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Lorenzo Morresi & Tenderlonious
Author: Alastair SteelPublished 29th Sep 2022
Last updated 29th Sep 2022

Guitarist Lorenzo Morresi and the Jazz FM Award-nominated Tenderlonious joined forces to provide us with a Jazz FM Session which is sure to get you movin' and groovin'!

Lorenzo Morresi and Tenderlonious' album COSMICA ITALIANA is out now via 22a Records.

Personnel:

Guitar and electronics: Lorenzo Morresi

Flute and percussion: Ed "Tenderlonious" Cawthorne

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About Cosmica Italiana

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Italian soundtrack and library music went through its most experimental, prolific and dazzling period having a strong radio presence in both Europe and the US. Musicians and composers such as Piero Umiliani, Amleto Armando Roelens and even Ennio Morricone - with his side project Gruppo Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza lead by Franco Evangelisti - were regularly experimenting with idiosyncratic combinations of jazz, electronic, progressive, disco, funk and psych genres. Some of their output from this period was wonderfully joyful, atmospheric, ironic and erotic, with it’s treasures only now being discovered by the most dedicated of diggers and enthusiasts.

It was their mutual love of these 1960s and 1970s soundtracks that brought Lorenzo Morresi and Tenderlonious together. After performing alongside each other at a festival in Italy back in 2017 they quickly bonded over a shared love of Jay Richford and Gary Steven’s album ‘Feelings’ - which, in reality, is the Italian duo Brugnolini and Torossi - as they both owned the Schema repressed vinyl version. The idea was quickly conceived to put together a fresh take starting with that early 1970s Italian style, using contemporary analogue-inspired arrangements combined with experimental and joyful 'tongue-in-cheek' sounds that could work on the dance floor as well as at home.

Tender and Morresi worked tirelessly between Italy and London for approximately 2 years carefully shaping their album Cosmica Italiana. The record also includes contributions from London-based Italian keyboard player Emilio Merone and Italy-based drummer Archelao Macrillò.

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