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B.I.T. DUO | Danielle Di Majo | Manuela Pasqui

Danielle and Manuela have been performing as a duo since 2019. From the beginning a special
bond was born thanks to the sharing of artistic goals that inspired their "musical research". With this
lineup they have already recorded three albums for Filibusta Records, in 2021, 2023 and 2024.B.I.T.'s first album duo, “Come Again” (Filibusta), focuses on a new interpretation of material takenfrom classical repertoires and on original songs, with the aim of building a personal sound andlyricism, as well as developing a common musical language.
Their second album “Equilibrismi” (Filibusta), is an exclusive collection of original songs. It provided
fertile ground for the two instrumentalists to delve into melodic expressiveness and the art of
dialectical interaction between two musical instruments. The result of continuous and profound
research, both compositional and improvisational.

B.I.T. duo comes out in 2024, with “Puccini, my love” for FilibustaRecords (physical distribution IRD, digital distribution Altafonte Italia), dedicated to Giacomo Puccini, on the occasion of the centenary of his death. A mix of songs by the Italian composer and original compositions inspired by his work, which show how Puccini's music can be transformed and renewed through different styles and interpretations.

in 2025 it's out R-esistenze: placed along the path of historical identity, which sees memory as a way to
understand ourselves.
"With this project of original compositions we have moved forward in search of our own specific
musical language.
We were inspired by the personalities who, between 1920 and 1950, left an indelible mark on the
history of our country through political action, activism and poetry; they are writers, poets, such
as Lalla Romano, Miriam Mafai, Joyce Lussu, Dacia Maraini or Eugenio Montale, but also simple
people with a strong civic sense.
We made a full immersion in the sounds of poems, words, structures, poetic forms; we read their
stories and transformed them into melodies, into sonorous, liquid emotions, uniting our different
musical writings for the goal of telling these r-Existences, grasping their essence. The
compositions are characterized by evocative and lyrical themes, by very open and patternless
structures that leave room for our improvisational sensitivity, just like a story."

Gear

Danielle di Majo, sax alto, sax soprano, flute, compositions, arrangements

Manuela Pasqui, piano, synth, compositions, arrangements

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G. Gatto - Speaking of jazz: “...Pasqui traces tensions, cadence and expressive intensity by “conversing” with
the sax which is entrusted with the task of replacing the singing. Di Majo unravels it with lyrical freshness and
rich inventiveness.”
F. Ciccarelli – Rome in Jazz: “...We like this atmosphere that is never detached and of great sensitivity and
avoids elegance, poetic in its letting go of very gentle calibers to a touching interplay of sunset colors, to an
intuitive Jarrettian expressive tension in his Sublime with the astral phrasing in ECM movements of Danielle
on sax and the cultured piano of Manuela..."
P. Ghiglione - Music Map: “..The result is continuous and profound research, both in composition and
improvisation. A project that... can open up a world full of musical ideas for all those experimenters who have
the courage to interpret and who have the taste for change and know how to find new arrangements in the
great masterpieces of the past.”
G. Festinese - Il Manifesto: “The saxophonist Danielle Di Majo and the pianist Manuela Pasqui, composers
and arrangers, in a great work of explicit study starting from the title: Puccini My Love (Filibusta). Famous and
very famous arias restored to an epitomic poignancy all substance, melodic pulp, interlocking game between
quotation and improvisation.”
G. Gatto - About Jazz: “...A cultured and sensitive pianism, hers, which stimulates Di Majo in freeing the
sound, as well as on the soprano and alto, also on the flute... the duo's music, enthralled as in "Edera", in
"L'equilibrista" seems to walk on thread-like fibres, balanced on a center of gravity that allows it to proceed on
the harmonic string stretched for even more "knots", up to the final one , “Hand Luggage”, author Di Majo.
Jazz in Family - “Puccini, My Love” is not just a simple record, it is a sound experience that excites and
conquers. A journey through ages and styles, a perfect combination of tradition and innovation. A work of art
that will leave you breathless.