Gabriele Mirabassi

First recording work of the duo Gabriele Mirabassi and Simone Zanchini. Disco fun, brilliant, full of a thousand ideas and musical colors. Eight pieces, most of which written by the performers themselves, where the compelling dialogue between the two instruments, alternating atmospheres of popular flavor with other cultured ones, reaches peaks of pure lyricism. The one made up of Gabriele and Simone is a real duo: absolute mastery of their instrument, strong individual imprint, inexhaustible personal creativity, but great understanding and sense of general balance. An album strongly linked to the EGEA tradition, but which explores new and stimulating directions through the use of an absolutely original language.

A melody you never heard before takes you back to a place where you have never been. Immediately, from the first notes of Traveller’s Ways, you as the listener feel that wondrous combination of familiarity and astonishment. On this magnificent album, Somsen, Pieranunzi and Mirabassi create music that feels like coming home and at the same time leads to numerous unknown destinations you have never visited before.

Giovanni Mirabassi released a new album called The Swan And The Storm with a new quartet composed by Lukmil Perez on drums, Clément Daldosso on double bass and a special guest: Guillaume Perret on saxophone.

In 2001 Mirabassi joined Rabih Abou-Khalil's group and soon became its foremost soloist who regularly brings the audience into a boiling state. While Rabih's music has an Arabic color, Gabriele's is deeply rooted in the folk music of his native Italy which he presents with great emotional power. Accordionist Luciano Biondini, who has also worked with such as Tony Scott and Enrico Rava, and tuba player Michel Godard, the most versatile exponent of his instrument worldwide, have been working with Mirabassi for quite a while - formerly as a quartet with additional drums or mandolin. All three of them are currently members in Rabih Abou-Khalil's band.

The album, recorded by the Teatro Comunale of Gubbio, holds full faith to the header with a series of intense sound portraits deeply linked to mood and Mediterranean influences. Themes are poignant, touching and delicate atmosphere, to be approached with serenity, lulled and excite. The magical relationship that has existed between the Roman pianist Enrico Pieranunzi and the small label Perugia EGEA allowed the artist to add another valuable element to its already long list of merits. The relationship between Pieranunzi and EGEA not deny the matrix jazz pianist but strengthens it by adding to the foundation jazz popular mood, Mediterranean, simple but very deep Pieranunzi has evidently inherent in his own mind as a musician.

La bolognese Cristina Zavalloni è da anni attiva in un repertorio che dal classico spesso spazia verso altri generi. Nel suo carnet di interprete si va da Claudio Monteverdi a Kurt Weill e ad autori contemporanei che scrivono per lei, da Michael Nyman a Louis Andriessen secondo una prassi già indicata da un’illustre collega che l’ha preceduta, Cathy Berberian (Popolo del Blues, aprile 2006). Nonostante abbia calcato i palcoscenici di importanti festival jazz, non la consideriamo una cantante jazz, ma che si rivolge al genere in modo personale.