Lossless Album - CD Box Set

Tracklist:

1992 Poema - Antonio Forcione & Eduardo Niebla

1. Poema
2. Superlatino
3. Ronnie
4. Primavera
5. Sunrise
6. Snow
7. Haciendo Camino
8. Long Winter

1993 Acoustic Revenge (1997 Naim Label re-mastered)

1. Gypsy Dreams
2. Acoustic Revenge
3. Infanzia
4. Enigma
5. Black Magic
6. Anna
7. Easy Going
8. Heartbeat

Musicians appearing with Antonio on this recording:
Davide Mantovani - fretless bass
Peter Lockett - percussion
Marcial Heredia - guitar
(1993, re-released on Naim Label in 1997, naimcd 017)
One of Antonio's personal favourites, this album of original material is intense, dynamic and soulful. Here he plays solo and with his band.

"ferocious, rampaging, controlled power, meticulous, precision and clarity of expression"
(Audiophile)

1993 Live At The Edinburghi Festival - Antonio Forcione & Neil Stacey

1. A Tempo
2. Waltz
3. Snow
4. Superlatino
5. Sunstep
6. Folk Song
7. Imprivisation
8. Light & Shade

Musicians appearing on this recording:
Antonio - nylon string guitar
Neil Stacey - steel string acoustic guitar

First release by Acoustic Mania, the hot guitar duo (Antonio and Neil Stacey) at one of their sell-out concerts at the Edinburgh Festival. A combination of diverse musical references from French waltz to Brazilian flavour plus original compositions.
A breath of fresh air...

1996 Dedicato - Antonio Forcione

1. Tiramisu
2. Twilight
3. Maya's Song
4. Dedicato
5. I heard it through the grapevine
6. Tango Nights
7. Attempo
8. Come Together
9. Folk Song
10. Nocturne

Musicians appearing with Antonio on this recording:
Bosco de Oliveira - percussion
Julian Arguelles - soprano sax
Sabine Kabongo - voice
Malcolm Creese - bass

Antonio solo and with his band (sax, voice, percussion and bass). This popular album of mainly originals stayed the top 10 jazz FM charts for several months.

"Absolutely gorgeous Latinate guitar, not unlike Feliciano minus the vocals... great taste in material"
(Hi Fi News)

1997 Meet me in London - Antonio Forcione & Sabina Sciubba

1. Visions
2. Take Five
3. Caruso
4. Why can't we live together
5. Night Train
6. Could you believe?
7. When we two parted
8. Brasilico
9. Estate

Musicians appearing with Antonio on this recording:
Sabina Sciubba - voice
Davide Mantovani - fretless bass
Bosco de Oliveira - percussion
Adam Glasser - harmonica
Malcolm Creese - double bass

Singing sensation Sabina joins Antonio for this fascinating collection of jazz standards, rearranged pop classics and some enchanting new compositions - a rare blend of pure magic and undiluted genius. MVC Top 10.

"leaving you hanging there somewhere between the sea and the moon"
(New Insight)

1997 Talking Hands - Antonio Forcione & Neil Stacey

1. Birdland
2. David
3. Festival
4. Karate
5. Letter from Spain
6. Talking Hands
7. Dylan
8. Czardas
9. Snow

Musicians appearing on this recording:
Antonio - nylon string guitar
Neil Stacey - steel string guitar

The acoustic guitar duo, Acoustic Mania, with Neil Stacey.
This dynamic album hit the jazz charts with its own brand of jazz, Brazilian, Spanish, folk and classical sounds.

"two players intent on redefining all known laws concerning what is possible with two acoustic guitars"

1998 Ghetto Paradise - Antonio Forcione

1. Maurizio's Party
2. Alhambra
3. Night Passage
4. Indian Cafe
5. Horserun
6. Sereno
7. Salsa and Basilico
8. If...

Musicians appearing with Antonio on this recording:
Trilok Gurtu - drums, tablas, shakers
Kai Eckhardt de Camargo - fretless bass
Roberto Manzin - alto sax
Davide Mantovani - bass & synth horn
Sonal Varsani - voice
Ed Jones - soprano sax
Ansuman Biswas - vibratone, overtones
Bosco de Oliveira - percussion, timbales
Nic France - drums
David Vaughan - synth

One of Antonio's most mature and exciting works, this album features world-renowned Indian percussionist Trilok Gurtu and bassist Kai Eckhardt amongst others. Antonio performs on his custom-made acoustic fretless guitar, the Uddan.

2000 Live! - Antonio Forcione

Live solo guitar performance recorded at The Vortex in London.

