Loris Deval, Bruno Martinetti - Passi (2021)

When «Passi» starts playing you will be surprised by warm, attractive, as well as sweet and laid–back sounds, and you will realize that those very sounds touch your positive emotional chords, those you never have the time – or maybe, the courage – to listen to.
It is beneficial music the one played by Loris Deval and Bruno Martinetti Duo, on guitar and trumpet respectively, with Maurizio Brunod on electric guitar, and Sabrina Oggero Viale, vocals. The quartet’s harmony of pitches is evocative: two string instruments, an acoustic one and an electric one, and two captivating voices, a natural one and a brass, that intertwine as if they were hovering in the sky.
What we hear is a movement (towards a place? a sound? a non–place?) which is never interrupted, not even by unexpected moments: an unexpected unison between trumpet and voice (Aleppo’s Dream), the propagation of lunar electronic effects by the guitar (Andaluna), the funny games played by the voice while teasing the trumpet (or is it the other way around? Listen to Waltz for Joe) or that initial poignant moment, played in minor key by Deval’s guitar, which then melts into a light, cheerful bossa, like L’indeciso, where Martinetti’s trumpet maintains perfect balance between yearning and happiness.
If Maurizio Brunod breaks in on the light bliss of a song with a bunch of sinister notes, Sabrina Oggero Viale embroiders with him an intense, ironic canvas by improvising, and then taking it back to its roots, a tender song (Aran # 2) which says “travel further, towards new worlds and universes”: maybe that is the destination of Passi (a soft and intense tune, just like the album).
Let those sounds regenerate us and, for once, let’s listen to the harmony of our positive chords which, as we said previously, stay almost always silent.