Giampiero Locatelli - Right Away (2018) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

"Right Away" is the new album by the Calabrian pianist Giampiero Locatelli. The album, due out on February 23rd for Auand (Goodfellas distribution) was recorded in a trio with Gabriele Evangelista on double bass and Enrico Morello on drums. The choice of the trio turns out to be the most suitable formation to completely realize the musical vision and is an ideal and logical consequence of the compositional approach of Locatelli and the consequent manipulation of the musical material. The contribution of Evangelista and Morello, which actively contributed to giving the music the definitive form, is fundamental in this process.

Thanks to its heterogeneous musical training, not limited to a precise musical field but that ranges from contemporary to improvised music, the result differs considerably from the classic trio piano to take on new features: the trio is conceived as an operative nucleus with respect to a musical vision in which the material oscillates between improvisation and written parts.

Even if it comes from a background that is not exclusively melodic, Locatelli is endowed with an extraordinary communicative capacity that nevertheless manages to give a touch of immediacy to the complex constructions of his compositions. Among the 8 original songs we find Bachian sounds (Inspire Me), Escherian inspirations (Toward … Backward), ballads, jazz or minimal (From the last Frame and Like a Gentle Mood), and a subversion of the conception of the trio piano of the piece that gives the title to the album, Right Away.

Tracklist:

01. Fizzle, Deed Slow, Whistle (feat. Gabriele Evangelista, Enrico Morello)
02. Path (feat. Gabriele Evangelista, Enrico Morello)
03. Toward Backward (feat. Gabriele Evangelista, Enrico Morello)
04. From the Last Frame (feat. Gabriele Evangelista, Enrico Morello)
05. Inspire Me (feat. Gabriele Evangelista, Enrico Morello)
06. Right Away (feat. Gabriele Evangelista, Enrico Morello)
07. Like a Gentle Mood (feat. Gabriele Evangelista, Enrico Morello)
08. From Afar (feat. Gabriele Evangelista, Enrico Morello)

Personnel:

Giampiero Locatelli - piano
Gabriele Evangelista - double bass
Enrico Morello - drums



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