Somma (SACRED ORDER OF MUSIC MAGIC AND ART) is the brainchild of Italian guitarist/producer Eraldo Bernocchi and of visual artist Petulia Mattioli. It is a “pure” live world music project, which, in its current incarnation, pursues the integration of Tibetan chanting and instrumentation with electronics, dub and electronic jazz. This integration is not mere juxtaposition, arising instead as an integrated live performance, after several prior days of rehearsals. Each Somma performance is therefore a unique event.

23 Wheels of Dharma, for example, captures Somma during a live performance in Milan (Teatro Del Verme) in June 2007. On stage, together with the usual suspects, we find the beguiling vocal trio Faraualla from southern of Italy and the great vocal experimenter Lorenzo Esposito Fornasari.

Hooked Light Rays is the recording of a live performance at the Teatro Regio in Turin in 1996.

Each Somma performance is then heavily reconstructed in studio - the perfection of a studio album with the immediacy of the live recording... Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.