“What is actually outstanding about Amanita is their ability to develop ever-changing musical
atmospheres while their well-defined timbral identity still persists, evoking a strong
stylistic, soloist and composing personality.”
Eugenio Mirti for Jazzit (March/April 2012 – Jazzit Likes It!)
“One of the trio’s highlights is the musicians intimate mutual understanding, which allows
them to confidently take on even the most demanding scores. Uniquely, their music’s referential
point of departure is not only the jazz universe but the whole Mediterranean soundscape,
which they constantly look at as a great source of inspiration. A contemporary jazz
with overlays reminiscent of deep traditional flavours, where different overlay patterns follow
in succession, but always with the right balance between script and improvisation.”
Gerlando Gatto on Online Jazz (www.online-jazz.net)
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“What is actually outstanding about Amanita is their ability to develop ever-changing musical
atmospheres while their well-defined timbral identity still persists, evoking a strong
stylistic, soloist and composing personality.”
Eugenio Mirti for Jazzit (March/April 2012 – Jazzit Likes It!)
“One of the trio’s highlights is the musicians intimate mutual understanding, which allows
them to confidently take on even the most demanding scores. Uniquely, their music’s referential
point of departure is not only the jazz universe but the whole Mediterranean soundscape,
which they constantly look at as a great source of inspiration. A contemporary jazz
with overlays reminiscent of deep traditional flavours, where different overlay patterns follow
in succession, but always with the right balance between script and improvisation.”
Gerlando Gatto on Online Jazz (www.online-jazz.net)
“They can’t be de ned, strictly speaking, as jazzists, but rather as ‘argonauts’ who, originating from jazz
music, branch out to different genres which, in their debut album ‘Gente a Sud,’ are revised and
conveyed with attentiveness and inventiveness into a new form, consistent with their unique style.”
Note Di Colore (http://nuovojazz.blogspot.com)
“[…] Tradition mixes with avantgarde giving life to a distinctive and excellently executed album; a
debut which definitely persuaded us.”
Carlo Cammarella on Suono n° 464 del
05/2012
“The first track ‘Amanita’ invites us into their musical space, furnished with poise and expressive
simplicity […] ‘Brugal’ as well as ‘Geronimo’ are further evidence of this disposition, with their mutable,
open and lively melodic themes, that capture and sustain the audience’s attention by constantly
changing form as they play.”
Roberto Paviglianiti on All About Jazz (http://italia.allaboutjazz.com)
“Nine tracks packed with re nement and consistency that collectively aspire to express a specific
interpretation of jazz music. This comes through in the interplay among the three musicians and in the
inbetweens left to the individual’s creativity, that together are cleverlyarranged into the compositions.
[…] Another element that portrays Amanita’s stylistic hallmark is the reference to, or better, the
recovery and reinterpretation of rhythms of Southern Italy’s folk cultural background.
The trio manages to melt together contemporary jazz patterns and ethnic rhythms while making the
experience of listening to the music still enjoyable.”
Giuseppe Mavilla on Scrivere di Jazz (http://scriveredijazz.blogspot.it)
“Theirs is a jazz which embodies delicate sounds and melancholic moments, but still capable of
striking the right tone at the right time. The trio’s main feature is the interplay between the solid
rhythmic section (which also manages to emerge out from the background to take centre stage) and
Gagliardi’s soloist section. […] Positive reviews agree on a certain ‘mediterranean’ in uence in their
sound, almost as if it was subconsciously inherited from their place of origin (Cosenza), of that
southern heritage to which the album’s title also refers.”
Nico Toscani on Free Fall Jazz (http://freefalljazz.altervista.org)
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