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April 27, 2026
Shades of Red: Antonella Leotta reads six jazz standards
A Massimo Urbani Jazz Contest winner and lead vocalist of the Orchestra Jazz del Mediterraneo, Antonella Leotta signs for Anaglyphos a six-standard EP in quartet with Nello Toscano, Seby Burgio and Peppe Tringali.
April 21, 2026
Atlas (Remastered): the meeting of Markus Stockhausen and Martux_M
Released digitally on 21 April 2026, the remastered version of the 2015 EP signed by German trumpeter Markus Stockhausen (son of Karlheinz Stockhausen) and Naples-born electronic pioneer Maurizio Martusciello, aka Martux_M. Four tracks between art electronics and contemporary jazz.
June 20, 2025
Lost IQ: the debut of the Mediterranean-prog trio
A trio formed at Siena Jazz in 2023: Francesco Faro (guitar, Catania), Giuseppe Vitale (bass, Treviso), Giuseppe Salime (drums, Catanzaro). Their debut album, produced by Israeli drummer and producer Ziv Ravitz.
March 14, 2025
Rumors of... War: Martux_M and Økapi reread twelve episodes of war
Released on Anaglyphos on 14 March 2025, Rumors of... War is the concept album built by Martux_M and Økapi around twelve historical episodes of conflict, each marked by a date and a place. From the 1914 Sarajevo assassination to 11 September 2001, twelve tracks of art electronics, plunderphonics and electroacoustic composition.
October 29, 2024
Viaggio immaginario: Antonio Vasta signs the single from the Kaballà project
Drawn from the stage work Viaggio immaginario nella Sicilia della memoria by Kaballà, with multi-instrumentalist Antonio Vasta. A piece that weaves music, words and Sicilian memory.
May 24, 2024
Play Your Dream: Danilo Rea, Nello Toscano and Mimmo Cafiero
A late-night game played from a distance. Three musicians at the center of the Italian and international jazz scene meet up to make music that moves beyond styles.
April 19, 2024
Stories: Nello Toscano and jazz as small nocturnal cinema
Nine pieces composed by Nello Toscano for quartet. Atmospheres between Chet Baker and Miles Davis, with nods to the noir jazz of Ascensore per il patibolo. The Catania-born bassist confirms the lineup of Inside (Alessandro Presti, Seby Burgio, Peppe Tringali) and signs one of the most cinematic records in the Anaglyphos catalog.
March 28, 2024
The Tightrope Walker: Raffaele Genovese between piano, electronics and strings
Syracuse-born pianist (b. 1982), graduate in classical and jazz piano and a Berklee scholarship recipient, Raffaele Genovese signs an album that walks a tightrope between minimalism, romanticism and sound design. Ten original compositions with the voice of Elisa Nocita and the cello of Giuseppe Tortora.
June 16, 2023
Radici: the Neapolitan songbook read in trio by Nocita, Diara and Toscano
Seven Neapolitan-song classics (from 'O marenariello to Luna Rossa, Voce 'e notte to Tammurriata Nera) plus two originals. The Mediterranean voice of Syracuse-born Elisa Nocita, Maurizio Diara on guitar and Nello Toscano on double bass build a jazz reading that runs through the Neapolitan roots of Italian musical culture.
March 3, 2023
Open Letters: the Red Apple Quartet between Syracuse, Avellino and Montpellier
Four musicians — Rino Cirinnà and Santi Romano in Sicily, Vittorio Silvestri from Avellino and Italian-American Michael Santanastasio settled in France — build for Anaglyphos a seven-track record where each of the three soloists contributes two original pieces, plus a cover of Carlos Eleta Almarán.
February 7, 2023
Da lontano: Ketty Teriaca and fifteen musical letters received during lockdown
Fifteen solo-piano pieces that eight composer friends, Italian and foreign, wrote or transcribed for Ketty Teriaca during lockdown. A record of friendship and dedication, which the Catania-born pianist also describes as a tribute to her mother and to all mothers who support their children's artistic pursuits.
November 11, 2022
Remember to Remember: Cusmano, Toscano, Zirilli and the great rock book
A guitar / double bass / drums trio reading Anglo-American rock classics in a jazz key: Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, Eagles, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Elton John, Leonard Cohen. Ten tracks for Catania-born guitarist Claudio Cusmano.
November 11, 2022
Triazzo: Rino Cirinnà with Giuseppe Campisi and Paolo Vicari
A sax / double bass / drums trio. Compositions by Rino Cirinnà and Giuseppe Campisi, with a reading of Monk's Evidence at the center of the program. Seven tracks across thirty-eight minutes, in the most stripped-back jazz-club format.
