THE WALKING MAN - POCKET, ALTERARCO

THE WALKING MAN (CVLD269)

Author: Saverio Tasca
Performer: SAVERIO TASCA, ALTERARCO

Available in: HD File, CD

Tracks

FIRST story
01. Albori (Dawn)
SECOND story
02. Mattino e Schianti (Morning and Crashes)
03. Empatia / Irelica (Empathy / Irelica)
THIRD story
04. Sfavillii (Sparkles)
FOURTH story
05. Balzi (Leaps)
FIFTH story
06. Il Focolare e la Camera (The Hearth and the Room)
07. O Choro
SIXTH story
08. Galaverna (Rime Ice)
SEVENTH story
09. Preghiera (Prayer)
EIGHTH story
10. De Profundis
NINTH story
11. Ciao ciao ciao (Bye bye bye)

All compositions and arrangements by Saverio Tasca

Saverio Tasca, marimba
AlterArco
Josè David Fuenmayor Valera, violin
Mauro Spinazzè, violin
Simone Siviero, viola
Giulio Padoin, cello

Notes

Saverio Tasca is a great musician, a great author. His instrument of choice is the marimba, the "piano" of percussion: warm and amber, deep, absolutely evocative sounds.
Saverio is a true "mountaineer": he lives in that wonderful place, suspended between the Venetian mountains and the Brenta river, called Bassano del Grappa. And just over a year ago, during one of his meditative walks on his mountains, he found himself traversing, perhaps for the umpteenth time, those paths that exactly one hundred years ago became the protagonists of the sad and historic tragedies linked to the Great War, the First World War. And it was precisely during those walks that he got the idea to commemorate, by composing a musical poem, those tragic and historically relevant years for all humanity.

It was there that the idea of "The Walking Man" was born and developed, an album that is a true concept.
The music unfolds amid the echoes of the sensations evoked by the places, with unparalleled descriptive power. And Saverio chose, to translate sensations into sound, wood: in addition to the marimba, the "wooden" percussion instrument, he is accompanied by a classical string quartet (two violins, viola and cello), the classical chamber formation par excellence. Saverio is a jazz musician, but in this case, the music is entirely written in score, note by note. But the style does not forget its origins. Thus was born that kind of music, difficult to categorize, which we can rightly define as "crossover," a melting pot of styles that contribute to creating the only true "new music" of our time. Music that breaks away from a determined genre, without renouncing the native canons of many genres, merging them together and often, as in this case, generating strongly evocative and descriptive harmonies.

With this work, Tasca chooses not to offend the listener with dissonant and/or cacophonous sounds, abandoning the chimera of musical entropy, to move instead within the rules of a harmony... comprehensible to most. And he never forgets melody, even if often somehow subservient to modal and serial style. Because in the end, the purpose of this project is to tell a story, not with words, but with music... And the first need of the storyteller is to be understood by those who listen to his stories... Saverio Tasca succeeds very well with this album, and those who begin listening can hardly abandon it before the final seventieth minute of the work.