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Today's Artists are active for more than 20 years, the Link Quartet is one of the few Italian groups to be able to boast two American coast-to-coast tours, the last of which in the spring of 2004 for the promotion of the soundtrack of the spy movie Wilson Chance. In recent years the band has trod prestigious stages such as the GO! Lleida '60 Festival in Spain, 100 Club in London, Our Way of Thinking in Chicago, Club Au-go-go in Los Angeles and Printemps de Bourges in France, where Link performed with Melissa Auf Der Maur, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Calexico; have opened for the likes of Manu Chao, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, Charles Bradley, James Taylor Quartet, Brian Auger's Oblivion Express, Downliners Sect, Chocolate Watch Band and Bonniwell Music Machine as well as touring the length and breadth of Europe by sharing the stage with Big Boss Man, Men from SPECTER, Sugarman 3, Speaklow, Diplomats of Solid Sound, Boogaloo Communicators, Montefiori Cocktail, Leslie Overdrive and many more. They are at home in London where, in addition to being pampered by Acid Jazz Records, who wanted them for their latest compilation "Exile on Hammond Street vol.3", they make a regular appearance on BBC6 and BBC2 radio in the very popular shows by Craig Charles and Mark Radcliffe. .........N Joy

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Few Italian musicians can claim to take regular Coast To Coast tours in the United States. The Link Quartet is one of them, which is less because of its level of awareness, but more because of the niche it comes from: A music dominated by Hammond sounds that brings it attention and praise in Mod circles.

The quartet meets in 1992 in Piacenza, Lombardy. The basic formation consists of Giulio "Link" Cardini (guitar), Tony "Face" Bacciocchi (drums) and Renzo Bassi (appropriately: bass), who are joined by alternating musicians. All of them have a long history in the music business and made a name for themselves in the scene, especially Bacciocchi, who is considered one of the most prominent members of the Italian mod scene.

At the beginning they mainly play cover versions of the James Taylor Quartet and Corduroy as well as film music from the 70s. The approach of keyboardist Paolo "Apollo" Negri leads to new ideas and a more distinctive sound. After playing as the opening act for their role models James Taylor Quartet in Italy, they recorded two tracks for the Spanish label Animal Records. In 2001, "Episode One" is a compilation of pieces from her previous work.

They are not only attracting attention in Italy. After a tour that also took them to Belgium and Switzerland, they signed a contract with the US label Hammondbeat and released "Beat.it" in 2002, which attracted attention in Europe, the USA and Japan. The Link Quartet is opening a concert by Manu Chao in his hometown of Piacenza, performing in the USA and playing with Calexico, Melissa Auf Der Maur and Yeah Yeah Yeahs at a festival in Bourges, France.

The third work "Italian Playboys" was released in January 2005 on the Record Kicks label in Milan and received good reviews internationally.

The collaboration with prestigious labels such as Acid Jazz (UK), Record Kicks (ITA), Hammondbeat (USA), Soundflat (GER), P-Vine (JPN), Area Pirata (ITA) and many others has allowed the Link Quartet to work with numerous Italian and foreign artists, continually reinventing their sound, with an eye to the future and one closely anchored to the long and prestigious tradition of the Hammond organ.
After the promotional tour of the album "Minimal Animal" which again took the group around all of Europe, the Link Quartet decided to celebrate its 25th birthday by recording its best songs live in the studio during a three-day open event. to the public, held at the Tanzan Music recording studio.
The result is Secret Sessions, a new live album that collects the best of the band's career and returns all the energy and energy of live shows to disk. From "Beat.it" to "Minimal Animal" passing through "Italian Playboys", "4", "Fast Girl & Sexy Cars" and "Quattro Pezzi Facili", the group dusts off the classics of his career, offering the listener a new perspective on your sound.
The LP edition was released May 31, 2019 for the English Spinout Nuggets in a limited and numbered edition of 300 copies together with the digital edition for Tanzan Music and the videos recorded during the performances.



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The Link Quartet, originating from Italy, plays a kind of funky, jazz instrumentals that are quite impressive! With their previous albums release on Hammond Beat Records like Italian Playboys 2004 or Beat.It 2002 the band gained a series of followers far abroad Italy.

It's for these fans that
Hammond Beat Records released the compilation album Evolution.
Evolution is simply said a document of the tracks released in Europe between 1997 and 2001. All of which are out of print and in constant demand. The songs on Evolution are presented in chronological order and does include such rarities as "Alfa Romeo Giulietta" the first single ever, tracks from their mini album "Episode 1", some rare compilation appearances and two never before released tracks! Evolution is a compilation of 18 tracks of which one half exists of self-penned tracks and the other half are dedicated covers from people & bands like The Small Faces, Green Day, Lalo Shiffrin, James Brown or Quincy Jones.

