L'UOMO CHE CAMMINA - TASCA, ALTERARCO

L'UOMO CHE CAMMINA ( CVLD269 )

Author : Saverio Tasca
Performer : SAVERIO TASCA, ALTERARCO

Tracks

PRIMO racconto
01. Albori
SECONDO racconto
02. Mattino e Schianti
03. Empatia / Irelica
TERZO racconto
04. Sfavillii
QUARTO racconto
05. Balzi
QUINTO racconto
06. Il Focolare e la Camera
07. O Choro
SESTO racconto
08. Galaverna
SETTIMO racconto
09. Preghiera
OTTAVO racconto
10. De Profundis
NONO racconto
11. Ciao ciao ciao


All compositions and arrangements by Saverio Tasca

Saverio Tasca, marimba
AlterArco
Josè David Fuenmayor Valera, violin
Mauro Spinazze, 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 sounds, deep, absolutely evocative.
Saverio is a true "mountain man": he lives in that wonderful place, suspended between the Veneto mountains and the Brenta river, called Bassano del Grappa. And just over a year ago, during one of his meditative walks in his mountains, he found himself walking, perhaps for the umpteenth time, those paths that exactly one hundred years ago became the protagonists of the sad and historical tragedies linked to the Great War, the First World War. And it was precisely during those walks that he had the idea of remembering, by composing a musical poem, those tragic and historically relevant years for all humanity.

It was there that the idea of "L'Uomo Che Cammina" was born and developed, an album that is a real concept.
The music develops among the echoes of the sensations aroused by the places, with an unparalleled descriptive force. And Saverio has chosen, to translate the sensations into sound, wood: in addition to the marimba, the "wooden" percussion, to accompany him is a classical string quartet (two violins, viola and cello) or the classical chamber music 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 the matrix of origin. Thus is born that type of music, difficult to catalog, that we can rightly define as "crossover", or a melting pot of styles that contribute to creating the only true "new music" of our time. A music that breaks away from a specific genre, without renouncing the native canons of many genres, fusing them together and often, as in this case, generating highly evocative and descriptive harmonies.

With this work, Tasca chooses not to offend the listener with dissonant and/or cacophonous sounds, he abandons the chimera of musical entropy, to move instead within the rules of a harmony... understandable to most. And he never forgets the melody, even if often in some way subservient to the 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 narrator is to make himself understood by those who listen to his stories... Saverio Tasca succeeds very well with this album and those who start listening to it will hardly be able to abandon it before the final seventieth minute of the work.