Armani Retrospective Collaboration

In September of 2000, Mark Galasso collaborated with his brother, Violinist/Composer Michael Galasso, on music recorded for the Armani Retrospective. This was the first sound installation in the New York Guggenheim’s history.

International Tour of Giorgio Armani was part of a major exhibition organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY USA.

The Armani Retrospective appeared in the Guggenheim, New York, NY  October 20, 2000 to January 17,2001.

The Armani Retrospective appeared also in the Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain in 2001

The City Review:Armani said “Eastern-style music by Michael Galasso wafts about quite effectively.”

 

Antifluff Superstar CD

Antifluff Superstar was composed & recorded during a period of unprecedented self-growth. All of the material was conceived, recorded & mixed without any constrictions regarding when the music was documented as a musical expression. This creates a spontaneity and freshness not easily duplicated in the recording studio.

“OFFBEAT”, New Orleans’ premier music magazine wrote:

“Mark Galasso who gifted us with some of the best modern Louisiana pop around on 1997’s PERCHAPLECTIC, returns with a new persona as Antifluff Superstar, completing his studio-perfectionistic control-freak journey full circle. He’s even starting to sound like other wizards and true stars: his funk is becoming positively Princely, his twisted classicism Rundgrenian, his confessionality Lennonesque. The title track dips and weaves between three decades of damaged art-pop like a drunk on a binge. Just when he seems unfathomable, he polishes off a Beatlesque gem (“Jin’s Jet”), rips out a solid groove (“Stuck Here Without You”), or takes the piss out of his ambition by re-working one his commercial jingles (“Bonus Lucky 7″) and all is well. Mark’s colossally, wonderfully self-obsessed. The sheer audacity and frightening intensity of his ambition is absolutely thrilling. In a state that forgot how to make solid, non-derivative pop music a few decades ago, that’s to be celebrated.”

Mark Galasso-a.k.a “Antifluff Superstar”-has been recognized Nationally and Internationally for nine spectacular radio jingles he has written for the Louisiana Lottery Corporation. In 1999, “Pick 4” won “Best Radio Spot” at the North American Lottery Awards in Halifax, Nova Scotia. “Bonus Lucky 7” & a Gambline Hotline Tv Spot were also finalists in the competition, which involved 49 lottery companies from all over North America. Additionally, his Jingles “Mambo Money” & “Let the Good Times Roll” won Audio Communicator Awards in 2001, and “Mambo Money” was given the “Crystal Award for Excellence”.

(See: “Lottery Jingles” also available on CD Baby, iTunes & many PC download sites)

For further information about Antifluff Superstar please visit:

www.markgalasso.net

ANTIFLUFF SUPERSTAR is also available for Digital Download on the following sites:

Apple iTunes http://www.apple.com/itunes/store/
Rhapsody http://www.listen.com/
Sony Connect http://www.sonyconnect.com/
Napster http://www.napster.com/
PureTracks http://www.puretracks.com/
MusicNet http://www.musicnet.com/
AudioLunchbox http://www.audiolunchbox.com/
MusicMatch http://www.musicmatch.com/download/music_intro.htm
Emusic http://www.emusic.com/
BuyMusic http://www.buymusic.com/
NetMusic http://www.netmusic.com
DiscLogic http://www.disclogic.com/
Emepe3.com http://www.emepe3.com/
Etherstream http://www.etherstream.com/
Linspire http://www.linspire.com/
Music4Cents http://www.music4cents.com/
QTRnote http://www.qtrnote.com/
TriaSite http://www.gimmemusic.net/
CatchMusic http://catchmusic.net/catchweb/

SONIC ADVICE: If you are concerned about the audio fidelity of these recordings it is recommended that you buy the actual CD.

“Brocato Piece” commissioned by Brocato International

This composition was commissioned by Sam Brocato and Brocato International for their 1998 appearance at the “ALTERNATIVE HAIR SHOW”, at the ROYAL ALBERT HALL, LONDON.

Every year a video of the show is made and distributed throughout the world wide hair industry.

The “Alternative Hair Show” is one of the biggest Leukaemia fund raisers in the world.

The song “Brocato Piece” is featured on the Lottery Jingles CD.