Year: 2009
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 41:34
Size: 95,6 MB
Art: Front
(5:04) 1. Footprints
(3:16) 2. Mimì
(4:25) 3. Special Day
(4:31) 4. Suite et poursuite (Part I)
(3:44) 5. Suite et poursuite (Part II)
(1:41) 6. Suite et poursuite (Bass Solo Interlude)
(3:03) 7. Suite et poursuite (Part III)
(3:26) 8. The Circle
(4:09) 9. Bass Song for Napoli
(3:57) 10. Coffe Shop
(4:14) 11. Essential Blues
Destiny in the name. Perhaps, surely, however, this is not the case with this Trio. At least that, for "ostiko" you don't want to pass off the antithesis of what is cheaply sold, marketed, in the current Italian or overseas musical panorama. In this sense, then, it is easy for us to welcome the "hostilities" feared by the title and name of the group. A trio that was born from a rib of Pippo Matino's Essential Team, when in 1995 it hosted the then young emerging talent Rosario Giuliani. Fourteen years of limbo during which the bassist from Portici has never shelved the idea of giving birth to an ad hoc project.
With the absolute complicity of Peppe Rosato, owner of the Alhambra Birrjazz, a venue in lower Lazio where Giuliani and Matino have performed several times and have been able to hone their weapons, enriched by the meeting with Benjamin Henocq, drummer, composer and arranger, already awarded the "D'jango d'Or" in 1998, the eponymous album was born. Eight songs in all, of which seven originals and only one dedicated to Wayne Shorter with Footprints at the opening, with an intense groove fueled by the up-tempo of Matino and Henocq who launch the solo brilliance of Giuliani's alto sax. The seven autograph songs are well divided.
Mimì is the signature of the saxophonist from Terracina, breezy, with broad and round sonorities, fast and biting, preceded by a long and pressing solo by Henocq, permeated with a dry urban language. The filmic traits of the French drummer's ballad Special Day maintain that New York imprinting, without falling into mainstream mannerisms, and it is sensual and enveloping. Suite et poursuite is articulated in three movements that put the casual instrumental technique of the musicians on a pedestal. From the robust rhythmic architecture the first, fast and vigorous. The jumble of forms leads towards the second movement, pervaded by a gentle halo but always poised with restlessness and which spills over into the solo bass interlude where Matino shows all his mastery of the instrument.
Accelerations, dizzying rhythms, a veritable magma of sound led by Giuliani's torrential phrasing dictate the timing of the third movement. The Circle has the seal of Henocq and its rhythmic tensions come to the surface mixing well with the voices of the group. Bass Song for Napoli and Essential Blues see the theme song by Pippo Matino. The first has a soft and cautious lyricism, with Giuliani careful to juxtapose the notes on the scaffolding of the sounds woven with skill by the Campania bassist.
The second draws on the repertoire dear to Matino, made of expressive intensity conferred by the dynamics of the sound and the power of the phrasing, corroborated by Henocq's robust drive. Coffee Shop is by Giuliani and crosses his sound universe, with sustained tempos and a sense of proportion. A work of excellent workmanship, thick and with a very robust overall system. Alceste Ayroldi for Jazzitalia..Translate By Google http://www.jazzitalia.net/recensioni/trioostiko.asp#.ZCBeINeZOpo
Personnel: Rosario Giuliani alto, soprano sax; Pippo Matino bass; Benjamin Henocq drums
With the absolute complicity of Peppe Rosato, owner of the Alhambra Birrjazz, a venue in lower Lazio where Giuliani and Matino have performed several times and have been able to hone their weapons, enriched by the meeting with Benjamin Henocq, drummer, composer and arranger, already awarded the "D'jango d'Or" in 1998, the eponymous album was born. Eight songs in all, of which seven originals and only one dedicated to Wayne Shorter with Footprints at the opening, with an intense groove fueled by the up-tempo of Matino and Henocq who launch the solo brilliance of Giuliani's alto sax. The seven autograph songs are well divided.
Mimì is the signature of the saxophonist from Terracina, breezy, with broad and round sonorities, fast and biting, preceded by a long and pressing solo by Henocq, permeated with a dry urban language. The filmic traits of the French drummer's ballad Special Day maintain that New York imprinting, without falling into mainstream mannerisms, and it is sensual and enveloping. Suite et poursuite is articulated in three movements that put the casual instrumental technique of the musicians on a pedestal. From the robust rhythmic architecture the first, fast and vigorous. The jumble of forms leads towards the second movement, pervaded by a gentle halo but always poised with restlessness and which spills over into the solo bass interlude where Matino shows all his mastery of the instrument.
Accelerations, dizzying rhythms, a veritable magma of sound led by Giuliani's torrential phrasing dictate the timing of the third movement. The Circle has the seal of Henocq and its rhythmic tensions come to the surface mixing well with the voices of the group. Bass Song for Napoli and Essential Blues see the theme song by Pippo Matino. The first has a soft and cautious lyricism, with Giuliani careful to juxtapose the notes on the scaffolding of the sounds woven with skill by the Campania bassist.
The second draws on the repertoire dear to Matino, made of expressive intensity conferred by the dynamics of the sound and the power of the phrasing, corroborated by Henocq's robust drive. Coffee Shop is by Giuliani and crosses his sound universe, with sustained tempos and a sense of proportion. A work of excellent workmanship, thick and with a very robust overall system. Alceste Ayroldi for Jazzitalia..Translate By Google http://www.jazzitalia.net/recensioni/trioostiko.asp#.ZCBeINeZOpo
Personnel: Rosario Giuliani alto, soprano sax; Pippo Matino bass; Benjamin Henocq drums
Trio Ostiko
