Track List:
1 Backstitched Blues 10:18
2 I, the wind, come and go as I choose 10:12
3 And none can stop me 08:27
4 Embrujo 11:34
5 La noche arrolladora 13:50
6 Taaripalo 07:38
7 Be at one with this world 11:21
8 In the blink of an eye 04:25
Listen to excerpts:
Backstitched Blues ►
I, the wind, come and go as I choose ►
And none can stop me ►
Embrujo ►
La noche arrolladora ►
Taaripalo ►
Be at one with this world ►
In the blink of an eye ►
Get the music:
Half of the songs on this album are composed overlapping different rhythmic ideas, different melodic-rhythmic cycles, creating a clear sense of time but without a clear “one” (many “ones”?, no “ones” at all?), a base to play more freely in space. In Backstitched Blues the bass plays in 5, drums in 6, piano in 9 and sax in 11 (listen ►) …still learning from Steve Coleman.
I, the wind, come and go as I choose, and none can stop me is what Sun Ra says by the end of his film Space is the Place. And this, I think, is the courageous spirit that supports millions of people all over the world when they leave their countries escaping war, looking for new opportunities, or just following their dreams. Two songs dedicated to the untamed spirit of swallows, reindeer, butterflies, whales and human beings.
Embrujo is another composition made up of overlapping phrases, and about the magic, the mystery that surrounds us.
“…y vi de pronto el cielo desgranado y abierto, planetas, plantaciones palpitantes, la sombra perforada, acribillada por flechas, fuego y flores, la noche arrolladora, el universo”. From Pablo Neruda’s “La Poesía“, my homage to one of my country’s greatest poets.
Taaripalo is a blues and is what I call a “words song”: we play the words of the song with whatever note/sound/dynamic, and the result is an atonal melody with a non-synchronized rhythm of the words: Dhum Tikapa Taaripalo Chikitibo, Dha-,Dha-, Tiram/Pa, Taari/Pa/Lo
“Those who know do not speak, those who speak do not know, stop the senses, close their doors, blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, harmonize your inner light, be at one with this world“. Laozi’s DaoDeJing ch.56
An intimate piano and bass rendition of In the Blink of an Eye…ed è subito sera.
Personnel: Antonio Flinta piano, Paolo Farinelli alto sax, Roberto Bucci bass, Claudio Gioannini drums
