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Luca Aquino: Chiaro

by Nicholas F. Mondello
October 29, 2011

With Chiaro trumpeter/composer Luca Aquino distinguishes himself as a creator/sound engineer extraordinaire. Following up on his Lunaria (EmArcy, 2009) and Icaro (EmArcy, 2010), Aquino again takes instruments in hand and integrates a beautifully lyrical, sensitive human musical approach within a dazzling and dizzying panoply of electronically generated textures and rhythms. Chiaro is an Italian word which can be translated as “clear." While the musical representations here are, at times, anything but, what is apparent is that Aquino ...