a r t i s t : Alfredo Impullitti
t i t l e : Kaos Ensemble - La geometria dell'abisso
d a t e : 1998
l a b e l : Splasch
g e n r e : Jazz
r l s. d a t e : Aug/2008
t r a c k s : 03
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 83,4 MB
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"La geometria dell'abisso"
frammenti da "Il libro dell'inquietudine" di F.Pessoa
musiche composte e dirette da Alfredo Impullitti
voce recitante Piergiorgio Cin∞
with Special guest Kenny Wheeler
Luigi Lupo - Flauto
Michelangelo Pellegrino - Oboe
Mauro Manzoni - Sax Soprano, Wood, Flutes
Fabio Pe3tti - Sax Soprano E Contralto, Clarinetto
Achille Succi - Clarinetto Basso
Andrea Ciullo - Fagotto
Daniele Giardina - Tromba E Flicorno
Claudio Carta - Corno Inglese
Enrico Basilico - Trombone
Fabrizio Puglisi - Pianoforte
Luca Bulgarelli - Contrabbasso
Alessandro Svampa - Batteria E Percussioni
Francesco Cusa - Percussioni
Sebastian Mannutza - Violino
Paola Garavaldi - Violino
Susanna Ulrich - Viola
Paolo Grandi - Violoncello
Kenny Wheeler: Tromba E Flicorno
Recorded Marh 24, 25, 1997 at Theatro Consorziale of Budrio
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This is one strange and delightful recording. Conceived by
composer Alfredo Impullitti from three texts by famed writer
Fernando Pessoa, he took three sections of Pessoa's "Il Libro
Dell'Inquietude" and set them to music, orchestrating them
according to a subtle palette of dramatic and dynamic colors.
His orchestra, the illustrious Kaos Ensemble, are masterful
timbral interlocutors, so the pairing is perfect.
The engagement of trumpeter and flugelhornist Kenny Wheeler is
not so curious either since he spends so much time composing
and arranging in Italy. Wheeler was not chosen as a soloist
because he hangs out in the land of Rome, however, it was
because of his uncanny warm tone and subtle manner of shifting
modes through melodic and lyrical invention and his way of
navigating an orchestra through particularly challenging
intervallic changes seamlessly. The music here on this
three-movement work -- that is narrated, not sung -- is a
mixture of late 20th century classical music using a minimal
set of pitches and meters, and late, nearly postmodern, 20th
century Italian big band jazz.
As the Kaos Ensemble offer variations on all of Impullitti's
themes, with his blessing, Wheeler and soprano saxophonist
Mauro Manzoni turn the themes into statements of prismatic
color and texture. The place of the string section here, in
the middle of the mix, is interesting in that it lends
ambience and glissando to virtually everything here, and
pianist Fabrizio Puglisi lends his post-bop stylistic touches
to everything here, adding some flourish to the restraint and
self-conscious depth.
This is a glorious if difficult to pin work, but one that is
well worth seeking out for fans of European jazz and
improvisation, or for fans of ECM's more adventurous projects.
~ Thom Jurek, All Music Guide
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01-duroedia [17:45]
02-l'altalena [22:11]
03-il circo [25:58]
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65:54 min