Schiano Graffiti Johnny Lapio & Arcote Project

• 1 Sud Up 09:28
• 2 Partenza di Pulcinella per la Luna e Ritorno 09:50
• 3 Unita' e Divisione 10:39
• 4 Schiano Graffiti 08:23
• 5 A Sud di Nessun Nord 11:15
• Total Runtime 49:35

Info for Schiano Graffiti

Johnny Lapio's new album with Arcote Project, entitled Schiano Graffiti, is released on DDE Records.

The project takes inspiration from the intellectual and counterpart Mario Schiano, and the compositions emphasise some typical Italian traits in an ironic and cynical way. The suite, organised in five sound moments, was created using different compositional and improvisational techniques that aim to create an original and recognisable group sound.

Schiano Graffiti is one of the ten projects selected by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation - Maeci - as part of "Vivere all'Italiana in musica, sezione Jazz" to represent Italian jazz in the world.

Composer, trumpeter and eclectic artist, Johnny Lapio represents one of the most interesting figures of the current national avant-garde scene.

He is the only Italian artist to have signed three works (and to have premiered them) with the world-renowned Maestro Sylvano Bussotti (both as composer/musician and as visual artist), to have been officially invited by the Tricentric Foundation and Little Globe for a tour in New Mexico after A. Braxton's Sonic Genome (in which he took part) and to have played in Michelangelo Pistoletto's Third Paradise.

During his career, he has been invited for important tributes and anniversaries such as those dedicated to Giorgio Gaslini, Sylvano Bussotti, Bruno Maderna and Cornelius Cardew, by the Museo del 900 in Milan. There are also invitations from international institutions such as the Japan Foundation, Tricentric foundation, Suika Music, Tgv snc and Little Globe for tours in Japan, the USA and Europe. He has also inaugurated important works such as the Pala Fuksas and the roof garden of the Turin skyscraper designed by Renzo Piano. In October 2019, he was invited as a composer at La Camera dei Deputati for composing the soundtrack of the documentary "Waiting" produced by Silvia Innocenzi, Mimmo Calopresti, Giovanni Saulini, directed by Stefano Di Polito. He has been invited as a guest to participate in RAI programmes such as l'Idealista, Farenheit, Tg2 Costume e società, Battiti, Rai 5 Cultura, Sky musica e arte. He has had numerous record collaborations, including a partnership with Mike Generale's DDE Records that produced "Antrophosopie" and "Schiano Graffiti", projects that received excellent national and international reviews.

In 2022 he was included in the prestigious Nomus archive in Milan (which includes the works of the most important Italian composers of avant-garde music) with the compositions Deja vu and Schiano Graffiti, the world's first publications of jazz and contemporary music on Crypto card NFT.

Arcote Project:
Johnny Lapio, trumpet
Francesco Partipilo, saxophone
Lino Mei, piano
Michele Anelli, double bass
Davide Bono, drums

Johnny Lapio
was born in Turin, 04.01.1980. He began studying the piano at age 8, with Daniela Manassi, Lino Mei, Daniele Longo, Riccardo Ruggieri, and consequently the trumpet with Franco Baudo, Fulvio Chiara, Emilio Soana, Luca Begonia. Living in Porta Palazzo, after classical music studies, he became passionate about world music, beginning to play, as well as the classical repertoire, also with musicians of Central-North African origin. This experience lead him to play ethnic festivals such as "Dances and flavors of the world" and "Sounds of Africa". Following the contest "Young talents of the Maritime Alps" he was enlisted in the Youth Jazz Orchestra that directed by Valerio Signetto then became the JCT Big Band stable orchestra of the Jazz Club of Turin.

In 2009 he then founded his own jazz group ARCOTE PROJECT that generated numerous projects related to writing, food, fashion, collaborating with artists and performers of various kinds. With this group he carried on well-known shows in Italy and France as "Women in Jazz". After meeting international pianist Riccardo Zegna he joined the Unit Line Orchestra, a musical project featuring various arched instruments straddling classical and jazz. Meanwhile via work at the Teatro Regio in Turin, where he remained for 7 years, alongside choreographers, directors and musicians, he learned the art of stage direction. Appearing with artists such as Maurice Bejart, Vittorio Borrelli, Lamberto Pugelli, Mirella Freni and a trip with Josè Carreras to Nice with the opera "Sly" as performer.

Despite the frequented professional environments, interest inherent in jazz and rock increased to the extent that it it ultimately replaced several historical Big Bands such as the Bansigu, Ambassadors Big Band, as festival and local requests for the sextet grew. In 2007, following the seminars at Siena Jazz, he approached the contemporary world and remained abducted by the workshops held by Giancarlo Schiaffini and Stefano Battaglia. From this moment on, a thorough study of contemporary art will begin, including in the field of painting, theater and the use of new technologies.

