Artist.......: Bernardo Sassetti
Album........: Unreal Sidewall Cartoon
Label........: Clean Feed
Genre........: Jazz
Catnr........: CF070CD
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: Dec-13-2006
str.date.....: Dec-11-2006
quality......: VBR/44,1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: http://www.cleanfeed-records.com/
track title time
01. pr≤logo 01:55
02. conjuntivo plural do inciativo 07:55
03. ernesto, misterioso obsessivo 06:08
04. dona ant≤nia (movimentos simples) 03:41
05. interl·dio experiΩncias 01:43
(tec.efeitos secundßrios)
06. coreografia de um jogo lento 06:27
07. evidence 05:29
08. i left my heart in algΓndaros de baixo 07:26
09. si te contara 03:54
10. conjuntivo caminho 04:31
11. dominio da m·sica 05:52
12. macΓncios, alquimias, indumentßria. 04:12
13. sidewalk cartoon 04:11
Runtime 63:24 min
Size 87,4 MB
Release Notes:
About the artist.
Influenced by Bill Evans and Keith Jarrett (without
the moans), even if his jazz piano teachers were
Horace Parlan and Sir Roland Hanna, Bernardo
Sassetti centered atentions since he was 18 years
old, when playing with the Moreiras Jazztet and the
quartet of saxophonist Carlos Martins.
He had classical formation and that shows in his
compositions, the music he writes for cinema and
some orchestral situations, for instance with the
Hong-Kong and the London Philarmonic Orchestras
(with pop singer Sting!), as a member of the Guy
Barker Quintet, the same group that in 1995 was
nominated for the Mercury Awards.
His gentle touch and flowing phrases deserved
invitations by the likes of Andy Shepard, Art
Farmer, Kenny Wheeler, Freddie Hubbard, Benny
Golson, Curtis Fuller and Eddie Henderson, among
others, and his love for Latin rhythms made him
play with Paquito DÆRivera and the Orquestra Cubana
Sierra Maestra. Brasil, Africa and the Iberian
Peninsula were also sources of inspiration for some
of his records.
He dedicates most part of his time and skills
composing film music, always with a jazz flavour û
thatÆs the case of Anthony MinguellaÆs ôThe
Talented Mr. Ripleyö, with Matt Damon. ôThat
increasingly limitless matterö, he says about
music, ôthe true mirror of the things we imagine it
to beö.
Cinema soundtracks, for Sassetti, are becoming the
way he transforms his imagination into music
images.
About the release.
Known for his film soundtracks as much as for his
straight-ahead jazz recordings, Portuguese pianist
and composer Bernardo Sassetti has with the new
"Unreal: Sidewalk Cartoon" his most ambitious work
ever, comprising the two aspects of his musical
output, from the mainstream to the cinematic and
beyond.
In every aspect: the disk is accompanied by a
surprising and beautiful book of photo assemblages
(he did it all himself, photography and digital
manipulation), and the music tell us a story in an
almost narrative way, with lots of non-sense and
humour, gathering musicians from both the jazz and
the classical contemporary music scenes.
There's a percussion ensemble, Drumming (eight
performers playing marimbas, vibraphone,
glockenspiel, steel drums, cymbals, Chinese bells,
tam-tam, woodblocks, etc.), a woodwind / brass
quintet, Cromeleque (with clarinets, oboe, bassoon,
flutes and French horn), a saxophone quartet,
Saxofφnia (going from alto to baritone), two of the
most important jazz drummers around, also active in
other music genres, like rock and world music,
Alexandre Frazπo and JosΘ Salgueiro, the
internationally known, specially in classical
contexts, tubist SΘrgio Carolino, a double bassist
in ascension, Ant≤nio Augusto Aguiar, a flute
soloist, Nuno Inßcio, and finally the Spanish
saxophonist / flutist, and Sassetti's regular
partner, Perico Sambeat.
And, of course, Bernardo Sassetti conducting and
sitting at the piano, besides contributing to the
polyrhythmic platform of all events with more
vibes, steel percussion and gongs. A superb
achievement in terms of arrangement and orchestral
direction, there's many layers here to discover,
making us remember Max Roach's percussion group
experiences, some of the flavour we find in "Cape
Verdean Blues", by Horace Silver, and the most
advanced writing for percussion, the one by Xenakis
for instance.
It could be pretentious and megalomaniac, but it's
not, thanks to the general irony and to the
apparently "easiness" of everything that happens,
track by track. "Unreal" is the definitive
affirmation of a musical genius and one of the best
records coming from Portugal in many years. Very
highly recommended.
Enjoy it and remember ... if u like it, buy it !