A Brave CD
author: Antonella A gelozzi
"After a deep sight, you can appreciate the precise, accurate and narrative pagination of the album: that prevents the listener from an occasional listening of the sequences. The first five pieces are re-readings, agreements, adaptations of pieces, from a classic repertory. A sort of jazzed up bridge (C.Q.) follows and leads to three compositions inspired by India, three mantras adapted to double bass with various tonal centres, written by Sebastiani. Another bridge, the influence of Marais’ musical scoring and we get to other three compositions, this time strongly jazzed up (the coltranian Equinox and the ellingtonian In a Sentimental Mood, and the most original Bass Express). In other words, it is a sort of multiethnic album, which can be outlined as follows: classic pieces / jazz bridge / Indian pieces / classic bridge/ jazz pieces / folk tail. A whole musical career, an entire life are summed up, in that way."
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author: Antonella A gelozzi
The repertory choices find a reflex -but with different lights- in the instrumental and stylistic ones: in the field of classical music, Marcello Sebastiani frequently uses the over recordings and shares between the bow and the pinched often overlapping them; in the ethnic and jazz field, the picking prevails and the over recordings disappear, as to highlight the concept of instantaneous composition, of performance, even if mediated by the recording studio. In the real dynamic of pieces, however, the styles aren’t strictly separated, but they interlace themselves in an unexpected way creating the polichromy which makes Bass Express unique in his gender
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Bass Express
author: A.Agelozzi
I like very much Sebastiani's music in that CD.As is possible to discover fron the liner notes Sebastiani "...After a deep sight, you can appreciate the precise, accurate and narrative pagination of the album: that prevents the listener from an occasional listening of the sequences. The first five pieces are re-readings, agreements, adaptations of pieces, from a classic repertory. A sort of jazzed up bridge (C.Q.) follows and leads to three compositions inspired by India, three mantras adapted to double bass with various tonal centres, written by Sebastiani. Another bridge, the influence of Marais’ musical scoring and we get to other three compositions, this time strongly jazzed up (the coltranian Equinox and the ellingtonian In a Sentimental Mood, and the most original Bass Express). In other words, it is a sort of multiethnic album, which can be outlined as follows: classic pieces / jazz bridge / Indian pieces / classic bridge/ jazz pieces / folk tail. A whole musical career, an entire life are summed up, in that way. ""
Great Music !!
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