专辑介绍
揉和了原始而纯朴的民间歌曲的原始构成。仅仅使用了长笛,吉他,曼陀林和
双低音贝斯,乐队多情而变幻的演绎,一碟绿而不浓,脆而不薄的音乐!
====英文介绍:
The definition World Music, along with all the simplifications that it
tends to produce, serves to identify a type of music which draws its
energy from vastly different sources, inspired by folklore and thematic
ideas originating from the most varied areas of the globe, mixing them
together and amalgamating them with classical music so as to create
extremely distinctive compositions.
The Open Quartet has embraced this way of making music following a
tendency shared by each of its members, all of whom have different origins
and backgrounds: Classical and Classical-Contemporary, Mauro Scagliotti,
Massimo Caroldi and the extraordinary Amelia Saracco; Jazz, Paolo Trocelli.
Pierrot, by the young composer Giuseppe Elos, is an extremely lively piece
which has its roots in the cultural legacy of the mediterranean, and more
precisely in a Greek-French mélange. The rousing and fluid arrangement
highlights the celebrating spirit of the composition.
A similar atmosphere, or rather, similar sound, can be found in Zeibekeko
by Manos Loizos the famous Greek composer. The dance is articulated by a
2+2+2+3 rhythm which gives it an unusual and Arabic feel.
A bewildering romanticism charged with a completely different tension and
impressionist feel emerges in E written especially for the group by
Antonio Bologna bearing in mind the Jazz background of the double bass
player and entrusting him with a 4/4 rhythm of gloomy resonance leading to
a solo.
An especially effective arrangement with admirable balance among the
players can be found in Scagliotti’s work based on the tale of Alfonsina
y el Mar by Ariel Ramirez. The heart-wrenching melody which provides a
background to the tragic story of Alfonsina, who in dramatic finale
consigns her existence to the water, urges the musicians to draws accents
of noble melancholy from their instruments.
With Piccola Europa by Attilio Zaneti, who died in tragic circumstances
ten years ago, the group evokes a French feel permeated by wild dances,
whilst with Riuichi Sakamoto’s Forbidden Colours the audience is
transported in ancient Japan.
The exceptional Loosin Yelav, arranged by Luciano Berio, opens with
lyrical movement, a synthesis of simplicity and emotion set against a
second, more lively theme, which creates rhythmic contrast producing the
effect of a popular oriental festival which unexpectedly erupts in an A-B-
A-B alternation.
With the traditional Irish March and the Canti degli Indios Cutzo the
quartet rediscovers the ethnic heritage of two worlds far apart: that of
Ireland and Peru. If the first piece projects us into a medieval north, in
which we can imagine the procession of flagellants which approaches and
then disappears, in the Canti Cutzo a single colour is revived, one matrix
which reflects in its deaf drumming, a culture brushed aside
by civilisation.
Luigi Villa Freddi