Since recording this award-winning album, Giancarlo Trovesi has gone on to develop a body of work as strong as any on the Italian scene. Here, he performs on a range of reeds (alto and soprano saxophones, bass clarinet, and piccolo), backed by
Paolo Damiani on bass and
Ettore Fioravanti on percussion. As with his later work, he shows a propensity for folk and Eastern European melodies. For a largely noncommercial player identified with the avant-garde school of Italian jazz, this is a surprisingly accessible outing (although, in all fairness to
Trovesi, he has always skirted between conventional and postmodern music).
Damiani is given ample solo space, which he uses to great advantage, further strengthening his position as one of Europe's leading bass players.
Fioravanti, too, shows some marvelous chops. ~ Steven Loewy