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Calibro 35 Listening Party and Video Screening in Austin!

Snack Bar in Austin has partnered up with Waterloo Record store in Austin, Texas to throw a special listening party for Calibro 35 new album "Ritornano Quelli Di..."
They will also screen their music videos and special videos. If you're in Austin, don't miss it! They will be serving their favorite Italian wine and coffee all night!

Thursday, August 19 at 8pm
Snack Bar
1224 S Congress Avenue
Austin, Texas

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Calibro 35 Introducing the cinematic mayhem of Italian music combo!

"Italian soundtrack funk that sounds like Goblin recording at Stax!"
—Wax Poetics Magazine

"This is a textured sound, all polyester, red leather, sex, death, and car chases"
—Buzzine

"Live instrumentation handled in ways that bring something new to the tunes, but remain very faithful to their original inspiration."
—Dusty Groove

Charting Top 50 on CMJ Top 200!

MOJO - 3 Star Review! September Issue

Alarm Press - "Best Albums of the Week" 7/13

Nublu Records is proud to present the U.S. debut album from Italian funk maestros, Calibro 35!

These guys are something else, creating an explosive mix of funk, jazz and rock into what sounds like a classic soundtrack to an Italian mobster movie from the 60's! A perfect accompaniment to driving that small roadster you've always dreamed about. The four piece band is helmed by Tommaso Colliva (Muse, Franz Ferdinand, Arto Lindsay) and his musical cast of characters: Massimo Martellotta (Stewart Copeland) on guitars, Enrico Gabrielli on keyboards, brass and flute, Fabio Rondanini on drums and Luca Nano Cavina on bass.

Check out this mini-site for a more extensive bio, along with photos, additional tracks and a peek at the band in the studio. Also check out this video mash-up of the infamous car chase scene in Bullit with Calibro 35 track, "Five Dolls for an August Moon" which was selected top tune on KCRW!

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NEW RELEASES New remix releases out March 23rd worldwide!

FORRO IN THE DARK
Perro Loco Remixes
Digital only

Two original tracks from Forro in the Dark's latest album 'Light A Candle' get remixed. First up is Solo (Deadfish/Dirtybird/Southern Fried), a very talented DJ/producer who's been tearing up the dancefloors in the UK and beyond. He's delivered a good number of heavy club hitters recently and this remix is no less! A super summer feel good track with a great sax hook.

Next is Uproot Andy, Brooklyn based DJ/producer from ZZK and Bersa Discos labels. Here he turns the quirky reggae inspired original to a electro cumbia number. Hot, hot, hot.

"the sneaky Ibiza hit?" DMC Buzz Charts #19

DJ support from Laurent Garnier, Annie Mac (BBC), X-Press 2, Crookers, and many more.




HESS IS MORE
Hits Remixes EP
Digital only

Hess Is More's "Ssshhh" and Yes Boss" from their debut U.S. album "Hits," finally get the remix treatment from a slew of red hot producers. London house freaks Zombie Disco Squad (Made To Play) are up first, with a cracking remix of "Ssshhhh." Glaswegian producer The Revenge, clocks in next for all the spaced out, cosmic heads out there. His remix of "Yes Boss" is a chilled out future disco number that would fit nicely at your next loft party or sprawled out on a Mediterranean beach with a brew in one hand and sunscreen in the other. Hess Is More's "Ssshhh" and Yes Boss" from their debut U.S. album "Hits," finally get the remix treatment from a slew of red hot producers. London house freaks Zombie Disco Squad (Made To Play) are up first, with a cracking remix of "Ssshhhh." Glaswegian producer The Revenge, clocks in next for all the spaced out, cosmic heads out there. His remix of "Yes Boss" is a chilled out future disco number that would fit nicely at your next loft party or sprawled out on a Mediterranean beach with a brew in one hand and sunscreen in the other.

