"Featuring Marc Ribot + A Turtle Soup" is an ambitious double cd containing two sessions by the new quartet led by Giovanni Maier, "Technicolor". Giovanni Maier is a skilled and critically acclaimed double bass player. His style is strong and intense, his attack on strings thunderous and precise. Among his many prestigious collaborations over the years: the famous"Italian Instabile Orchestra" and Enrico Rava (most famous Italian jazzman) Electric Quintet. Giovanni has just been voted "best Italian bass player" in the prestigious "Musica Jazz" magazine 2007 year's end poll. With Technicolor Maier switches to electric bass, with a particular line-up with two electric keyboards (keyboards wizards Alfonso Santimone and Giorgio Pacorig) plus rhythm section (Maier plus drums rising star Zeno De Rossi). On "A Turtle Soup" the sounds are intriguing, intentionally vintage and modern at the same time. Square and precise grooves dominate puttin' jazz under a powerful rock feeling. Ethereal and fascinating textures alternate with hypnotic drums and bass, and the keys have an infected feel in their aggressive and oblique improvisations. "Featuring Marc Ribot" add to the "Soup" the unrestrainable guitars of the great Marc Ribot and LSRecords Simone Massaron, eclectic musician at his ease with different genres. The keyboards move towards the background, setting the base for predominant guitars that unleash cutting tones, distorted and acid. A new psychedelic rock, lyrical and angular, ironic and radical, emerges and rages in Maier compositions and over the collective improvised tracks. Marc Ribot is all over, with his unique voice, his playing loose and strong, rid of any rules and provocative.