New release June 9, 2024
OU Uranio
Composed by Ersilia Prosperi
Recorded and mixed at Angelo Mai, Kappa Bit Studio, Rome, Italy. Produced by Amy Denio, mastered by Steve Turnidge (Seattle -USA), published by Spoot Music (USA), Folderol Records (Italy). Cover Graphics by Resh Zeni.
The Mediterranean genius of chamber jazz anarchists OU (egg in Sardinian language) shines with the fury of fission on their newest release Uranio (Folderol / Spoot Music).
Inventive composer and multi-instrumentalist Ersilia Prosperi has created an abundant cornucopia of spirited sounds exploring and celebrating all corners of the world, sung in a variety of romantic languages. Since their inception in Rome Italy in 2013, OU has transformed into a royal cOUrte.
Ersilia holds the baton and scepter as the King, Producer Amy Denio is Regina (the queen); bassist and mix engineer Claudio Mosconi is the Prince, drummer Cristiano de Fabritiis is the Illegitimate Prince, Marchese Andrea Pesce plays keys, and vocalist Valeria Sturba plays violin and theremin.
Prosperi’s dreamscapes cover the romantic entanglements of octopi, nests and nations turning from safe havens to violent cages, mourning doves with gigantic human babies, and a funereal brass band mourns NATO’s deadly war games poisoning Sardinia’s land and waters. credits
The video is dedicated to the A Foras movement and to all the activists fighting against NATO bases in Sardinia, to the Sardinian people, and to all the peoples fighting to protect the sea and the land from abuses and barbarism. The video was shot in Quirra (Sardinia), the largest NATO base in Europe – Filmed and edited by Luca Gaetano Piras.
Ersilia Prosperi – Composizioni, Tromba, Flicorno, Background Vocals
Valeria Sturba – Lead Vocal – Theremin – Violino
Cristiano De Fabritiis – Batteria, Background Vocals
Andrea Pesce – Piano, Background Vocals
Claudio Mosconi – Basso, Background Vocals
OU è qui, apparentemente immobile nella sua semplice forma, carico di una profonda energia e pronto a comunicare con tutti gli esseri di questo pianeta
OU, l’uovo e’ finalmente tra noi – si è sentito qualcuno, dire che la sua origine sia nel passato – molto lontano peraltro – altri sono convinti che venga dal futuro, come un segnale per la nostra generazione. E’ stato visto in un circo, in un jazz club, in fila in un centro commerciale nel periodo natalizio, mentre cantava e rideva con un gruppo di pigmei, mentre partecipava ad un corso di cucina thailandese. Gira voce di un sogno comune e ricorrente in cui suona l’ukulele in una piccola stanza…Anche questo oggetto di grandi speculazioni: la prima ipotesi e’ stata quella di una nuova forma, l’embrione di qualcosa di inaspettato forse una creatura, forse non catalogabile con i parametri utilizzati fino ad ora – un gruppo di fanatici religiosi crede addirittura che il suo contenuto sia l’origine dell’esistenza stessa.
Ph. by A. Zbitnoff, KEXP RADIO (Seattle)
JAZZ WEEKLY – Here’s a fun one! An Italian sextet lead by Ersilia Prosperi who composes, sings and plays the trumpet and ukulele he in artsy and quirky tunes that are sung in English, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian and even Sardinian. She brings together Sabrina Coda/sax, Martina Fadda/voc, Luca Venitucci/key, Claudio Mosconi/b and Cristian De Fabritiis/dr for 12 pieces that are divided between short little vignettes of voice and horns and 4-6 minute pieces that swing, sway, bounce and groove with joy.(..)
Ou – Joshua Tree Music Festival (LA)
AVANT MUSIC NEWS – Ou – a Rome-based Sardinian sextet – sound like no other group. Scrambled! is their second release, a set of music written by Ersilia Prosperi, the group’s trumpeter/flugelhornist/ukulele player. The nine songs, sung by Martina Fadda with the assistance of the others, are an uncategorizable collection of cheerfully skewed post-art songs in a babble of languages – Sardinian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, English and Pygmy, several of them often occurring in the same song..(…)
Ou – Folk’n’Fusion, Hildesheim
LA VOCE DI NEW YORK – About a year after their first recording Pisces Crisis, and after two long US tours with a stop in New York last spring, Denio released Scrambled!, the second album by OU, (‘egg’ in Sardinian), the eclectic band founded by Ersilia Prosperi, who is a jazz trumpeter, composer and much more. Scrambled! is the title of OU’s latest recording project; from the first listen it reveals a fresco tinged with eccentricity and savage irony, experimentation, improvisation and a rational anarchy of sounds..(…)
Nato a Roma nel 2014 OU ha inciso due album di composizioni originali di Ersilia Prosperi rispettivamente nel 2014 e nel 2015, Pisces Crisis e Scrambled! entrambi registrati a Seattle da Floyd Reitsma nello Studio Litho di Stone Grossard (Pearl Jam), prodotti da Amy Denio, masterizzati da Chris Hanzsek (Nirvana) e usciti con le etichette statunitensi Spoot Music e Public Eyesore. OU (con Martina Fadda, Sabrina Coda, Claudio Mosconi, Cristiano De Fabritiis, Luca Venitucci, Andrea Pesce, Cristina Pecorario) ha frequentato i palchi e le radio della west coast americana, in due lunghi tour che lo hanno portato a partecipare a festival di rilievo internazionale quali l’Earshot Festival (Seattle, WA), il Joshua Tree Music Festival (Los Angeles, CA), il UC Botanical Garden Berkeley Summer Concerts (Berkeley, CA), Trinidad, Petaluma, Portland e alla rassegna jazz del Bluewhale di Los Angeles con ospite la flautista Emily Hay. In Europa Ou ha presentato Pisces Crisis e Scrambled! in un tour Europeo in formazione con Amy Denio al Folk’n’Fusion in Germania, in apertura del tour italiano dei Calibro 35 e a: Trento Jazz Festival, Urbino Jazz Festival, Fano Jazz Festival e Villa Ada Incontra Il Mondo. Ou ha da poco iniziato la cova del terzo disco in combutta con la poli strumentista, cantante e compositrice Valeria Sturba (Opopoioooo).
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