Enzo Favata The Crossing are:Enzo Favata / Pasquale Mirra / Rosa Brunello / Marco Frattini
A new album recorded after several shows in the summer of 2020. Enzo Favata The Crossing is a quartet with a progressive and contemporary attitude, mixing complex layers and themes, a travel in space and time, jazz, urban atmospheres, African and Mediterranean roots, electronica, krautrock and many other different styles. Enzo Favata, a maverick musican, producer, one of the most respected artists in the Italian jazz scene, has joined forces with Pasquale Mirra (vibraphone and midi marimba), Marco Frattini (drums) and Rosa Brunello (electric bass and double bass).
There is a special care and research in sound and production a balance between jazz interplay and dynamics, live recordings and studio sessions. “The Crossing is the band I was looking for since a long time” tells Enzo Favata “And I needed jazz players that had a new feeling and approach to compositions. Concert after concert the quartet reached a new dimension and tightness, a real band in all its aspects and the main goal was to transfer this energy into an album. I achieved this through a mix of live recordings and additional production, overdubs of keyboards and analogue synths of the 70s and other guests that provided an orchestral feeling, like the strings from Salvatore Maiore and Maria Vicentini, the cinematic vocals of Ilaria Pilar Patassini, Marcello Peghin's electric guitar and the Chinese master of guzheng, Zhan Qian.
In the studio session in February 2021 we recorded two tracks, “For Turiya” written by Charlie Haden for Alice Coltrane and a new electronic hi-energy song, “Black Lives Matter” with sampled vocals from Malcolm X, Fela Kuti and Steve Biko, a strong stand against racism, a long time problem still actual, and dedicated to the struggle of black people. The album opens with “Roots” by Ian Carr's Nucleus, legend of British jazz rock and Canterburysound, that leads to an original composition, “Turn”, featuring soprano sax, electronic instruments, vintage keyboards and organ, theremin and synths. “Salt Way” is an exploration of “fourth world music” as theorized by Jon Hassell and Brian Eno, without losing the key elements of jazz.
“Oasis” is the final track, where in 12 minutes there is a summary of many elements of the album, the love for African music through the Ethiopian scales played with bass clarinet. The recording was mixed and mastered by senior sound engineer Alberto Erre, with his deep knowledge of analogue gear, filters and compressors and the result is a warm wall of sound that can hardly be obtained with contemporary digital plug ins.
1. Roots 09:19
2. All Names 09:33
3. Turn 08:32
4. Salt Way 11:49
5. For Turiya 05:45
6. Black Lives Matter 03:08
7. Oasis 12:14
Enzo Favata soprano sax, indian flute , live electronics , synth
Pasquale Mirra vibraphone, marimba midi, live electronics , samplers
Rosa Brunello electric bass, live e electronics
Marco Frattini drums , samples
Turn, Oasis and Salt Way were recorded live in the Summer of 2020 by Attilio Lombardo
Roots was recorded live in the Summer of 2020 by Giacomo Jakkeddu Sanna
Black Lives Matter – For Turiya
Recorded in a session in February 2021 at Carrabbuffas Studio
Sound engineer Alberto Erre
All additional instruments and keyboards recorded in February 2021
Mixing
February 2021
RockHouse Studio
Sound Engineer Alberto Erre on a Trident 1990 desk
Mixing Session - Daw ProTools HD -Desk Trident Vector 432 - Master Bus compressor Neve 33609Jd - Converter A.D Lavry Blue M.AD824. Drum ins. Valley People610+ Tubetech CL2A + Emt 140 plate reverb - Bass ins. UA1176 - Vibra ins. Manley VariMu - Sax ins. Millennia Stt1 Producerpack tube Vs - EFX:Reverb Lexicon 224Xl + Lexicon lx480 - Tc 2290 - Eventide Eclipse - H3000se -
Mastering Session
Daw: Protools Hd - Efx Chain: Brainworx BX_digital V3 M/S plugin- Lindell 354E MultiBand Compressor plugin - Manley Massive Passive Eq Mastering Vs - Manley VariMu Compressor Mastering vs - Weiss MM-1 Limiter
Mixed and Mastered at RockHouse Blu Studio - Sassari 02-2021
Senior Chief Sound Engineer: Alberto Erre
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