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Pigri

Emilia Vancini

Label: Espira
Released: 2025
Duration: 00:38:53
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Tracks

Alfie; Bring on The Night; My Ship; Duke Ellington's Sound of Love; For J.B.; Ilu Ayé; Stars Fell on Alabama; He Beeped When He Should Have Bopped; But Beautiful; Chega de Saudade; Song for Victor Jara; Pigro.

Personnel

Emilia Vancini

vocals

Guillermo Martín-Viana

drums

Album Description

‘Pigri’ is a collection of jazz standards for voice and drums, plus two originals by drummer Guillermo Martín-Viana (played solo) and an Italian song written by cantautore (singer- songwriter) Ivan Graziani) in the '70s. The atmosphere is minimalist, the musicians decided not to use arrangements, striving to play and sing in the moment. The album was recorded live in the studio in its entirety, without re-recordings or overdubs. Emilia and Guillermo preferred to keep some imperfections in order to retain the authenticity of the studio live recording. The title “Pigri” – refers to the Italian song in the album: ‘Pigro’. Pigro is a typical ‘70s protest song by Ivan Graziani. A song about people who are inflexible and mediocre at the same time, people who believe they are always right, willingly turning a blind eye to their true nature. Pigro is singular for lazy. The topic couldn’t be more actual. The musicians decided to play on the title of the song and to call the album ‘Pigri’ (plural of lazy) because they were too lazy to find other musicians to play in their CD and because they were too lazy to compose new songs (only two tracks are originals).

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