kind words for stanze by the palimpsest trio!

A strong poetic connotation comes from the music of the pianist and painter  Silvia Corda and his partner bassist Adriano Orrù : the contemporary role of the instruments as well as the attention paid to individual objects that accompany the performance, enhance the neural displacement that we have known in classical music: Paulo Chagas with a sopranino and high, rope and Orrù (as Palimpsest trio) had a job last year entitled ” Rooms “, designed by music pianist Cagliari to comment on the canvases of the painter Donatella Pau; it was a wooden women depictions, inspiring a comment to the maternal female figure; not only. Titration also implies an equivalent transport in the literary field, an attempt to express with the free improvisation those islands seemingly sound of poems or short stories (the area of the room is a recurring theme in the literature, as well as a mirror presents the representation of a Blank verse or a Coplas ). The recording made by Silvia house in Monferrato does not do justice to something with an environment specifically would make far better: those who have seen the play Rope or Orrù live will probably have a more focused perspective (see  here an extract of the trio with addition of Simon Balestrazzi electronics at the civic School of San Sperate or better quality, here a performance of the duo to Cagliari in April 2013). Unconventional techniques are combined with a sound thought, between flows and stop calculated artfully in their emotional content and enriched by the thuds of the tools or gadgets (even a toy piano), which ultimately lead to the intriguing perspectives on the work of ‘already open improvisation in the rest of Europe. These are ideal for improvisers excellently fill any festival of contemporary art that you want to organize.

Source: Musical Routes: Few Italian improvisation notes: cultural resistance circles

kind words for stanze by palimpsest trio!

AMN Reviews: Palimpsest Trio – Stanze [pyr168]; Orrù Mar Rocha – Live at MIA 2015 [Endtitles ET2] « Avant Music News

Source: AMN Reviews: Palimpsest Trio – Stanze [pyr168]; Orrù Mar Rocha – Live at MIA 2015 [Endtitles ET2] « Avant Music News

pan y rosas release stanze by the palimpsest trio!

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the palimpsest trio consists of paulo chagas, silvia corda and adriano orrù.

paulo chagas is a portuguese born, willfully eclectic musician who researches new and renewed solutions and links between sounds. dedicated to experimentalism. a composer, multi-instrumentalist, teacher, writer and music promoter.

silvia corda is a pianist, composer and piano teacher. she is mainly interested in jazz, contemporary music, improvised music as well as multimedia projects involving performing arts – contemporary dance, video, cinema, theatre.

composer and double bass player adriano orrù was born in nuoro, italy in 1958 and now lives and works in cagliari. he devotes his time to jazz, radical improvisation, and chamber music. he also works as a music teacher.

stanze consists of nine improvised pieces. recorded at home in monserrato. reeds. piano. double-bass. objects. pieces for morning. for nothing. left open. for people. in fourths.

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pan y rosas release the legendary story of a slug and a beetle by joão pedro viegas and paulo chagas!

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joão pedro viegas is a self-taught saxophone and clarinet player, author, lead singer and saxophonist of the groups ethnos, dr. estranho amor and just jazz friends. he’s studied jazz since 1983. his instruments – alto and tenor saxophones, bass clarinet and clarinet.

paulo chagas is a portuguese-born, wilfully eclectic musician. interested in experimentalism, the research of new (or renewed) solutions and links between sounds. a dedicated composer, multi-instrumentalist (woodwinds, electronics), teacher, writer and music promoter.

their first album for pan y rosas is a collection of duets in which the duo explores the limits of their extended technique, using their instruments as sound sources,with clarity, humor and focus. bass, soprano, sopranino clarinets. flute. oboe. improvised miniatures. suggestive imagery. haikai poems.

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kind words for palimpsest by adriano orrù!

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kind words for palimpsest by adriano orrù, paulo chagas, silvia corda, and mauro sambo!

