Distante is the second rehearsal in the studio for the Marche-based Jano Quartet, after the interesting self-produced debut Naked Things. On this occasion it is Via Veneto Jazz to publish the album, in which trumpeter Luca Aquino also actively participates, capable with his never predictable musical vision of giving further expressive keys to the already wide spectrum of the band. Theirs is an electro-acoustic approach, as the electronic component plays a central role in the compositional strategies of the ten originals in the program, which range with ease from relaxed situations such as Affinity-Michka to passages with a sourer and more controversial flavor, such as Marching of Thousand People. Between the lines we can read the desire to break determined and predictable patterns, adding rhythmic matrices full of grooves, solos that undertake tangents close to free and figurations that intertwine even complex melodies. The diversity of the writing of the pieces, six of which are signed by the pianist Emiliano D'Auria, brings to this work the alternation of flavors and atmospheres that keep alive a tension that would otherwise fail. Exemplary, in this sense, is the passage in the lineup between the ballad with sentimental features Yelizaveta , the organized chaos of the rumoristic The World Is Changing Hertz , and the chiaroscuro tones that pervade Viola. ~ Roberto Paviglianiti, suono.it. [Translated from Italian]
Via Veneto Jazz, VVJ 079, 2012
Musicians:
Gianluca Caporale - Tenor
& Soprano Saxophones, Clarinet
Emiliano D'Auria - Piano,
Rhodes, Electronics
Amin Zarrinchang - Double
Bass
Alex Paolini - Drums,
Electronics
Guest:
Luca Aquino - Trumpet,
Flugelhorn, Electronics
Tracks:
01. Distante {Emiliano D'Auria}
(5:53)
02. Marching Of A Thousand
People {Emiliano D'Auria} (4:43)
03. Patagonia {Emiliano
D'Auria} (5:13)
04. Affinity-Michka {Emiliano
D'Auria} (7:35)
05. Speedy {Gianluca
Caporale} (5:40)
06. Yelizaveta {Amin
Zarrinchang} (5:01)
07. The World Is Changing
Hertz {Alex Paolini} (1:52)
08. Viola [Violet] {Emiliano
D'Auria} (4:27)
09. Sopra Le Nuvole [Above
The Clouds] {Luca Aquino} (3:00)
10. Frantic {Emiliano
D'Auria} (8:09)
Total Time: 51:33
