Giovanni Falzone Quintet - Pianeti Affini (CAM JAZZ RECORDS 2017)

Jazz has countless possible combinations. Through Pianeti Affini (trans. “Kindred Planets”) Giovanni Falzone and CAM JAZZ tried out an unusual quintet consisting of trumpet, accordion, trombone, bass and drums and, last but not least, electronics. Throughout more than an hour of music, these six instruments just kept pulling apart and then coming together again in an endless variety of amazing expressions of sound, timbre, rhythm and harmony that are forceful or vibrant and syncopated or hallucinogenic, poignant, distressing or graceful.  All the elements in jazz must be mixed with non-stop imagination to obtain this wealth of designs:  improvisation, pressing interaction, exchanges, swing and playfulness, but also all the technical and formal exactness required to “create as they go”. On further reflection, like some breathtaking fireworks, the most stunning musical forms, even impromptu forms, only develop when precise conditions – rules – processes exist, failing which such forms would be unfeasible. Exactness enables the conveyance of the true richness of this musical genre and unveils the underlying, unexpected similarities between worlds that only appear distant.  Listening to Giovanni Falzone on trumpet, Filippo Vignato on trombone, Fausto Beccalossi on accordion, Giulio Corini on bass and Alessandro Rossi on drums makes us discover five Kindred Planets. Their similarity, so intensely sought and found in those thousand expressions of sound, timbre, rhythm and harmony, is nothing but Jazz.

Recorded in Cavalicco on 2 - 3 February 2017 at Artesuono Recording Studio

Recording engineer Stefano Amerio

1 Pianeti Affini 6:22

2 Rosso Marte 9:45

3 Il Sole E La Luna 7:28

4 La Danza Di Venere 6:15

5 Dimensione Oscura 4:17

6 Stella Nascente 6:54

7 Terra 6:32

8 Mari 6:24

Giovanni Falzone ( Trumpet )

Filippo Vignato ( Trombone )

Fausto Beccalossi ( Accordion )

Giulio Corini ( Bass )

Alessandro Rossi ( Drums )

Loosebites (feat. Giovanni Falzone) - Electribute (2015)

Loosebites è una band del Nord est italiano formatasi a Trieste nel 2013 che si colloca in maniera trasversale rispetto a generi e linguaggi musicali. Grazie alla componente elettronica e alla strumentazione di un classico quartetto jazz (sax alto, piano, basso e batteria) la band riesce a scavalcare le barriere di genere invertendo il ruolo convenzionale delle singole voci, valorizzando i punti di forza e le influenze di ciascun componente. Il sound che emerge dagli originali trova la propria matrice nel jazz ed allo stesso tempo ammicca al rock, hip hop e alla musica elettronica.

Nel 2014 hanno registrato il loro primo album assieme a Giovanni Falzone, uno dei più noti trombettisti del panorama jazz italiano. Il loro nuovo album uscirà in febbraio 2015 con l’etichetta Birdland Sounds.

Giovanni Cigui – alto sax and electronics

Anselmo Luisi – drums

Francesco Deluisa – electric piano, keyboards and synthesisers

Simone Serafini – bass

Giovanni Falzone – trumpet (tracks: 1, 4, 5, 6, 8)

1. Reunion

2. We Do Try (Composed By – Filip Gavranovic)

3. 2 Notes

4. Electribute

5. Dark Passenger

6. Forbidden Questions

7. The Love Thing

8. Blind Date (Composed By – Loosebites)

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