Two great artists leading an exceptional ensemble to present a project that will not fail to amaze and fascinate jazz and non-jazz fans. Ada Montellanico and Enrico Pieranunzi have, in fact, created a new work for the EGEA label that is a real journey into the poetic-musical world of Luigi Tenco. It is difficult to imagine a more effective combination to face and carry out such a delicate operation as that of giving life to new original sound stories through the exciting stories contained in the beautiful music and lyrics of the singer-songwriter. The two artists who signed "Dance of a Nymph" have brilliantly succeeded in the undertaking thanks to the excellent qualities that have long been recognized to them. Ada Montellanico has carved out her own, important space in the vocal panorama for making the Italian language sound and jazz improvisation and for being an interpreter capable of making her intimate emotional world adhere to the needs of narration. Enrico Pieranunzi, for his part, has built over the years, through his improvisations and compositions, a very personal sound universe that has made him one of the most appreciated Italian musicians in the world. If it is true that the Montellanico / Pieranunzi collaboration has already produced important works in the past such as "L'altra Tenco" (1996) and "But love no" (1997), it must be said immediately that "Dance of a nymph" presents itself as a completely new project, in a certain sense "revolutionary" because in it the most refined Italian songwriting tradition blends with the most authentic and transgressive jazz; so famous compositions such as, for example, "I fell in love with you" and "I understood that I love you" thanks to Pieranunzi's surprising, "transversal" arrangements and Montellanico's passionate, highly original interpretative approach, they will be completely "unpublished".
But, speaking of "unpublished", four truly special songs can be heard on the CD that cannot fail to impress with their great beauty and poetic force. There are four texts by Luigi Tenco - two of which set to music by Montellanico, two by Pieranunzi - whose recording constitutes an "event within an event" because never before have the songwriter's lyrics been set to music, an operation that has the other received the warm consent and support of the Tenco family. And the fact that two jazz musicians did all this has a particular flavor, taking into account the enormous importance that this music had in the formative years of the future author of so many wonderful songs. Naturally the extraordinary artistic results of the project would not have been possible without the decisive contribution of the musicians who participated in it, each of whom enriched the CD with his strong expressive personality with an exceptional guest, the prestigious American multi-instrumentalist Paul McCandless, for some time strong point of the legendary "Oregon". A project therefore that constitutes for various reasons an important and rare opportunity also and above all for the subtle interplay between the two artists who created it: a sort of seductive interplay, thanks to which Montellanico makes the word "Sound" and Pieranunzi transforms his sound into "word". But mainly, it will be possible to rediscover the immense originality and depth of Luigi Tenco, one of the most important artists ever to appear on the Italian music scene, in a completely new and unexpected guise. ~ enricopieranunzi.it [Translated from Italian]
EGEA Records, SCA 121, 2005
Recorded 20th and 21st
February, 2005 at Oratorio Di Santa Cecilia, Perugia, Italy
Musicians:
Ada Montellanico - Vocals
Enrico Pieranunzi - Piano,
Arranger
Paul McCandless - Soprano
Saxophone, Oboe, English Horn, Bass Clarinet, Flute
Bebo Ferra - Guitar
Luca Bulgarelli - Double Bass
Piero Salvatori - Cello
Michele Rabbia - Drums,
Percussion
Arkè String Quartet (#1,2,9)
Tracks:
01. Mi Sono Innamorato Di Te
{Luigi Tenco} (7:23)
02. Da Quando {Ada
Montellanico, Luigi Tenco} (5:29)
03. Mia Cara Amica {Enrico
Pieranunzi, Luigi Tenco} (6:12)
04. Quasi Sera {Carlo Donida,
Luigi Tenco} (4:51)
05. Danza Di Una Ninfa Sotto
La Luna {Ada Montellanico, Luigi Tenco} (6:24)
06. Che Cos'e'? {Enrico
Pieranunzi} (4:12)
07. Ho Capito Che Ti Amo
{Luigi Tenco} (5:39)
08. Il Tempo Passò
{Gianfranco Reverberi, Luigi Tenco} (5:39)
09. In Qualche Parte Del
Mondo {Luigi Tenco} (5:45)
10. O Me {Enrico Pieranunzi,
Luigi Tenco} (4:59)
Total Time: 56:41
Credits:
Recording & Mixing -
Angelo Cioffi
Cover [Watercolor] - Richard
Peduzzi
Graphics [Progetto Grafico] - Cecilia Valli
Photography - Adriano
Scognamillo
Liner Notes - Walter Veltroni
Liner Notes [Translation] -
Darragh Henegan
