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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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After three mind-blowing funk-tastic rock albums and two US tours, The Link Quartet took a break which led organist extraordinaire Paolo 'Apollo' Negri toward two solo albums. They all agreed that The Link Quartet would rise again when the time was right, and that time is now! 4 is the culmination of everything Paolo and Hammondbeat have produced in the last few years, from vintage soul to their own unique brand of funk-jazz-rock, but squeezed into the raw, hyperactive, live-band genius of The Link Quartet. This is modern power-pop combined with R&B rock sensibility that separates 'written songs' from 'incomprehensible noise'. French soul lyrics, hard-rock guitar energy, jazz drummer work ethic, body rumbling bass, and blistering organ riffs all come together into a socially conscious 'power to the working man' party.





<a href="https://www.imagenetz.de/KDEv5">  The Link Quartet - 4   </a> (flac   327mb)

01 Vertical Floor 3:40
02 Snake Eyes 3:34
03 Day Tripper 2:36
04 Drummore 3:28
05 Je Reve Dans Mon Reve 3:38
06 Mooglight Serenade 3:09
07 Fast Girls & Sexy Cars 3:34
08 Je Suis Passee 2:54
09 Hair Of The Dog 2:53
10 Dancing ’round The Walnut Tree 4:09
11 Noir Le Blanc 3:21
12 Big Peach 8:17

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Hotel Constellation is our epic future world illustrated by driving Italian power pop grooves of The Link Quartet and written with the pen of the self-actualized voice: Miss Modus. The Link Quartet has been the backbone of the Hammondbeat family since 2002 and remains their key evolutionary partner with every breathless step. Hotel Constellation is their fifth full length collaboration, but the second with the current line-up of founding member Renzo Bassi (bass), songwriter/producer Paolo Negri (organ/synths), and beginning with ”4” (2011): Marco Murtas (guitar) and Alberto Mafi (drums). The ”old” Link Quartet took the world around them and found a way to reinterpret that into something fresh yet somewhat nostalgic for that lost 60/70’s groove (a kind of Acid Jazz: The Next Generation). The ”new” Link Quartet creates new worlds out of the essence of time and experience and invites the listener to explore and incorporate the resulting aura. Miss Modus (aka Sarah Kennedy) first crossed our path with Sounds From The Kitten Casino (2008) and we’ve been in awe of her ever since. Hotel Constellation is the new space musical: when Earth has died and science has failed, one girl’s adventure for love begins…



<a href="https://multiup.org/32ec457ffa9ad1314ab0042fe3d1d23b"> The Link Quartet n Miss Modus - Hotel Constellation  </a> (flac   356mb)

01 The Creation of Onuris 6:10
02 Hotel Constellation 4:13
03 Mizara's Deluded Heart 1:37
04 Supernova 3:54
05 The Death Star Predator of Hearts - Thresis 321 0:39
06 Wrecking Machine 3:49
07 They Were All Starry Eyed 0:43
08 Barbarella 3:50
09 Dione's Broken Heart 0:41
10 Stop Calling 3:20
11 The Mirrored Love of Cassiopea 0:44
12 Silhouette 4:48
13 Peggy Tom's Lament 0:54
14 Second Skin 4:18
15 Lyra's Seductive Sacrifice 0:50
16 Love Safari 4:57
17 Odin's Call 2:27
18 Tears Don't Fall 5:13


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The legendary kings of hammondbeat, LINK QUARTET from Italy, have released six records, several singles, digital releases and appeared on numerous compilations and guest appearances since 1993 already. Now the jazzy, funky instrumental quartet around the virtuosic Paolo 'Apollo' Negri release yetanother fantastic record, this time on Sound Flat Records, that has a Mod/soul/jazz-feeling to it.

'Minimal Animal' is all LINK QUARTET-originals and all instrumentals with absolutely divine, mindblowing hammond-organ-soli, a jazzy beat, groovy guitars and catchy melodies. Incredibly cool, funky, danceable sounds (such as 'Black Bug') mixed with one or the other calmer song with laid-back jazzy wah-wah sounds and finally even groovy, ska/rocksteady-offbeat, hammond-driven songs like 'Peacock Steady' altogether combine into a well-rounded album from beginning to end.
This band combines hammonddriven beat and jazz so well, that not only Modand Funk-lovers will love this album, but due to its variety of different influences it will appeal to a much broader crowd from all different kinds of musical backgrounds and leave them more than impressed.

"Minimal Animal" is a welcome back home album for The Link Quartet, 11 original instrumental tracks (the CD includes two additional bonus tracks) of pure raw funk, minimal and aggressive, where the screaming Hammond organ of Paolo Apollo Negri duets with the acid wah wah guitar of Marco Murtas over the rocky rhythm lines of Renzo Bassi (bass) and Alberto Pato Maffi (drums). The quartet is back on the track of the long and prolific tradition of bands like The Meters, Alan Hawkshaw, Jackie Mittoo and many others but don't forget to keep an eye on the future to serve a unique cocktail of retro futuristic tunes. With this album The Link Quartet is making a new start, building a new future starting from its own roots.


                                            
<a href="https://mir.cr/RY6WVK3Q">  The Link Quartet - Minimal Animal</a> (flac   355mb)

01 Black Bug 3:39
02 Bear Walk 3:49
03 Coquette 3:06
04 Hippo-tize Me 6:21
05 Owl Train 4:22
06 Go-go Rilla 3:01
07 Crime Squid 3:37
08 Peacock Steady 3:24
09 Gnu York 5:46
10 Silent Eel 3:07
11 Voodoo Kangaroo 3:26
12 Brave Snail (Bonus Track) 7:05
13 Disco-tize Me (Bonus Track) 3:55

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