"Dissói Lógoi is a real synthesis of rhythms, voices, singing and different sounds able to- carry you away from the very first hearing"
- Carlo Boccadoro, composer, conductor,
founder of the Ensemble Sentieri Selvaggi and music critic
Founded at the end of the Eighties by Franco Parravicini and Alberto Morelli, Dissói Lógoi, which in ancient Greek means contrasting arguments, is a Milanese music collective working on connections between Mediterranean and non-European sound traditions and weaving them together with languages that are typical of contemporary, rock and jazz music.
Tradition and experimentation, electronics and popular music instruments blend in a kaleidoscopic sound. The many stylistic influences that characterize music by Dissói Lógoi make it difficult to confine this band to a well-defined genre, cause many voices flow into their conversations.
Dissói Lógoi are set among frontier music, new Mediterranean music and within the ethno jazz scenario..
"Very nice music. Glad to hear deviations from the expected. Dissói Lógoi having a lot of fun performing (and at a very hi level of musicianships)"
- Jon Hassell, compositore, musicista
e collaboratore di Brian Eno, Talking Heads, Peter Gabriel
Alberto
Morelli
Multi-instrumentalist and composer studied with Azio Corghi and Angelo Paccagnini. As an autodidact he studied composition and instrumental techniques of popular music of Mediterranen Basin and Sub-Saharian Africa. He studied repertoire and playing techniques of pipe, popular oboe of the four provinces with Stefano Valla and Armenian duduk with Gevorg Dabaghyan.
Together with Stefano Scarani, he is co-founder of Tangatamanu, a research project on technologies applied to the relationship between music, images and environment. He is also co-founder of EAR&NOW and Trio Coltri Menduto Morelli.
He co-operates with Studio Azzurro as a composer and sound designer. He teaches and holds workshops, deepening training both for musicians and at universities. Since 2008 he has been teaching "Music for film and multimedia" at the Claudio Abbado School of Music in Milan. Since 2015, he has been collaborating with European Music Archaeology Project (EMAP)
He played with, among others Mario Arcari, Mouna Amari, Amelia Cuni, Fabrizio De Andrè, Ensemble Mare Balticum, Paolo Fresu, John Kenny, Steve James, Xabier Iriondo, Tommaso Leddi (Stormy Six), Simone Mauri, Piero Milesi, Gianni Mimmo, Moni Ovadia, Damo Suzuki (Can), Faisal Taher.
Franco
Parravicini
Guitarist and composer, he attended double bass courses at Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milan where he met John Cage at a seminar on traditions and language of African music.
Together with flautist Gerardo Cardinale he developed a study on music traditions and instrumental techniques of Mediterranean and ancient Greece.
He studied guitar as an autodidact and approached Jazz thanks to Giorgio Gaslini.
Along this path arises in 1988 the record production "Un lungo cammino" for the label Virgin.
He took part in more than 30 record productions as an instrumentalist, composer and a sound engineer.
He played with, among others Giorgio Gaslini, Massimo Urbani, Alexis Korner, Vincenzo Zitello, Mario Arcari, Gabriele Mirabassi, Riccardo Tesi, Francesco Magni, Tosca, Alice, Rossana Casale, Antonella Ruggero, Fabio Concato e Cristiano De André.
Federico
Sanesi
He started studying percussion instruments as a very young boy with Italo Savoia, Enrico Lucchini, and afterwards with David Searcy at Civic School of Music in Milan. He feeds on many key artistic experiences with his father Roberto Sanesi, artist, poet and translator. Since 1980 he has been travelling in India where he undertook the study of Tabla with Pt.Sankha Chatterjee between Venice, Calcutta and Berlin.
His work as a musician is aimed at integrating different cultures and music languages as well as art forms such as theatre, dance, cinema, visual arts and poetry. Since 2001 he has been teaching Tabla at the Department “Non-European music traditions with Indological studies” at the Music Conservatoire Arrigo Pedrollo in Vicenza. He held concerts in Europe, Africa, Asia, North and South America, playing with musicians from all over the world, with around 60 recording collaborations.
