Mariano Colombatti - Fly Down (2019)

A transversal project where contemporary jazz, fusion and black music come together in a single language. This is the Fly Down debut album by guitarist Mariano Colombatti, released June 25, 2019 by the Emme Record Label. The current training is completed by Marco Zago on piano, keyboards, synths, Alberto Zuanon on double bass and electric bass and Alessandro Arcolin on drums: Federico Cassandro on drums and vocalist Valentina Frezza, present only in the song Another Mistake, took part in the album. The band was born in the classrooms of the F. Venezze Conservatory of Rovigo, originally as a studio and composition of new music and then transformed, along the way, into a stable staff. A compact group, therefore, characterized by a solid rhythm section, in which the electric guitar and the synths, alternated with acoustic instruments, guarantee a strong and immediate impact. Thanks to these characteristics, the band perfectly mastered the new languages ​​of jazz moving in that hybrid territory where experimentation is the absolute protagonist. It is no coincidence that the band draws inspiration from the fusion of the 1970s, in the broadest sense of the term, also touching black music with a harmonious and interpretative approach of a strictly jazzy matrix. All this with a glance towards modernity, with an eye to strands ranging from hip hop, to neo soul, passing through r & b and progressive.

Among the most representative pieces of the disc we undoubtedly mention the title track Fly Down, which perfectly sums up the union between the most contaminated modern component and the most mainstream part of this work. The song is characterized by a relaxed and soft groove that, in a pleasant game of contrasts, becomes the fertile ground for the development of guitar and keyboard harmonies. The latter alternate in the construction of suns with an innate melodic sense that create a dynamic crescendo towards the end of the piece. Inlays, on the other hand, is the most electric piece, similar to fusion, in which extensive use is made of keyboards, synthesizers, electric bass and distorted guitars: a dynamic, lively composition in which jazz and rock blend perfectly into a true passage towards the musical poetics of the 70s. To conclude the circle we also mention Redirect, undoubtedly one of the most acoustic pieces of the record recorded with a grand piano, double bass and semi-acoustic guitar. It is undoubtedly the composition that best represents the band's approach to contemporary jazz and to the new musical languages ​​typical of the twenty-first century!