Ground 71 - Ground 71 (2020) Hi Res

Ground 71 is an Italian instrumental ensemble founded by Giampiero Locatelli (piano, rhodes), Stefano Dallaporta (upright and electric bass) and Andrea Grillini (drums). They met and began playing together in 2015 and since the very beginning their areas of interest have been geared towards the concepts of form, space and meter.

Focusing on the exploration of forms in music forces the improvisers to welcome the unexpected, pushing them towards one of the main goals of jazz musicians. Large voids and deep breaths, combined with unusual and unpredictable forms, veil Ground 71’s music with dreamlike and crepuscular feeling. Ground 71 expresses music through multiple metric layers, and a continuous rotation of roles, allowing the listener to feel suspended in mid air, navigating through different levels of space, whilst embedding music a new natural sense of rebirth. In their first eponymous record, Ground 71 frames all the years of research, concerts and work in the concepts discussed above.