He played with, among others, Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia, Ustad Shujaat Khan, Ustad Shaid Parveez, Ustad Nishat Khan, Ritwyk Sanyal, Bahuddin Dagar, Vidur Mallik, Pradeep Kumar Barot, Prem Kumar Mallik, Dino Saluzzi, Jhon Taylor, Paolo Fresu, Fabrizio De André, Franco Battiato, Ivano Fossati, Ivan Della Mea, Timoria, Riccardo Tesi, Patrizio Fariselli.
For some years Dissòi Lògoi has been performing live with a quintet formation together with Riccardo Luppi (saxophones and flutes) and Luca Calabrese (trumpet).
Riccardo Luppi
Born in Milano in 1954, he first studied flute at the ‘Civica Scuola di Musica di Milano’, later graduating in Jazz at the Conservatories of Bologna and Milano. In 1976 he started his activity on the Italian jazz scene playing with some of the most important Italian musicians, performing in International Jazz Festivals around Europe, U.S., Central America and North Africa, with his own groups or with those of well-known Italian jazz leaders. Over more than fourty years of musical activity he has enjoyed the honour of taking part in concerts or recordings with prominent musicians such as Marshall Allen, Billy Cobham, Paolino Dalla Porta, Billy Elgart, Joe Fonda, Martin France, Paolo Fresu, Steve Grossman, Nguyên Lê, Tony Moreno, Paul McCandles, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Roswell Rudd, Perico Sanbeat, Markus Stockhausen, John Taylor, Antonello Salis, George Shuller, Norma Winston, Jeroen Van Herzeele, Erik Vermeulen and many others. He has also gained experience as a performer in large ensembles conducted by international musicians including Muhal Richard Abrams, Kenny Wheeler, Bob Mintzer, Maria Schneider, Martial Solal and the italians Roberto Bonati, Riccardo Fassi, Giorgio Gaslini, Enrico Intra, Enrico Rava and Gianluigi Trovesi. He has been an active member of A.M.J. (Association of Italian Jazz Musicians). In 1992/93 he was a member of the G.O.N. (Grande Orchestra Nazionale di Jazz) under the direction of Giorgio Gaslini. In 2007 he joined the O.N.I.C. Ensemble, the orchestra formed by the Jazz Courses teachers from various Italian music Conservatories, including the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory of Milan where he is currently teaching in the Jazz Departement. He is a composer and also the leader of his own QUARTET, which was selected by the Chicago Jazz Institute to perform at the Chicago Jazz Festival in 1996. In addition he is the leader of a SEXTET, a QUINTET and of the twelve-piece RICCARDO LUPPI ENSEMBLE. As an improviser he performs instant composed music with different musicians in Belgium and Italy, from the "WISDOM TRIO" with american bass player Joe Fonda and drummer Filippo Monico and to large ensembles like the Milan Music Collective M.M.C. to collaborations with "El Negocito" Records Label in Gent (with legendary Sun Ra Arkestra's alto player Marshal Allen) and Studio Grez in Bruxelles. Since 2009 he has been a member of MURE MURE, an international quartet formed by talented younger musicians from several European countries based in Bruxelles: Lynn Cassiers, Manolo Cabras and Joao Lobo. He also participates in other projects: the Manolo Cabras's BASIC BORG with Cassiers, Matteo Carrus, Oriol Roca and the INVASION QUARTET leaded by czech drummer Marek Patrman.
Luca Calabrese
Trumpet player, improviser and composer, combines the beauty of his acoustic sound with electronic research. Active in the world of jazz since the early eighties, witnesses the recordings with Roswell Rudd, Nexus, Italian Instabile Orchestra and Cecil Taylor, he transposes the sounds of the African American tradition, New Orleans and Free Jazz in the fields of Progressive Rock and British New Wave with phrasing , melody and vision of the music that make him an appreciated and coveted soloist. Permanent member of the Swedish ensemble Isildurs Bane, with which he creates, among others - Colors Not Found in Nature with Steve Hogarth, Off The Radar, the acclaimed In Amazonia and In Disequilibrium with Peter Hammill. Since 2016 he has been collaborating with the English keyboardist and sound designer Richard Barbieri (Japan, Porcupine Tree) with whom he made Planets + Persona (2017), the popular EP series Variants and the latest solo album by RB - Under a Spell. (2021)