Walk through landscape
izdo | Bratislava 1 Slowakei | 07/26/2000
(4 out of 5 stars)
"I did not hear them before. I even didn't know them. I was caught up on Italian names. After knowing Paolo Conte, La Banda (Italian brass band), Piccola Orchestra Avion Travel I started to be curious about their music. Gianluigi Trovesi (clarinets) and Gianni Coscia (accordion) play into your mood. It really seems like you know all those melodies included on the album. I treat it like a tribute to various people, tribute to country or to place where you listen to this. Try to liste to "Minor Dance": there is gypsy music, there is also bit of tango ("...til they sore"). If you like sunrise mornings in the mountain, you should listen this soundtrack. If you like empty night streets, you should listen this soundtrack walking around. Trovesi instruments reminds me Jan Garbarek sound. Coscia accordion will take you to Paris(?). Go ahead and take Django (you know him)and you're gonna get unspecific swing. I enjoyed it really a lot. Or very much. Whatever. You will too."
Sunny Mediterranean soundscape
ptitchitza | Leiden, Netherlands | 04/20/2001
(4 out of 5 stars)
"Imagine yourself strolling through sunny and empty streets of some lovely, intimate Mediterranean town on a lazy Sunday afternoon. You hear distant music and you let yourself be guided by it until you find an accordionist and a clarinetist at some small square, playing in a shade of a tree. You decide to stay and enjoy this beautiful, unobtrusive, nostalgic and positive music. An experience that makes your day a perfect one.The music reminds of something you might have heard in some Italian film, some folk themes as well, but just as it's about to become familiar it moves on to something else. "In this play of references to different texts and traditions, [Trovesi and Coscia] occasionally arouse systems of expectations within the listener that they then suddenly frustrate, by changing the rules of the game. Which is one of the characteristics of experiments, a characteristic assumed in this case without forgoing something that experimental music often forgoes, that is to say pleasure", says Umberto Eco in a lovely essay about this CD, and continues by making an excellent point in saying that "there is nothing more seductive than artfulness, when it has the humility to disguise itself as artlessness"."
"In cerca di cibo".... live
Marta Gasparrini | Heidelberg Germany | 11/07/2001
(4 out of 5 stars)
"Yesterday evening I went to the "in cerca di cibo" concert in a small German town and now I'm buying this lovely CD I racommend everybody who likes mediterranean melody, improvisation, musical equilibrium and atmosphere."
Track Listings (15) - Disc #1