Album Notes

Refined, elusive and esoteric in certain passages, “Psaico Bop“ is characterized by its pronounced quest for a significant language as well as accomplished and well-rounded aesthetical consistency. The pulsating-rhythmic force of the double-bass binds all, with Zanotti claiming the role of leader who is never complacent, but rather constructs a type of natural platform for the simultaneously auroral and crepuscular sound of Alberghini’s sax that in certain passages reaches summits of outstanding lyricism.

In this winning interplay, the piano of Puglisi combines technique, intuition and musical inspiration in a superlative manner to bring substance and meaning to the whole. The drums of Trotta, syntonic and exact, add the perfect direction to passages scattered with unexpected deviation, sudden changes of rhythm and thunderbolts that break into a “derailment of sound” in which the melodic blueprint gives way to a modus favoring rarefied interpretation rather than clear-cut lines.

But what leaves a lasting impression is the intimate awareness, on the part of the artists, of having found a generative code for a source of inspiration and intuition that translates itself into an expressive force via a highly effective musical language.
If jazz is somewhat of a diverse melting pot of musical idioms, we can undoubtedly say that “Psaico Bop” can step up as one of the best Italian jazz products created over the last few years.
(Enrico Malucelli)