Last but not least, disco house maestro Pete Herbert steps up to the plate with his take on "Yes Boss." One word comes to mind when you hear this tune, Funky! A stomping bass-line accompanies horns and guitar stabs that move the feet and clear the mind. Both The Revenge and Pete Herbert mixes come with DJ friendly dub versions.

DJ support from Gilb'R (Chateau Flight), Jeannie Hopper, Jacques Renault, Michael Rutten and many others.

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BEST OF 2009 PICKS We've got great news! Two of our releases have made it to different Top 10 lists.

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Best of 2009 on Time Out NY

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Best of 2009 Chicago Reader, WNYC Soundcheck, Boston Globe

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ERIK TRUFFAZ

Interview by John Farris

Erik Truffaz was born in 1960 in France. Growing up on the border between France and Switzerland, Truffaz learned music from the age of six, concentrating on brass instruments and from the age eight sometimes played with his fatherís dance band with the trumpet eventually becoming his instrument of choice. Truffaz became involved with contemporary pop music from the start of the 70s and in 1975 teamed up with drummer Rene Esteve. The following year he resumed his studies, concentrating now on classical piano. In the late 70s he became a member of the AMR big band in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1980, he formed a pop group, Orange, with drummer Marc Erbetta. A few years later he spent some time with the Brazilian band Cruziero Du Sul. From the early 90s onwards he became associated with the contemporary French jazz movement although he was based chiefly in Switzerland. Playing in a latter-day form of jazz rock fusion, Truffazís work leans noticeably away from the jazz sensibilities of the form. Among musicians with whom he worked in those years are Maurice Magnoni (sazaphone), Marcello Giuliani (bass), Erbetts (drums), and Pierre-Luc Vallet (piano), all members of his first band, and later with Patrick Miller (piano). In the early 90s Truffaz worked with elements including the poetry of Nya, reflecting the poerty and jazz phenomenon of a half-century before.



John Farris: You wer born in the south of France, in 1960?

Erik Truffaz: Yes.

JF: And your father played music.

ET: Oh yes - he always played music. He played in a marching band and dance music. But it's old music for tradional Europeans.

JF: And you started in his band when you were seven years old?

ET: Yes. I was a kid.

JF: What music had you begun to listen to or did you begin to listen to when you played with your father?

ET: It was French singers on the radio, and I began to listen to jazz because my home was near Montreaux -

JF: Near the jazz festival.

ET: They played the Montreaux Jazz Festival on the radio.

JF: What music did you hear?

ET: At this time? It was Art Blakey, it was also pop music.

JF: What pop music?

ET: Jimi Hendrix and Canned Heat, old rock and stuff.

JF: And what impacted you particularly?

ET: And what means 'impacted'?

JF: Touched you.

ET: I understand. It's a good word.

JF: Actually hit you, crashed into you.

ET: Ah! What music burned me, because it was a new music for me. In Europe in the beginning of the 70s we heard this new music, it was totally revolutionary. It was a really new sound, new instruments, like for me when I heard the first time on the radio the bebop - I was really impressed. It was Dizzy -

JF: Dizzy Gillespie at Montreaux -

ET: Yes was a new sound. Because they don't play this on the French radio, they play French music.

JF: Piaf and stuff like that -

ET: So I was like really wow! It was really fast, it was a new sound.

JF: And what band, and what rock musicians did you hear?

ET: Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix. I have a brother, he is ten years older than me, so he played the vinyl, Jimi Hendrix vinyl and I was really impressed - I am always impressed by Hendrix.

JF: So you formed a group, Orange?

ET: Yes. You were on the web site.

JF: Well actually I am a writer in my own right and never thought I would be doing this. But they don't pay poets, so sometimes -

ET: I understand. You know I have a project with a poet, in Europe. We interface electronically, and the poet writes on a computer and what he writes is on a big screen. As he writes, we play -

JF: It is totally improvizational and interactive -

ET: Yes - the words and the music. He is a good poet - Joel Bastard (spells name, to laughter). I love to do this - I love it because the reason of writing is different from the rhythm of playing.

JF: So what brings you to what you are doing now? What would you call the music that you are making?