Lino Zanussi

Zanussi Five - Ghost Dance (2010)
Flac (tracks+cue+log) | 45 min 58 sec | 257.83MB
Genre: Contemporary Jazz | Label: Moserobie Music Production

The Zanussi Five, brainchild of Norwegian bassist Per Zanussi, showcases his vivid, wide-ranging compositions. Zanussi is a powerful bassist with a huge, booming tone, and impeccable time, even at racehorse tempos. This music is vibrant, fast, and very modern. It is expressionistic, replete with saxophones that sigh, moan, honk, and howl. At the same time, it bursts with energy and swing.It's also utterly unpredictable. "Valzer," for example, is a slinky waltz with a sly, witty melody that offers respite from the fireworks that have dominated much of the album prior to its emergence. The piece is seductive and deceptively gentle, until it suddenly bursts into very fast, assertive 4/4 swing as one of the musicians digs in and plays a driving, unruly improvisation on baritone saxophone. Just as suddenly, the waltz re-emerges and wends its tongue-in-cheek way.

Portraits is a new series from Unexplained Sounds Group focusing on electronic and electro-acoustic music composers. Each release creates a 'portrait' of three musicians by showcasing representative pieces of their recent musical journeys, serving as a guide for further listening and a means of exploring their work. This first volume is dedicated to three Italian musicians: Gabriele Gasparotti, Daniele Ciullini, and Mario Lino Stancati. Gasparotti and Stancati are among the most talented emerging musicians on the Italian experimental scene, while Ciullini is a veteran of the post-industrial underground who, after a very long silence, returned to music in 2012.

Le récit de la vie de Lino Saputo, c’est celui—hors du commun et profondément inspirant—d’un jeune immigrant qui, encore adolescent, s’est attelé à la construction d’un monde où son père et ses proches pourraient à nouveau prospérer dans la dignité et la passion de leur art. …