Luigi is so Baroque…

by Louis on May 15th, 2009

PRESS RELEASE:

Luigi Monteferrante, a Canadian poet/Italian composer, morphed electro-acoustic minstrel now goes Baroque!

After releasing Gang of Tolstoy’s debut album on 1st May 2009, Luigi returned to the studio to complete the savant-garde ensemble’s second album: Urban Space. A much more adventurous leap into hyper-space and time, Urban Spaces explores, discovers, erects and builds on the ideas laid down in No Place Like Happy, which can be purchased for download at: http://cdbaby.com/cd/gangoftolstoy

On the completion of Urban Space, Luigi then returned to the studio…or more precisely, he never left what he now defines as the black hole. Subsumed, he looped in space and time via the dark matter of the mind, and emerged wholly transformed to fire a full ensemble of strings, and a pianoforte, with his third album as Gang of Tolstoy entitled: Viola by the Window.

While Urban Space is due for release at the end of May, Viola by the Window is scheduled for Summer’s Solstice 2009.

Previews can be heard at:

www.myspace.com/gangoftolstoy
http://cdbaby.com/cd/gangoftolstoy

Buon ascolto!

Monsieur Luigi Monteferrante

by Louis on November 24th, 2008

After two novels, short stories, the morph to minstrel with 2008 poems published, or forthcoming, in:

Neon
Yellow Mama
Word Slaw
poetryfriends
Poesia/Indiana Bay
kudoswriting
Sonar4
Poet’s Ink Review
The Battered Suitcase/Vagabondage Press
Twisted Tongue
Danse Macabre
Language & Culture
Kritya
Burst Now
MOTEL 58
Burst! (Buckshot, a song by McMonty/LM)

First novel, At the Hearth of the Devils Lair, followed by 2000-mile book tour on a VESPA scooter through Montreal, Toronto, Chicago, Annapolis, Baltimore, NYC. See link: Gazette.

Life During Wartime, second novel, completed late Fall 07, followed by MORPH:
Songs: www.myspace.com/mcmontylive.

Originally from Montreal, Canada, Luigi is current Italy co-director of Summer Literary Seminars, a Creative Writing Workshop for the truly inspired with programs in St Petersburg, Russia; Kenya; Lithuania. Our Italy for 2009 features Francine Prose, Robert Coover, Mary Di Michele, Vittorio Rossi, and many more. INFO: www.sumlitsem.org.

He is currently working on third novel set in Italy, New York, Montreal.

Audio - Nighthawk at Dawn: Nighthawk

Audio - Wednesday Night Disco: Wednesday Night @ The Disco

Audio - Coffeehouse on a Monday Night: coffee-house-on-a-monday-night

Audio - heroes: Heroes

Audio - Fateful Day at the Train Station: Fateful Day at the Train Station

For booking an ensemble of music & poetry, or queries of any kind: info@luigimonteferrante.com

A few links to published work:

http://www.neonmagazine.co.uk/neon15.htm
http://www.chicagoquarterlyreview.com/issues/
http://www.sonar4ezine.com/luigi.html
http://vagabondagepress.com/81101/V1I6PT5.html
http://blackpetalsks.tripod.com/yellowmamaarchives/id99.html
http://poetryfriends.blogspot.com/2008/07/poem-by-luigi-monteferrante.html http://www.fourvolts.co.uk/page4.htm
http://www.quillspoetry.com/contributors_V.html
http://www.indianbaypress.com/about_us.html
http://www.kritya.in/0405/En/poetry_at_our_time.html
http://www.kritya.in/0405/En/poetry_at_our_time6.html
http://greenbeardmag.com/?p=124
http://www.philasculptors.org/newsletters/07_Spring.pdf
http://www.bluesmatters.com/modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=2926
http://www.johnfante.org/gallery/v/edizione2007/dago_red.jpg.html
http://brianskinner.net/ManhattanGroupPublishers/prod01b.htm