1. Heartbeat
2. Acoustic Revenge
3. Sereno
4. I heard it through the grapevine
5. Mirage
6. African Dawn
7. Diary
8. Nocturne
9. Black Magic
10. Night Passage

Musicians appearing with Antonio on this recording:
Nic France - drums
Rony Barrak - Middle Eastern tabla

Live solo guitar performance recorded at The Vortex in London.
"Antonio has a never-ending facility to pull sublime melodies out of the air with improvisations that are pure sonic sunbeams ... a hugely satisfying and entertaining album"
(David Freeman)

2000 Vento Del Sud - Antonio Forcione & Benito Madonia

1. Come un Bambino
2. La Mia Infanzia
3. Caruso
4. Dedicato al Sud
5. La Canzone di Marinella
6. Fuori Gioco
7. Cammina Cammina
8. Torna a Surriento
9. Maria Mari
10. Anna

Musicians appearing with Antonio on this recording:
Benito Madonia - voice
Rossana Casale - voice

With singer Benito Madonia. Songs with an evocative southern Italian flavour.

2003 Touch Wood - Antonio Forcione

Antonio's latest album featuring the quartet plus special guests Sabina Sciubba and Diego el Cigala.

1. Touch Wood
2. Tarantella
3. Mirror, Mirror
4. Alhambra
5. Sunstep
6. Gigolo
7. Tango suite
8. For Vic
9. Watercolour
10. Nostalgia
11. Scrambled Eggs
12. Mirror

Musicians appearing with Antonio on this recording:
The Quartet:
Antonio Forcione – nylon, steel, 12-string guitars & fretless Ouddan guitar
Giorgio Serci - Guitar
Jenny Adejayan - Cello
Adriano Pinto - Percussion
With vocalists Diego el Cigala and Sabina Sciubba.
Enzo Zirilli, Pac Helder, Josue Ferreira, Matheus Nova, Bob Stukey.

Featuring the quartet plus special guests Sabina Sciubba and Diego el Cigala.
" …atmospheric and richly melodic set of self-penned originals, Forcione comfortably soaks up Southern European, Italian tarantella, Latin, gypsy-jazz, north African, blues and pastoral classical flavours into his own personal romantic aesthetic. "

2005 Tears of Joy - Antonio Forcione

Antonio's latest album featuring the quartet plus a host of very special guests

1. 01. Tears of Joy
2. 02. Sahara Rain
3. 03. The Long Winter
4. 04. Spanish Breeze
5. 05. All Summer Long
6. 06. The Cool Cat
7. 07. Fragile
8. 08. Landmark
9. 09. Waltz for Django
10. 10. Earth Spirit

Musicians appearing with Antonio on this recording:
The Quartet:
Antonio Forcione (Italy) - Guitars
Jenny Adejayan (Grenada/Nigeria) - Cello
Adriano Pinto (Brazil) - Percussion
Igor Outkine (Russia) - Accordian With special guests:
Ronu Majumdar (India)- Bansuri
Nathan Thompson (Australia) - Double Bass
Enzo Zirilli (Italy) - Drums
Micheline Van Hautem (Belgium) - Vocals
Alex Wilson (UK/Sierra Leone) - Piano

Antonio's latest album featuring the quartet plus very special guests.
"Forcione must surely be considered one of the most dynamic and imaginative guitarists on the contemporary scene...the sonic quality is absolutely first class..."
(Jazzwise - June 2005)

2006 Heartplay - Antonio Forcione & Charlie Haden

Heartplay is a subtle and sublime collaboration. Charlie and Antonio play a combination of compositions by each other, and a beautifully sparkling track called Child's Play by Fred Hersch.

1. Anna (Forcione)
2. If... (Forcione)
3. La Pasionaria (Haden)
4. Snow (Forcione)
5. Silence (Haden)
6. Child's Song (Fred Hersch)
7. Nocturne (Forcione)
8. For Turiya (Haden)[listen]Musicians appearing with Antonio on this recording:
Charlie Haden - double bass
Antonio Forcione - guitar

Recorded at: The Californian Institute of the Arts on 26 - 28 June 2006.

The new release, called Heartplay, features eclectic Antonio Forcione and absolute legend of the double bass, Charlie Haden, playing a selection of originals.
"These duets with the great American jazz bassist Charlie Haden feature reflective but restlessly mobile originals by both players, plus pianist Fred Hersch's lovely Child Song. ... It's well up with the leaders in Haden's illustrious collection of duo encounters."
(The Guardian - 3 November 2006)