April 19, 2022
Inside: the Toscano quartet and the Noema cycle
All compositions by Nello Toscano for quartet: Toscano on double bass and electronics, Alessandro Presti on trumpet, Seby Burgio on piano, Peppe Tringali on drums. At the heart of the record is the five-movement Noema cycle, with Clouds, Acid Rain and other originals rounding out the program.
April 15, 2022
Come Back to Sicily: Stjepko Gut and a recording at the close of an era
Released in April 2022, Serbian trumpeter Stjepko Gut's album symbolically closes the pre-Mhodì Anaglyphos era. A quintet recorded in Sicily, where Gut has long made his home, with Cirinnà, Burgio, Toscano and Pillitteri. Sixty-nine minutes of standards and originals.
February 14, 2018
Home Recording Session: Cirinnà, Rubino, Toscano in a domestic setting
A trio in a home setting, dry and direct: Rino Cirinnà on sax, Dino Rubino on piano and Nello Toscano on double bass tackle six jazz standards, from I'm Getting Sentimental Over You to Blue Bossa, with no overdubs and no studio polish.
December 2, 2017
The Light Side of the Moon: Rita Marcotulli solo with Sciola's sound stones
A solo-piano record recorded in DSD, with the visual and sonic presence of Pinuccio Sciola's sound stones. A record in which Marcotulli tells, in notes and words, ten deeply personal pieces.
October 9, 2015
Something In Our Way: Danilo Rea reads The Beatles and The Rolling Stones
Released in 2015, Something In Our Way is the album in which Danilo Rea moves through the Beatles and Rolling Stones repertoire in a jazz key. Sixteen pieces for solo piano, between homage and recomposition.
July 29, 2012
Screenplay: Rino Cirinnà Quartet with Dino Rubino
Rino Cirinnà's quartet with Dino Rubino on piano, Lucio Terzano on double bass and Tony Arco on drums. Seven original compositions written like a film script, premiered at the Millennium Jazz Club in Scicli.
July 22, 2012
Patchwork Project 3: Nello Toscano Quintet with Cafiso and Rubino
Third chapter of Nello Toscano's Patchwork Project. A quintet with Cirinnà, Cattano, Burgio, Bagnoli plus two special guests: Francesco Cafiso on alto sax and Dino Rubino on trumpet. The album opens and closes with two homages, to George Russell and Lester Bowie.
May 15, 2012
Vie di Fuga, The Bach Open Project: Giammarco rereads Bach with the OJdM
Maurizio Giammarco's second project with the Orchestra Jazz del Mediterraneo is built around Bach counterpoint. Eight pieces in which large-form jazz writing meets the open forms of the Baroque tradition, from a revisited Sinfonia IX to a four-part Trio Sonata.
July 4, 2011
Cieli di Sicilia: Maurizio Giammarco and the Orchestra Jazz del Mediterraneo
A portrait of Sicily by Roman saxophonist Maurizio Giammarco and the Orchestra Jazz del Mediterraneo. Nine tracks where each title is a sky (Segesta, Catania, Ortigia, Capaci, Bagheria, Erice) and each piece a small sonic landscape.
July 1, 2007
Introverso: Danilo Rea takes stock of his sound world
Originally released in 2007, Introverso is the project in which Danilo Rea moves through his own sound world alongside Doctor 3 and other longtime collaborators. The Anaglyphos reissue restores its central place in Italian jazz of the 2000s.
March 11, 2002
Koinè: Rita Marcotulli with Anders Jormin and Arto Tuncboyaciyan
Originally released in 2002, Koinè is one of the records that established Rita Marcotulli internationally. The trio with Anders Jormin on double bass and Arto Tuncboyaciyan on percussion builds a shared language that runs across the Mediterranean and Northern Europe.
March 21, 2000
Pasolini nell'era di internet (2000): scoring for Zappalà and Nicolosi
Nello Toscano's second Anaglyphos release is the original score for a stage work by Roberto Zappalà inspired by Guido Nicolosi's text. Five movements for jazz ensemble and strings, from Il Banchetto to I Corpi to the Adagio dedicated to Pier Paolo Pasolini.
July 1, 1997
Anaglifo (1997): the first release in the Anaglyphos catalog
Released in 1997, Anaglifo is the record that opens the label's catalog and sets its aesthetic. Conceived as music for a Sicilian ballet by Roberto Zappalà, it features Nello Toscano alongside Paolo Fresu on trumpet and Rosalba Bentivoglio on vocals. Eight tracks between jazz and ambient.
January 1, 1997
Biancavilla Jazz Festival, Anthology 1996/97 (Live)
Live recordings from the Biancavilla Jazz Festival across 1996 and 1997, gathered into a twelve-track anthology. Voices from the Italian jazz canon take the stage, including Tiziana Ghiglioni and Salvatore Bonafede.