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Giulio Risi
Deep down where the heart beats no more
1. Aria 
2. Walking at the Alhambra
3. Pay me peanuts (but let me play)
4. Deep down where the heart beats non more
5. Song for Carmelo Bene
6. Passati Presenti
7. Calipsocongo
8. Piano & Bit / Il Cuore il Fiore
9. Just to let you know
10. La Fata
11. Scala dal paradiso in giù (Canzone per Papà)
Giulio Risi - ac.piano, keyboards,Hammond organ,FenderRhodes, Vocoder, Samples
Koby Israelite, Nick Marangoni, Asafs Sirkis - Drums
Nick Haward - Double Bass
Henry Thomas - Electric Bass
Henry Thomas, Silvio Galasso - Fretless Bass
Gael Bilger, Kevin Briggs, Antonio Onorato, Rocco Zifarelli - ac. Guitar
Antonio Onorato, Nico Sabatini - electric guitar
Andreas Borg - Flamenco guitar, Cajon & Palmas
Cousin Alice - Ukulele
Gilad Azmon - Tenor, Alto & Soprano Saxes
Nathan Mansfield - Trumpet
Roberto Casaburi - Violin & Viola
Pierluigi Marotta - Cello
B.atwell - Rap Voice
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Translate words into music notes, or translate notes into words, a similar
operation for Giulio
Risi, so that we would be tempted to speak about his Cd booklet as well
as his tunes: the pianist bears in his heart a work able to incorporate several
art forms into one; music beyond the music, pictures with big stains of shadows,
nocturnal, sudden lightning like inner leap ups.
Giulio says "I find it rather difficult to write
about what I do…..this Cd has attended my life in a phase that alternated the tragic
with the tragicomic…..I am not able to speak about music. I am maybe capable of
doing it".
Yes, he is able to, and the voice you hear is the most intimate one, fragments of
sensibility finding their way to the light of the manuscript book which is "the
result of a long and deeply needed period of loneliness. Sabbatical years spent
trying to shed a light upon my very inner self, on what I am or I believe myself
to be. The tunes contained in the album are mere attempts to break free from all
those voices, melodies, harmonies that have crossed me for years. I am firmly convinced
that anything we create, we do it simply to satisfy the primary urgency to free
ourselves from it, to get rid of it, to finally eradicate it from our mind so that
it won't torment us anymore".
But we are here to speak about music, first of all. Giulio's playing is
cultured, versatile, and creative. The Cd is conceived as a journey around the world:
from Africa ("Aria") to Flamenco ("Walking at the Alhambra"), from Samba ("Deep
down where the heart beats no more") to Bolero ("Passati Presenti / a past that
is present") from Hip Hop ("Piano & Bit") to bebop ("Just to let you know"). Then
to South America with "Calisocongo" and a symphonic orchestra that plays "Song for
Carmelo Bene" during which a voice reads "in un momento", beautiful poetry of the
late Dino Campana.
In the adventure the pianist is joined by many valid musicians, among whom shine
the performances of Henry Thomas and Asaf Sirkis, who are also part
of Giulio's live band,
Rocco Zifarelli
(who's is a member of the Ennio Morricone orchestra) a flighty guitarist
and technically nimble, Gilad Atzmon, elegant saxophonist and very suited
to Risi's aesthetic choices.
The harmonies hit you for their ethereal, fluctuating style. They are animated
by a rare sensibility both when Giulio approaches the multiethnic and when, in a
rather multifaceted way, he lively shows layers of different complexity, like in
"Pay me peanuts but let me play". Then "Song for Carmelo Bene", a classic orchestra
flow, Dino Campana's poetry: timbers vibrating elegy but never prosaically nostalgic,
rather a happy memory, a glance to the past, amplified by the beautiful arrangement.
Echoes of memory, far away, present, frequent in Giulio's Cd, also a Calypso
(Calipsocongo) in which majestically and breezy the piano keys are stricken, suggesting
life and passion, following a phrasing with a pleasant irony, underlined by Gilad
Atzmon's Sax and the vocal and instrumental inserts.
Echoes of memory, but also "Just to let you know", a statement of style, a post-bop
during which all the artists can emerge in their solos, following the more recognizable
Jazz language.
The eleventh track "Scala dal paradiso in giù (Canzone per Papà) - Stairway from
heaven (Song for Dad) – the silent touch is simply moving, the intimate echo of
some nights with tender breezes during which the pianist has given space
to his soul, a space that is never enough, that runs towards the stars, the moon,
the freeways of the sky, far away but still next to him, in the soul of remembrance,
in the constant and needed elegy of a music that knows no breaks, played following
the emotional forms, placid, bright, and again "silent", so beautiful that its impossible
to lose, even when the Cd is over…
Fabrizio Ciccarelli per Jazzitalia
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Publishing Date: 14/11/2009
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