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Carlo Actis Dato & Musique Vivante: Dolce Vita?
by Jerry D'Souza
Carlo Actis Dato is always looking for the unusual. As he travels across the world, he absorbs the sounds of the various countries and brings them into his compositions. But Actis Dato does not let it rest there. When he writes, he has a certain configuration in mind, which could range from a solo performance to a big band. In the case of this two-disc release, it's a new quintet--the second one in his canon after the Actis Band.
There ...
read moreQuadricromia: Quadricromia
by Chris May
An astonishingly compelling debut album from four Italian musicians in their early to mid-twenties, one of them just out of the conservatoire, three of them still studying, Quadricromia is full of the daring and enthusiasm of youth, but it has a depth and substance way beyond its years.
Such is the commonality of conservatoire training among emerging musicians today that many of them don't get to the coal face until their mid-twenties or later. We tend to forget it wasn't ...
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