Evolution is not a testament, but a short pause in the recording career for The Link Quartet who will be soon be back in the studio for a new album! Expected release will be late 2007. Meanwhile the fans of The Link Quartet won't be left alone. Paolo Negri, the Hammond Organ prodigy of The Link Quartet is busy with a solo project of his own. Applecore the EP of Paolo will be released in February & a full-length album "A bigger tomorrow" follows in May. Reason enough to keep alive I should say.

Among the sensational tracks of this Evolution one can find masterpieces like the funky-Jazz tune "Vasco Da Gamma", the campy "Guantanamera", the sleazy "Claudia" and the loungy "Bullit". Way too much fun if you ask me! However it's the closing tune that does it for me! The cover of Green Day's Espionage. Sublime!





<a href="https://multiup.org/bf595b6df930ec15a623e83279dbe8ac">  The Link Quartet - Evolution / Decade  </a> (flac   676mb)

01 Alfa Romeo Giulietta 3:52
02 Moira 2:36
03 Link Theme 2:42
04 Ain't It Funky Now 3:55
05 Punt e mes 3:01
06 Tenente Sheridan 3:29
07 Synapp 5:43
08 Vasco de Gama 3:37
09 The Original 5:46
10 Guantanamera 6:05
11 Holiday in Montecarlo 6:42
12 Claudia 3:47
13 Almost Grown 3:14
14 Il Baccala 2:57
15 The Streetbeater 4:09
16 Link Theme (Brand New Version) 3:12
17 Bullitt 4:39
18 Espionage 3:34

Bonus Disc: "Decade"
1 Sweet Little Apples 3:22
2 Non mi puo bastare (Don't Burst My Bubble) 2:28
3 Mao et moi 3:36
4 Three in a Bed 3:08

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The Link Quartet have an agile rhythm section, an acid guitar, and a Hammond organ that alternates between sounds full of sharpness and liquid atmospheres, in short swirling hammond organ driven funk

<a href="https://mir.cr/0NHJVREA"> The Link Quartet - BEAT.IT  </a> (flac   320mb)

01 Strudel Girl 3:18
02 Be Yourself 3:35
03 Alfa Romeo Duetto 4:13
04 An Evening With Linda Lovelace 4:08
05 Beat.It 3:25
06 Crosstown Traffic 3:44
07 Somebody Stole My Thunder 3:28
08 Little Italy Serenade 4:03
09 Happy Boys Happy 2:42
10 Gianni Fuso Nerini 3:49
11 If I Could Only Be Sure 3:49
12 Marshall Jim 100 4:07
13 Theme From Hammondbeat 1:55


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Italian Playboys is the album by the finest italian acid jazzers masters Link Quartet. Just a little taste of what's to come in Italian Playboys with a more complete sound and even more mature (if possible!) than in both previous albums. Not only Hammond beat, the real band's trademark, but also hints of funk, spaceage beat, sitar groove and sprinkling of dancefloor jazz in this album strongly influenced by Small Faces, Brian Auger, James Taylor Quartet and Jean-Jacques Perrey. Italian Playboys includes nine original songs from the classic 6T’s beat styled title track to the introspective After and Once Again, along with a selection of rarely attempted covers including the heavy funk of Jon Lord on Rubber Monkey, an uplifting interpretation of Jack McDuff’s Briar Patch (an alternate version will also appear on the forthcoming McDuff tribute album from Scufflin’ Records), and a scorching slice out of the library classic Move, Move, Move. A part from the extraordinaire DJ NINFA we’ve just mentioned, It Italian Playboys also features Doug Roberson of mod fave The Diplomats of Solid Sound (USA) on guitar for the rich robust jazz of Portofino Vespa Rider, Eddie Roberts of deep funk superstars The New Mastersounds (UK) on sitar for the spicy Spider Baby, and Arnaldo Dodici vocals on the monster Zombies style.pop Janine. The new album follows the seminal Beat.It (2002, Hammondbeat), two USA tours with the last stop headlining the world reknowned MODchicago weekender, numerous European festivals, and several score contributions to 6T’s spy-revivalist film Wilson Chance (2004, Bunzendahl Brothers, USA) and soundtrack counterpart Wilson Chance: The Sound of Danger (2004, Hammondbeat).Italian Playboys songs have already been featured this autumn on the BBC’s Mark Radcliffe and Craig Charles radio shows, and the indication from the fantastic reviews The Link Quartet have consistently received both on record and on stage, you are encouraged to expect this latest to blow you away to a new funky place.  


                                             
<a href="https://www.imagenetz.de/EGqRr">  The Link Quartet - Italian Playboys</a> (flac   347mb)

01 Move, Move, Move 3:03
02 Italian Playboys  3:23
03 Deliquesced By Devonshire 3:20
04 Milwaukee Hunter 3:47
05 Rubber Monkey 2:27
06 Greased On Delta Street 4:10
07 Janine 2:40
08 Portofino Vespa Rider 3:18
09 Ladyshave 3:30
10 Glass Onion 3:22
11 Briar Patch 2:25
12 After And Once Again 4:48
13 Spider Baby 3:31
14 Take Four 5:02

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