da Maya Alta) “Uno Zingaro Di Atlante Con Un Fiore A New York”, originally released in 1973. Comprised of Davide Mosconi, Franco Pardi, Gustavo Bonora, Inez Klok, Marco Cristofolini, Marino Vismara, Mino Ceretti, Otto Davis Corrado, and Talia Toni Marcus, within the history of the Italian avant-garde, N.A.D.M.A is as obscure as they come. Mosconi later came to note as a solo artist and photographer, and Pardi and Vismara within the worlds of visual arts, but beyond a scattering of releases, “Uno Zingaro Di Atlante Con Un Fiore A New York” is the lone document to have surfaced from most of its contributors. Details surrounding the band and the record are incredible scarce.

Despite the mystery, with hindsight, they rise as a definitive gesture of the movement to which they belonged. The Italian avant-garde is among the most rigorously democratic of any of the movements within 20th century sound. Like their more well know peers in Aktuala, N.A.D.M.A grew from this spirit, but realized it in far more radical forms. They are among the wildest of those connected to the movements of free-improvisation and jazz. The group’s lone 1973 release is unlike anything else of its day. Soulful as hell, it blends a remarkable range of instrumentation and cross-cultural reference — a wild imagining of the potentialities of modal folk traditions, gathered in the writhing aggressive form of free-jazz. It is an album so remarkable and striking — among the greatest and most accomplished European efforts within the form — that there is no explanation for why it has remained so unacknowledged through the years. It is a towering, bubbling, brilliant achievement in sound.

“Uno Zingaro Di Atlante Con Un Fiore A New York” is among the greatest documents of Italian music, and among the most important within the canon of European free-jazz. As seminal as they come. Not to be missed on any count.

Edition of 500.

Die Schachtel

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