Novo Quartet

It is believed that the rush hour lounge music falls on the 50-60s. Then it executes unknown bands, but the rooms were great friends. While implementing lounge music could be called any musician who played in a cafe or restaurant to the public. In the 60s there were ensembles, records which are related to Lounge. Among them - the bands of James Last, Bert Kempferta, Paul Mauriat, Herb Alpert. Distinguished as a lounge music and musical design films, because this style of music can rightly be called the background.

The Network Media Cooperative (Network Medien-Cooperative) was founded in October 1979 – by April 1990 we had already issued 19 titles, at the time as audio-cassettes with a comprehensive booklet in a small package that looked like a chocolate box. The covers and layouts were produced using Letraset on a light-table installed over a bath tub. Among those first records were the musical themes that were to preoccupy us for 30 years: an extensive document of the “Gypsies Music Festival”; meanwhile the music of the Roma has been documented on numerous Network CDs, including the anthology “Road of the Gypsies” (often copied but never achieving the same level). A double musíccasette packet was devoted to cult music from Haiti and the sounds and life philosophy of the Rastafarians in Jamaica. Recording trips were undertaken, among others, to Cuba, Trinidad, St. Lucia, and Curacao, but also to Latin America, Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Venezuela, Colombia, Belize. We also approached the music worlds of Africa in our portrait of the South African pianist and vocalist Dollar Brand (today Abdullah Ibrahim) and in the first studio recordings of Soukous music. These were followed by trips to Liberia, Senegal, Mali, Tanzania, Zanzibar.

Giampaolo Pretto is the main conductor of the Orchestra Filarmonica di Torino, in Italy from 2016, and has been coach conductor of the Orchestra Giovanile Italiana in Fiesole from 2012 until 2018. As a conductor whose career is constantly increasing, he always aimed to face the most different repertoire and he choose from the beginning to cope with the more different styles and composers, from classic up to contemporary music. He closed the 2015 season of Petruzzelli Theatre in Bari performing Ravel, Battistelli, Stravinsky and Copland, while opening the 2015-16 Season of OFT in Torino with Mahler’s IX. He conducted the italian première of the Bach/Stravinsky "Four préludes and fugue for chamber orchestra", together with Paganiniana di Casella, at the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto; Brahms Serenade op. 11 in Tbilisi and in Italy during the georgian orchestra Paliashvili tour ; Pergolesi Stabat Mater in Florence with the Orchestra V. Galilei.