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Roberto Gatto: Traps
by John Kelman
Best-known to North American audiences for his work with fellow Italian, trumpeter Enrico Rava on Easy Living (ECM, 2004) and The Words and the Days (ECM, 2007), drummer Roberto Gatto is, nevertheless, a busy artist in his home country, appearing on dozens of albums over the past two decades. He's also a drummer who, like artists including Jack DeJohnette and Peter Erskine, is evolving a discography as a leader that's oftentimes distanced from its rhythm-heavy expectations. That's not ...
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by AAJ Italy Staff
Parte un po’ in sordina Traps, album d’esordio del nuovo quartetto di Roberto Gatto. I primi due brani, pur ottimamente suonati, galleggiano in una sorta di limbo, quello delle atmosfere tenui e delicate, tutto nuances e frasi carezzevoli, che può felicemente sublimarsi in poesia ma altrettanto velocemente sconfinare in frasi fatte, in deja vu e, nel peggiore dei casi, in noia. Il quartetto dà l’impressione di essere un po’ incerto sulla direzione da prendere, quasi timoroso di abbandonare un terreno ...
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