Academically he graduated from University of Turin in education sciences, Conservatory of L'Aquila in music therapy and globality of artistic languages), Conservatory of Cuneo in trumpet and jazz arrangement, Pontifical University in criminology and investigative psychology, Academy of Fine Arts in Brescia art therapy address painting, Anfas-Confiam in psychodynamic music therapy-piano instrument. As well as in acting and voice characterization at the ODS Theater and the Danilo Bruni Center D. And is also passionate about the use of music and sound in a music therapy suit applied to cases of social unease and disability. Since 2009 he began an intense activity as a composer, director, performer and obviously as a trumpet player in shows that involve the mixture between the arts. The shows range from jazz to historical 900, electro-acoustic music, and literature and dance.

There are numerous institutions, locations, festivals, European projects in which the trumpet player is involved as a performer, director and composer. To name a few: European Caravan Artist, Pact-Zollverein Essen, National Cinema Museum, Sandretto Rebaudengo Foundation, Castello di Rivoli Museum, Miur, Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Piccolo Regio, Rai Auditorium, Film Commission, Lumiere Festival, Note e Sipari, Turin Jazz Festival, Festival of Contemporary Culture, Turin Film Festival, Moncalieri Jazz Festival, Merano Jazz Festival, SKY Art, SKY Cinema, Radio Rai 3, International Book Festival, Mantua Literature Festival and several Italian and foreign clubs.

He also began an intense activity as a teacher in "new performance languages", Music Therapy and Art Therapy, at Fine Arts Academies and High Music Research Centers such as the Academy of Fine Arts LABA of Brescia, of which he is also the Master's Coordinator in the of Brescia, Turin, Torbole and at the Department of Didactics and Music Research applied to the Neuroscience of Rome chaired by dr. As well as being a music therapist at the La Torre Polyclinic in Turin.

He also collaborates with musicians and artists linked to the world of art and contemporary music such as Sylavano Bussotti, Giancarlo Schiaffini, Carlo Actis Dato, Angelo Benedetti, Alex Castro (son of Fidel), Michelangelo Pistoletto, Giovanni Carlo Rocca. He publishes the album Porta Palace Collective, a project he is the creator of with music by Schiaffini, who is having excellent feedback especially from the French critic who defined as the new manifesto of the European avant-garde and was broadcast on Rai3 (Battiti program).

In 2009 he founded the Atelier of Contemporary and Therapeutic Arts AR.CO.TE onlus which is currently a reference center for performances, Art Therapy, Music Therapy and Turin Jazz Teaching. The following year he founded the experimental music research movement called New Collective Avangarde. He is currently working as a composer and musician in the reduction of the opera "Pianoforte con orchestra" by Sylvano Bussotti (the only work ever performed and published), he also has a collaboration with Nicholas Isherwood ( bass lyrical historian of the Steve Lecy group ) and the Italian Cemat. In jazz he currently plays in the JCT Big Band, Big Band Theory, Arcote Project, Porta Palace Collective, Soul Nassau and replaceswhere necessary.

There are numerous shows designed or composed of the music that led him to collaborate with the Museum of Cinema, Zenith, Film Commission, CPA of the Ferrante Aporti juvenile prison in Turin, Video Community, Teatro Stabile, Zoobar, Teatri Erba - Esedra - Astra ... To cite a few titles of the work done with the aforementioned collaborations: "Could not display the page", "Gabbie", "Prometheus", "Beamage", "Anna and Maya", "Chitelofafare" and has directed several theatrical performances related to classical prose. He also sounded silent silent films for the celebration of 60 years of the National Museum of Cinema at the Cinema Massimo.

Despite the prevailing activity both as a trumpet player and music therapist, he has followed the Artistic Direction of various festivals and festivals since 2010, such as: Festival of Contemporary Culture, Aurora in Jazz, Beer & Jazz on Monday, Jazz & Food and the Torino Jazz Preview for threeyears. Festival and Liberation Day (April 25th). During the Torino Jazz Festival 2015 he played with Anthony Braxton and several musicians of hisorchestra such as the saxophonist Cris Jonas and Taylor Ho Bynum for the European premiere of the Sonic Genome at the Egyptian museum ( eight hours performance ) and for the world premiere of Regards, a work approved and supervised by Sylvano Bussotti himself (composer of contemporary music best known in the world), at the GAM in Turin. From the performative experience will be mounted a documentary film on the Sonic Genome transmitted in America, in which Johnny Lapio was interviewed.

The last week of August will also participate in an artist's residency at Zeri, a town in Liguria, won for the music section and in November will record two CDs of which the first with the international pianist Satoko Fujii and the American drummer Jimmy Weinstein, while the second, in collaboration with Sylvano Bussotti, with internationally renowned Italian musicians.

This album contains no booklet.