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The Aaron Choulai Trio: Ranu

Read "Ranu" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Papuaso/Cinese/Polacco/Ebreo/Australiano. Intreccio decisamente unico quello delle origini di Aaron Choulai, ventottenne pianista cresciuto tra canti tradizionali Motuan, la musica classica suonata dal nonno, il blues scoperto a Melbourne, ed il jazz entrato nel proprio destino tra scuole superiori e college. Choulai a dispetto della giovane età e di un percorso tempestato da input i più disparati licenzia un disco che normalmente verrebbe definito della maturità. Riflessivo, misurato, impregnato di humus accademico, jazzisticamente debitore del Bill Evans più malinconico, con qualche ...

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Album Review

Aaron Choulai Trio: Ranu

Read "Ranu" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose


It is almost as if just because he does not see like most folks that Papua, New Guinea-born pianist, Aaron Choulai has a heightened sense of hearing, which is so unlike anyone else's sense of hearing. All sound, to Choulai appears to resemble a sort of patchwork quilt with random, vividly colored aural swatches and swathes, at once dissonant and symmetrical, seemingly disparate textures colliding and creating new structures as his fingers touch and feel the white hot and ebony ...


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