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Giacomo Merega, Joe Morris: Opus Dichotomous
by Alberto Bazzurro
Dopo la comune militanza (a partire dal 2011, con tre album all'attivo) nel quartetto del sassofonista Noah Kaplan completato da Jason Nazary alla batteria, il bassista genovese Giacomo Merega, ormai newyorchese d'adozione, e il chitarrista Joe Morris, noto in particolare per il suo generoso--in quanto a documentazione discografica, specie su Leo--sodalizio con Ivo Perelman (ma non solo, ovviamente), in questo nuovo lavoro, inciso nel gennaio 2023, si propongono come duo, con molte, senz'altro legittime, ambizioni, che peraltro non sembrano trovare ...
Continue ReadingGiacomo Merega: Opus Dichotomous
by Mark Corroto
The title adopted by Giacomo Merega and Joe Morris' duo release Opus Dichotomous might be a false flag. This recording is anything but an exercise in contrasts. Merega's electric bass and Morris' guitar travel congruously throughout the nine tracks to deliver these improvised gems. Perhaps the dichotomy the title refers to is that of botany where a plant's dichotomous branching emanates from a common stem. Merega and Morris can be heard, along with drummer Jason Nazary, in the ...
Continue ReadingWhat Happens In A Year: Ceremonie / Musique
by Dan McClenaghan
New York-based reedist (bass clarinet, baritone saxophone) Josh Sinton says: “Every day when I wake up, I try to make some stuff." An admirable goal. One of the things he made, in cahoots with his band What Happens In A Year, is a recording called ceremonie / musique. The set has been described, accurately, as “daringly spacious." The instrumentation is sparse: the leader's deep reeds colluding with Todd Neufeld's electric guitar and Giacomo Merega's electric bass guitar, crafting surreal atmospheres ...
Continue ReadingNoah Kaplan Quartet: Out of the Hole
by Glenn Astarita
This is the third installment of saxophonist, composer Noah Kaplan's quartet for the hatology (now ezz-thetics) label amid an eight-year delay between the time the sessions were completed and the issuance of the album. For example, this live outing recorded at Firehouse 12 in Connecticut was consummated in 2012 and released in 2020. But in the liners, Kaplan states that a “quartet reunion gig in 2017 reminded him of the previously unreleased material's growth and substance" warranting a release of ...
Continue ReadingTrio (Mit)Marlene: The Surface of an Object
by Vincenzo Roggero
"La superficie di un oggetto" è, nella sua apparente ovvietà, il primo contatto con l'oggetto stesso, sia dal punto di vista visivo che tattile. Ed è anche il primo passo di un viaggio che sensi solerti e curiosi possono intraprendere verso la scoperta della realtà nascosta. Giacomo Merega, Michael Attias e Satoshi Takeishi sanno bene come affrontare questa esperienza sensoriale e il disco in questione ne è una chiara dimostrazione. Le superfici delle composizioni, apparentemente lisce, senza ...
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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Giacomo Merega
Instrument: Bass, electric
