Kudos to Giampiero Mortaro and his crew for inviting us last year, and taking care of a significant documentation work on the festival. For more information: micalosapevo@pibinko.org or +393317539228.

Kudos to Giampiero Mortaro and his crew for inviting us last year, and taking care of a significant documentation work on the festival. For more information: micalosapevo@pibinko.org or +393317539228.
On Nov. 1, 2023, with the Jug Band Colline Metallifere we recorded six tracks in the “forestudio” (one of our mobile studios in Southern Tuscany. The post-production has been completed, and we considered that it would be cool for one of these tracks to have a video.
The song is called Tatti Twist. The lyrics are in English, and they tell the story of a foreign guy who likes Tuscany, and eventually relocates…you guess…in Tatti, our home base. In this video it would be nice to see some of you folks dancing: so, we decided to launch a casting for dancers. Namely, we are looking for guys or gals who will provide some twist moves.
2.1 Shoot a video where you are dancing some twist. Maximum duration: 15 seconds. If you have any doubts, see this page for technicalities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twist_(dance)). PLEASE NOTE – THE SONG IN THIS VIDEO IS NOT THE ONE YOU WILL BE DANCING ON FOR OUR VIDEO, BUT THE GROOVE IS THE SAME:
2.2 Send the video to the Jug Band Colline Metallifere casting team
Together with the video, please also send a few lines of presentation about who you are, where you live, and why you would like to be in our video.
The deadline to submit you material is February 9 (CET).
4.1 By February 23 you will be re-contacted by our casting team. If you have been selected, you will also received the instructions to be part of the video. The production will take place roughly bettween Feb. 24, and May 5, 2024.
4.2 At the end of the production phase, all the selected participants will receive a nice JBCM gift, in addition to credits in the video, which will have international visibility (to give you an idea, please consider https://www.pibinko.org/in-the-media/, in addition to a netowkr of contacts of a few tens of thousands of people in our social networks).
5.1 Please note that Wolfgang, our one-string bass player, has been participating to Twist contests in the Sixties, and that we collaborate with various dance professionals.
5.2 Depending on the nature of the “dance company” that we will assemble, this casting might be used to develop ideas for other events and initiatives with the Jug Band Colline Metallifere, the pibinko.org network, Tattistampa, Il Casino Booking, and other partnering organizations.
5.3 If you are intetested to sponsor the production of the video, please contact micalosapevo@pibinko.org or +393317539228
5.4 The participation to the video will not require you to move from your home.
Foto di testa: fonte Wikipedia
We have only one event left to close one year of work with the pibinko.org network and the Jug Band Colline Metallifere: this will be the epilogue of the Fourth Winter Fest, on Dec. 21.
We then considered that we might start some housekeeping, by offering you a bird’s eye view on the blog articles we posted during 2023, combining the pibinko.org site (https://www.pibinko.org/notizie/) and the Jug Band Colline Metallifere site (https://www.pibinko.org/jugbandcollinemetallifere/notizie/).
In fact, the year of work is not even closing as a year, in that we are somehow following a calendar of our own. Since last Spring we are in a continuous flow of events, initiatives, and planning. This is helping us to actually slow down our pace, since we have more advance time (even though the effect on the outside is that we go too fast). Since last July we are already at work on stuff for the Summer of 2024, and so forth…stay tuned.
In case you did not have time, please check: https://www.pibinko.org/pibinko-org-network-jug-band-colline-metallifere-a-presentation-as-of-oct-2023/
We hope you will enjoy reviewing the list below…feel free to go with random clicks. You will have the possibility of refreshing some stories which you already knew, and to find out things you skipped.
Also, if you like these stories (which are in fact interdisciplinary territorial animation services), please consider the possibility of supporting them, and contact us to understand how. As E.V. from Pisa once said, after spending 24 hours in our space:
They do not live to work. Rather, the do not “work”, but the “live”. They do work, as in physics, not as in economics. Their goal is to be, to be well, and to know it. They pursue this goal for themselves and for the people they care about, who are a lot.
They deal with ecology, from any angle, including that of human aggregates, and of aggregates within each of them. They are fractal.
For more information, or quotes concerning the services offered by the network, or bookings: micalosapevo@pibinko.org or +393317539228
Blog articles in 2023 (as of Dec. 20), in reverse chronological order. The list combines the Italian and English version of our stories (translations are not automated, so we think they should count as an additional article).
One of the stories that we like to tell during our gigs, concerning Wolfgang “The Wolf” Scheibe is that he has seen Jimi Hendrix live. Not once, twice. And not over months or years, but two evenings in a row. Man: these experiences are bound to open your mind, as another James said!
A couple of days ago Wolf found online the poster of one of the two concerts he attended, so he could remember the actual dates: January 14 and 15, 1969. He also told us yesterday that, starting from these two dates, and following a Proust-like “search of lost time”, he started remembering a bunch of people and situations related to those two days.
At this point we have two questions:
If you have an answer to at least one of these two questions, please write to jugbandcm@pibinko.org or whatsapp +393317539228. We give you our best regards with Simone Sandrucci, Dario Canal and Samuele Boscagli covering Angel by Jimi after a JBCM gig at Le Volte in Roccatederighi (Southern Tuscany). This was Dec. 10, 2022:
After 21 events, starting on June 16 and roughly spread between Tuscany and Germany, with gigs also in Trentino and Emilia Romagna, On Sep. 14 at Tangram Beach we have declared the closing of the 2023 Brezel Tour, our Summer tour.
In addition to musical events, we had activities between one musical event and the other…music and territory. This has led to initiatives and stories from which a series could be scripted (and this is not the first time in the context of the pibinko.org network).
In the coming weeks we will see about preparing a summary of this story. In the meantime we give you our greetings with a shot taken by our Tangram Beach friends while the band is about to leave, and two invitations:
We are now at work on our “autumn/winter” collection. Talk to you soon.
For more information and booking: jugbandcm@pibinko.org or whatsapp +393317539228
Between Oct. 23 and 28 we ended up meeting quite a few times Jean-Baptiste de Brabander, a young French film maker. Jean-Baptiste is working on an ambitious documentary, with the intent of portraying the four seasons in Italy. The documentary is being shot entirely on film and is called “La fin de l’été” (The end of Summer).
Following a pattern which is not new in the pibinko.org network, we happened to interact wearing different hats, and shared multiple moments with Jean-Baptiste. We are now very curious of seeing the final product, even though a bit more time will be needed. In fact, Winter still has to be filmed, and editing will follow. In the meantime, we liked the idea of “documenting the documentary maker”, with our best wishes for the continuation of his project.
In the sequence below you can see him in Follonica, during the shooting of “Abramo” versione Jug Band Colline Metallifere, together with Klaus der Geiger; in the Farma Valley with Mario Straccali from Torniella and Andrea Giacomelli to cover (on Anna Giacomelli’s property) some chestnut harvesting, at the Boscaiolo restaurant in Torniella to elaborate on Autumn and these territories, and at the Ixtlan agricamping in Tatti, after a take on the genesis of the Farma Valley Winter Fest. In the header image, the director at work to plot his north-bound route using some of the pibinko.org nodes as beacons.
For more information: micalosapevo@pibinko.org
Event managed by Con Tatti. For more information on the Metalliferous Hills Jug Band: http://www.jugbandcm.it