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ARTIST
MARTELLOTTA, MASSIMO
TITLE
One Man Sessions Volume 2: Unprepared Piano
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
CINEDELIC RECORDS
CATALOG #
CNMM 002LP
CNMM 002LP
GENRE
CLASSICAL
RELEASE DATE
8/10/2018
After the oneiric journey through synthesizers on
Volume 1
, entitled
Synthesis
(2018),
Massimo Martellotta
(founding member of
Calibro 35
) returns with the second volume of
One Man Sessions
exploring the tonal possibilities of the classical instrument par excellence: the piano. The instrument is at the center of the scene, and the prepared piano in the manner of
John Cage
is here decontextualized and freely "In/Prepared" and reinvented in a very personal way, placing objects of common use on the strings themselves to obtain unprecedented timbres. Starting from its nature as a percussion instrument, the piano is hit, caressed, blocked with rubbers or left to resonate on the capsule of a microphone, or else pinched like a harp or a cymbalon, while it fires with the battery, the vibraphone or the mellotron. In
Unprepared Piano
, the music moves from more classical compositions, quoting
Chopin
and
Satie
(the opening piece "Come Un Notturno") to introspective drones ("Risonanza") to songs that hybridize the languages, delineating immediate melodies and openings in balance between the absolute modernity of
Nils Frahm
, the moving color imagery of
Bad Plus
(for example in "Sostenuto") and the minimalism of
Penguin Café Orchestra
("Nécessaire Per Fanciulli"). All this once again held together by an evocative, current and always recognizable conductor. An album where the piano is the protagonist then, but the dialogue with the other instruments is continuous, fluid, and you will often forget that behind every instrument there is only one person.
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