nheap - skymotion (IT 2009)

NHEAP is Massimo Discepoli from Assisi, Italy.

The music on Skymotion is a succesful mix of jazz and electronic ambient music.

If you like the more relaxing tracks of CATASTO ELETTRICO, posted here on HLFP some time ago (look here), you will surely also like NHEAP and should definitely check this one out.

Q: Where exactly are you from?

A: Assisi (near Perugia, in central Italy)

Q: Do you want your real name mentioned? If so: What is your real name?

A: my real name is Massimo Discepoli, feel free to mention it

Q: How recorded?

A: I recorded the album at home, using real drums (I'm a drummer), some soft synths and some fields recordings made by me

Q: When recorded?

A: total work (including composing, sequencing, playing, recording, mixing, mastering etc...): from November 2008, to September 2009

Q: Who involved? Who played what?

A: I did it all by myself

Q: Any more releases? Any "official" releases?

A: my previous release is called "Realight", and it's available on the musicaoltranza.net netlabel

Q: Since when does this project exist/are you into music?

A: the project started in 2007, but I'm playing music since 1990

Q: Any previous bands worth mentioning?

A: my former jazz/funk band Vibrham http://www.myspace.com/vibrham

Q: How'd you "label" your music?

A: jazz/ambient/electronic/avantgarde

Q: Influences?

A: jazz (Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Pat Metheny, Keith Jarrett, etc...)

electronic (Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Fennesz, Alva Noto, etc...)

classical/avantgarde (Bach, Mozart, Satie, Debussy, Steve Reich, etc..)

and many others (Beatles, Led Zeppelin, etc...)

Q: Anything that you think is interesting, that you'd like to inform the blog readers about...

A: they could check my own netlabel, http://www.acustronica.com, where they can download some other projects of mine (for example, Nunun:

http://www.acustronica.com/en/artisti/nunun.html) and many interesting music by

artists from all over the world

Q: Website, Myspace?

A:

http://www.nheap.com

http://www.myspace.com/nheap

http://www.facebook.com//nheapmusic

Favourite track: Panthalassa

NHEAP: Skymotion (IT 2009)

(mp3-zip, 10 tracks, 61 min, 91,9 MB, artwork incl.)

Get it here or here or here!

Nuo - Song Collection (Czch 199?)

These recordings from the end of the 90s from NUO are neither homemade lofi nor extremely psychedelic (but so what!) - they are rather quite professionel, and pretty good. We're talking about JAZZ with a slight psych-prog touch (e.g. on 'Moe', a track that could easily be mistaken for a mid-seventies jazzy krautrock piece by EMBRYO or a track by one of WOLFGANG DAUNER's or EBERHARD WEBER's projects).

NUO are: Jakub Zitko- keyboards, Marcel Bárta- altosax, Pavel Hrubý- tenorsax, Oskar Török- trumpet, Jan Jirucha- trombone, Jiří Šimek- guitar, Aleš Slavík- bass, Miloš Dvořáček- drums, Ivan Acher- fonovox.

Some of the afore mentioned musicians, namely Ivan Acher and Jakub Zitko, also played with 1st Regional before they went to NUO. They left Liberec to study on the jazz school in Prague and now work as professional musicians for various recording sessions. NUO released a CD "Multimusic Minibigband" in 2004. (Info by Richard Charvat)
Enjoy!

NUO - Song Collection (Czch 199?)
(mp3 zip, 5 tracks, 28,2 MB, 26 min)
Get it here or here!