Trieste Records Videos:
(manufactured by
Highland Laboratories)
Nostalgia dei Sensi:
A DOCUMENTARY
is a 28 minute program documenting the roots and the essence of the Caffe. Family members, Trieste musicians, and long-time customers help paint the picture of the institution that has developed over the last four-plus decades. Includes footage of the Saturday Concert, Espresso brewing, and coffee roasting. $10.95
IN CONCERT:
The Caffe Trieste Performers at Forest Meadows.
The Caffe Trieste Saturday Concert has been recorded, video-taped, and filmed hundreds of times. However, this is a rare look at the Trieste musical family on the road, in concert. Included are Papa Gianni, sons Gianfranco and Fabio and the Caffe Trieste Band. Running time: 63 minutes. $10.95
WEST COAST LIVE:
VIDEO $10.95
An uncut, behind the scenes look at this live radio show as broadcast from the Caffe Trieste in San Francisco. Hosted by Sedge Thompson, the two-hour program includes the entire Giotta Family: the Caffe Trieste Band, the Mattinata di Matteo band, and interviews with family members, customers, celebrated poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, world famous photographer Jimo Perini, writers Herb Gold and Kristen Jensen, and others
All of these reasonably priced items are available at our retail location next door to the Caffe.
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Trieste Records came into existence in 1981 with the introduction of our first LP Saturday Live at Caffe Trieste. Upcoming albums include a collection of favorite Trieste Concert duets and solos performed by octogenarians, Ida and Papa Gianni, a new, expanded version of Saturday Live at Caffe Trieste, and vocal and accordion instrumental collections by Fabio and Sonia.
Our first CD release Senza Te is elder brother Gianfranco's first ever solo album. Younger brother Fabio shared an all-encompassing collaboration in the production of this album with Associate Producer Rob Masud (formerly of Golden State Recorders/Sonic Arts Corp.- San Francisco) and Barry Brose of Highland Labs. The CD includes other members of the Trieste musical family. This collection of previously unreleased recordings spans a wide range of repertoire and includes the original rock ballad "Senza Te"composed and written by Gianfranco. Other upcoming releases will include the expanded, CD version of Saturday Live at Caffe Trieste . Sound clips and CD's are available at TheOrchard.com, CDNOW, CDBABY and Amazon.com.
THE FIRST STUDIO
In August 1997, work began on the installation of a modest but capable studio on Potrero Hill at the Caffe Trieste Superb Coffees production facility. All mastering, re-mastering, special processing, tape restoration, and production was done at the studio on impeccably maintained vintage as well as modern-day, high tech equipment (in cooperation with Highland Laboratories-San Francisco. Our little “Studio 55”, which produced the “Senza Te” album and began work on the upcoming expanded “Saturday Live at Caffe Trieste” album was disassembled in August of 1999, and the building that housed it was sold. But how could a musical family like ours afford NOT to have a studio?
STUDIO 25, STUDIO 65B
In December of 2001, work began on a similar studio at one of the Giotta residences. It was finished off in earnest in Spring of 2002 as a small Pro Studio, and the groundwork for many new albums and projects has been laid at our little Studio 25. A converted bedroom with a high ceiling serves as a fine Playback and Dubbing Studio for various formats. The studio is also ideal for forensic work and dubs from relatively rare formats and acoustically follows BBC specifications. It was disassembled in early 2007 for its move to our Potrero Hill-San Francisco complex, where it is renamed STUDIO 65B.
STUDIO 65A
Back in the late 90’s, the idea of a new release of the Saturday Live at the Caffe Trieste album had already been put into action. Later, with the development of Papa Gianni’s biography, an idea for a Mamma and Papa “special album” came about. We were again faced with the problem of where to work. An associate came up with the idea of rebuilding the old project Studio 55 in some open space at our Potrero Hill Production Facility, complete with a modest room for doing live recordings. Papa Gianni slowly embraced the idea, then “ran with it”. Strictly a Giotta Family venture, the studio grew to be a large format facility according to the old Hollywood standards. Acoustically engineered from the ground up in the old tradition of “live” studios, more state of the art digital and fabulous analog equipment was procured. The new Trieste Recording-Studio 65A was born.
The studio is a throwback to the grand old studios of yesteryear such as Golden State/Sonic Arts (San Francisco), Western (Los Angeles), and the original Capitol Record Studios (originally radio station KHB on Melrose Avenue-Los Angeles). It sports a main studio of almost 9000 cubic feet, two acoustically tuned- live isolation booths, a Baldwin "Liberace" model SD10 Concert Grand Piano, a 1956 Allen tube Organ, vintage and digital accordions and guitars, a beautiful custom Tama Star Maker studio drum set, and a fabulous inventory of restored and new microphones from RCA, Altec Lansing, Shure, Electro-Voice, Neumann and other makers. In the control room, you’ll find Altec Lansing Duplex Monitor speakers in custom Sieler enclosures, Dynaco tube amplifiers, a Scully 280B and an Otari 2 inch/24 track tape machine, and lots of other vintage and modern day equipment from Altec-Lansing, Dynaudio, Dolby, Universal Audio, Orban, Teac, Mackie, Alesis, Aphex, Tascam, Apple, Logic, Motu, Yamaha and other manufacturers. The studio is lit with video-correct halogen, and video-taping of sessions or shows is available. We are certain that eldest son Gianfranco would be so enamoured with Studio 65A, he would probably be camped there permanently.
Together, studios 65A and 65B offer a wide range of digital and analog recording services ranging from recording sessions to restoration, transfers, simple mastering, digital and analog major mix-down and mastering, and other services. Session rates start at only 71.00 per hour and include our young and extremely talented lead engineer, Nova Lindow, with various discount offers on time/work blocks, etc.
Now open to the public, the Giotta Family and the Trieste Musical Family now have a beautiful studio complex to work in; and one that will be available at a fraction of what those comparable major studios in Berkeley and Sausalito would charge. The studio is open on a limited but flexible schedule by appointment. For more information, please call 415.550.0733 or email us at: triesterecording@aol.com
OUR NEWEST COMPACT DISC Senza Te HAS BEEN RELEASED!
It is priced at $14.95 plus tax and freight. This album was in production sfrom December 1997 through May 1999 and contains tracks from eight different recording sessions dating from 1963 to February 1998. Most of the 19 tracks are previously unreleased. These include a large range of repertoire as well as many artists and engineers from both the Bay Area and abroad. The CD has a unique, San Francisco flavor; the multi-lingual repertoire includes Standards, Rock, Ballads, Jazz, Italian, and Showtunes. This album also chronicles the work of brothers Gianfranco and Fabio and other members of the Trieste musical family. Senza Te, a rock-ballad with music and lyrics by Gianfranco was written 1969 and has never been released. This album marks Gianfranco's FIRST EVER solo album!
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Senza Te
Audio CD
$14.95
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| The Trieste Musical Family cares very much about the wonderful folks who share their talent with us through the fine musical repertoire perfromed in the Concert. To show our support and respect, Caffe Trieste Incorporated-Trieste Music is a licensee of ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC. |
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