Louize, The Rickety Family - In & out the Wild Side (2022)

Produced by the Dodicilune label, distributed in Italy and abroad by IRD and in the best online stores by Believe Digital, "In & out the wild side" is released on Tuesday 25 January, the debut of the "Louize & The Rickety Family" project. In the seven unreleased songs ("Esperame", "TèMaRocchino", "Utopia", "Molly", "Progression", "Two Little Children", "In & Out the Wild Side") and in the re-proposition of "What is This Thing Called Love? " by Cole Porter, the Apulian singer, author and composer Luisa Tucciariello is flanked by the band formed by Nicolò Petrafesa (piano), Luca Tomasicchio (double bass), Michele Ciccimarra (drums) and enriched, in some tracks, by Alessandro Corvaglia (alto sax, tenor sax), Vittorio Gallo (tenor sax), Francesco Massaro (baritone sax), Valerio Latartara (viola, violin) and Annalisa Di Leo (cello). «That a band of young Italian jazz players knows how to express themselves with such stylistic maturity, and with such an expressive personality, is perhaps the sign of this fertile and rich time for our boot. That a young and talented artistic personality like Luisa Tucciariello is able to think of such special and new music with ingredients so new and ancient at the same time is, on the other hand, a very rare circumstance, in Italy and beyond ", underlines the critic and music historian Vincenzo Martorella in the liner notes of the cd dedicated to the memory of the late pianist and composer Gianni Lenoci.

"In our language we do not have the lexical tools to be able to translate into words the emotions that music arouses in those who listen to it; nor to try to describe a type of sound, a particular vocal nuance, and so on. For this reason, the music critic makes extensive use of adjectives, which can be the classic double-edged sword ", continues Martorella. «Often, amazing, imaginative ones are used; nothing wrong with that, except that often, reading them is difficult to understand in what relationship they are with the music they attach to. Think of the adjective "sparkling". We've read about sparkling guitar solos billions of times, but what makes a solo more or less sparkling? When is a solo not? Where does the light come from, the sparkle? Defining the record you have in your hands, or the music contained in it, using only one adjective is a desperate undertaking. There are many variables involved, a lot of the amazement one feels when crossing it, track after track. It might be "surprising", sure. But not only that, because every small trajectory opens up new landscapes, every single thought (and there are thousands of them) seems to arise by spontaneous germination from the previous one, thus creating a kaleidoscopic knowledge, a luminescent brilliance that spreads behind (and in front of) every note " , continues the critic. "Do you want to see, then, that the appropriate adjective is really" sparkling "? Where, then, does the sparkle come from? First of all, from a sound system in which to make ideas, sounds and rhythms move like pawns of a risk of the soul, in which spaces are not occupied but controlled, in which the strategy is not to win, but to abandon oneself to pleasure of song, of gesture - shy or bold as it may be - of risk. Louize and her ramshackle family (whose instruments, for the occasion, also hosts string instruments) are a real, well-tested collective that lives and breathes music in unison, and for this very reason has been able to forge its own, recognizable sound. and fresh, which alludes to everything and nothing, within which multiple influences are stirred but are filtered in the light of an irreducible originality. If one were to trace a derivation, a lineage, especially in terms of horizons and awareness, it could only be that of Gianni Lenoci, one of the most brilliant and lamenting minds of our time. Just by reasoning about spaces, times, sounds, this music explores a different and promising side, experimenting with shapes and voids, working on rhythms and harmonies, as well as on their absence », Martorelli goes on in his discussion. "An emotional fresco, in which risk, play, risk and poetry live with the same credentials. Precisely this swirling intertwining gives substance and charm to a fractal set of variable geometry, made up of intense pieces like diamonds, from the initial, and beautiful, Esperame, to Two Little Children, a page of pure poetry. To finish with In & Out The Wild Side, which in the words of Luisa Tucciariello rests, like the entire project, "on that delicate and fascinating limit of contradiction. And on the desire, mine but also of my travel companions, to contemplate everything that lies within certain schemes, models, repertoires and styles, but with the eyes of those who have lived and experienced the wilderness in life as in music "".