"WE DID IT, WE DID IT ! (Rahsaan & the None)"
The Music of Rahsaan Roland Kirk and more (!)
as seen/felt/re-interpreted by Tiziano Tononi & The Society Of Freely Syncopated Organic Pulses

3 CD Splasc(h) World Series CDH 811-812-813.2 - (2000)

Recorded & mixed at Studio L'Isola, Milano, 11-17 and 20-23 December 1999
Released September 2000

CD I "(Rah)ndom Thoughts":

1) De-Tuning N.1 (T.Tononi)                                        0.59
2) Amazing Grace (trad. arr. T.Tononi)                         4.09
3) Open Strings (T.Tononi)                                         3.06
4) We Free Kings (R.Kirk)                                           2.47
5) A Handfull Of Fives (R.Kirk)                                    3.08
6) Duality (T.Tononi)                                                  2.37
7) A Laugh For Rory (R.Kirk)                                       4.24

Echoes of Elington:
8) The Creole Love Call (Ellington)                                9.47
9) The Mooche (Ellington-Mills)                                   12.07

(Rah)ther Black And Blue:
10) Happy, Sad, Like Everybody Else (T.Tononi)            3.47
11) The Black & Crazy Blues (R.Kirk)                            9.27
12) Juxtaposition: Against/With (T.Tononi)                  1.53
13) Geo(metrics) (T.Tononi)                                       3.03
14) The Inflated Tear (R.Kirk)                                      6.30
15) Theme For The Eulipions (R.Kirk)                           10.10



CD II "Ar(rah)iving Soon":

1) Isn't It That Crazy ? (T.Tononi)                                1.16
2) Variable Density (T.Tononi)                                     5.46
3) Pedal Up (R.Kirk)                                                    3.50
4) Chamber Music... (T.Tononi)                                    0.43
5) ...Getting Groovy (T.Tononi)                                    0.58
6) Clickety Clack (R.Kirk)                                             2.28
7) Serenade To A Cuckoo (R.Kirk)                                 6.24

Fats & Bechet:
8) The Jitterbug Waltz (F.Waller)                                 4.35
9) Petite Fleur (S.Bechet)                                           4.44

(Rah)'N'Roll:
10) The Sacred Metal Forest (T.Tononi)                        5.20
11) Blacknuss (R.Kirk)                                                1.34
12) 15 Miles/Electric (T.Tononi)                                  4.15
13) The 3 Tenors (T.Tononi)                                        2.14
14) Spirits Up Above (R.Kirk)                                      4.16
15) Olù Batà 4T.Tononi)                                             1.57
16) Volunteered Slavery (R.Kirk)                                 7.31

If You'Re Not Part Of The Solution, You'Re Part Of The Problem
The Mingus-Shepp Medley:
17) Ecclusiastics (Mingus)                                           5.17
18) Goodbye, Pork-Pie Hat (Mingus)                            7.19
19) Remember Rockefeller At Attica (Mingus)              3.30
20) Attica Blues (Shepp)                                            4.48



CD III: "(Rah)zzle - Dazzle":

1) Orchestral De-Tuning N. 2 In Gb (T.Tononi)               0.39
2) Gongs, 5's & 7's (T.Tononi)                                      3.46
3) Rip, Rig & Panic (R.Kirk)                                          4.41
4) Mistical Movement (T.Tononi)                                  1.43
5) Slippery, Hippery, Flippery (R.Kirk)                           2.45
6) White Noise, No Noise (T.Tononi)                             2.53
7) Narrow Bolero (R.Kirk)                                            3.11
8) No Tonic Pres (R.Kirk)                                             5.09

Monk & Trane:
9)   Misterioso (Monk)                                                 3.01
10) After The Rain (J.Coltrane)                                    6.02

(Rah)mble In The Jungle:
11) Ebrauqs (R.Kirk)                                                  10.37
12) The Multiphonics Tuba Trio (T.Tononi)                      2.07
13) Slippery, Hippery, Flippery (R.Kirk)                         7.33
14) Juarez (R.Kirk)                                                    11.05

Ode To Black Music: Wonder Hendrix Marley
15) Master Blaster (S.Wonder)                                    4.12
16) Hear My Train 'A Comin' (J.Hendrix)                         4.31
17) Redemption Song (B.Marley)                                  4.07
 


Musicians :
Herb Robertson - trumpet, cornet
Daniele Cavallanti - tenor & baritone saxes
Renato Geremia - alto, tenor & soprano saxes, flute, clarinet, violin
Gianluigi Trovesi - alto sax, piccolo clarinet
Riccardo Luppi - tenor & soprano saxes, flute, piccolo
Achille Succi -alto sax, Bb clarinet, bass clarinet
Beppe Caruso - trombone, tuba, euphonium, shell
Michel Godard - tuba
Alberto Tacchini - piano, Fender Rhodes, Hammond organ, melodica
Roberto Cecchetto – electric guitar
Tito Mangialajo - bass
Piero Leveratto - bass
Victor Beard - recitation
Roberta Parsi - vocals
Andrea Rainoldi - turntables, samplings, electronic wizardry
Tiziano Tononi - drums, percussion, gongs, tumbadoras, batà (iyà & okonkòlo), balafon, chekeré, siren