Swimming Pool Orchestra

For the first time, the original 1981 vinyl has been meticulously transferred and remastered in digital format, preserving the full warmth and dynamics of its analog source.

A surreal plunge into Italian free jazz, Swimming Pool Orchestra transforms the recording studio into a stage of playful chaos. Schiano and Vittorini, two of the most inventive voices of the Roman avant garde, use saxophones, pianos, toys, whistles, bicycles, and even kitchen pots to blur the line between music and theater. The album unfolds like a sonic play: musicians locked in a crumbling studio, pipes leaking, arguments rising, until the space itself metaphorically floods. Standards like Georgia on My Mind and Some of These Days are dismantled and re imagined alongside originals such as Grizzly and ‘O Vero Free, sung by Trottolino in Neapolitan dialect. Released on Dischi Della Quercia, this “disco spettacolo” captures the humor, provocation, and boundless imagination of Italian free jazz at its most daring.

guest artist Trottolino vocal in “Swimming Pool Orchestra part 2”, “Swimming Pool Orchestra part 5”, speaking voice-neapolitan in “Swimming Pool Orchestra part 4”

Jean Jacques Ferry drums in “Swimming Pool Orchestra part 3” and speaking voice-french in “Swimming Pool Orchestra part 4”

Recorded on 10, 11, 14, 15, 17, 20 October 1980 at Junior Studio, Rome 

(Also available on LP)