{"id":8419,"date":"2020-05-22T14:05:29","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T13:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cassandravoices.com\/?p=8419"},"modified":"2020-05-22T14:05:29","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T13:05:29","slug":"the-first-cassandra-voices-podcast-italian-library-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/2020\/05\/22\/the-first-cassandra-voices-podcast-italian-library-music\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Cassandra Voices Podcast \u2013 Italian Library Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/821645629&amp;color=%23535559&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"><a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Cassandra Voices\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/cassandra-voices\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cassandra Voices<\/a> \u00b7 <a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Nicola Bigatti presents: The Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza.\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/cassandra-voices\/nicola-bigatti-presents-the-gruppo-di-improvvisazione-nuova-consonanza\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nicola Bigatti presents: The Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza.<\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Without music, life would be a mistake. <\/em>Friedrich Nietzsche<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Library Music&#8217; is a vast catalogue of Italian records made mainly in the 1960s and 1970s by some of the finest musicians in the country, with Rome and Milan the centres of this exciting scene. Generally commissioned by RAI, Italy\u2019s state broadcaster, musicians of the calibre of Piero Piccioni, Egisto Macchi, Alessandro Alessandroni \u2013 \u00a0to mention a few \u2013 were hired to score background music to accompany TV shows, advertisements, and documentaries.<\/p>\n<p>Although this phenomenon began life as generic soundtrack music, it was the genesis of a fertile music scene. Many of the musicians carried on their careers outside RAI, pursuing different styles, breaking new borders, forging a peculiar spaghetti western or <i>polizziesco<\/i><i>groove.<\/i> Or like Ennio Morricone achieving worldwide recognition for scoring soundtracks like <i>Once Upon a Time in America<\/i> (1984) and <i>The Good the Bad and the Ugly<\/i> (1966).<\/p>\n<p>This Italian Library &#8212; while sometimes referred to as obscure &#8212; encompassed avant-garde composition, classical harmony, psychedelia, and funk with brash horns, guitars, and futuristic synths prominent. It was a fertile ground for experimentation and creativity, strongly influenced by the social, economic and political dynamics of that epoch.<\/p>\n<p>Voice and writing: Nicola Bigatti<\/p>\n<p>Podcast Editor: Massimiliano Galli<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cassandra Voices \u00b7 Nicola Bigatti presents: The Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza. &nbsp; Without music, life would be a mistake. Friedrich Nietzsche &#8216;Library Music&#8217; is a vast catalogue of Italian records made mainly in the 1960s and 1970s by some of the finest musicians in the country, with Rome and Milan the centres of this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":8426,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[402,2864,2977,4710,7246],"class_list":["post-8419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-alessandro-alessandroni","tag-egisto-macchi","tag-ennio-morricone","tag-italian-library-music","tag-piero-piccioni"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}