The musical journey of three voyagers into the universe of free improvisation, musical European traditions, jazz avant-guard, ambient and post-electric Miles. Ayers Rock
I always consider myself a composer using percussion and keyboards as one of many means I'm using (orchestra included) to give life to my music. That's why in an album making, the conceiving before ad the editing after are so important to me. (Andrea Centazzo)
The musical journey of three voyagers into the universe of free improvisation, musical European traditions, jazz avant-guard, ambient and post-electric Miles.
Review:
Unreal ... I don't think there is another word for this new album by Andrea Centazzo... this album is unreal because it does not sound like anything you've heard before. Master percussionist Centazzo (all percussion and vibes) sets the tone for a voyage to a variety of places on earth : Australia, Japan, Senegal, Norway, UK, India, Seychelles, Indonesia. He is accompanied on this journey by Polish singer Sylwia Bialas and German trumpeter Hans-Peter Salentin. Centazzo's playing sounds remote, as if you're listening to him from a distance, a large concert hall or something, and so do both other musicians, who play with lots of reverb and chamber effects, creating an effect of open spaces. Salentin furthermore uses every electronic possibility available today to make his trumpet create sounds previously unheard, without relinquishing the basic sounds. His playing and improvising are excellent, with some Miles references in it, also indebted to Nils Petter-Molvaer or Markus Stockhausen. As I said, Centazzo sets the tone and the pace for each track, from meditative pieces, over polyrhytmic complexities to tribal drumming, adding accents where needed. The real star of the album is the singer though. Bialas's voice is not only exceptional, both in timbre and range, but her improvizations are stunning. She uses her voice like an instrument, wordless, powerful, soaring, ... The greatest thing is the overall effect : the pure voice, the trumpet, the percussion. Pure jazz afficionados should abstain, this is nu-jazz, fusion, ambient, avant-garde new-age jazz or whatever you call it, but it's genuine, it's authentic, it's cinematic, it's dramatic, the search for expressiveness and the result are not fake, no plastic. It's real. So, well, in conclusion : it's both real and unreal. (review courtesy of STEFF, freejazz-stef.blogspot.com)
The Voyagers are:
Andrea Centazzo - During his artistic career that spans over 30 years, Andrea Centazzo has given more than 1500 concerts and live performances in Europe, Asia and in the United States, as well as appeared and performed on numerous radio and television broadcasts worldwide. He has recorded over 170 LP's and CD's, and has authored 350 compositions published by Warner Chappell and eight musicology books. He has performed at festivals, concert seasons and theaters as soloist and conductor of his compositions. He has performed and recorded, co-leading, with some of the greatest avant-garde soloists and composers. Deservedly, Centazzo (as composer, performer and video director) has received a number of prestigious music and video Awards (Italian Critic’s Choice Award, Italy, Downbeat Magazine Poll, USA, International Video Festival Tokyo, Japan, Prix Arcanal of French Culture, France, Jazz Forum Critic’s Poll, USA, Bruce Chatwin Award, Italy and many more). Active also as sound track composer he scored for film, video and theatrical productions winning the LA Dramalogue Award in 1995. His 30th Anniversary Box Set has been nominated Best Box Set of 2006 by the American Jazz critics Association For 15 years now, Centazzo has been working to create multi-media experiences, combining live music with video images, blending traditional instrumentation with the latest music digital technology. Born and raised in Italy, but naturalized American in 2000, since 1992 he has lived and worked both in Los Angeles and Bologna, traveling extensively Asia and Europe. Now is resident in Long Beach, California.
Hans-Peter Salentin - Der Musiker,Yamaha Rec.Artist, Komponist, Autor im AMA Verlag " Salentin's Trompetenschule"- 2003 deutscher Musikeditions –Preis, Salentin,s Improvisationsschule, Produzent und Professor an der Hochschule für Musik Würzburg ist: " einer der besten Trompeter der heutigen europäischen Szene ". Dieses Zitat stammt von Prof. Bill Dobbins, Chefdirigent der WDR Big Band, Leiter der Jazzabteilung der Musikhochschule in Köln (2002) und zur Zeit in Rochester/New York tätig. Hans-Peter Salentin absolvierte sein Musikstudium bei John Eardley (Gerry Mulligan Sextett) an der Kölner Musikhochschule. Nach elfjähriger Dozententätigkeit, wurde er 2001 an der Hochschule für Musik Würzburg berufen und ist seit dem 14.07.2003 Professor für Jazz Trompete, Big Band und Combo. Er ist künstlerischer Partner vieler bedeutender Jazzmusiker: James Carter( Leverkusener Jazzfestival), Chick Corea ( Frankfurt Musikmesse), Bob Mintzer, Simon Phillips (Toto), Brandford Marsalis, Jeff Hamilton, John Scofield (Leverkusener Jazzfestival), Miroslav Vitous, Roland Höppner, Bill Dobbins (YVP CD"Live im Stadtgarten" und das Trio Projekt "The Music of Bill Evans"), John Schröder, Dieter Greifenberg, Decibal Badila, John Goldsby, Thomas Alkier, Mathias Schubert, Mike Herting, Frank Möbus, Peter Weniger (YVP CD "My funky Salentin(e)"),Kuba Stankiewicz, Z Namyslowski (Festivals und Tourneen in Deutschland und Polen), Frank Köllges (Moers Jazzfestival), Susan und Martin Weinert, Mirek Honzak, Francisco Zumaque (Tropical Music 2 Salsa CD Einspielungen), Tim Isford Orchester (2 CD,s mit u a Christian Brückner, Blixa Bargeld und Katharina Thalbach),Tato Gomez, John Riley (YVP CD " All John").
Sylwia Bialas - Vocal, Arrangement, Komposition, Text-writing,Unterricht.... Sylwia Bialas ist Sängerin, Komponistin, Songwriterin, Gesangs- und Stimmbildungslehrerin in einem. Geboren wurde sie 1980 in Polen. Seit 2001 lebt sie in Würzburg, wo sie Jazz-Gesang und Digitale Musikproduktion an der Hochschule für Musik studierte. Neben ihrer pädagogischen Tätigkeit an der Backline Music School und der VHS Würzburg ist sie in zahlreichen Bands aktiv. Dazu gehören unter anderem das Quintett Prisma sowie das European Art Ensemble. Ihre musikalische Bandbreite reicht von akustischem und modernen elektronischen Jazz über Instrumental-Singing bis hin zu Funk and Fusion und Filmmusik. Maßgeblich beeinflusst wurde ihr künstlerischer Stil von Musikern wie John Taylor, Kenny Wheeler, Peter Erskine und Steve Tavaglione... Sie spielte u.A. mit Hans-Peter Salentin, Michael Wollny,Michael Flügel, Rudi Engel, Hannes Nied, Dieter Greifenberg, Marcus Schieferdecker.
