Release : Enzo Favata - Made In Sardinia
Artist : Enzo Favata
Album : Made In Sardinia
Genre : Jazz
Source : CDDA
Label : Il Manifesto
URL : http://www.europejazz.net/mus/favata.htm
Date : 2003-11-25
Encoder : LAME 3.90.3 / alt-preset standard
Quality : 193kbps 44100 kHz Joint Stereo
Tracks : 13
Time : 61:27 min
Size : 91.31
1 Boche 'e Notte 7:04
2 Aprile A Castelsardo 6:12
3 Sa Bella Su Mondu (Song For A Little Flower) 4:15
4 Processione (Duo Version) 2:25
5 Tres Nuraghes 7:14
6 Gosos (Trad. Castelsardo) 6:02
7 Made In Sardinia 3:17
8 Ballu Lestru (Trad. Bitti) 1:37
9 Isola 6:47
10 Processione (Trio Version) 4:28
11 Las Plassas (Dance For Ralph) 5:08
12 Deus Ti Salvet Maria 3:00
13 In Pari A Lu Ventu 3:58
Castelsardo is a fishing village in the north of Sardinia. Here, at "Castello
dei Doria" was to be the recording of "Made In Sardinia", the sequel to ENZO
FAVATA'S Jazz 'n' World Project "Voyage En Sardaigne" in 1997 which is dedicated
to the ethnic music of his island.
Some of the musical compositions for this project follow the style of
traditional pieces of the traditional Sardinian polyphony. Other compositions
are the transformation of thoughts emerging in the midst of this severe
landscape which he has already shared for many years with the musicians he
usually works with.
He worked with the most diverse instruments such as his saxophones of course,
the piano, launeddas, (a triple bunch of reed pipes played only by circular
breathing) electric guitars, mixed sound samples, employed the traditional
trunfa (Sardinian wind harp) and traditional drums, normal drum set, percussion
as well as clarinet and double bass, combined with the Sardinian tenores, the
tenor choirs and voices from the distant past like the stones of the nuraghes.
Enzo Favata was the first to submit Sardinian music to an all-embracing personal
reflection in his CD entitled "Voyage en Sardaigne" in 1997. It was clear to him
that the illustrious heritage, counted not in hundreds of years but thousands of
years, would be impossible to comprehend on one CD only. Jazz as the most open
of all musical forms is Favata's socialisation. Therefore his roots are coming
from Archie Shepp, John Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders and not from the Folklore.
Favata records moods and motifs of Sardinian music, makes obvious comments on
them where tenors and launeddas are present, or creates fantastic metamorphoses
for them, of course also of the sound. The way in which it and Favata's silky
soprano saxophone pick up the launedda motifs and gently transform them into
jazz phrases for example in "Isola" (track 9), and or the way in which the same
instruments prepare the atmosphere in "Boche e Notte" (track 1) for the entry of
the "tenores" is pure magic.
Enzo Favata was born in the Catalanian city of Alghero in North-West-Sardinia.
Curiosity moved him from playing in traditional bands to experimenting with
electronic music and composing film music. Innumerable performances at festivals
and awards followed. His most famaous CDs so far are: "Voyage en Sardaigne" (il
manifesto), "aj≥" (New Tone) with Dino Saluzzi, "islα" (New Tone) and
"Atlantico" (il manifesto).
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