Giacomo Papetti

THE LOOM, the new quartet led by bassist Giacomo Papetti, features some of Italy's most original and active improvisers: Achille Succi on bass clarinet, Fulvio Sigurtà on trumpet/flugelhorn, and drummer Nelide Bandello.

THE LOOM, the new quartet led by bassist Giacomo Papetti, features some of Italy's most original and active improvisers: Achille Succi on bass clarinet, Fulvio Sigurtà on trumpet/flugelhorn, and drummer Nelide Bandello.

THE LOOM, the new quartet led by bassist Giacomo Papetti, features some of Italy's most original and active improvisers: Achille Succi on bass clarinet, Fulvio Sigurtà on trumpet/flugelhorn, and drummer Nelide Bandello.

“…An image? […] it could never really have five dimensions: length, width, height, ifth and oofth: at least that’s what I think…” These are the words used by scientist Oliver Farnsworth to describe one of his most unreal inventions: a mysterious 5-dimensional hypercube (penteract) machine. Ignoring the actual nature of the additional dimensions, Walter Tevis’ novel character pulls these two names out of the air to describe them. He will later discover that the fourth dimension (ifth) is nothing but time, and oofth is a sort of alternative time.

It was during a visit with my wife at Mart in Rovereto that I discovered Schiele and Austrian expressionism. Although many of the Austrian expressionists were part of the exhibition (together with Klimt), I was deeply impressed by Schiele's work and finally decided that I had to write something inspired by his story and production. Since I had to start a new year under Stefano Battaglia's direction in Siena, I thought that I couldn't have a better chance to test my ideas. I started collecting every type of material I could find about Schiele, and in a few weeks I wrote some of the music you can listen to on this CD. Despite all of the effort I put in it, I only managed to finish the whole job a year later. The music in the meantime changed, as did the group: new musicians gave my music a new and different life and it was thanks to them that I could bring the “Egon project” to a (hopefully) joyful end.