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Vito Liturri Trio: Desires and Fears

Read "Desires and Fears" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
December 27, 2022

Every city one walks through is a different dream. Every piece of music that vibrates across time and space is also a dream--an assertion framed to perfection by the Vito Liturri Trio's Desires And Fears. Italian pianist Liturri takes his inspiration from his countryman Italo Calvino's fantastical 1972 novel, Invisible Cities (Giudio Einaudi), a Nebula Award-nominated book that features Marco Polo's descriptions--to Emperor Kublai Khan--of 55 cities he (Polo) has experienced. The tales/prose poems told by Polo are ...

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Vito Liturri: From Beyond

Read "From Beyond" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
March 16, 2018

With every note suspended luxuriously in the air so you can savor its resonance, this sonorously produced and beautifully played second recording from the Vito Liturri Trio is, from “Albe's Garden" to “An Empty Room" (all titles English translations) a delicious listen. The trio -Vito Liturri--piano, synth, electronics, Marco Boccia--double bass, and drummer/percussionist Lello Patruno play with a unified, seasoned integrity and an intuitive, emotional melodic desire. Languid creativity abounds and the interplay between the three players is ...

Album Review

Vito Liturri: From Beyond

Read "From Beyond" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
February 7, 2018

Italian pianist Vito Liturri presents his sophomore CD release with From Beyond, a trio outing with a ten tune sequence that works almost as a suite. In fact, he tags the centerpiece, the four composition “From Beyond-Four Quadruple Suite." Part of the beauty and appeal of that suite, and the entire set, is the focus of Liturri's vision. He penned all but two one of the tunes, and those two exceptions he co-wrote. The continuity of mood and atmosphere of ...