Joraku Gianni Gebbia - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Born in Palermo-Sicily Island-Italy-Eu in 1961. Selftaught. Regularly tours Eu, Usa and Japan. Sign: Taurus - Ascendant: Scorpio. Religious Beliefs: Zen Buddhism. Other activities: writing essays - oil painting- zen meditation-----------FREELANCE COLLABORATIONS with: Evan Parker, Fred Frith, Louis Sclavis, Gianluigi Trovesi, Lindsay Cooper, Lars Hollmer, Sakis Papadimitriou, AndrÃ© Jaume,Steve Buchanan,Yves Romain, Dominique Regef, Jean Pierre Drouet,Sergey Kuriokhin,Vladimir Tarasov, AnatolyVapirov, Petras Visnaiuskas, Fred Giuliani, Vitas Labutis, Tadashi Endo, Masaki Iwana, Motoharu Yoshizawa, Julie Stanzak, Keiki Midorikawa, Heiner Goebbels, David Moss, Claudio Lo Cascio, Otomo Yoshihide, Antonio Carallo, Raul Ruiz, Noel AkchotÃ©, Benoit Delbecq, Paul Rogers, Thierry Madiot, Guillaume Orti, Christophe Marguet, Hubert Dupont, Ernst Reijsiger, Henri Kaiser, Mari Kimura, Damon Smith, Garth Powell, Phil Gelb, Tim Perkis, Gino Robair, Tom Nunn, William Hooker, Lee Ranaldo, Jim O' Rourke, Elliott Sharp, Mimmo Cuticchio,Toti Garraffa, Antonello Salis, Pino Minafra, Salvatore Bonafede, Stefano D' Anna, Italian Instabile Orchestra, Peter Kowald, Gunther Sommer, Oliver Lake, Glen Velez, Enzo Rao, Tiziano Popoli, Miriam Palma, Lelio Giannetto, Vittorio Villa, Eugene Chadbourne, Francesco Cusa, Massimo Simonini, Jim Meneses, Jean Marc Montera, Roy Paci, Francesco Cusa, Lukas Ligeti, Xavier Garcia, Nils Wogram, Michael Manring, MarcoFranco, Nuno Rebelo, Vince Vasi, Matt Goodheart, Ramon Lopez, Guillaume Orti, Mederic Collignon, Shinichi Isohata, Kazuo Imai, Tatsuhisa Yamamoto, Yoshimitsu Ichiraku, Audrey Chen, Michel Doneda, Butch Morris, Zeno De Rossi, Zu, Guido Chiesa, Samm Bennett, Haruna Hito, Tatsuhisa Yamamoto, Masafumi Ezaki.
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Member Since: 1/4/2007
Band Website: giannigebbia.com
Band Members: Here's some of the groups of the moment:NEW! 2007- 2008SOLO SAXOPHONE - Gianni Gebbia alto sax * ZIRKUS IMAGINARIO GIANNI GEBBIA - GUNTHER BABY SOMMER * SWITTERS Gianni Gebbia alto sax- Vince Vasi bass, voice and theremin- Francesco Cusa drums * DOMINIQUE REGEF hurdy gurdy- GIANNI GEBBIA sax, RAMON LOPEZ drums * GIANNI GEBBIA sax - SHINICHI ISOHATA guitar * SOUND OF MU - Gianni Gebbia-Joel Grip /bass- Patrick Farmer -percussions * CUPIS- G.G. + Giovanni Verga - electronics and turntables * MY 80's & 90's SONGBOOK- GG.- Marko Bonarius bass- Fabrizio Giambanco-drums * JORAKU 3 japan with Suguru (from gegege) on bass and Tatsuhisa Yamamoto on drums * ZEN WIDOW G.Gebbia alto sax- Garth Powell drums- Matt Goodhearth piano * NIGHT MAPPING Gianni Gebbia and Theresa Wong cello,vocal and video * THE LICHENS Gianni Gebbia - Weasel Walter -drums-Damon Smith - bass * CRICKET TOTEMS - Gianni Gebbia- Marco Franco drums *Check out this MySpace MP3 Player !

