ALMAGEST! Ernesto Tomasini / Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo/ Paul Beauchamp/ Evor Ameisie

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Kaparte Promotions presents

Almagest!
Ernesto Tomasini / Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo/ Paul Beauchamp/ Evor Ameisie

Baby Dee: “...traditional dances from a place that does not exist”
Maurizio Blatto: “...like peering out of a window of Doctor Caligari's Cabinet”


In 2007 the “artiste extraordinaire” Ernesto Tomasini and fellow Italian musician Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo (a.k.a. ( r ) and member of the cult band Larsen) released the album "Canes Venatici" (for US label Blossoming Noise and sporting on the front cover a picture by award winning photographer Giulia Caira)

An alternative mix of “Trattato Sulla Natura Delle Stelle Per Voce e Harmonium” ,one of the tracks from the album, was then used as soundtrack for a touring exhibition on Klaus Nomi.

From the following year, with Evor Ameisie (founding member of NG /Northgate and Camerata Mediolanense) and Paul Beauchamp (of Blind Cave Salamander), they took a live version of the album to several european music festivals including shows at the Auditorium Serralves in Portugal, historical locations in Italy and the Torino GLBT film festival.
More concerts were staged and in 2011 they toured Germany, performing at The Volksbuhene in Berlin, the Kampnagel in Hamburg and the Dortmund Schauspielhaus.

At the end of 2010 italian experimental label Chew-z released their first album as a four piece band, "The Hunting Dogs of Boötes the Herdsman”, a live and revised version of “Canes Venatici” featuring remixes by Khan, Andrew Liles and 9cento9.

The band spent most of its life without a name, billed mainly as "Palumbo/Tomasini's Canes Venatici live"; in 2010 they progressed to "Palumbo/Tomasini's Almagest!" and in 2012, with the release of their new full length studio album "Messier Objects" (composed and performed by all band members and produced by Marco Milanesio) they will officially become Almagest! (named after the 2nd-century mathematical and astronomical Ptolemy treatise on the apparent motions of the stars and planetary paths but with a final esclamation mark just like Neu! John Foxx's Ultravox! and Robert Wise's "Star!")

"Messier Objects" is out now on Texas based label Tourette Records with an original cover artwork by London artist Dan Hillier

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