Vasconcelos - Salis - Consolmagno

A BRIEF HISTORY:  

CD

At the moment the last CD of the series and prized piece of this small record label.  Even this work is the result of the digital registration on two tracks of the concert of Nana Vasconcelos, Antonello Salis and Peppe Consolmagno held in Rome at Fandango Jazz Festival – La Palma – on 15^th July 2004.  The characteristic of this CD is the fact that it seals the first meeting and, above all, the first concert of the trio.  Nana and Antonello had already performed together twenty years ago but with Peppe it was the first time, at least for Antonello.  It is fascinating to know that they only met the day before the concert: just time to say hello and go to the Rai to take part in the broadcast Stanza della Musica of Rai Radio tre Suite.  The next day, in only one and half hours, they managed to prepare the evening programme.  Very little time available but the ability of the three musicians, comforted by “knowing how to live hand to mouth” as Salis puts it, made it possible to participate in a memorable evening and have the possibility today of listening to that moment thanks to this CD.  The music is beautiful, the performance is good, the sounds are good, to which is added Marco Facondini’s knowledgeable work of digital post-production  (TanAcoustics Studio). The trio Vasconcelos, Salis and Consolmagno is based on ductility, on musical creativity and naturalness, through which the three musicians form every fragment of their experiences and musical influences.  A particularly intriguing meeting, between composition and improvisation, tradition and mo dernity.  

THE TRIO: It’s hard to describe in few words the intensity that Nana Vasconcelos can bring to a concert. When  he comes on the stage, the music starts to become  something magical. Nana is not only popular, he is also an innovator, who has amplified the concept of percussion extending it to everything that emits sound: nature, electronics and human bodies are the fields where Nana have made his experiments, always bearing in mind the Brazilian musical tradition. If you assist to a concert by Nana, you will see a one man band playing the strangest instruments and the audience transformed into an instrument too. Antonello Salis is an extrovert and creative musician, a real force of nature and also a poet. Versatile, unforeseeable, simple and innovative; a complete musician, he can pass from playing the piano to the accordion with the same fantastic style – he lives for music with extreme passion, a daydream to share with musicians and spectators alike. Thanks to his great sense of rhythm that permits him a remarkable self sufficiency, he generally prefers to collaborate with percussionists and drummers. Peppe Consolmagno, who is considered the Italian Alter-ego of Nana Vasconcelos, is very concerned with the search for new sounds, overriding the classical language of percussions in order to create sound track.  Unlike Nana, Peppe seems to draw closer to the noises of our urban civilization, dissecting the complex reflections that are born from the contrast between the desire to meditate and the frenetic pace of the twenty first century man. He builds instruments for himself and for Nana too, he is a surrealist artist, a sort of De Chirico of the music world, who transforms the stage into a workshop of dreams.