Carlo Mezzanotte & Syntaxis - Cieli Diversi (2000)

CARLO MEZZANOTTE & SYNTAXIS started in 1994 as a contemporary electric jazz project, with complex arrangements and an immediacy of musical impact. It is city music, charged with urgency: To play it, you need musicians with a strong jazz background, and also energy, power of communication, warmth of tone, will to experiment.The personnel is: Carlo Mezzanotte (Piano, Keyboards, Composition), Massimiliano Rosati (Guitar), Valerio Serangeli (Bass), Stefano Pacioni (Drums). With this organic, the group has played concerts and festivals in the Rome area.The first CD, "Visibile" (Iktius IKT504) came out at the beginning of 1997. Soon the band recorded another one, but a series of mishaps delayed its publication till July 2000, three years later.

"Cieli Diversi" ("Different Skies", MAP SC.CD0206) pursues and expands the musical world of "Visibile", trying out different starting points on the ideal line that joins acoustic and electric music, all unified by a strong jazz feeling.

"Follow-up to the excellent "Visible" showcases Mezzanotte's superb keyboard work. This is really the Italian Return To Forever! Still present is the excellent guitarwork of Massimiliano Rosati who sounds like a cross between Al DiMeola & Allan Holdsworth! A really superb release!"