ITALIANA! - Athanor Guitar Quartet

ITALIANA! ( CVLD287 )

Author : AAVV
Performer : Athanor Guitar Quartet

Tracks

1. The Nearness Of You (M. Washington - H. Carmichael) 3:24
2. Alone Together (A. Schwartz - H. Dietz) 4:20
3. Wild Is The Wind (D. Tiomkin - N. Washington) 3:55
4. So In Love (Cole Porter) 4:02
5. The Two Lonely People (B. Evans - C. Hall) 4:25
6. Skylark (J. Mercer - H. Carmichael) 4:20
7. The Old Country (C. Lewis - N. Adderley) 2:52
8. Turn Out The Stars (B. Evans - G. Lees) 4:54
9. I Wish I Knew (M. Gordon - H. Warren) 3:23
10. No Moon At All (D. Mann - R. Evans) 4:39
11. Try Your Wings (M. Barr - D. McGregor) 3:13

Total Time: 43:31

Lucia Minetti - Voice
Peter Ballestrero - Guitar
Stefano Profeta - Double Bass

Production: VELUT LUNA
Executive Producer: Marco Lincetto
Recording, Mixing, and Mastering Engineer: Marco Lincetto
Cover Photo: Massimo Forchino
Inside Photos: Marco Lincetto
Design and Layout: The Image

The recording was made direct to stereo master, strictly live-in-studio, during a single session at MagisterArea Studios, Main Hall, Preganziol, Italy, on September 23rd, 2017.

THIS IS A PURE AUDIOPHILE RECORDING:
During the recording of the digital HD PCM 88.2kHz/24bit master and the simultaneous analog master, as well as the subsequent transfer to disc, the entire audio chain was transformerless.
The signal was not processed through any device (no compression, no equalization, and no corrective editing) at any stage of production.

Notes

Over the years I have sung and loved many repertoires, exploring different sound worlds, from fado to Brazilian music, from French song to jazz. Since my album "Elle", made in 2003 together with my teacher Giorgio Gaslini, this is my first work completely dedicated to the standards of the great American songbook, almost a return, awaited and achieved with the maturity acquired after a long journey, to the heart of what has always been the main point of reference of my path. As if it were part of one's nature, jazz can be for a musician a way of relating to art in general, a desire for freedom, a desire to experience ever new emotions, to risk and to put oneself on the line every time one expresses oneself. Together with Pietro and Stefano I found a deep sharing of this spirit, this nature, which we wanted to call "JAZZ NATURE", and which immediately constituted the key to reading a vast repertoire of songs, from the 30s to the 70s, finding our group sound and selecting with great pleasure the songs for the album. Fully grasping the philosophy of this research and projecting us completely into the era of that jazz, Marco Lincetto proposed a recording method strictly live in the studio, which would maximize the characteristics of our "NATURE" approach, as well as the extraordinary technical qualities of audio recording. We enthusiastically accepted the difficult challenge, and lived an incredible experience together, two days during which the music was played, sung, listened to and recorded with the same tension and the same emotional intensity that you feel in the best concerts.