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Black Milk Impulses
Auri and Camplese met while working together in Berlin in 2009. After a while they formed their own trio, Wine for Breakfast, which quickly progressed from playing solid but “traditional” jazz to freer more spontaneous and explorative sounds. It was an unforeseen occurrence at the, now defunct Alba Adriatica Jazz Festival, in 2010 that cemented the duo’s musical direction. Camplese invited his old friend, Matteo Anelli to fill in for their regular bassist, who bowed out the very last minute. As the men had not time to rehearse together and did not want to resort to interpreting standards they improvised the majority of the one hour set incorporating only very short snippets of arranged melodies and themes into their performance. The result was a resounding success with the festival audience. Back home, after trying out a few other bass players Auri and Camplese decided to abandon the bass in favor of another, unique sound hence Suginuma’s initial sojourn with the trio and their current collaboration with German trombonist Gerhard Gschlößl.
Gschlößl shared Auri and Camplese’s creative outlook and was able to enhance it by imaginative and fresh ideas. The result is spontaneously created haunting, edgy yet intensely melodic music. Fragments of tunes and motifs from Auri’s book of arrangements embellish and temper the raw viscerality of the extemporized music.
Auri’s darkly hued piano lines set an expectant mood enhanced by his use of electronics. Camplese’s colorful and harmonic drums intensely rumble and percolate while Gschlößl’s pensive, emotive growling horn pours forth organic, rough-hewn poetry.
Despite their unusually whimsical name Black Milk Impulses are no gimmicky group. They produce intelligent, cutting edge music that stimulates, thrills and immensely rewards the attentive listener. Hrayr Attarian
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Black Milk Impulses: Manifesto
by John Eyles
Black Milk Impulses is a Berlin-based trio that describes itself as a laboratory for improvised or roughly arranged electroacoustic jazz," a description which manages to incorporate a great deal into a short space, thus leaving the door open for many possibilities. The core members of the project are Australian pianist Leo Auri and Italian drummer Gianpaolo Camplese, who first met in 2009 and shortly afterwards formed the trio Wine for Breakfast. After forming Black Milk Impulses in 2011, they collaborated ...
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by Mark Corroto
We love jazz music because its purveyors wander off-script to make music. That is, they improvise. They do not wing-it or fake it. Step one, obtain a command of your instrument. Step two involves learning compositions. Step three, for a jazz musician, is to reinvent both step one and two.Such is Manifesto by the global consortium known as Black Milk Impulses. The core of BMI is Italian drummer Gianpaolo Camplese and Australian pianist Leo Auri. They have collaborated ...
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