Gruppo Di Improvvisazione Nuova Conssonanza is a group of Italian composers who got together to make improvised 'noise' music. The most famous member of the band (orchestra) is Ennio Morricone, who plays Trumpet within this experimental group. The others are composers, who border on the classical or are writing film track music. Here, they can go wild, and wild do they go.
This is music that is not open-ended but contained in an aesthetic history that is a combination of Fluxus and music by John Cage. Perhaps even traces of The Art of Noise (the other Italian Futurist sound movement) not the British 'pop' group. Using conventional instruments, they make new sounds by altering the instruments or through electronic means. What sounds like chaos is really master musicians working in a format that takes chances at a high point, yet never fall off the cliff. At times ambient but more likely in one's face, this is essentially 20th-century music that changes the shape of the air around them. I think of their music more sculptural than anything else.
The album was released in 1966, and this is a reissue, that is in a limited edition of 500. Pick it up before it goes bye-bye. The other composers/musicians involved besides Morricone are Jerry Rosen, Frederic Rzewski, Franco Evangelisti, Roland Kayn, Mario Bertoncini, Ivan Vandor, and John Heineman. The sound of 1966 that is the new sound
