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It Is Preferable Not To Travel With A Dead Man

by ALBERTO N.A. TURRA

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Black Madonna 09:25
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If You Want Me To Stay 06:23
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Col Di Lana 14:38
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You Don't Know What Love Is 11:13
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Cellule 10:44
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about

Deciding to publish a live record is always an endeavor that ends
positively only if the intensity of what you think you played resists
in time and space. That is, if the intensity resists later listenings, despite the mistakes (or what we think are so) and memory playing tricks. If the record in question is a solo performance, the matter becomes even more complicated, if that’s even possible.

This is an ambiguous opera in terms of both genre and title.It is the result of a tour of about thirty solo guitar concerts, with the purpose of promoting the previous album,”Filmworks,” which has led me to play in places often, (though not always), far away from the usual circuits: a sheepfold in Sardinia (very sacred places for Sardinian people), deconsecrated churches, woods, on top of the Dolomites, Padua’s lowlands, ateliers, gardens, laboratories, stables and flats.

It happened to host some local musicians on stage, sometimes a friend, sometimes a stranger,and share a piece of the concert with them. This was the time when my friend and exceptional upright bass-player Riccardo Barbera joined me for a couple of songs to put off beam, as I mentioned, the header of the record.Because, as the title suggests (taken from Jarmush’s “Dead Man”, a quotation by surrealist Henry Michaux), if you have to travel, make sure the companions you’re heading off with are alive. This record can only be considered proof of an exciting tour exactly because it itself is impure, unusual, essential, vital.

With these words Turra describes his fifth work, a live album extracted
from the tour which was born as a consequence of the impossibility of
bringing on stage all the musicians and bands that had participated in the previous “Filmworks,” released for Felmay in January 2017.
In view of Alberto’s decision to play on his own, the new born New York
based label “Chant Records”, run by guitar player/composer Jon Madof
and upright bass-oud player/composer Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz
(Blumenkranz is already Turra’s band mate in Spiritsongs) decided in partnership with the Italian label Felmay, that it would have been important to leave a trace of the extraordinary nature of this experience

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released October 6, 2022

Alberto N. A. Turra electric guitar, loops, electronic stuff, voice.
Riccardo Barbera upright bass on “Col di Lana” and “You don’t know what love is”.
Recorded live May 19, 2017 at Spazio Lomellini 17, Genoa, Italy.
Post-production and Mastering by Diego Cattaneo.
Photos by Serena Rose Zerri except cover 4th by Andrea Maria Mantica.
Graphic concept by Marzia Ardissono / FuocoFisso Torino

Many thank to
Sarah Demagistri, Andrea Maria Mantica, Giò Fronti, Durga Serena Perini, Serena

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