Influences: Here’s some of the people who influenced me during my musical evolution, some of them in a direct, personal way some others trough their works: Rahsaan Roland Kirk,Chico Buarque de Hollanda, Earl Bostic, Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, Sonny Stitt, John Dowland, Guillaume De Machaut, Julius Hemphill, Gato Barbieri, Luther Thomas, Joe Bowie, Oliver Lake, Frank Lowe, Dionigi Burranca, Jackie Mc Lean, Eric Dolphy, Arthur Blythe, Art Pepper, Archie Shepp, Jan Garbarek, Wayne Shorter, Peter Kowald, Sylvano Bussotti, Federico Incardona, Mauricio Kagel, Edgard Varese, Peter Brotzmann, Louis Sclavis, Evan Parker, Cassiber, Milton Nascimento, John Dowland, J.S.Bach, Jascha Heifetz, Fabio Biondi,Geza Anda, Arthur Rubinstein, Heiner Goebbels, Kadri Gopalnath, Henry Flint, Steve Lacy, Gunther Baby Sommer, Rosalyn Tureck, The Beatles, Oscar Peterson, Fred Frith, Jeremy Steig, Jacques Loussier Play Bach, Material. traditional chants from Sicily, greek clarinet players, Gnawa music, Zen paradox, Abdullah Ibrahim.BESIDES MUSIC HERE SOME OF MY FAVOURITES.....Jacques Lacan, Raul Ruiz, Theodor W.Adorno, Itsuo Tsuda, J.J.Bachofen,Pina Bausch, Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari, P.B.Shelley, Vitaliano Brancati, The records of Lin Chi, Tom Robbins, Carlo Emilio Gadda, Japanese death poems, Roland Topor, Vincent Van Gogh, Haruchika Noguchi, Bristow, B.C., Opus by B.Breathed, Jorge Luis Borges, Georges Simenon, Roland Barthes, Francesco Clemente, George Baselitz, Joseph Beuys, Carmelo Bene, Manuel Ocampo, James Frazer, Jan Swankmejer, Ruth Benedict, Jack Kerouac, Gary Snyder, Peter Brook, Jean Cocteau, AndrÃ¨ Gide, Henry Miller, Robert Louis Stevenson, Choderlos De Laclos, Plotinus, H.P.Lovecraft, Kurt Schwitters, James Cornell, Ivan Illich, RD.Laing, Guido Ceronetti, Alberto Arbasino, Ennio Flaiano, Yasunari Kawabata, Stefano D’Arrigo, Mimmo Cuticchio, Salvador DalÃ¬, Walter Benjamin, Hakuin Zenji, Shunryu Suzuki, Shodo Harada Roshi.I made this slideshow at FreeFlashSlideshow.com .
Check out these MySpace Slideshows !

Record Label: objet-a-(Italy)/Victo (Canada)/Rastascan (Usa)/
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Anno Domini 2007 Kalsart slitta....salta...

Com'era prevedibile i nostri beneamati uomini politici del Comune di Palermo, una volta vinte le " elezioni " e dediti alla spartizione delle poltrone hanno lasciato un città intera senza spettacoli e...
Posted by Joraku Gianni Gebbia on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 06:04:00 PST

Intervento per il decennale di Curva Minore

UNA CURVA MINORE ma presente..." Abbiamo visto il pigolìo di Gregorio che confonde le parole, il fischio di Giuseppina, la tosse della scimmia ma anche il pianista che non suona, la cantante che non c...
Posted by Joraku Gianni Gebbia on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 09:30:00 PST

PALERMO A.D.2007: raggiunto il fondo dell'incultura

Anni di parvenù e pronocrazia al potere sono riusciti a cancellare quel poco di culturale che era rimasto nel cosiddetto dopo-Orlando. La situazione della cultura è al grado zero. Di contro vengono or...
Posted by Joraku Gianni Gebbia on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 08:42:00 PST

Some News from G.G.

Here's some news:New recordings:Duo with Theresa Wong on cellotrio with Weasel Walter drums and damon Smith bassZen Widow new cd coming out on October 2007quintet with: Willy Winant percussions- Damon...
Posted by Joraku Gianni Gebbia on Sat, 09 Jun 2007 06:38:00 PST

Alvin Curran - Quodlibet 2008

Here's the nice liner notes written by Alvin Curran for the last Zen Widow cd " Quodlibet ":QuodlibetQuodlibet is just that, a Noir film whose protagonist - a half-jewish Jesuit turned music-hall pia...
Posted by Joraku Gianni Gebbia on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 04:56:00 PST

Guarda questo video: Nakatani Gebbia Tamura Fujii @ Aketa

Guarda questo video: Nakatani Gebbia Tamura Fujii @ Aketa Aggiungi al mio profilo | Altri video...
Posted by Joraku Gianni Gebbia on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 05:29:00 PST

NEW CD ! NIGHT MAPPING- Gianni Gebbia and Theresa Wong

Gianni GebbiaTheresa Wong (Usa) cello and voiceNIGHT MAPPINGcd available on request
Posted by Joraku Gianni Gebbia on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 03:09:00 PST

NEW CD ! LICHENS with Weasel Walter and Damon Smith

New cd with Damon Smith on bass an Weasel Walter on drums for exploded records / recorded in Oakland last year.Available on I-Tune store or cd baby..Here's some rewiews Lichens is a 2007 studio recor...
Posted by Joraku Gianni Gebbia on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 01:46:00 PST

Sound track for Selinunte by Salvo Cuccia

The dvd entitled " Selinunte " has been released now.Big part of the soundtrack is by myself plus other fine pieces by the late Federico Incardona (god bless him).
Posted by Joraku Gianni Gebbia on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 08:07:00 PST

Guitar player Mick Barr plays G.G.

Us guitar player and Tzadik artist Mick Barr has recorded a really nice and impressive version of my solo piece Jigtranse from the Body Limits cd from 1998.He also just published a really nice solo cd...
Posted by Joraku Gianni Gebbia on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 08:33:00 PST