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Living Alive

Label: Leo Records
Released: 1999

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Stefano Maltese and Open Sound Ensemble: Living Alive

Read "Living Alive" reviewed by Robert Spencer


Stefano Maltese is an accomplished Italian saxophonist who recorded a marvelous album in 1995, Double Mirror, featuring the “free music" giants Evan Parker and Keith Tippett. This time around he takes up soprano sax, alto sax, and (in a new addition) bass clarinet, but the rest of the instrumentation is rather more unusual: he's joined by ...

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Stefano Maltese Open Sound Ensemble: Living Alive

Read "Living Alive" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


“Living Alive” conveys heartfelt sentiment, depth and generous doses of free-improvisational dialogue; although, the compositions tend to be rhythmically structured and compositionally cohesive. Saxophonist Stefano Maltese and his “Open Sound Ensemble” create moody, dreamlike passages that often stimulate and divert the listener’s imagination which is noticeably evident on the opening cut, “Words-Two Colours”. At 19 minutes, ...


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