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2013

01/01 Orvieto (TR) Palazzo del Popolo/ Umbria Jazz Winter

29/01 Milano Blue Note

22/02 Prato Officina Giovani

14/04 Pontremoli (MS) Teatro Manzoni

19/04 Milano Palazzo Reale

21/04 Foggia Moody Jazz Cafè

22/05 Milano Palazzo Reale/Desire for Freedom

21/06 Jesolo (VE) Piazza Aurora/Notti Gialle

10/07 Perugia Teatro Morlacchi/Umbria Jazz

12/07 Rimini Corte degli Agostiniani/Percuotere la mente

01/08 Valdobiadene (TV) Cantina Fasol Menin/FVG Festival

03/08 Rep. San Marino Monastero S. Chiara/Nott’Arte

12/08 Martina Franca (TA) Anfiteatro Villa Carmine/Arte Franca

15/08 Arco (TN) Area Rockmaster/Arco Summer Festival

16/08 Castellina Mare (PI) Piazza Don Gallo/MWFestival

01/09 Andria (BT) Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II/ Castel dei Mondi

20/09 Bologna Parco Nord/Festa Unità

21/09 Matera Piazza S. Pietro Barisano/Materadio Rai Radio3

28/09 Novara Cortile del Broletto/Creativicittà

12/10 Forlì Teatro Testori

24/10 Gorizia Kulturni Dom/ Jazz & Wine

09/11 Civitanova Marche (MC) Magga Club

2014

15/01 Milano Blue Note

01/02 Berbenno (SO) QM live club

06/02 Bologna Locomotive

13/02 Modena Jazz a la Tenda

14/02 Bastia Umbra (PG) Teatro Esperia

08/03 Cavalese (TN) Dolomiti Sky Jazz

22/03 Genova Teatro della Tosse

28/03 Ostiglia (MN) Teatro Sociale

01/05 Forli’ Teatro Diego Fabbri/ Crossroad

07/05 Roma Circolo degli Artisti

06/06 Bologna Biografilm Festival

07/06 Cornedo Vicentino (VI) Lawork/Palatenda

30/06 al 02/07 Prove Play Zappa

03/07 Albino (BG) Young’ n’ Town

06/07 S. Margherita Ligure (GE) Anfiteatro/Premio Bindi

17/07 Cusercoli (FC) Wine Blues Festival

19/07 Orciano (PI) Campo Sportivo Comunale

26/07 Castelbasso (TE) Piazza della Marchesa

27/07 Grezzana (VR) Parco Naturale Lessinia

01/08 Ficulle (TR) Rock festival

02/08 San Lazzaro (BO) fiera di San Lazzaro

08/08 Reggio Calabria Ecojazz (Play Zappa)

13/08 Corinaldo (AN) Corinaldo Jazz (Play Zappa)

17/08 Ravenna Galla Placidia

21/08 Agrigento Arcosoli jazz/Valle dei Templi

25/08 Gubbio (PG) Teatro Romano

27/08 Bergamo Parco Sant’ Agostino

04/09 Reggio Emilia Festa PD/Campovolo

14/09 Formia (LT) Jazz Flirt (Play Zappa)

25/10 Cerea (VR) Teatro comunale di Asparetto

27/10 Treviglio (BG) Clock Tower/Elav

07/11 Messina Accademia Filarmonica/palacultura

30/11 Santarcangelo (RN) Teatro Supercinema

14/12 Milano Blue Note (Play Zappa)

21/12 Sant’Anna (CA) Tra sardegna e Jazz (Play Zappa)

28/12 Orvieto (TR) Sala 400/Umbria jazz W. (Play Zappa)

29/12 Orvieto (TR) Sala 400/Umbria Jazz W. (Play Zappa)

30/12 Lanusei (OG) Teatro TonioDei

2015

05/02 Bologna Bravo Cafe’ (Play Zappa)

18/02 Treviso Teatro Eden (Play Zappa)

07/03 Alessandria Teatro Macallè (Experience)

13/03 Foligno (PG) Supersonic (Experience)

24/04 Mariano Comense (CO) Circolo arci (Experience)

30/04 Russi (RA) Crossroad (Play Zappa)

08/05 Mortegliano (UD) Festaintenda (Experience)

15/05 Settimo (TO) La suoneria (Play Zappa)

20/05 Roma Big Mama (Play Zappa)

21/05 Roma Big Mama (Play Zappa)

22/05 Roma Big Mama (Play Zappa)

23/05 Roma Big Mama (Play Zappa)

30/05 Cagli (PU) Teatro comunale (Play Zappa)

16/06 Fasano (BR) Fasano Jazz (Play Zappa)

13/07 Roma Villa Ada (Play Zappa)

01/08 San Quirico (SI) ORF Rock festival (Experience)

11/08 Reggio Emilia Mundus (Play Zappa)

22/08 Arce (FR) Murata street sound (Experience)

“Talking about music is like dancing about architecture”.

This famous quote from the eclectic and bright musician Frank Zappa summerizes the objective impossibility to attach concepts and verbal structures to the art of sound without taking the risk to fall into the vice of impoverishment, the synaesthetic ambiguity, the semantic contradiction. Talking about Quintorigo, defining their aesthetics, describing (in a few words) their approach to composition, their cultural substrate and the mixture of their artistic influences, labelling their sound, all this is a hard task carried out by critics, music experts, journalists, fans or detractors.This intellectual exercise is sometimes presumptuous, often useless, and it never comes to a right and exhaustive solution. Maybe it doesn’t make much sense to define Quintorigo’s kind of music or to find out whose master’s lessons they ‘re carrying on, or even to fix their sound…Because there’s no shared and unique answer to that.Probably, it makes more sense to point out the permanent features, the constant vectors which characterize the band’s “modus operandi”since the beginning, in order to understand the work of these four musicians from Romagna and the prolific,proud, long and lively subsistence of one of the “most interesting and original music reality among the italian music scene”(as someone once dared to say)…

Quintorigo move along three paths:eclecticism, contamination, experimentation. The first path comes out from youth experiences (from music academy to small clubs, from symphonic orchestra to cover rock bands…). The second one derives from the first and elaborate it, and it’s a typical post-modern effort to fuse the exellence of the past with a new language made up of echoes and reminescences which could sound surprisingly new and, sometimes, in opposition to the past(and the present), even if it seems paradoxical. The third path represents a psychological trend, a costant and alienated “forma mentis” which leads to the denial of whatever has been made or said, of whatever sounds to be expected or “pop”, in the worst sense of the word. Whatever exists, it does exists yet. And we often don’t like that. Experimentation is the research of what doesn’t exist. Quintorigo search, invent, upset; they destroy in order to rebuild a new language from the ruins of the glorious past; a language made up of unheard sounds, free structures, heterodox expressions and estranging atmospheres. Miles Davis, with the enlightening conciseness which characterized him, loved to repeat: “Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there”. Maybe it’s right to know and respect Quintorigo from the honest mission they’re carrying on, which is to play a different music without prejudices of all sorts (historical, geographical, ethnical…), without degrading compromises, far from media and commercial reasons, led by a congenital and total love for the object of their research, music itself.