Monthly Archives: April 2020

BMPDAN Belagaio Castle, Tuscany

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Foto di Alessandro Gaido, torinese emigrato in mezzo al bosco da 20 anni. Al Belagaio abbiamo organizzato vari eventi sin dal 2009. Gli eventi hanno finora riguardato la BuioMetria Partecipativa (non a caso, essendo la zona del Castello una fra le più buie d’Italia, come riconosciuto anche da scienziati internazionali nel 2015), e anche un po’ della Mappa di Comunità della Val di Farma. Brano abbinato, sicuramente Nobody knows when you’re down and out interpretato da Peter Crivelli dentro la corte del castello nel 2017.

BuioMetria Partecipativa “Night and Day”

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In relazione a un nuovo esercizio per la BuioMetria Partecipativa, di cui vi diremo meglio fra qualche giorno, stiamo raccogliendo foto di alcune località fatte di giorno e di notte. Ad ogni posto fotografato abbiniamo -se la sappiamo- un po’ di storia e di iniziative fatte, e possibilmente un brano. Come sigla di apertura per la BuioMetria Partecipativa “giorno e notte” non possiamo non proporre altro che Night and Day, scritta da Cole Porter nel 1932 e poi eseguita da numerosissmi artisti.

Per vedere le scene raccolte finora seguite il tag BMPGEN sul sito della Jug Band Colline Metallifere: http://www.pibinko.org/jugbandcollinemetallifere/tag/bmpgen/

Per maggiori informazioni: bmp@pibinko.org.

BMPDAN Tatti, Tuscany, 1

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Tatti è la località lontana da tre capoluoghi comunali ma vicina a molte situazioni che non sono né di capoluogo e nemmeno molto comuni, come un paio di altri posti che conosciamo (ma mica tanti).

In particolare, da Tatti nelle sere di tramonto invernale si possono vedere le cime innevate della Corsica. Qualcuno, in assenza di foschia, dice di avere visto anche le Baleari (ma forse era in “foschia di assenzio”). Tatti, oltre a ospitare una festa dell’olio, un rally autunnale, un festival Reggae (per 8 anni), un agricampeggio e vari microproduttori di cose bòne speciali (miele, zafferano e altre chicche) o stampe artigianali è la base di Mauro il Tirannosauro e di due dei componenti della Jug Band Colline Metallifere.

Una recente analisi di Tatti è stata fatta per Radio Popolare Milano, in mezzo ad altre spiegazioni su iniziative della rete pibinko.org (28.3.2020).

Brano musicale: in attesa di perfezionare il Tatti-twist, una jam session capitata nella stamperia di Wolfgang (aprile 2019).

La foto è scattata in direzione sud-ovest dalla parte Nord del paese.

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Digital Hat

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If you are taking a stroll downtown and you find a street performer that you like, you will leave a little money as a token of your appreciation, often in a hat. In this period where people’s whereabouts are a lot more digital, if you happen to find an act by Jug Band Colline Metallifere and you like it, you can support the band in digital mode. Click on the hat below, and choose your amount:

In the header image Mauro the T-Rex, at the end of one of his live shows with the JBCM.

Pleas note: the transaction will be for pibinko@gmail.com (which is always us, since pibinko runs the web side of the Jug Band Colline Metallifere)

Should you meet a T-Rex in Tatti, Southern Tuscany

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…we know, the Tuscan Metalliferous Hills, llike other rural areas, are often the setting for sighting and exotic findings. Who could ever forget about the 2011 panther, the 2007 UFO near Roccatederighi, or -going further back- the Accesa Lake crocodile? [1].

Anyhow, should you be passing around Tatti, in the Massa Marittima area (Southern Tuscany), and you cross a T-Rex, do not be concerned. No need to call the wildlife service, or the guys from the prehistoric theme park in Valpiana, He did not escape, nor did he come to bother. On the contrary: he is here to collaborate on the Participatory Lithology project, given his experience since the Cretaceous. His name is Mauro.

Following his performance on a tune explaining the story of this project and of Uncle Enzo’s stones, he thought he should give a proper introduction of himself. He sent us a file which we translated from Tyrannosaurese into English (and Italian), and published on this page.

You may also contact Mauro by e-mail: maurotrex@pibinko.org

Mauro, on a short “proximity pause”, contemplating the Bruna plain.

[1] In fact, the most incredibly strange sighting remembered in the pibinko.org network goes back to the Seventies. A local newspaper wrote that in the lower Cornia Valley a giant toad was lurking in the crops. Possibly it became so big due to a diet warped by old-school fertilizers. Should anybody remember about this piece of news, or has documentation about similar episoded, please write to micalosapevo@pibinko.org.

Mauro the T-Rex: I have some Rocks (Participatory Lithology Demo Take 4)

JBCM Videos, Lithobag

All of the Big Kahunas in the music production business were hearing about this for some time: a collaboration between the Jug Band Colline Metallifere, the geomusic guys, and Mauro the T-Rex. First they heard about a potential joint tour in Japan. Then, that mishap with Pellegro, the tenor sax with the Jerry Brecker quartet..so, for one reason or another, the affair was not going anywhere.

Then came Participatory Lithology. This story turned out to provide the right setting. Inspired by a famous American duo from the Sixties, Simone Sandrucci, lead guitar with the JBCM, and Mauro, take some lyrics by Jack O’Malley on the story of this little resilience project, and end the tune with an invitation for all their audience. The video is subtitled in English (not all may understand the T-Rex accent) and in Italian. If you like it, please consider putting something in our digital busking hat.

For more information and booking: micalosapevo@pibinko.org.

Thanks also to Luca Guerrieri, Alberico “Open G” Mattei, and Martina Busonero.

[Technical note: to get to a perfect syncing of the tracks used in this video with pibinko’s netbook is almost impossible in less-than-geologic time. Please enjoy this demo take in the meantime, and we will see if we can provide a proper edit once we can have more suitable hardware. Or, if you would like to help out on a second edit, please write].

For the other candidate title tracks for Participatory Lithology, you may also see Demo Take 2 (Francesco Ceri dei Matti delle Giuncaie), and Demo Take 3 (Geojazz con Liliana Cafiero).

For more information: http://www.pibinko.org/participatorylithology

Participatory Lithology

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The Jug Band Colline Metallifere (Metalliferous HIlls Jug Band) represents the musical branch in the little Participatory Lithology exercise launched on March 21, 2020 from Tatti, Southern Tuscany, by the pibinko.org network. In pratice, with Mauro the T-Rex as our creative director (see him spinning some vinyls in the header image) we are:

To learn more about Participatory Lithology: http://www.pibinko.org/participatorylithology/ or micalosapevo@pibinko.org