Michele Rabia offers an exciting work of compositions and improvisations, out of melodic and rhythmic shackles.
After learning percussion and drums in Italy in the early 1980s, Michele Rabbia left her native country in 1986 to join the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Back home in the early 1990s, he joined the group Aires Tango with saxophonist Javier Girotto (whose album Escenas Argentinas released in 2005 we recommend ); more recently he joined Michel Godard's trio. He quickly developed a passion for improvisation and contemporary music. Nothing very surprising, moreover, when one sees the names of Dominique Pifarély, Sainkho Namchylak or his compatriots Battaglia, Colombo, Satta or Marcotulli on his career. It is this passion that we find in this new album which leaves on the always excellent transalpine label,.
For this adventure, he surrounded himself with pianist Marylin Crispell and cellist Vincent Courtois in an attempt to reach the state of grace. A dangerous attempt because, by definition, not eternal. We only end up there episodically and sometimes a bit by chance, bordering on perfection with the blink of an eye and then nothing. You have to know how to stop in time. Audacious therefore to embark on a musical adventure with such a premise. Yet agreeing on this guideline, each paying real attention to the play of the others and whatever the configuration (duo or trio), they manage to raise tension, melodies, etc ... to reach this moment I, like suspended in weightlessness.
The three musicians then play with the silences, pulling them towards them until they make hollows to better bounce back and surprise us. Michele Rabbia multiplies the sounds, he rubs, taps, touches and goes so far as to make his cymbals squeal. We wonder what's going on, we wonder how to make such and such a sound, because is it still an instrument? The machines are called upon, sometimes pushed into their entrenchment and then at the same time reveal an infinite sweetness emitted by a few piano notes or the deep sound of the cello.
With Shifting Grace , Michele Rabia offers a beautiful elaboration, concentration of lines, layers that overlap, add, intersect, collide and reverberate, to constitute an exciting work of compositions and improvisations, out of melodic shackles. and rhythmic. An album to listen to the ears on the alert! - http://musique.krinein.com/
Tracks
01. Masque
02. Encounter I
03. Figute
04. Encounter II
05. Fantasia Su Uno Scritto
06. Shifting Grace
07. Liaisons
08. Encounter III
09. Encounter IV
10. Encounter V
11. Petit Hommage
12. Masque·Trio Version
VINCENT COURTIOS cello
MICHELE RABBIA percussion
MARILYN CRISPELL piano
Recorded December 4-5, 2005 at Artesuono Recording Studio, Cavalicco
C.M.J. Jazz - CAMJ 7791-2