Enri

Music performed is ENRI's new record. ENRI is a project built around the figure of Hammond-organ player Enrico Zavalloni. The new line-up includes 1/2 of now-split-up band Vip200. At the beginning of the new millennium, together with Montefiori Cocktail, Vip200 were Italy's 60s lounge scene top band. Much in demand both in Italy and abroad the band boasts fans such as big shots Pizzicato Five with whom they collaborated for the record MISS MAKI NOMIYA SINGS, released in Japan by Ready Made, and Maxwell Implosion with whom they wrote A Small Circle of Friends, released by Virgin. Their debut album Psicoerotica, which was released in Italy, in 2001, enclosed with the magazine Il Giaguaro, was re-published, in 2002, by Rambling Records in Japan where they also star on a number of compilations, among which "A taste of Honey" and "I WAS A YE YE GIRL". Another great fan of Vip200 is Eddie Piller, founder of Acid Jazz Records and producer of Jamiroquai, up to the point of wanting them on the compilations NEW TOTALLY WIRED Vol.2 and NEW RELEASES OF JAZZ, which he produced. \"Music performed\" is a record steeped in 60s sounds, which keeps aloof from the cocktail-lounge scene to venture out to the spheres of soul, funk and Hammond groove with a taste of space-age ambiences and easy-listening references. A hot mix inspired by the great masters such as ?Booker T. & the MGS?, ?Sly & the family stone? , going through ?Piero Piccioni? and the psychedelic side of ?Air?. A record where true stomper soul tracks such as \"I?m a vip\" and \"Old enough\" take turns with vaguely psychedelic space-age ballads like \"Aria\". The record also includes authentic divertissements such as the sparkling cover of \"Lessons in love\" by Level 42, one of the never off the air tracks of the 80s. Bustling about between Hammond, Clavinet, Melodica and Synth together with excellent drummer Luca \"Zanlock\" and Francesco \"Fuzz\", former guitarist of Jestofunk (Irma Records), ENRI leads us into a sizzling sound cocktail directly inspired by northern soul, rough funk and nu soundz that will make the listener sweat.