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Giacomo Merega: The Light and Other Things
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il giovane bassista genovese Giacomo Merega mette assieme un trio da sogno e ne approfitta per incidere un lavoro pieno di promesse mantenute che ci fa davvero ben sperare per l’emergere di una scena creativa di livello internazionale anche nel nostro paese, anche se il fatto che Giacomo abbia scelto di trasferirsi negli Stati Uniti per potere dare spazio alle sue idee, lascia capire come sia difficile emergere nella terra dei cachi, come ironicamente alcuni anni fa il nostro paese ...
Continue ReadingGiacomo Merega / David Tronzo / Noah Kaplan: The Light and Other Things
by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
This is an impressive record composed of ten improvised tracks whose titles are inspired by the work of Paul Klee. Klee, a Swiss cubist painter, may be relatively unknown--as is gifted guitarist David Tronzo--and what the artfully omitted subordinate clause of the album's first track might say is unclear, but it's helpful to know the first, important to know the second and hopelessly imperative to know the latter. Although there are several tracks that have bits that ...
Continue ReadingGiacomo Merega, David Tronzo, Noah Kaplan: The Light and Other Things
by Phil DiPietro
David Tronzo is more than a master of jazz slide guitar and world rhythms, panethnic to microethnic. He's a magician that can conjure music from thin air, literally improvising between the notes, at least those commonly used in western music. Mathematically, there are about 479 million combinations of the 12 tones of the western scale—Tronzo's opened the door to another half billion. He can also execute percussive rhythms while playing them, which results in a range of possibilities, quantifiable only ...
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