The quartet assembled by trumpeter and composer Mario Mariotti, January 2021, at recording studio Laboratorio Luna in Socraggio, indebted to the teaching of the European avant-garde of the Mid-Twentieth Century and the experience of the groups gathered at the Cellar Café in New York in 1964, wants to give a personal and current interpretation of the concept of “instant composing”. Inspired by some groups led by the musician, painter and teacher Bill Dixon, the trumpet is flanked by two double basses and a drum set in a dialogue in which each of the sound elements is, at the same time, a soloist and a sideman. An interchange based on silences and breaths, reciprocal references and bare melodic motives, fragmented rhythms and contrasting dynamic games, in which listening is a fundamental part of the choice of "sound gestures" put into play by the four musicians.
All the compositions are the result of a combined effort by Mariotti, Amadori, Gallo and Zanoli.
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released November 3, 2021
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releases November 5, 2021
Mario Mariotti | trumpet, electronics
Emiliano Amadori | double bass
Danilo Gallo | double bass
Marco Zanoli | drums
Recorded and mixed by Andrea Ferrari at Laboratorio Luna (Casali Socraggio, Cannobio, Piemonte, Italy), January 2021
Mastered by Mark Wingfield at Heron Island Studio (St Neots, Cambridgeshire, England), April 2021
Graphic design by Alessandro Marchesi
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