Musica ex Machina

La notte che arrivò l’inverno

La notte che arrivò l’inverno or The night that winter came is a collection of excerpts from the novel The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, consisting of nine musical compositions made by the jazz quartet Musica ex Machina and illustrated by Francesco Frongia.

Musica ex Machina
Musica ex Machina

It was represented live at the festival Ai confini tra Sardegna e Jazz or On the borders between Sardinia and Jazz in Sant'Anna Arresi on Sardinia, on December 29, 2014.

Francesco Frongia (°1972) is one of the founders of the Mammaiuto Cultural Association, an Italian publisher of comic strips. He has created some comics himself and started teaching at the International School of Comics in Florence in 2005. Musica ex Machina was created in 2006. Their first album, Concerto-71109, was released in 2009.

Audio

Magia nera (Black magic)

Voci che girano (Voices that turn)

Assodiquadri

Una vita semplice (A simple life)

Volo di notte (Flight at night)

Un sogno (A dream)

Tra i confini del giorno (Between the boundaries of the day)

Agguato (Ambush)

Di tanti epiloghi (Of many epilogues)


Technical details

Album
La notte che arrivò l’inverno (Book & CD)

Artists
Francesco Bachis - trumpet
Guido Coraddu - piano
Mauro Sanna - electric bass
Simone Sedda - drums


Video

Narrator
Monica Costigliola

Live painter
Francesco Frongia

 

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