Canto

Francesco Bigoni − Tenor & alto saxophone, clarinet Mark Solborg − Guitars, devices & electronics Emanuele Maniscalco − Rhodes, piano & keyboards With a buzz in our ears, we sing our way through the cantos of a new book. Shout – or whisper – our musical poetry into a spacious realm of warm analog keyboards, strings and reeds, flooded with subtle electronics, granular processing and microtonality. Interwoven contemporary chamber music tableaux are carefully folded into a unique multilayered electroacoustic blend – grandiose and yet intimate. Maniscalco/Bigoni/Solborg navigate freely with and around original materials. This is about improvising as a unit while honouring or challenging the idea of a song. To instantly react to each other and create chamber-like music with a strong presence, that bridges melodic poetry and contemporary abstraction. This music does not care about genre or style. It is essentially about musical conversation and made for ears interested in dialogue. This Danish/Italian trio has worked their musical approach intensely for a decade. The results can be heard on its two prior albums, praised internationally by audience and critics. With CANTO, the three musicians bring their work and musical approach into a new crisp territory. The press wrote: "Rewriting the rules of contemporary chamber jazz, Solborg’s music is as vital today as Joe McPhee’s Po Music ensembles of the 90s.”  Fred Grand - JazzJournal.UK  "proposing a vital experience, making music that can’t forget sound (in its acoustic properties) and listening, both internal (oneself) and external (the others). This music is extremely rich and adorned, [..] as discreet as it is persistent " Sandro Cerini, Musica Jazz "Such profound and rare beauty is achieved only when kindred spirits meet and keep refining their poetic agenda" Eyal Hareuveni, Salt Peanuts " ..radiates a power that’s as likely to deliver a gentle shock as brighten the room with its warmth". Dave Sumner, The Best Jazz on Bandcamp: June 2022

Released

June 3, 2022

Length

45:07