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The quartet assembled by trumpeter and composer Mario Mariotti indebted to the teaching of the European avant-garde of the Mid-Twentieth Century and the experience of the groups gathered at the Cellar Café in New York in 1964, wants to give a personal and current interpretation of the concept of ‘instant composing’. Inspired by some groups led by the musician, painter and teacher Bill Dixon, the trumpet/flugelhorn is flanked by two double basses and drums in a dialogue in which each of the sound elements is, at the same time, soloist and sideman. An interchange based on silences and breaths, reciprocal references and bare melodic motives, fragmented rhythms and contrasting dynamic games, in which listening is a fundamental part of the choice of ‘sound gestures’ put into play by the four musicians.

This album is a live set roughly 68-minute-long made up of a seamless suite divided into 11 parts (Stanze) recorded by Gianluca Turrini at AngelicA | Centro di Ricerca Musicale, Teatro San Leonardo, Bologna, March 23th, 2023, during the “Season 2021>2022 – nono anno"

Mario Mariotti - trumpet, flugelhorn , Emiliano Amadori - double bass (right channel), Danilo Gallo - double bass (left channel), recorder flute, Marco Zanoli - drums