Friday, February 16, 2018

Giacomo Zanus Trio - Searching for the North (2018)


This Italian project was born in 2016 and it features Giacomo Zanus on guitar and compositions, the international doublebass player Mattia Magatelli (European Jazz Motion, Kaja Draksler, DUMItRIO, Sri Hanuraga, Filippo Vignato Quartet, Vitale/Magatelli/Windfeld Trio,ecc..) and the venetian drummer Max Trabucco (Oirquartett, Trabucco Bros, Max Trabucco 4th).

The result is a music inspired by contemporary jazz languages, which combines a lyrical writing approach founded on open spaces and more rhythmical ideas with a tension towards free improvisations too, maintaining dialogue and reciprocate interplay that converges in a well balanced musical conception.

The Trio is led towards a narrative dimension made of silences and densities, simple melodies from where create a compelling highly interactive sound space.

1. Prelude to the nature 01:33
2. Travenanzes 07:05
3. Searching for the North - Departure 07:03
4. To the Universe 05:30
5. One Way (feat. D.Boato) 09:13
6. Tre Cime (feat. D.Boato) 10:53
7. Scent of spring 05:37
8. In front of mountains 06:59
9. A glimpse from the top (feat. D.Boato) 06:36
10. This love 04:32
11. Searching for the North - Arrival (feat. D.Boato) 04:31


Giacomo Zanus: electric and classical guitar, effects, loops
Mattia Magatelli: doublebass
Max Trabucco: drums, percussions

Special Guest:
David Boato: trumpet, flugelhorn

All compositions by Giacomo Zanus except n°4 by Mattia Magatelli and n°9, a collective free improvisation.

Recorded at Artesuono Recording Studio, Cavallico (UD), Italy
Sound Engineer: Stefano Amerio
Mixed and Mastered by Stefano Amerio

Produced by Giacomo Zanus