Michele Rabbia, Gianluca Petrella & Eivind Aarset – Lost River (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Michele Rabbia, Gianluca Petrella & Eivind Aarset – Lost River (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 44:17 minutes | 439 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM

Lost River is an evocative post-ambient, richly textured sonic event, and one of the outstanding beyond-category recordings of recent ECM history. Drummer Michele Rabbia and guitarist Eivind Aarset had played many duo concerts, and Rabbia had also worked with trombonist Gianluca Petrella in other contexts, but this recording marks a premiere for the trio. Spontaneously improvised for the most part, and with mysterious detail flowering inside its soundscapes, Lost River keeps revealing new forms. Rabbia’s drumming is freely creative and propulsive, and enhanced through his use of electronics. Aarset’s flowing playing will delight listeners who have enjoyed his Dream Logic project and his contribution to recordings with Nils Petter Molvӕr, Tigran Hamasyan, Andy Sheppard and others. Petrella’s role as a principal instrumental voice will surprise those who know him only as a great “jazz” soloist with Enrico Rava and Giovanni Guidi; his broad range is very well deployed in Manfred Eicher’s widescreen production on this recording, made in Udine in January 2018.

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Maria Pia De Vito, Francois Couturier, Anja Lechner, Michele Rabbia – Il Pergolese (2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Maria Pia De Vito, Francois Couturier, Anja Lechner, Michele Rabbia – Il Pergolese (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 59:16 minutes | 656 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM

Il Pergolese pays tribute to 18th century composer Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710 – 1736), and considers his relationship to the art music and the popular music of Naples, from a highly contemporary perspective. The text of the Stabat Mater – translated into Neapolitan by Maria Pia De Vito – and the opera arias, are transformed into songs and vivid narrative, open frames providing the key to reinterpreting Pergolesi. François Couturier’s arrangements widen Pergolesi’s structures, offering space for improvisational interaction. But this is a real group project, a discourse among acoustic sounds, with rhythms of drums and metals, and sampled and real-time electronics. Sound textures grow dense with the richness of instrumental counterpoint or are set free in electronic soundscapes and along coloristic, percussive lines, as cello becomes voice or voice becomes an instrument. The project was commissioned by the Festival Pergolesi-Spontini of Jesi in 2011. The present version was recorded in Lugano in December 2012, and produced by Manfred Eicher.

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Lorenzo Feliciati, Michele Rabbia – Antikythera (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Lorenzo Feliciati, Michele Rabbia – Antikythera (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 46:33 minutes | 458 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RareNoiseRecords

Visionary Italian composer and bass player Lorenzo Feliciati’s new RareNoise release arises out of a long-sought after collaboration with Italian master percussionist and sound-designer Michele Rabbia. In Antikythera, named after the Greek 1st Century astronomical computation device discovered in a shipwreck early in the 20th Century, Feliciati and Rabbia coalesce studio improvisation with incredibly detailed post production work, to produce a ‘musical mechanism’ of rare elegance and precision, spanning a bridge between ecstatic electric jazz and exquisite soundscape design. Special guests on Antikythera include trumpeter Cuong Vu, saxophonist Andy Sheppard, Italian pianists Rita Marcotulli and Alessandro Gwis and Feliciati’s Naked Truth and Mumpbeak bandmate, keyboardist Roy Powell.

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