Un significato poco conosciuto della parola “palinsesto” (il Palimpsest del titolo) è quello di pagina manoscritta dalla quale il testo originario è stato cancellato e sostituito con un altro. All’idea di scrittura sovrapposta si rifà Adriano Orrù, proponendo alcune sue linee di basso elettrico a tre colleghi, chiedendo di arricchirle o, viceversa, di spedirgli brani su cui sovrincidere il proprio strumento.

Ne esce un lavoro composto unicamente da duetti, col basso che si accompagna di volta in volta alle percussioni e all’elettronica di Mauro Sambo, al piano di Silvia Corda e agli strumenti a fiato di Paulo Chagas, conferendo al lavoro una certa varietà stilistica, unificata però da un mood sempre piuttosto pacato. Il disco funziona bene sia che si segua la scaletta, che alterna le tracce delle varie coppie, sia che si scelga di ascoltare di fila tutti i contributi di un determinato duo, visto che la varietà di cui si parlava è riscontrabile anche all’interno dei singoli duetti e raramente un ospite usa due volte lo stesso strumento. Nei tre pezzi in compagnia di Sambo, ad esempio, troviamo campane tibetane, gong, marimba e percussioni orientali, che caratterizzano ogni traccia e portano il basso a suonare in modo sempre diverso: Palimpsest è un blues ambientale intessuto di suoni spettrali, Life Of A Duet un brano più classicamente impro, fra brevi fughe e momenti d’intesa, mentre in Scrape Off Orrù duetta con il suo doppio campionato in un brano teso, impreziosito sul finale dalla marimba. Tre anche i pezzi con Silvia Corda che, portando in dote un piano preparato e uno giocattolo, per qualche strana alchimia fa ritrovare al basso una corposità quasi rock, evidente nella pulsante The Rain Tree Under The Rain, uno dei brani più riusciti dell’intero CD. Infine i quattro duetti coi fiati di Chagas – clarinetto basso, sax soprano e flauto – che ci portano in territori prossimi al jazz, dove il basso gioca con la melodia portante stiracchiandosi e contraendosi (Bortadie) o trova l’intesa su coordinate free, dopo aver seguito il flauto in atmosfere orientaleggianti (On Different Shores). Un album decisamente riuscito, che parte da un’idea originale e ben congegnata e la sviluppa in piena libertà, senza risentire dell’eterogeneità della formula con cui è assemblato, ma facendone anzi un punto di forza.

Il disco, oltre che acquistabile in formato fisico, è scaricabile gratuitamente dal sito dell’etichetta.

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kind words for palimpsest by adriano orrù!

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kind words for palimpsest by adriano orrù! in italian and poetic no less!

Sperimentazione rarefatta quella di “Palimpsest”.

Raccolta di pregevoli duetti strutturati tramite web dal bassista/contrabbassista sardo Adriano Orrù.

Tenui e bizzarri passaggi strumentali, ispirati e leggeri, che s’adombrano come soundtrack per ampi spazi deserti, talvolta ticchettanti di febbre al neon in stanza chiusa, rimbalzanti in deriva post e disposti in tenuta cameristica.

Ci son raccoglimento e istanti di sensuale incrocio elettroacustico, fra i glissandi e gli armonici di Orrù e gli interventi degli amici coinvolti (il piano e il toy piano di Silvia Corda, i fiati del portoghese Paulo Chagas, le percussioni e l’elettronica di Mauro Sambo).

C’è volontà di una ricerca oltre genere, fascinosa e calibrata, curiosa, bambina e imbronciata senza eccesso.

Un cane abbaia in lontananza mentre procedo nell’ascolto, un caldo e immobile silenzio lento si stringe tutt’attorno.

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pan y rosas release palimpsest by adriano orrù

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composer and double bass player adriano orrù was born in nuoro, italy in 1958 and now lives and works in cagliari. he devotes his time to jazz, radical improvisation, and chamber music. he also works as a music teacher.

adriano orrù’s first album for pan y rosas, palimpsest, is the result of his desire to experiment with the electric bass. he and his friends paulo chagas (wind instruments), silvia corda (pianos) and mauro sambo (percussion, electronics) sent tracks back and forth to create these ten duets. brainy free jazz improv for the soul action.

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