"Featuring Marc Ribot + A Turtle Soup" is an ambitious double cd containing two sessions by the new quartet led by Giovanni Maier, “Technicolor”.

Finally available on our Bandcamp page, this critically acclaimed 2008 double CD by Italian jazz bass titan Giovanni Maier also features the legendary Marc Ribot and his guitar on full display on one of the two CD's.

Giovanni Maier is a skilled and critically acclaimed double bass player. His style is strong and intense, his attack on strings thunderous and precise. Among his many prestigious collaborations over the years: the famous “Italian Instabile Orchestra” and Enrico Rava (most famous Italian jazzman) Electric Quintet.

With Technicolor Maier switches to electric bass, with a particular line-up with two electric keyboards (keyboards wizards Alfonso Santimone and Giorgio Pacorig) plus rhythm section (Maier plus drums ace Zeno De Rossi).
On “A Turtle Soup” the sounds are intriguing, intentionally vintage and modern at the same time. Square and precise grooves dominate puttin’ jazz under a powerful rock feeling. Ethereal and fascinating textures alternate with hypnotic drums and bass, and the keys have an infected feel in their aggressive and oblique improvisations.
“Featuring Marc Ribot” add to the “Soup” the unrestrainable guitars of the great Marc Ribot and LSRecords Simone Massaron, eclectic musician at his ease with different genres.
The keyboards move towards the background, setting the base for predominant guitars that unleash cutting tones, distorted and acid. A new psychedelic rock, lyrical and angular, ironic and radical, emerges and rages in Maier compositions and over the collective improvised tracks.
Marc Ribot is all over, with his unique voice, his playing loose and strong, rid of any rules and provocative

Praise for "Featuring Marc Ribot + A turtle Soup":

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"A record that knows how to provoke and allure, and which not only confirms Giovanni Maier as one of the great names of the new jazz, but will also keep you listening for a long, long time".
(Music Club)

"..At the head of the new Technicolor quartet, Maier decisively embraces the electric universe, offering two vibrant seats full of rock and fusion climates (starting from the classic models of Miles Davis and the Weather Report) within a universe variegated in architectural solutions and in the chromal spectrum: from traditional moments to free collective ones, from carefully constructed themes to episodes of very strong impact. characterized by the inspiration of the soloists. The most engaging disc is the one centered on the guitars of Ribot and Massaron, whose impetus is enhanced by the rich rhythmic work of Maier and De Rossi, matured in a long association".
(Musica Jazz Magazine)

"...This music is a unique rock/jazz hybrid that is difficult to pigeonhole, yet remains intense and creative and focused throughout.
..Downtown guitar hero, Marc Ribot, takes a number of great solos here, showing how there is just no stopping him when he wants to go for the gusto. Giovanni’s songs are also consistently memorable and remind me of the some of the better bands from the early 70’s, when players still combined various genres without regard to established formulas.."
(Bruce Lee Gallanther - Downtown Music Gallery NYC)

"This two-disc release finds Maier’s quartet of two electric keyboards Alfonso Santimone and Giorgio Pacorig and drummer Zeno de Rossi with Maier playing electric bass and some cello, augmented by two electric guitars....Maier’s quartet Turtle Soup immediately reminds you of the seminal fusion band Weather Report. The keyboard work is a gripping tribute to Joe Zawinul, drawing from the unique electricity and clean sound of the master. Listeners may find Maier’s bass to be more Victor Bailey than Jaco Pastorious and drummer de Rossi reminds you of Omar Hakim rather than Peter Erskine, but classic WP is ever present..."
(Marc Corroto - All About Jazz)

"..Techicolor is a very ambitious album. Maier tries his hand at the (very unusual) electric bass in this double album of great depth and inspiration.
The music on both discs is very original both in terms of the compositional structures and in the timbre mixture, very particular and for long stretches, almost "lunar" thanks to the consistent use of electronic keyboards".
(Luca Vitali - All About Jazz Italy)

"..Two precious records in which Giovanni Maier introduces himself to the electric bass. Here it is evoked here the syncretism between ancient and modern, in the re-evaluation of an electric and electronic dimension applied to improvised or structured settings".
(Federico Scoppio - Rolling Stone Italy)